By Ian, on November 18th, 2006 Step One: MySpace partners with Gracenote to identify and eliminate copyrighted music on their network. (October 30th) Step Two: MySpace announces steps to identify and eliminate copyrighted video on their network. (Nov 17th) Step Three: Universal Music Group sues MySpace for copyright infringement. (Nov 17th) It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Continue reading How the Legal System Works By Ian, on November 16th, 2006 From Hotwire PR comes an ipsos MORI poll of European internet users: Blogs are now a near second to newspapers as the most trusted information source: A quarter (24%) of Europeans consider blogs a trusted source of information, still behind newspaper articles (30%), but ahead of television advertising (17%) and email marketing (14%). High spenders are most Continue reading Poll Position — UK Last Again By Ian, on November 16th, 2006 The recent ‘state of the blogosphere’ report from Technorati’s David Sifry has ruffled a few feathers because of the inclusion of a new semi-scientific ranking system to group bloggers into four distinct groups. Let’s call them A-D. (Aside: find out where you stand using this handy tool)
The report describes the four groups Continue reading Blogebrity… By Ian, on November 15th, 2006 A new report says Wikis are more important than social networks when it comes to business technology buyers. The report, from Knowledge Storm and Universal McCann, is available here — registration required. It’s also a cut-and-paste protected PDF, the devil’s own file format. But basically, it says that, of 5300 participants: 77% of these buyers Continue reading A Win for Wikis By Ian, on November 13th, 2006 Techmeme is full to bursting with posts announcing/decrying the announcement of something called Web 3.0. The kerfuffle follows an article in the New York Times yesterday, which is actually about semantic technologies — I gave a little overview in August and there’s more here. The ideas have been around since at least 1999, Continue reading Threepointouch By Ian, on November 12th, 2006 YouTube was the 26th most popular site on the Internet in September 2006. Ending my recent responses to the Hitwise Consumer Generated Media report (social networks and photos previously), this is what’s happening in the Web 2.0 video sharing space. Recently acquired by Google, YouTube remains firmly at the top of Continue reading Video 2.0 Round-up | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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