Margaret Millar
“Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.”
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TheWB.com Launched As Private Beta, Plus Facebook App
Early in March we brought you word that The WB, the original Warner Bros. television network which merged with UPN to form The CW, was putting together a new website to to host archival content as well as original Web-only productions. (The CW publish…
Yahoo's New BrowserPlus: Game Changer
Yahoo has introduced what I think is a revolutionary concept called BrowserPlus.BrowserPlus is a browser plug-in unlike any other. As most of you know, a Browser plug-in allows you to add functionality to your browser that it is not built-in. For examp…
The Microsoft Case: The Second Browser War
Today I’ll wrap up my series of posts looking back at the Microsoft Case, by looking at the Second Browser War that is now heating up.
The First Browser War, of course, started in the mid-1990s with the rise of Netscape and its Navigator browser. …
What the cable companies (and TiVo) could learn from Facebook
By guest blogger, Joshua Beil
Whether you agree with the $15B valuation or not, Facebook has unleashed a pair of technical innovations that has fundamentally shaped the social media landscape: the first was the personal feed and the second was an open …
Comcast Hacked in BitTorrent Throttling Payback?
When you’re as large as Comcast, you can’t please all of the people, all of the time. Although it has done so in other ways too, Comcast managed to annoy a large portion of its customer base with its throttling activities, not to mention its mislea…
Malcolm Forbes
“It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.”
Netflix and Roku - The Kick in the Pants the Media Adapter Market Needed
In late March, there was a rumor going around that Netflix was working with Microsoft to enable the Watch Now streaming video feature through the Xbox 360. Although that still remains a rumor, Netflix did make another public announcement today that con…
Amazon Funds AWS Darling Animoto
My friend Stevie Clifton, CTO at Animoto, pinged me early this morning with the news that Amazon has funded his company. This comes on the heels of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos using Animoto as a great example of how to leverage Amazon Web Services. Get the …
Steering Between Unsocial Networks and Social Spam
The new systems from Google, MySpace and Facebook are meant to let sites around the Web offer social features, but at least at first they will not allow the most social of all activities: people talking to other people. The reason is that it is hard to be wide-open and still provide protections against spam and abuse.