Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Steve
Internet usage monitoring firm comScore announced today that online video viewership was up 34% in November 2008 as compared with the same time period last year. Google’s sites, which include YouTube and Google Video, account for 40.3% of all online video viewings, or somewhere around 5 billion video views (yes, that is 5,000,000,000) for [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Steve
Twitter recently announced a warning on their company blog about people sending private messages with links to a phishing site that pose as Twitter’s login page. The site links to a bogus URL, twitter.access-logins.com, in hopes that the victim will re-enter their Twitter username and password without noticing that the URL is incorrect:
A [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by Steve
Over on the Giz today (ahem, Gizmodo) is an article on Google using their Moderator application to submit new ideas and allow other users to vote on it. It’s an interesting idea, and reminds me of what I wrote about earlier regarding UserVoice.
If Google likes your idea and makes oodles of money off of [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by Steve
There’s a commodity that’s widely used, non-renewable, likely to run out soon, and most heavily by the US and China. It’s not oil. It’s the IPv4 address space, and in 2008 the world used up another 200 million addresses, bringing the total usable IPv4 space to 75% of capacity.
Even as usage of the IPv4 [...]
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Posted on January 1st, 2009 by Steve
There are a lot of Twitter clones that are trying to figure out how to take the power of simple micro-blogging and bring it to the enterprise: Yammer, Present.ly, and WizeHive to name just a few. They all share one feature that I find utterly fascinating: they all use a simple command line interface for [...]
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Posted on December 31st, 2008 by Steve
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales recently made a plea to Wikipedia users via a flashy new header atop Wikipedia asking for more donations. According to an article in ArsTechnica, Wikipedia’s operating expenses for 2008 were $6 million USD, up from $3.5 million in 2007. Wikipedia has been struggling to keep up their cash reserves while [...]
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Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Steve
I’ve been pretty quiet about the project I’m currently working on, but that’s going to change now that we’re heading towards the beginning of our private beta program.
I’m currently working with a group of wickedly smart people to build a new hosted (yes, SaaS-based) collaborative decision making platform: DecisionSpaces.
What does DecisionSpaces do? There are [...]
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