February 2008
70 posts
January 2008
68 posts
Continental rolling out DirecTV, IM, and email to... →
We flew on Continental over Thanksgiving. Really great service.
Delver Comes Out Of Stealth With a New Twist on... →
Naysayers a plenty but semantic search is just a natural progression from the standard one-dimensional search we see today.
“Well, if you’re selling sugar water or Spice Girl lunchboxes, then you really...”
– Widgety Goodness: Widgets and Social Media - WTF?! | Velocity - the marketing acceleration agency for B2B technology companies
UK girls held in NYC orphanage after mother gets... →
The commenter is right. This anti-immigration bill passes and it will eventually be just as diffuclt to get out of this country as it is to get in.
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RealClearMarkets - Articles - Might Google Buy the... →
A Google acquisition of the New York Times seems entirely plausible to me after reading this post.
The acquisition would be a deal for Google. Jut take a look at how their values compare. NY Times is $2 billion. Google? A whopping $185 billion. Money is not a core issue in this one.
Shareholders would jump at the chance to sell their stake.
Placing all the chips on Arthur Sulzberger is a...
PepsiCo: Snacks will survive recession -... →
The economy won’t expand but your stomach will.
@ Last.fm Announcement: Free On-Demand Music... →
You can only listen to a song three times. That’s a fact they buried the press release.
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Checking out Victory’s media player. Gone. Could not take the auto playback.
“At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and...”
– A brave new world: the music biz at the dawn of 2008: Page 1
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Should global markets be following in the... →
Fundamentals don’t mean #$%$^ when fear sets in. I want to know what the tech bloggers have to say about the recession. Perhaps they need to frame it with the bubble in mind, which reminds me of what Dave Winer said a while back. The bubble will burst when the Google stock plummets. If the stock does not crash, no bursting bubble. How did Google do today? Looks like it dropped 2.65 percent...
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Companies Without Conversation « NextUp →
I love the remark by the Target spokesperson. What the…?
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SYNTAGMA » Deep, long world recession now likely →
”The current consensus is that 2008 will be bad, but 2009 could be much worse. The second decade of this century may resemble the 1930s in the worst-case scenario.”
Portland is No. 1 for babies, magazine says -... →
“The magazine cites Oregon’s low infant and maternal mortality rates and says babies in Portland are 34% less likely than the national average to be born below normal birth weight and 21% less likely to be born premature.”
The Goldfish Chronicles » Blog Archive »... →
Open source is better established in companies than previous recessions. The quesion comes down to how open source will be judged, based on their value and the resources provided for the project. Corporate backed projects may have all the money but they are more volatile and could well be cut. Extra-curricular projects may be less flashy but they are there for the long haul.
Web Worker Daily » Archive 5 Ways to... →
Some tips to think about as the recession looms. Solid advice. Get connected. I think of it as leaving a glow wherever you go. People will see that glow and remember it, too.
If Recession Comes, It Likely Will Hit Hard -... →
Brace yourself.
'Brady Bunch' actor dies at 84 - CNN.com →
Sam the Butcher is dead. Remember Sam? He and Alice had a thing going. Allan Melvin played Sam on the Brady Bunch. He was 84.
Valleywag Happy Hour: Goodbye Natali Del Conte--... →
Natali Del Conte moves on to CNET. I met Natali when she first joined Podshow. She had just left TechCrunch. She was just as nice as could be. Good luck, Natali!
WebUrbanist » 7 (More) Abandoned Wonders of... →
Insane asylums, theme parks and militiary islands are just a few of the “abandoned” wonders of America. Web Urbanist rocks.
Feature: Download and Listen to Free Music on the... →
Most of these sites are pretty new. Hype Machine is the grand daddy of the crew as they have been around since 2005! In an odd web way that does seem old.
Under pressure from EMI, RIAA could disappear →
Ars Technica does some of the best work covering the music industry. In this story, they detail a report from Variety about how EMI may pull its funding from the RIAA. That may lead to the disappearance of the organizaton.
What would that mean? The indutry would most likely merge the RIAA with IFPI, another industry group. So, the name may change but that is about it.