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I Want My Bud.TV

If you were expecting Anheuser-Busch’s Bud.TV to signal a return to the early golden age of television when advertisers associated their brands with such tony undertakings as the Hallmark Hall of Fame, the Kraft Television Theater and the G.E. Playhouse, you can keep on dreaming, Alice. 
Bud.TV, which went live last night during the Super Bowl, is pretty much what […]

Wall Street Journal 2.0 or Can Newspapers Survive the Web?

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows and you sure don’t have to count circulation figures and ad pages to know that internet has been a disasterous paradigm buster for newspapers in particular and print journalism in general.
Last week’s fire sale of the Minneapolis Star Tribune was only the latest ominous cloud of smoke to rise over the […]

Ross Mayfield’s Faustian Bargain

Assume for a moment that you are the CEO of cool little startup in a corner of the Web 2.0 market that is hotting up quickly (wikis).  One of your main competitors (JotSpot) has just been goggled by Google and who knows what scary bunch of free web services they’re about to cobble together.  Another rival (Blogtronix) is already offering […]

O’Reilly Comes Down from the Mount…Again

Tim O’Reilly, the tech media titan who gave Web 2.0 its name and defined many of its characteristics in a seminal paper called What is Web 2.0, is peddling a new report called Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices.  The 101-page report was actually written by John Musser of Programmableweb.com, using O’Reilly’s original 5-page paper as […]

cyn-in Goes Live

cyn-in, a web based service that lets enterprise workers easily build, share, manage and publish documents, media and files within a secure hosted online environment, has just gone live.
I’ve been using the new service from the India-based company Cynapse, to work with some colleagues for the past week as part of a sneak preview and I have to tell you I am […]

Who Owns the Web?

Can the cowboys and the farmers really be friends?  It’s an old question that cuts to the heart of the current ideological struggle between those who believe the internet derives its power and usefulness from the fact that it is an open range commons that belongs to nobody and those who think there ought to be fenced properties.
In […]

What’s Apple Up To Now?

Speculation about Apple’s highly-hyped “It’s Showtime” marketing event tomorrow is running about as feverish as a third-grade classroom during a chicken pox epidemic.  Everyone agrees that a download distribution deal with Disney will be announced and probably a larger capacity video iPod, but after a rather lackluster performance at the last Apple hoopla a couple of months ago and the lingering […]

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