Tag: internet

Striking for Extinction

The strike poses an interesting challenge for television at a time where internet usage has surpassed TV viewing time in most homes. Users are already choosing online entertainment over TV, how many more will switch off their televisions when their favorite shows stop going to air? These eyeballs present a real opportunity for online content creators at all levels; from the VC funded video startups through to the DIY part timers. The trends in viewer numbers have all been headed online to this point, this strike could well accelerate this trend, particularly if it lasts over the long term. It will be a chance for millions online to bloom

hidebound unions destroying their own livelihood.

Blockbuster

Blockbuster is doomed. And while many of us have known it for a while now, it’s amazing to me that the chairman of the company admitted this in a not-so subtle way, as well. For Blockbuster, there is currently no prospect for growth. Not only is it incapable of breaking the Netflix shell, the brick-and-mortar stores are failing, and there is little chance it will be able to capitalize on the future of movie rentals–downloading.

nice. a useless brick and mortar is biting the dust, albeit a bit too slowly for my taste

Preparing Gmail for the future

gmail 2.0 is here, and it is FAST. this will save me minutes every day. as a data point, gmail is now as fast or faster as thunderbird for me. another of my desktop apps bites the dust.

Shifting Privacy

Only 19.6% of 18-24 year-olds consider their dating profile to be an invasion of their privacy, compared to 54.6% of other respondents.

privacy is for old people.

The ones who’ll struggle? Here’s betting it’ll be Before Netters like me, with our weirdly sterile Google lives that begin in middle age and our old-fashioned skittishness about online embarrassment and criticism.

Terrorists Honeypots

a Montana mom who befriends and betrays online jihadists

ha. we need more of those and less of the TSA nonsense

Internet as a romantic partner

While most Americans don’t want the Internet implanted in their brain, they are more willing to insert a chip into a child 13 or younger

Zonbu

i like the term cloudbook, a few gigs of flash, and everything else online. that would make for a cheap, light, robust laptop with long battery life. since a computer without internet is useless, sign me up!

50x Faster Than BitTorrent

His general argument is that without the artificial market restrictions imposed on P2P networks in the United States by the RIAA and the MPAA, Chinese companies have been free to innovate and are now producing superior web technology in P2P sharing

WorldCat growth

the world database of books grows by 20 books per second.

WSJ getting more web savvy

Wait that’s not just a journalist quoting from your twitter channel – that’s a WSJ writer quoting your tweets. As a web property it is taking risks and playing the digital game with some aplomb.