Archive for August, 2007

Vint Cerf has emerged from his Google cave to say something insightful: TV as we know it is near death. VC suggests that shows will slot into one of two usage scenarios:

Pre-recorded (85% of our current viewing): The TV we watch with regularity, that fill the bulk of the programming grid. LOST. History Channel documentaries…. »

One of the sad things about our modern consumer economy is its ability to absorb & digest subcultures and regurgitate them as marketable, profitable, consumable lifestyle options. Witness skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding, and the whole “extreme-sports” culture: marginalized activities, practiced by renegades, are now mass-merchandized, sponsored, made-in-sweatshop profit machines for big corporate interests. The spirit of… »

A few weeks ago, Google’s Eric Schmidt managed to sound like both a n00b and a tasteless PR hack in the same 2 minutes, while trying to define “Web 3.0.” I wanted to try and round up some useful things about “Web 3.0″ that Schmidt could have said. So - to that end, here are… »

Every so often (twice so far), I’ll remove a feed from BlogLines (yes, I know GReader is better). So far, here are the two I’ve taken out:
Steve Rubel (MicroPersuasion): Was the first. Jumping all over every trend, he came across more and more as a paid advertisement (whether he was paid or not) - a… »

Well, well. According to Wired, hype-heavy people search engine Spock thinks people that write about pedophiles are pedophiles themselves, and isn’t afraid to share that knowledge with the world.
Jaideep Singh responded to Wired:
CEO Jaideep Singh claims Spock is no different than Google, indexing and aggregating information already available elsewhere on the web. Spock spiders major… »

Here’s an neat retrospective from the Cubanator on Broadcast.com. Going back to 1998 - 99, its easy to see why Cuban got fabulously wealthy. Walk though the Powerpoint at the bottom: its a compelling story for… »

Just stumbled across this presentation by Dick Hardt (CEO of Sxip) at OSCON 2005 on Identity 2.0.
Its a fantastic summary of the notion of “Identity” - starting with our physical identity, credentials, and the transactions we undertake (i.e.: buying alcohol), and walking through site-centric, silo’d “Identity 1.0,” and taking us to the notion of Identity… »

GigaOm tells the tale - AT&T’s admittedly overzealous censor removed anti-Bush lyrics. Overzealous?? How about criminal? What sort of half-wit would think that criticizing Bush was worthy of censorship? I hate to think like the tinfoil hat crew, but I have trouble imagining anyone censoring that without explicit instructions to do. We already know that… »

JS-Kit, maker of comment, voting, rating, and ranking widgets has been funded to the tune of 1.2M by The Entrepreneur’s Fund III, taking Kim Miller, VP of Marketing for HP.com, into their BOD. JS-Kit, in their press release, claims 5,000 sites using their products, with 1,000 new additions monthly. JS-Kit monetizes via ad-supported widgets, or… »

I just saw this perplexing video of Google CEO Eric Schmidt trying to explain what Web 3.0 is.

Ultimately, it seems that Schmidt just tries to shoehorn Web 3.0 into Google’s product strategy, talking about cloud apps that run on a variety of devices and that can be distributed virally. Is Schmidt trying to wag the… »