As the social media industry matures and best practices continue to refine, I’m struck by how too many people tend to get caught up in the numbers — or at least the wrong numbers — and let those numbers dictate how and when they use social… Read More »
Archive for January 2011
Rebtel is hoping a new update to its BlackBerry app will help it make up some ground on VoIP leader Skype. The app now allows Rebtel BlackBerry users to make free international phone calls to other Rebtel users on BlackBerry and Android apps. Read More »
Here are a couple of “what-ifs” to chew on: What if a supercomputer beats two super humans at Jeopardy ? What if Steve Ballmer is the next executive to leave Microsoft? We’ll know the answer to at least one of those questions in February. Read More »
Today on the Net: Disney expresses concerns about the conditions the FCC plans to levee against Comcast as part of its takeover of NBC Universal. Also: Fast Company profiles YouTube and Bitbop parent Fox Mobile Group has rebranded as Jesta Digital and gotten a new CEO. Read More »
The Fox International web series Single Dads is going for an “all at once” distribution strategy, launching its first season on Hulu in December and prepping a second season for Feb. 1. But are the diaper jokes good enough to help the show get on TV?… Read More »
The web continues to disrupt the media business, both in terms of distribution and monetization, and publishers are desperately trying paywalls, iPad apps and anything else they can think of to cope. Bradford Cross wants to help change all that with his new startup, Woven. Read More »
Enomaly has managed to cobble together between 10,000 and 25,000 servers available on any given day for its SpotCloud market, said CEO Ruven Cohen, and today will open its beta program to more sellers. Next month, it will open the market up to all buyers. Read More »
Investors loved the wind energy sector, and they showed it by blowing the most investment dollars that way in 2010. They also were most busy with energy efficiency deals, the number of which surpassed other cleantech categories last year, according to a U.S. market report by… Read More »
24‘s Jack Bauer will next be seen on Hulu, not the big screen — Kiefer Sutherland will be starring with John Hurt in web series The Confession. The project comes from DBG, a digital network taking its first steps into the world of deficit financing. Read More »
Robert Scoble spent time interviewing Otavio Good about Word Lens, the app that visually translates foreign languages in real time without a data connection. But Word Lens and other “magical” apps will benefit from the next smartphone hardware cycle, as explained by Good in this video. Read More »
Alongside the launch of the Mac App Store, Apple cut the price of its professional photography application, Aperture, from $199 to just $79.99. But it wasn’t the only one to offer a price break. Here are some of the best deals in the store right now. Read More »
Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Barack Obama have all turned to Twitter to speak to their fans. But what does the fact that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is also using it — while disrupting the service for ordinary Iranians — have to tell us? Read More »
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