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Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2008 | Inman News

Later this morning, I’m honored to be delivering the keynote address at the Inman Real Estate Connect conference here in San Francisco — coincidentally, a conference I attended in 2000 as the “Senior Producer” (whatever that means) for the real estate dotcom I was working for.

I’ll be [...]


Adobe Gets It

I just watched a short presentation at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit from Mark Randall of Adobe Systems Dynamic Media Devision.  He articulated clearly something I have been thinking about for a while which is the technology and business process that need to come to being in order for content owners and aggregators to monetize their [...]


My iPhone Review

I’m writing my iPhone review fromy iPhone appropriately enough using the wordpress app. Overall I have to say that apple has knocked it out of the park with their combination of form factor, user interface and application framework. My iPhone has really become more of an Internet connected device, allowing me to do [...]


Going Open Source Not Enough To Attract Non-Paid Developers To Symbian

One of Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) reasons for making Symbian open source was to drive innovation by attracting developers. Symbian is still associated almost exclusively with Nokia, and the organization is aware this could be a problem with vp of strategy John Forsyth telling OSCON that “the rapidly forming group needs a “clean-room culture” with its [...]


Support The Online Video Industry: Boycott Wikipedia

While online video technology has been around for fourteen years, many companies and customers are new to the technology and are just learning about the benefits. Like most of us looking to educate ourselves about a subject, we use Google….


Notes from the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit

After seeing someone on video us the words”game changing” and ” massive growth” I made a promise to myself to not use those phrases.
Interesting mention by Tony of the importance of the enterprise space going forward.
The fact that twitter won the global 250 award was surprising to me, I have started to count it out.
Big [...]


Copyright experts: Copyright extension is “the enemy of innovation”

The EU commission recently decided to extend EU copyright law for sound recordings from 50 to 95 years. The proposed term extension still has to be ratified by the European parliament, and resistance against these plans is growing.

17 experts on copyright law from such distinguished institutions like the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property and the Queen [...]


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