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April 23, 2004
NPU market grows 30% in 03
The Linley Group is reporting that the NPU market grew 30% in 2003, the first growth since 2000. AMCC still leads the pack with 40% share. They just bought IBM's PowerPC npu business, so their share will grow. Intel doubled their share after shipping the IXP2400 in Q303. But all told the silicon business was only $85M last year. Still a puppy. Look for that to grow about 50% in 04 says Linley. And right in the middle of this year, my company, IP Fabrics will have their alpha virtual machine out. Looks like good timing!
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April 21, 2004
Britney does the Donald
the net is great in it's ability to react quickly to culture. On-line animation companies came up with Apprentice parodies very quickly. This is a good one from AtomFilms - The Britney Apprentice.
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April 20, 2004
New IDC report on ROI for spam solutions
Security Pipeline | News | Anti-Spam Protection Pays Its Way says IDC. This report is different from ones in the past that just take a cost per mail, multiply it by number of mails and % that are spam. This one surveyed 1,000 IT managers and asked them how many resources they dedicated to spam before and after installing a soluiton. It dropped from 43 minutes per day to 5 minutes per day. Big ROI.
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Radicati Group validates Cloudmark TCO
Radicati Group Releases New Study "Cloudmark: Spam Reduction Analysis". Bottom line, $2.21 per user per day. Meaning over $5M savings for a 10,000 person company. WOW!
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Radicati Group Releases New Study "Cloudmark: Spam Reduction Analysis"
Research Study Shows Impressive TCO and Productivity Savings, Plus a High 94% Spam Reduction Rate for Cloudmark's Authority Enterprise Solution
PALO ALTO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/20/2004 -- The Radicati Group, Inc., a leading market research firm, released today a new study analyzing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Productivity Savings, and Spam Reduction Effectiveness (SRE) for leading Anti-Spam vendor Cloudmark.
With the volume of junk messages escalating every day, spam is quickly turning from an annoyance issue for users, to a major productivity loss problem for corporations. Cloudmark's large enterprise gateway solution, Cloudmark Authority™, demonstrated a productivity savings per user per day of $2.21. This figure means an annual savings in excess of $5 million for a 10,000 person company.
"We felt it important to conduct this study to report a real-world scenario where an anti-spam solution is actually deployed and running over time at an Enterprise gateway," said Sara Radicati, President and CEO for The Radicati Group. "It is encouraging to see the results of Cloudmark's performance at actual customer sites."
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April 19, 2004
Google Adsense hack for Blosxom
Mehack
has posted an interface for Blosxom to google Adsense. The monitization of blogs has begun in earnest!
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Ads everywhere
Lots of media recently about what is next in search. The real question is what is next in terms of monitizing context. And what are the new contexts? e-mail, RSS, mobile are the new frontiers. A quick round-up of efforts here: The Next Context. The conclusion, no-one has a solution for RSS contextual ads yet.
come on people, send me a plan to fund!
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Broadband subscribers blow past 48M
Many people have been posting about the new Pew Internet & American Life Project study showing 48M broadband households. Up 60% year on year. The broadband user doing roughly twice the number of activities as the dial up user. No real news here other than the shear rapidity of adoption. Absolutely astounding. What is all this complaining about not enough broadband penetration for real business models?
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April 18, 2004
LLC Formation up..
A recent study points to LLC formations up dramatically in US. Good for the economy since most employment comes from small business.
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Spam count
Wow, I cleared my spam folder at noon on thursday. It now has 107 spam in it (thanks to Cloudmark) and ZERO false positives. Wow, 107 spam in 3.5 days, half of those a weekend. I am glad for Cloudmark!
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Migo part 3: Here goes Nutt'n
Back at the laptop. Password screen. Starts sync. I stop it and pull down login window from stub on desktop. Click on "NewHP". get the warning about IE. OK, here goes nutt'n. The computer seems to be doing something, but I get no hourglass or anything. I can't click on any icons. Taskbar is locked. NO messages. Ouch, maybe the people in the office were smarter than I thought. When I mouse up to the PocketLOgin stub on my desktop, I get an hourglass. And the graphic is gone. Ah, something is happening, I can feel it. But I can't see it. In addition to PocketLOgin, I have AIM, IE, Blackberry destkop redirector, and Outlook running. None are doing anything. Lets check Task Manager see what is up. It says everything else is "running" and pocketlogin is "not responding". Hummmm. Hey, all my desktop icons just disappeared! Something must be happening. Try to close Task Manager and it stays on the screen, but becomes unresponive. Both NewHP and my laptop are XP machines. But the HP is XP home and the laptop is XP Pro. Wonder if it matters. Shouldn't. Still get an hourglass when I mouse over the white space on my desktop where the PocketLogin icon used to be. HUmmmmm.... Try Task manager again. CPU is at 2-5% and pocketlogin is still not responding and everything else is running. When I drag the window around, it leaves traces all over the window. YOu know the type, when memory is just trashing. It has been 10 minutes. I am pulling the plug and tossing this thing.
Summary. Total failure.
See also, Migo Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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Migo part Deux: review of the plug-in process
So after not being able to convince anyone in the office to be a guinea pig, I got home and plugged the Migo into my shiny new Sony Vaio desktop. It has two USB 2.0 ports in the front behind a handy little door. First problem was the same as when I put it into my desktop docking stations. The ports are very close together. I had to take out both USB cables to plug it in. Since one of these is for my printer, putting the MIGO in took my printer off-line. Not good.
Again, Windows faithfully plug-and-played the device and opened an explorer window with Pocket Login exe in it. Now being a savvy guy I knew to click on that program. Again, would be nice to have auto-run. So click away I go (this time there is a delay because I am using the Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard and mouse which has to "wake up" after being off line). I get the password screen. Now what password did I use? There is a very handy dandy "show hint" button right next to the password box. One click of that and I remember the password. Very handy. There is also a "Forgot Password" button which is tempting. So I try that one too. It informs me that "secure data" is still running and the only way to get into the Migo is to reformat it, do I really want to do that? Now let me get this right: Without a password, my only option is to reformat. Humm. Not sure I love it, but I guess it is better than letting someone in.
After the correct password, I get the Migo screen again with the flashing windows showing my how wonderful it is and how to use it. Second time around wasn't so interesting. Only option is continue. So I do. Instead of just going ahead and making my new desktop look like my old one (which I thought was the point), I get a screen asking me to choose a nickname for this computer. It happilly put in the windows name. I don't understand this. But not wanting to mess with the juju, I click ok, my only option really. I get the "Syncronize" window and the Migo Meter starts clicking along inventorying my desktop items and internet explorer favorites from this computer. The only option is "start Syncronize:" or cancel. Now I wonder if it is going to copy the stuff from this computer to the Migo. That is not really what I wanted, I only wanted to bring my work desktop home.
"Syncronize" does just that. First it copies my desktop files from this computer to the Migo. Which I didn't want to do. Immediately I get a "failed to copy file" "File does not exist" message. Then why are you trying to move it? Do I wish to continue. Sure, I am a gunslinger. I guess Pocketlog-in just reads the registry entires and waits for file validation. Sloppy. Next up a sync complete window with "ok". I don't understand these windows. When there is only one option and it is "ok", why bother. Then I get a message informing me that this computer "NewHP" has been faithfully syncronized to the Migo and I can now take it whereever I want to. Ok, fine, but what about what I really want to do which is to go from Migo TO NewHP? The only way forward is another "ok" button. OK.
I now have a pocket log-in stub on my desktop. And no further guidance. Well, after a couple of clicks, under Pocket Login Options, I find a button called "computer use". Intriguing. Here I get two radio buttons. One to run Pocket login in "Syncronize mode" (which is the default and which I just did). And one for "Login mode". That is apparently what I want. Since PocketLogin, the executable lives on the Migo itself, when you start it in the Explorere window, you are running it off the USB drive. What would have been nice, is after the last sync operations, if it had notified me that I should change the mode to Login if I wanted the application to start differently. As it is I had to hunt to find. Bad Bad Bad. So I change the mode to Log-in and click "ok" (again my only option). All the windows go away.
Silly me, I think I can just go back to the Explorer window and run PocketLogin again. Nope. Even though I changed the mode, the stub on my desktop doesn't have any new options. The task bar app has no new options. The removable disk window (the USB) only lets me browse the files that I syncronized from NewHP to the Migo. Ouch, looks like I have to pull it out and plug it in again. Being frustrated, I think to just yank it out, but being a student of many computer failures, I go instead to the task bar to the "safely remove hardware" window. Here trouble starts again. You see, I have a 250gig external harddrive plugged into a USB 2.0 port in the back. Windows can't tell them appart so I see two "USB Mass Storage Device" listings. Which one to stop? I click on one then the other. Thankfully in the "Stop hardware" window, it shows you the volume name which has been assigned. I have to check to find out that the Migo has been given "H" and not "G". So I try to stop my MIGO drive "H". But it can't. Duh. The application on my desktop is running off the Migo. You can't stop it. So I just yank the frigg'n thing out. Happilly one USB Mass storage device disappears from the "safely remove hardware" window and the Pocket Log-in stub disappears from my desktop. No blue screen. Now what is the purpose of the safe removal again?
Back-in she goes. Again explorer window and password prompt. I remembered it this time. Back to the flashy screen with a "continue" button. Then it asks me to register! ouch, totally tacky. I am going to not register. I get the screen again where I can only see synced files on NewHP. No option to login as the other desktop. I click around some more and can't find anything. So I figure somehow I might have erased it above when I was trying the password feature. So I yank the damn thing out and plug it into my laptop (now right next to the Vaio). It happilly asks for a password then starts syncronizing and running the Migo Meter. There is some serious copying and hard-disk spinning going on so I figure I must have screwed something up. I wait. I also wonder why if this laptop data was gone, and I rest the Migo mode to Log-in, why didn't it ask me to login the laptop as NewHP to copy that desktop over? I am confused.
After a long while, I just click close on the sync window. I try to open the pocket login stub on my desktop. There is an option for "NewHP" sounds promissing. So I click it. The screen warns me that if I want to make internet favorites look like NewHP they will have to close all IE windows. This is where it gets good. So I take it out of the laptop and try it back in the NewHP.
Another password screen, another OK. PocketLOgin stub again only offers me the "NewHP" option and says I am already on that computer so don't even bother. Frustrated I try the "help" option off the Migo task icon. "No help found". Well this isn't going to work. I am going to have to take my chances on the laptop. Time to post and go over to NEWHP to edit this blog. Fingers crossed.
See also, Migo Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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April 16, 2004
Cuban says Kwame is the smarter one...
I mailed Mark Cuban to ask if he really offered Kwame a job. Here is his response...
Very interesting take. Fox News also reports that more than 30% of americans say Trump doesn't have enough money to pay them to work for him. I don't believe he would be a kind boss. Maybe Kwame IS the real winner. Saying he was able to game the whole process into a second place finish though is a pretty big leap.
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Guy is smart. He didn't want to win, he wanted to finish 2nd.
Think about it, run a construction project or live like a celeb and choose from a ton of options
The only thing the winner could have done that was smart was to turn down trump. Walk away, be a hero, or have a 9 to 5 job.....
Kwame won, bill lost...
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Sam a shill for Samsonite?
Where did goofus Sam find $250,000? I guess it really wasn't that amount of money, but The Donald thought it was live. Why did he say "I want to give you this SAMSONITE briefcase of money"? How much did the commercials during the finale cost? By the way I loved the Yahoo commercials. I bet more than $250,000. Pretty slick. I hope The Donald doesn't hire that goofball though. Maybe to whipe the toilets.
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The Apprentice: Bill, I picked it...
Well me and 29M of my friends watched the finale last night. Everyone knows that Bill won. But how many people picked him? This morning on the talking heads shows many people bemoaned the fact the each week was really a firing event, not a hiring one, so those who flew under the radar were rewarded. I believe that Kwame did in fact fly under the radar. Rarely team leader and never the outstanding idea guy on any team. Bill led more than twice as much as Kwame. Bill was always on task and very involved. Especially in the restraunt management episode. By the magic of blogs, you can see that previously I picked Troy, Amy and Bill as finalists. I got two out of three. And picked Bill over Amy after the (pathetic) interviews. As the two events went along it was clear that Bill was in control of his and his team was motivated. Kwame was just floating along with unmotivated and in fact vengeful and outright hostile employees. Bill deserved the car.
So Bill gets the job. He also had to choose between building a new building in Chicago and managing a golf course in LA. The Donald gave him 4 minutes to decide. I said he would take the Chicago project for two reasons. 1. it is in Chicago where Bill is from. 2. It is a 3 year construction project with lots of experienced people to do most of the work. The LA golf course would be managing a P&L in the near term with very clear success/failure criteria. Less air cover. To start, take the more air cover.
Good job Bill.
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Google: the ultimate spam machine
GMail is running into more trouble. Not only are their privacy concerns with their plan to read everyone's e-mail, the plan to append "targeted" ads apparently may fly in the face of many of the anti-spam laws passed recently. Australia certainly thinks so. California is also complaining. I understand how it would be a violation when a third party appends ads without your expressed consent to the product or content. I wonder if the users had more control over the ads if it would be less legally offensive?
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The Apprentice: Kwame gets hired by Mark Cuban?
Watching Fox News this morning and Kwame was on. He said his best job offer so far was last night at the after party. Mark Cuban wants him to manage some of his investments. I e-mailed Mark to ask him if he wanted someone with such a hands-off approach and such a thin understanding of people that he voluntarilly picked Omarosa! Funny that her server is down today. You get an "access forbidden" message when you go there. She must not be paying her hosting bills! But this is about Kwame and Mark. Mark what are you thinking? Maybe trying to get some of the Apprentice ratings for your show?
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PC Mag review of SPAM filters
Here is the latest round-up. Scorecard: Personal AntiSpam Tools. Norton gets the editors nod, but I don't understand how. Cloudmark had lower false positives and nearly equal accuracy. Cloudmark got dinged for customization of the client, but that is it. I would prefer a client that performed better than one with more bits to twiddle (and screw up the accuracy).
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April 15, 2004
Migo review
So I got a Migo yesterday. Talked to the company that wrote the software that runs on it. I am intrigued by the idea that I could take my desktop with me on a USB keychain dongle. So I just plugged it in.
First problem: The dongle has a hump in it. I am using a Toshiba Protege in a docking station. The docking station has two USB ports in the back (the ones on the laptop are covered by the docking station) that are very close together, infact on top of each other. I have a USB cable in one. When I plugged in the dongle, the bump on it rubbed against the adjacent cable and made it hard to plug it into the slot. Not a good experience. While the bump may add tactile feel when carrying it around or holding it, it impeeds easy use in a crowded set of slots, bad design.
So Windows XP faithfully recognized the Migo and opens a Explorer window with a shortcut to PocketLogin. Now I have to be smart enough to click on that to run the application. I understand they are working on getting it to auto execute, but there are security concerns with auto-running .exe files in plug and play. When I click, the first thing the application asks me is "do you want to password protect your Migo files". Now that may be a logical question to ask a geek like me, but I don't know if that is a good first question for the mass market. You see I just got this dongle in the mail. No manual. No explaination of what it is. The average user maybe would like to take a tour of features or demo before they just launch into configuring the application.
But being a geek, I soldier on. Of course I want to password protect my files. "PocketLogin SecureData is now enabled", how conforting. That pop-up goes away and a Migo configuration window comes up. At the same time, my ZoneAlarm firewall burps and asks me if I want PocketLogin.exe to access the internet. Now I am bit of two minds when I get these. Why does it want to access the internet? What is it going to do? I haven't even given it any information yet? Will it go out and share my info with the world? ZoneAlarm doesn't give me any details. Migo doesn't even notify me what it is doing. I know from experience, if you say no, the install program usually crashes. So I say yes to the firewall with a little trepidation.
Meanwhile back on the Migo configuration screen, it is happilly flashing me some screens extolling the wonders of the Migo and how to use it. Would have been nice to get that before I was asked any hard questions. The only option is continue. This is like the "hints at startup" feature of many products. I usually turn it off after a couple of times. After Continue, I get the EULA license agreement. I read it of course (don't you?) The agreement is from Forward Solutions, the software company. They actually got quite a bit of branding in the deal. This is great for them, but a little confusing as a user. Am I installing a Migo or something from Forward Solutions? Pretty standard stuff. Interesting that Support Services provision is provided by FWD solutions not Migo. So I don't call Migo for support? That is setting up a customer satisfaction issue. I hate when they play hot potatoe with me. Under Software Transfer, they allow me to sell the device and software once. Gee thanks. But nice to see that they specifically address it. Many don't. Can't export the software supposedly because they use such strong encryption. Too bad for their market size. No gotchas on data sharing or privacy. Happy now so I accept.
PocketLogin then grabs my computer name and asks if that is what I want to have as my computer nickname. Why do they bother? Would I want a different one? Too much information, just assign it and let me change it to a friendlier name later if I really care. Suddenly my ZoneAlarm Pro burps again. "Do you want to allow PocketLogin by FWD Solutions Inc. to act as a server?" This one totally scares me! They nicely remind me that this program has previously asked for (and I have graciously granted) internet access. But what does this server thing do? I know from talking to the software guys and being a geek myself, that they use this server thing as a way to do sync. But to an end user it is a scary thing. So as a server, can anyone access my data? What will the server be sharing. I believe many end users would bail out at this point because they have simply not been given enough information on what the hell the application is doing to their computer. But being a geek, I think I understand this stuff and want to try the software, so I tell ZoneAlarm to let the server run.
Back in teh PocketLogin Syncronize window, the Migo Meter is being quickly chewed up (disk space on the Migo) as files whiz by in the box below. These files are obviously the ones that Migo has chosen to copy over from my desktop to the Migo. I am offered a couple of options. Desktop files changed in last XXX days. (or none at all) Set to 30 default. Looks fine. Outlook Inbox items from last XXX days (or none at all) also set to 30. Internet Explorer Favorites or none at all. And a "More Options" button. Being curious I click it... Here is where it gets interesting. Under the Outlook tab you can select any folder to be synced. I try my contacts. One click and the program starts copying and dutifully telling me how much of the Migo I have taken up. It seems slow, but then again I have over 7,000 contacts. While it is working I can click around other tabs (good). On the File tab, you can add any folder on your harddrive to the sync thing. VERY good. I decide not to since I will probably be full. There are lots of ways to parse the files by folder, file type, days old, subfolders, etc. Very helpful one-click boxes to grab whole groups. Contacts sync done, took up 42MB, inbox took 2MB, desktop 132K, other stuff about 15MB. They are using MSMAPI to get to the files which is good. You can ask to sync one file individually and it just brings up the windows file selection box. But it goes to the 1033 directory in the MSMAPI directory, way down in the guts of Windows. Not good. Should default to MyDocuments or something. I put a couple MP3 files on just for kicks. Done screwing around selecting what to sync. I "Apply" changes. The applicaiton is working on something. Moving the Migo status bar eating up memory. Don't know if it is only now copying the files and prior screens were just discovering and sizing them. In any case, the delay is a pain. I don't get any message about what it is doing. If it is writing the files, just tell me that. After I "Apply" I still have to hit "ok". But nothing tells me that. Fix your UI guys.
Out of the More Options tab and back in the PocketLogin Syncronize screen, the Migo Meter is once again growing as files fly by on the screen. It seems now is the time of actual copy. Or sync. I wonder what happens when I close the application. It stops syncing. I wonder why it can't sync in the background. I have to open the app to finish syncing. Not a real big pain because of course I can still go use any other windows app. Like this blog poster.
I just noticed that PocketLogin put a little icon on my desktop. When you mouse over it, a menu drops down telling you how to sync then remove your Migo to go to another computer. Well I guess it is time to do that. They don't tell me to use Windows remove device to keep windows stable, but being experineced I do that anyway.
Well my office manager is too smart to let me use her computer and so is everyone else in the office, so I will have to wait till I get home to be my own trial. More coming...
See also, Migo Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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Comprehensive list of MT-Comment anti-spam approaches
John Battelle's Searchblog: F*cking Spam post garnered lots of comments from the industries best thinkers on blog spam. Read all the different approaches here. I have used a couple. I use Mt-Blacklist AND have renamed the comment CGI. I don't get spam anymore.
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So much software to review!
I have so much new software to review, I need to carve out a couple hours somewhere. Anyone had experience with any of these?
www.4migo.com (i have a 256k usb dongle with this on it)
www.trueactive.com (authorized spyware)
MovablePoster
Life Balance
A9
so much software, so little time.
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John Battelle on A9
Good review, worth reading. John Battelle's Searchblog: NEWS: A9, Amazon's Search Portal, Goes Live: Reverberations Felt in Valley
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Amazon launches A9
A9.com > Search Technologies was launched this week. You get to search AMazon's prioprietary book database AND google for web. This is a datatype extension. You get Google and more and Amazon controls the UI and what they offer you (to buy at amazon). Very interesting model. I have tried a couple searches and so far I get much more interesting results than google alone. I hope Technorati does something with A9 to get blog content deeper in there.
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April 14, 2004
One man's view of mobile commerce Value Chain
The mobile content value chain by Movisto founder Shawn Conahan.
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More evidence of collaterol bad SPAM filter damage
A bunch of articles recently have pointed to e-mail publishers not being able to get their wares through increasingly strick spam filters. Email lists struggle under spam avalanche - ZDNet UK Insight. This is a real problem. In the early days of e-mail, one of the most useful things was being able to receive e-mail news letters on different topics. Now many poorly written filters are doing a bad job with these kinds of mail. That is why it is important to pick a good filter. Like Cloudmark. It is possible to make good decisions on what is and what is not spam. Part of the problem is that there are alot of ineffective spam companies out there actually selling customers. Some customers conclude "all spam solutions suck". They should be concluding, "my spam solutions sucks and I need a new one." Start looking for spam solution replacement sales.
Cloudmark has a rating program that is an additional step to help valid e-mail publishers get through their client.
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Another social networking company trying to get free advice
I just signed up for zerodegrees. I have been avoiding adding any more of these social networking sites, but I have gotten a number of invitations to this one, so it seems to be getting traction. The first thing I did in registration is read the privacy and IP property rights statement. Here it is:
10.1 As between the Parties, the ZDN Service, the related Software and documentation, all copies and versions thereof and all related materials provided to you, is and shall remain the exclusive property of ZDI and its licensors (including, without limitation, all copyrights, patents, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights inherent therein or appurtenant thereto), and shall not be used in any way other than as expressly permitted by this Test Agreement. All Feedback shall also be the sole property of ZDI, even if suggestions made by you are incorporated into subsequent versions of the ZDN Service/Software or related documentation. To the extent you may obtain any ownership rights in any of the foregoing, you assign and agree to assign all of its right title and interest, including all copyrights and other intellectual property rights, in and to all of the foregoing, to ZDI.
Basically all your ideas become their ideas and all your information becomes theirs. Looks like Google's attempt at a license eh? this one is much more clearly a beta testor license and they are just saying they don't have to pay you to test their software for them, but I am still offended. When will these guys learn? I don't plan to give them any valuable feedback, so I don't mind signing this thing.
I wonder if I get a product idea, a gap that they are not filling, by using their site. Do they have rights to it? You could read their disclosure that way. These things may get to be like patents. You can't read them for fear of liability in case you ever to anything even closely related.
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Another social networking company trying to get free advice
I just signed up for zerodegrees. I have been avoiding adding any more of these social networking sites, but I have gotten a number of invitations to this one, so it seems to be getting traction. The first thing I did in registration is read the privacy and IP property rights statement. Here it is:
10.1 As between the Parties, the ZDN Service, the related Software and documentation, all copies and versions thereof and all related materials provided to you, is and shall remain the exclusive property of ZDI and its licensors (including, without limitation, all copyrights, patents, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights inherent therein or appurtenant thereto), and shall not be used in any way other than as expressly permitted by this Test Agreement. All Feedback shall also be the sole property of ZDI, even if suggestions made by you are incorporated into subsequent versions of the ZDN Service/Software or related documentation. To the extent you may obtain any ownership rights in any of the foregoing, you assign and agree to assign all of its right title and interest, including all copyrights and other intellectual property rights, in and to all of the foregoing, to ZDI.
Basically all your ideas become their ideas and all your information becomes theirs. Looks like Google's attempt at a license eh? this one is much more clearly a beta testor license and they are just saying they don't have to pay you to test their software for them, but I am still offended. When will these guys learn? I don't plan to give them any valuable feedback, so I don't mind signing this thing.
I wonder if I get a product idea, a gap that they are not filling, by using their site. Do they have rights to it? You could read their disclosure that way. These things may get to be like patents. You can't read them for fear of liability in case you ever to anything even closely related.
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False positives at Earthlink!
Was signing up today at SEG America for the Segway user group. The registration process requires them to send an e-mail to you for verification. It seems that Earthlink's SPAM filters are so bad, that SEG America has to point out a work-around to their users with the following warning:
NOTE TO EARTHLINK MEMBERS!
We have experience many bounced registration message because of EarthLinks' spam blocker is sensing false positives. Please take required actions so that our email provider may send your verification code to you.
Wow! This is the inherent problem with network based SPAM blockers. You may never know that they are stopping valid e-mail.
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What is the blog business model?
BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis is leading a panel this weekend in Boston at BloggerCon.
He has solicited ideas on how to monitize blogs and collected the initial ideas in this post. A very thorough list. I don't believe most of them. In the end with every new data type, the guy who does search makes the most money. The publishing tools get driven to zero. Hosting gets commoditized. It costs too much to build a brand or to deliver premium content. Consumers want free and easy access.
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The new digital media consumer
FT.com has a pretty good overview article which summarizes the salient differences that the new digital media consumer displays from the former media buyer (the record or CD buyer). It is worth the read to get an overview of how the new digerati want to consume media and the movement toward those needs some media companies are making. Slowly but moving.
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April 13, 2004
Bush promotes universal broadband by 2007
The skeptic would say Bush's recent speech promoting broadband for all americans by 2007 is an election year ploy for votes. While I have not tracked his administration's progress to promote this in detail, I do believe his commitment.
Back in 1999, I attended a small group meeting with candidate GW Bush, Michael Dell and some other tech guys. In person he is very conversant on the details of innovation and the importance of the tech economy to the US. He believes that the entrepreneur is a unique American asset. It is apparent that he is getting the message that America's leadership in technology is being threatened by our laggard status in broadband access. I believe this is more than election year promises.
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MiniBubble in internet ideas?
Gates thinks so. I certainly have seen the valuation of private companies go up considerably, driven by the still too much money in venture. There have been some exits, but not a stellar valuations. Too early for me to call it a bubble, but I can understand why Bill wants to pop this one early if he can.
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Newsgator launches multi-media edition
Well it had to happen.
Product extension. Basically it looks like an interface to some of the p2p distribution networks. You need NewsGator online services to get multimedia content. They aggregate it at their server and you pull it down when you need it according to your subscriptiions. Basically NewsGator is a subscription manager for multiple datatypes for you. Don't know if I want them to be that. Happy now with them as a reader though...
"Living Room" Interface Allows Users to Read Selected Content, or Watch On-Demand Video Content
DENVER, CO -- April 13, 2004 -- NewsGator Technologies launched NewsGator Media Center Edition today, which allows users to read syndicated content feeds on their TV with Windows XP Media Center Edition. Both text and multimedia content is supported, with an interface designed to be used with a remote control from across the room. NewsGator Media Center Edition shows information that has not already been viewed on another device by synchronizing user subscriptions with NewsGator Online Services.
Audio and video content is only one click away. Users see visual cues when a feed contains multimedia content; they can then instantly view this content using the remote control. There are a number of featured feeds for the launch, including a video feed from Microsoft.
This is the latest step in the "any time, any place, any device" strategy that distinguishes the NewsGator product line. Users typically use more than one device throughout the day, such as Microsoft Outlook at work, a mobile phone on the road, a web browser in their home office, and a TV in their living room. NewsGator Online Services allows users to read one set of content from any of these devices, without any duplication. The combined power of NewsGator Media Center Edition and Online Services offers customers a productive and fun way to access their personalized subscriptions and information from any device, whenever they need it.
"NewsGator Media Center Edition is a great example of cutting edge ISV innovation on the Microsoft platform," said Sanjay Parthasarathy, corporate vice president of Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft Corporation. "The deep integration of technologies like XML and RSS, combined with rich multimedia, and presented on a device as pervasive as the television, gives consumers access to the information they care about, where and when they want to view it, truly delivering on the vision of a connected home. We're proud to work with NewsGator to help bring this innovative application to market for our mutual customers."
NewsGator Online Services also includes other three content reader editions, which allow users to read content they have subscribed to from any web browser (with Web Edition), any email client (with POP Edition), and from a mobile wireless device (with Mobile Edition), which is a powerful feature for road warriors who use mobile devices to access information while on the road.
The service also provides exclusive, subscriber-only content to its subscribers, as well as the ability to search for content that matches a specific keyword or URL, and return that content in a feed.
NewsGator Media Center Edition is included with the NewsGator Online Services subscription service, and is available immediately at http://services.newsgator.com. Pricing starts at $5.95/month per user.
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More info released today on TypeKey
TypeKey today released more information about their proposed system including an extended FAQ which is quite tasty reading.
It seems the friendly folks at MT have thought quite deeply about what is needed in terms of a better commenting experience for both the publisher and the commenter. Typekey (to be implemented with MT 3.0) will have seven comment levels (up from two today)
1. Only accept TypeKey-authenticated comments where the commenter sends an email address
2. Only accept TypeKey-authenticated comments
3. Accept TypeKey-authenticated and moderated comments
4. Accept TypeKey-authenticated and regular comments
5. Accept moderated comments
6. Accept unmoderated comments
7. Accept anonymous comments
My first thought is "Slashdot". Basically provide the option for blog authors to moderate or require different levels of authentication where they see fit. And allow commentors to provide as much or as little information as they desire. If the publiher's bar is high and the commentor's privacy invasion threashold is low, the two might not meet. But at least there would be a structure for them to meet. I love the "Annonymous Coward" thing on Slashdot. If readers of threads can game the content in part on the poster's willingness (or not) to reveal him/herself.
I look forward to TypeKey. In some respects it is like Microsoft Passport is to e-commerce transactions. Although I hope TypeKey doesn't get as heavy and burdened with crap. It will also face a bit of an arms race with others like Technorati who have designs on a similar authentication system. And may already have a larger registered user base.
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What good is the Technorati API?
Been thinking about Technorati's business lately. And FeedBurner's. And the whole idea of value added services around Blogs. What is the value of collecting lots of information about blog posts from different platforms in a central database? What value can be added?
Boing-Boing recently replaced comments and track-back with a new feature integrating the Technorati API. There are others as well:
chaotic intransient prose bursts: An evolved Technorati plugin. What do you get by using a Technorati service instead of something like TrackBack? Well Technorati indexes non MT blogs for one. Now there are other blog platforms that are supporting Trackback, but not as many as ping Technorati. You will get more results with the Technorati API. In addition to the links themselves, you can also pull other useful structured data about that link that you can use in your publishing system like the number of posts referencing the link, the time of the latest link, minutes since last link, summary text around the link, author of the link master weblog, and more information to come. I believe you can get more information from the Technorati server than from the Trackback server. But this will probably be an arms race. It is interesting to note that Technorati is starting to attract developers to their platform in much the same maner as Movable Type.
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April 10, 2004
Screenshots from BlogBot
Kudos to Joshp who in 15MB of fame: Blogbot? managed to turn up screen shots of Microsoft's upcoming BlogBot. The troubling thing about BlogBot is that it will only search "relevant" blogs. Relevancy apparently determined by Microsoft. That is not search in my book. That is editorializing. That is news aggregation. That is convience. That is not search.
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Want inside the Longhorn dev team?
Channel 9
is a blog/wiki/mblog from a couple of the dev leads on different parts of Longhorn. Quite entertaining reading.
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Longhorn Alpha due next month
Client Server News is reporting that attendees at the upcomming WinHEC will get a new Longhorn Alpha release in their fancy little conference bags. That will make the grandski they spent for the show go down a little easier. It will basically be a refresh of the developer preview released at the PDC with a few more bells and whistles. CSN also pontificates that the much touted Beta release thought to be maybe end of this year will probably be summer of 2005 due to developer re-assignment to XP and windows Server Service Packs. CSN also confirms that more and more features are slipping from Longhorn to the next Windows release, Blackcomb.
So my predicted feature retreat is in fact starting to become public. The three support legs of Longhorn, WinFS (storage), Avalon (GUI presentation), and Indigo (message bus) look to be intact, although in some diminished form yet to be determined.
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Increasing returns in Biology near?
In a slightly self serving speech to the Churchill Club recently, Randy Scott, CEO of Genomic Health, laid out the recent trends driving toward: The Dawn of Personalized Medicine :: AO
He basically is confirming a trend that I have been seeing for some time around the positive feedback loop starting to take hold around the human gnome. Basically the cost of sequencing the human Gnome is following Moores law. Cost half a much and be done twice as fast every 18-24 months. In 20 years the cost will be about the same as an MRI. Tha means individuals could have it done and get out of it a completely personalized treatment plan based on their exact genetic make up and tendancies to known afflictions. Wow. That treatment plan could also involve custom designed drugs targeted to the specific DNA make up of the individual. No more broad brush medicines that "tend to work in most cases". Quite interesting...
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Slightly better automated phone attendants
Voxify just closed a $6m insider round with El Dorado and Polamar. I noticed it because I have been looking at some call center automation, outsourcing kind of deals lately. Looks like they provide a slightly smarter automated voice tree to off-load call center volume. But customers hate these things. Voice tree hell. Even if the computer can make better decisions on how to navigate you through the tree, it is still a tree and customers hate it.
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Open Source projects hard to make mainstream
Developer Michelle Levesque just published Fundamental issues with open source software development in the peer-reviewed journal of the internet, FirstMonday. She reviews many of the issues that keep open source projects the domain of geeks. Basically the people who participate in programming them are programming for themselves. Trappings of commercial software like an inititive UI, documentation, and support are for whimps. I think she misses the point though. Of course in a world of free donated project resources, those resources are going to be spent on the core. The hard parts. It is much harder to get the marketing and UI parts donated. Those people don't have as much to prove and come from a completely different world from the geek driven developers. I wonder if an open re-source type of model would work for the marketing and UI community? Would brand managers all over the world want to band together to create an uber brand management program for a product? I am not sure those talents lend themselves to the model in the way developer time does.
Open source zealots sometimes forget that customers don't just buy code features and functions. They buy soultions to problems. They buy ROI, they buy TCO. There are many parts to a commercial product that are not addressed by current open source efforts. That is why open source commercialization companies have a place and will continue to.
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April 8, 2004
Spammer looses lawsuit, but not for what you think
There has been much debate as to the effectiveness of laws against spammers. So when you read that Spam Fighter Habeas Wins One you might be inclined to believe the laws are working. But look closer. Habeas is using old school trademark and copyright law. In their system, e-mailers need to have their copyright Haiku in the e-mail to get through the filter. A spammer who forges the Haiku is guilty of copyright infringement. Not of breaking a SPAM law. Very intriguing. And apparently working.
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Spam costs $4 Billion a year in productivity
I case you didn't know spam was a big problem, there is a new study:
SPAM costs USD 4 billion in US corporate productivity Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands Half of all e-mails sent today in the United States is spam, eating USD
4 billion (EUR 3.38 billion) a year in corporate productivity, according to the recent study...
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ProofPoint Spam Audit
Well the anti-SPAM software market is getting mature when you see announcements like: Proofpoint Offers Free Spam Audit Service for Large Enterprises. Basically a sales tactic to try to get customer trials. "We can beat the other guy" type of thing. Has been succesful in the past...
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April 7, 2004
Universal response post for crackpot spam ideas
Thanks Boing Boing: Universal crackpot spam solution rebuttal
This is a very funny checkbox-based form-letter for responding to crackpot spam solutions proposed in message-board posts:
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
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April 6, 2004
The slippery slope of content analysis of messages
The police need a warrant to tap your phones. You can have a very high degree of confidence under normal circumstances that your phone calls are not being overheard. But what about your e-mail? Or instant messages? Content scanning really started with Viruses. No-one wants viruses, so we all install software to scan messages and identify offensive viruses. And then comes SPAM where we want the offense to disappear as well. Then some corporations have certain "content" policies or IP protection policies that alert them when certain key words are in messages. Now Google's GMail wants to scan messages and determine what ads to attach to them.
Colin Fahley writes very insightfully:
Google's new "G-Mail" service (run by "G-Men"?!) is a paranoiac's
nightmare come to life: an e-mail system that analyzes each piece of
mail not simply for spam detection and virus detection, but for
targeted advertising! Want to embarrass a friend using G-Mail?
Send an e-mail mentioning only "farm sex" or "kiddie porn", and
who knows what "targeted advertising" he or she will get. Perhaps
there will be a knock on the door from the FBI.
Despite promises that content analysis will be isolated from any
record-keeping, and totally performed anonymously by computer
algorithms, the fact is that one's mail is being analyzed, and
even requests for banner ads represents an information leak --
connecting your interest with your IP (since your browser fetches
the banner ad from whatever source). With a modest amount of
extra data mining, an "anonymously targeted" banner ad betrays
your identity.
So where are the limits? You think what you write to your girlfriend is your own? Maybe you encrypt it? But then the Virus, Spam, content filtering, and advertising bots will have to break into it to do their work. If they can't your message will not be let through. It is a totally slippery slope. Where are the edges???
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The kind of Spam analysis I would do if I had the time
WWW.COLINFAHEY.COM : Spam : The Phenomenon. This guy has too much time on his hands, but does a VERY good job with the history of SPAM, a detailed analysis of very current (march 29-31, 04) messages, and current spam fighting techniques. He comes down on the very far end of privacy zealots when it comes to recommending acceptable solutions, but I don't mind that. Very interesting reading.
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April 5, 2004
Good basic RFID primer slide deck
these guys: RFID Exchange - Slide packs
have put together a good RFID 101 slide deck that can get you started. I am looking into the server software piece of RFID. Don't know where to invest yet.
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My friend Eric on encryption in e-mail and some good pointers
In response to an e-mail from me, my friend Eric sent these useful thoughts and pointers on encryption.
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don't know if you've found these, but they're somewhat helpful different points of view:
http://www.cryptonomicon.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=631
http://www.pgp.com/company/ctocorner/
i assume you know about these guys:
http://www.voltage.com/technology/ibe.htm
if you're ready for some heavy reading, this hase some interesting ideas:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2003/HPL-2003-18.pdf
this is a general interesting list of whitepapers:
http://itpapers.zdnet.com/search.aspx?cid=22&tag=tu.sc.ont.dir1&x=40
what are people going to use encryption for?
is it ever going to come to a point that the email that goes between my mother and i is encrypted? even if it were just clicking a button on and off, would it even be worth doing?
it's just my general impression that people don't seem to feel they have much to hide in general, and i would have to think part of that is because they don't.
would the world be a safer place if everything was encrypted? likely, but i don't think that it'll really happen until it's just an automatic feature in hotmail (where it detects that you're talking with someone who accepts encrypted email and automatically turns it on).
the only problem with that, is that if you don't have the user conciously aware that they are using encrypted data (if you don't require extra or more stringent passwords to get at your private key, etc) it basically defeats the purpose of most of the encryption: if you can just type in the name of their dog as their password and get into their email, which automatically shows you the decrypted versions of their emails, what good did it do that it was encrypted?
so.. things are marginally improved -- people can't sniff email in transit and see everyone's messages. so that's good.. but.. i don't know who will pay for that incremental improvement.
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FTC spam study
The FTC in April 2003 did a study of spam and the false claims therein. Maybe a bit dated, but the distribution is quite interesting. Good background reading.
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IBM's Linux Upgrade Roadmap
has a good discussion of it.
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Well I bought an RSS reader and already regret it
So I had winnowed the RSS reader search down to FeedDemon and NewsGator. I have been traveling for two weeks, so I haven't really had time to do a head to head comparison, and had only played with each for about two hours. My trial on both ran out, so I had to bite the bullet. My decision criteria really wasn't that complicated. I didn't want another icon on my desktop, so I went with the Outlook plugin. Plunked down $29 for NewsGator. They should change their name. Gator is a bad word.
The first sign of trouble was in configuring postings out of the thing. With FeedDemon, they had a handy feature where they just auto discovered your posting app (I have been using w.Bloggar) and they automatically set it up. Well NewsGator doesn't work with w.Bloggar and you have to install another app from another guy: public MattBerther : ISerializable: MovablePoster. This plug-in is free now, but no gaurantee of how long. And it is definitely beta stuff. It took three trips to the support boards to get it working and configured correctly. And when you do post, NewsGator conveniently slaps it's "related" link on my posts which encourage people on my blog to click through to NewsGator's on-line services. Now I paid for my software and I don't want to be a shill for their viral marketing please. I haven't found where to turn this off yet. Also, this plug-in formats posts VERY differently than Bloggar and the difference is obvious. Now I am sure that with some programming in the template I could fix that, but I am a busy guy. This is alot of braindamage for a simple thing. Oh, and the "post to my blog" tab is well hidden in a couple of NewsGator menus. It is not a right-click option or an easy to find button on a menu bar. Why not?
I also have noticed that my outlook has slowed down considerably. Right now I am working over a VPN from home to the office server. I bet NewsGator is pulling everything from the net and putting it on my server then sending it along to my client. In that respect, a separate application would be better because they would just pull directly to the client and bypass the VPN/server. When I was running it, FeedDemon was very fast. Then there is the problem of new postings to my RSS feeds. With FeedDemon I got a cute pop-up window from the taskbar for new posts like I do when I get new e-mail. Of course this can be turned off. In News Gator it can't be turned on or off, it is not available. Another feature I kinda liked in FeedDemon was the ability to define a category of feeds and have the application assemble a "newspaper" for you with all the recent posts. Very cool.
FeedDemon also did a very good job of auto discovering the different RSS and Atom formats and finding the right place for a feed. NewsGator is very touchy that you get the stuff exactly right.
And then there is the problem of business model. With NewsGator you have to pay extra for things like reading your feeds in a browser, and custom searches. Many other readers offer that free. I hope some of this gets included, there will definitely be price pressure to do so.
Wow, sounds like I should have bought FeedDemon eh? Well I am an American at heart and am easilly swayed by convenience. Lured in with a promise of easy integration. I will stick with News Gator for awile, but may end up changing. Not sold yet. But they do have my money...
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Stuff I am selling on e-bay
I went on a binge and cleaned out the closets this weekend:
Cannon Powershot S100
Canon Powershot S110
Buck folding knife
16mb USB flash drive
FujiFilm FinePix A205
Gary Payton #20 Seattle Sonics stacking doll!
Panasonic SV-AV50 D-Snap SD video camera Blue
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A vision for a new music model
My friend Gerd Leonard has published a paper with his vision on the future of the music business. Basically he is advocating a move back to music as a service. There is more dreaming and "should be" than "will be" here, but interesting reading.
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April 4, 2004
More record industry revisionism
This today in e-mail from Hank Barry (former CEO of Napster).
"Record sales were up in every quarter in which Napster was operating."
Funny how the powerful music lobby has the public and lawmakers believing otherwise eh?
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Some guys at HP muse about information architecture in blogs
A couple researchers at HP have published a musing about information architecture in the blogspace. They are proposing a new way to rank postings in the space called iRank (similar to Google PageRank). I don't know if they have nailed it, but the idea is correct. The interconnections are different in blogs than raw HTML. There are time stamps, authors, FOAF files, personal relationships, etc. Since I am an investor, I hope Technorati solves the problem and defines the access paradygm.
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The Record industry is Lying about downloads effect on sales
I have thought for some time that the recording industry has been using funny numbers to support their assertion that digital music downloads have caused the drop in CD sales over the last couple of years. Now a The New York Times is reporting a new study out of Harvard confirms this. Using rigorous analysis of actual downloads correlated to CD sales in a specific geography, there is nearly no coorelation. The authors point out that free attracts a large number of people who may not even be CD buyers in the first place. The interesting question is what will the Music Monopoly say when CD sales spike up? They have been down for three years. At the same time as the general economy. Now the economy is coming back. And some great new music is coming out. What if sales pick up? Will they claim that their lawsuits are working? P2P usage is still up and to the right. The facts won't support this. I bet when CD sales spike, P2P will be up as well.
Don't get me wrong, I believe the CD sales model is a dying channel. It is a business model gasping it's last breaths. But it will have a couple dead cat bounces along the way.
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