Archive for Syndicated Content
January 30, 2008
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Yahoo will be laying off about a 1000 people. Alley Insider says Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is basically asking investors to be patient for another year, according to Alley Insider.
eBay has announced big changes in the company’s fee structure and reputation system. The company will drop its listing fees, but charge more when an item’s actually sold. The shifts will hurt sellers of low-priced items the most, because commissions will increase by almost 60% for items under $25.
Paul McGuinness has been managing U2 for thirty years, and he thinks companies including Google, Apple, Nokia, Microsoft, Yahoo are the knowing beneficiaries of “countless tiny crimes.”
An EU court decided that ISP’s do NOT have to hand over the identities of people accused of pirating music through peer to peer networks.
Firefox continues to gnaw at Internet Explorer’s lead.
Digg has just under 3 million users, and has roughly tripled over the past year. TechCrunch points out that the Digg site actually gets a lot more visitors than this.
Videoegg just announced that it sold $1.5 million of advertising for its partners on Facebook over the past five months. But that amounts to about $2000 per application per month. Not much to make a living on.
The analyst who touched off a firestorm by saying unsold iPhones were piling up in stores now thinks the root of this is a lot of unlocked phones, rather than unsold inventory.
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January 29, 2008
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Over the weekend, key news sources like Ars Technica and Tech Crunch took new music service Q-Trax at their word when they claimed to have licenses from all the major labels. Then the LA Times revealed that this wasn’t true - but the Times of London STILL believed the company. Finally the BBC verified it was all hogwash.
Rumors I recently discussed of Windows 7 shipping early are just wishful thinking.
What do you do for an encore after Technorati? Launch a HotOrNot for websites. Yow!
Rumor is that much bigger layoff’s are coming to Yahoo than previously believed. Here’s your handy cheat sheet on the bottom-line ramifications.
At last - the pen is mightier than the mouse.
Lego turns fifty, and Google celebrates. As well they should - their first drive array was built around Lego’s - and let’s not forget their office art in New York.
The robber barons may have been rich - but not even they could give their passengers the convenience of broadband wireless networking. A century later WiFi finally comes to the iron horse.
At last - a flashlight that can start your campfire and cook your marshmallows!
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January 28, 2008
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Where are all the iPhones? Apple says they sold 3.7 million. AT&T says they activated less than two million. Only a few hundred thousand are in Europe. There’s no way all the others have been unlocked. So one analyst thinks they could be piling up, unsold, in stores.
The gaming industry is on fire (in a good way).
First Rupert said the Journal would be free online, then it seemed maybe not - now we have the final word. The Wall Street Journal will not only remain a pay site, but the price is going up.
It’s only been a few days, but billions have already been bid in the FCC’s giant 700Mhz spectrum auction. This solid background piece will tell you everything you need to know about the auction.
The Forbes Midas List is out - a Hot 100 of venture capitalists. Or a Hot Less-Than-100 if you don’t think practicing lawyers and investment bankers qualify as being venture capitalists. The peculiar methodology is kind of explained here and here.
Here they are - the books that make you dumb (and the ones that make you smart)
Hackers are attacking the scientologists. A Dutch school is some early collateral damage.
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Diggnation - Dreaming of the Super Bowl
Super Bowl Fantasies, Open Letter to Sci-Fi, Kickflip a Surfboard, Creepy Ads, Cat Suit of Armor, WTF Kids Ride, Survive a 500 foot fall, Counterfeit $100 Bills
January 25, 2008
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The music industry has released a new report in which they call for ISP’s to become their servants in the war on piracy. This has already happened in France and Belgium. AT&T alone seems ready to sign up in the US.
The MacBook Air is getting generally positive, but not quite gushing reviews in Newsweek, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal.
Your local data center could be making art, or a horrific mess out of its cabling. Or several horrific messes.
If you’re a capitalist, Bill Gates (of all people) wants you to be a nicer person. He’s inspired by books including the Bottom of the Pyramid, the Mystery of Capital, and The Bottom Billion.
At least part of the Digg community is in revolt over changes in its algorithm that prevent group log-rolling (among other things).
Yahoo may be for sale (even though it doesn’t want to be).
Holy flying WiFi, Batman! American Airlines and Southwest prepare to plug their passengers into the Internet.
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