Archive for April, 2006

Something to see

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

I recommend picking up the Wired Magazine on stands and reading "A Guide to the Online Video Explosion." Being Wired, the article is a little hyperbolic about all the video that is suddenly on the internet. Nevertheless, it’s very impressive how broadband, like the bursting of a dike, has swept consumer generated media content along [...]

International Technology Conference Begins This Week in Austin

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

I am attending the 2006 World Congress on Information Technology in Austin this week on behalf of the FICenter, and will contribute a few posts to FISpace during the conference. The conference will focus on three major high-tech concerns: privacy and security for those using computers and other electronic information devices; access by people everywhere, [...]

Mobile media study released

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Online Media Daily posts a story that says "futurists might be pinning their hopes on mobile media, but the technology doesn’t appear to be there yet, according to a new joint Isobar-Yahoo report released Thursday." Read more.

Memorial pages

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

An interesting article about web sites memorializing people appeared this morning in the NYTimes.

RSS feeds, blogs and email

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

This looks interesting: on MediaPost’s Email Insider a feature on "Blog-To-E-mail May Change the World," was presented by Bill McCloskey, of Email Data Source and product Email Analyst. He says, "RSS Readers are dead-end. If it is not in the inbox, it won’t be read. Period."
He confirmed his views when he read an article on [...]

Marketers use broadband TV to reach consumers

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

I thought this was an interesting article in MediaDailyNews: "In an example of another major marketer bypassing established media outlets and utilizing broadband Internet as a means of distributing a channel direct-to-consumers, auto marketer Land Rover has launched a new broadband channel featuring original programming on sports, lifestyles and popular culture aimed at the kind [...]

Good list of trend-watching rules

Friday, April 21st, 2006

From “This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics,” a list of things to remember when prognosticating.

Ajax. What does it do?

Friday, April 21st, 2006

So what is Ajax? What does it have to do with Web 2.0? What does it have to do with replacing Microsoft's Word and Excel programs? Find out in this week's FISpace Podcast on technology and Non-profits hosted by David Neff.
- David Neff
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Corante starts innovation blog

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Corante has created a new "hub" – I am impressed with how creative and successful Stowe Boyd, the president and COO of Corante, has been in putting together a network of blogs – including one for media and for marketing. In fact, his Corante home page has evolved dramatically in one year and you can [...]

The Very Rich List Grows Rapidly

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

The number of very rich people in the US grew last year at the fastest pace in at least a decade as their various investments did well.
The number of households with $5M or  more in invisitable assets,  excluding  their home, rose by 26% to a record 930,000, according  to a study by the Spectrem Group.
The [...]