Archive for February, 2008
Denial93 writes “Geek favorite author Neil Gaiman has just made his multi-award-winning bestselling novel ‘American Gods’ available on the internet for free. It’s a trial by the publisher, and runs for one month. Gaiman writes in his blog: ‘If it works, and people read it, then a) we might be able to put up another book and b) sooner or later they’ll simply let us give away the book in electronic form….’ It’s an excellent book and much deserving of the many prestigious awards it has been getting.”
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Filed under: Blogging, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
It’s all about the future at FOWA. Well, what do you expect? It’s in the conference title. Gary Vaynerchuck of WineLibrary.tv, one of our favorite video podcasts, is giving a talk on “How to Grow a Community in The Future” and we’re liveblogging it! Gary is a machine and a heck of a funny guy, so before Friday afternoon turns your brain to cobwebs, follow along with Gary’s presentation.
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Filed under: Business, Developer, Web services, Yahoo!, Social Software, web 2.0
Everyone cares about Flickr, right? Love Flickr or not, they have some sharp minds working hard to bring you a (mostly) rock solid web application. Adding features to an application with such an enormous userbase can be tricky. At Future of Web Apps 2008, Flickr’s Cal Henderson is presenting on “The Application of New Features to an Established Application.” Enjoy it live, or come back to it later.
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As part of our continuing coverage from this big day of presentations at Future of Web Apps 2008 in Miami, we’re liveblogging Kevin Marks presentation on The Future of APIs.
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Filed under: Internet, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
You’re on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, StumbleUpon, Digg, Flickr, and a thousand other social networking sites. But keeping up with your friends and contacts on each site could be a full time job. Or you could sign up for a single service that lets you view your contacts’ activity on a single page.
FriendFeed is a service that launched last week, which does exactly that. But the service didn’t get hog the spotlight very long, as Yahoo!’s MyBlogLog has launched a feature this week that lets members track their friends’ activity streams.
Existing MyBlogLog members should notice the change right away. Your new profile page will feature all of your current blogging activity. And if you’ve already added other social networking service to your profile, you should see updates for those as well. When you click on the “my neighborhood” button you’ll see an activity stream with updates from your MyBlogLog members who use those services.
[via ReadWriteWeb]
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Leah Culver founded Pownce with her friends Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka. Pownce is a “social messaging” service which allows you to share updates, files, links and more with your friends, and (now) provides a robust API to work with your data. Here are the rough cut of our notes from her presentation at FOWA 2008.
Continue reading From FOWA : Leah Culver of Pownce, The Future of Web Services
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gnujoshua writes “Has the time come to abolish software patents? Fortune columnist Roger Parloff reports on a new campaign called End Software Patents, which he views as ‘attempting to ride a wave of corporate and judicial disenchantment with aspects of the current patent system.’ Ryan Paul of Ars Technica writes that the purpose of the campaign is to ‘educate the public and encourage grass-roots patent reform activism in order to promote effective legislative solutions to the software patent problem.’ The campaign site is informative and targets many types of readers, and it includes a scholarship contest with a top prize of $10,000.00. We’ve recently discussed the potential legal re-examination of software patents.”
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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “The RIAA’s litigation campaign has met resistance from the academic community before, but now it’s been taken to a whole new level: the defense of RIAA victims who are not part of the college community. First the University of Oregon lashed out on behalf of its students, then it was the University of Maine’s Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic on behalf of its undergrads. Now, the University of San Francisco School of Law has taken the fight a giant step further. Its Intellectual Property Law Clinic’s attorneys-in-training, working under the supervision of law professors, are going to bat against the RIAA by helping outside lawyers to defend their clients, pro bono. They reached out 3000 miles to get involved in Elektra v. Torres and Maverick v. Chowdhury, two cases going on in Brooklyn, NY, against non-college defendants. Two of the law students in the USF’s legal program assisted in the research and preparation of briefs in these cases, opposing the RIAA’s motion to dismiss the defendants’ counterclaims. Thousands of honor students throughout United States law schools, most of them digital natives who actually understand the legal fallacies and technological missteps the RIAA is taking, and who can’t wait to expose them, make a pretty good resource for the poor and middle class people trying to defend these cases.”
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February 26, 2008
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Filed under: Industry, Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Sony Corp ADR (SNE)
 Envision if the Sony (NYSE:SNE) PS3 actually came out of the shadow of the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox 360. During 2007, PS3 ran in third place in sales in most regions and most months. The machine was viewed as too pricey and did not have enough new games to run on it.
There is a case to be made that some of this could change. Production scale is moving up on the machine. That means lower component costs and another chance to cut prices. According to Reuters, “2008 will be a turning year for the PS3,” stated iSuppli analyst Pamela Tufegdzic. “Sony is offering a superior forthcoming software pipeline with blockbuster titles like ‘Gran Turismo 5,’ which will boost PS3 sales this year.”
Not so fast. Nintendo and Microsoft are not going to stand by and let their sales be stolen. Nintendo has already introduced a radical new platform called Nintendo Fit. It allows users to stand on a balance board and be physically involved in games that include things such as downhill skiing. Microsoft has its own arsenal lead by Halo 3.
Sony’s PS3 might be in for slightly better times, but it is far behind in a race that it may never win.
Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com.
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