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November 2007 - Posts

• 08:50 AM Monday, November 26, 2007
  Nov 26 Mon

  Who owns your data on Google, Facebook, Netflix?

  The blogosphere is raging about Facebook's use of " my data ". Doc Searls is promoting the idea of VRM (Vendor Relationship Mgmt) and says " Time to write our own rules ". The bargain you made in exchange for free services. Consumers sometimes forget Read More...
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• 01:14 PM Monday, November 19, 2007
  Nov 19 Mon

  Open vs Closed Networks, the future of 700 MHz wireless spectrum

  There is a big battle brewing over control of the 700 MHz wireless spectrum that the US government will auction off in January. The winner of the battle will determine if cell phone wireless networks remain closed, or will be opened up to anyone like Read More...
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• 09:22 AM Sunday, November 18, 2007
  Nov 18 Sun

  TechCrunch Boston

  Mike Arrington organized TechCrunch Boston on Friday night, attended by 800 tech people, and sponsored by IDG Ventures . It was the best tech party of the year in Boston.     The IDG Ventures Boston team was out in force.  I talked with Read More...
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• 01:03 PM Thursday, November 15, 2007
  Nov 15 Thu

  MacroMyopia overestimating the short term and underestimating the long term

  There is a severe case of MacroMyopia spreading across the blogosphere. Today it is The Death of Email . Yesterday it was Inbox 2.0 - Email meets Social Networks . Macro-Myopia is the tendency to overestimate the short term impact of a new product or Read More...
  Filed under: Exchange

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• 10:50 AM Wednesday, November 14, 2007
  Nov 14 Wed

  Email contacts - the natural social network

  Email is our natural social network. Our email contacts are already organized by work, professional, and personal friends. Email could easily adopt some of the useful social networking features to become a more powerful business network and collaboration Read More...
  Filed under: Exchange, Xobni

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• 10:10 AM Tuesday, November 13, 2007
  Nov 13 Tue

  Newspapers make deals with Zillow and HotJobs

  Zillow , the online real estate valuation site, has announced a deal with 282 newspapers to display their ads on Zillow's site. In return, the newspapers can also use the Zillow valuation platform on their web sites.   According to a story by Reuters Read More...
  Filed under: AdCenter

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• 08:59 AM Tuesday, November 13, 2007
  Nov 13 Tue

  Internet Advertising spend sets another record

  The Internet Advertising Bureau announced today that Internet advertising revenues exceeded $5.2 billion for the third quarter of 2007, representing yet another historic high for a quarter and a $1.1 billion increase, or 25.3 percent, over Q3 2006. This Read More...
  Filed under: Acquisitions, AdCenter

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• 08:32 AM Tuesday, November 13, 2007
  Nov 13 Tue

  Data center power outages and down time

  RackSpace , a web hosting data center based in Dallas had a major power outage yesterday. The outage affected GigaOm , Laughing Squid , 37 Signals , and many others. TechMeme , my favorite blog news aggregator, has lots of blogs following the story.   Read More...
  Filed under: Systems Center

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• 10:10 AM Thursday, November 08, 2007
  Nov 08 Thu

  Seesmic with Halley Suitt

  Halley Suitt, formerly of Top 10, now founder of Zindicate , introduced me to Seesmic .. Seesmic, founded by Loic Le Meur , currently in private beta, might be described as Twitter meets YouTube. Halley did a quick video with me to show how it works. Read More...
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• 12:03 PM Tuesday, November 06, 2007
  Nov 06 Tue

  Microsoft Enterprise Search - Freemium for the enterprise

  Microsoft announced a new free enterprise search product Search Server 2008 Express . It has the same core search functionality as the regular enterprise search products,  and no restrictions on size or number of documents. The goal of the program Read More...
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• 07:28 AM Monday, November 05, 2007
  Nov 05 Mon

  My Friends List is not like an OPML of RSS feeds

  Google's OpenSocial API initiative got a lot of buzz and hype last week which I thought was misguided . This week my friends Mark Cuban and Tim O'Reilly cut through the hype and get right to the heart of the matter with two excellent posts. Mark Cuban's Read More...
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• 12:12 PM Saturday, November 03, 2007
  Nov 03 Sat

  Best Buy moves into online video with Mydeo

  Best Buy has partnered with Mydeo to launch Best Buy Video Sharing , a new online video sharing service. It is a subscription-based service for users to upload their personal videos for sharing on web sites and blogs, with family and friends, or in e-mail Read More...
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• 08:10 AM Friday, November 02, 2007
  Nov 02 Fri

  50M Facebook users don't care about OpenSocial APIs

  There are 50 Million Facebook users who don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care. There are about 5,000 tech bloggers and developers who think it is a revolution that will " Checkmate " Facebook and leave them with no moves . TechMeme Read More...
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• 11:36 AM Thursday, November 01, 2007
  Nov 01 Thu

  Plaxo Pulse and social network aggregators

  Is anyone else tired of the email carpet bombing from Plaxo? The latest rage is Pulse, a new social network service. My email inbox started getting bombed with invitations last night. Here is how Plaxo describes it... What's pulse? Pulse is a new sharing Read More...
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