Archive for March, 2008
The future of newspapers (the real answer)
Jarvis on the challenge of revenue decline in the newspaper industry again.
You have to have your head in the sand not to realize that online revenue will never replace the loss of print revenue.
There is one positive note on the transition (or lack of) to the web. The costs of running a web site are […]
Cloud computing ball moves forward for smaller websites
Amazon just announced a few nice features for EC2 users, Elastic IP and Availability Zones.
Elastic IP allows users to associate an IP address with their web services account, rather than being tightly coupled to a specific EC2 instance.
The benefit is being able to more quickly recover from an instance failure. Presumably one might be able […]
How to achieve ‘real’ democracy for web
It’s been an interesting week in regards to the users asserting their authority.
Conference goers at SXSW made a clear statement that they weren’t willing to sit back and just listen politely.
Digg users are trying to thwart an acquisition.
On Newsgang Live 3.10.08 (not released yet), Gillmor claims it’s 1968 again, and we better watch out if […]
Ad Hoc Relationship Campaigns
Any time we want to accomplish something, from here on called the campaign, we rally together our digital forces to achieve (or fail to achieve) that goal.
For each given campaign, we gather assets, if only cerebrally at first. Bookmarks, search results, trusted members of our social graph, all the tools that fit the given campaign. […]
Programming languages don’t matter
Ted Leung has post (via Newsgang) which, among other things, exposes Sun’s desire to have numerous dynamic languages run atop of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine).
I’ve often said that one of the coolest things Microsoft ever did was allow developers to use a .Net language of their choice with the ability to compile […]
Twitter vs. Pownce: The Great Debate
Or is it Twitter vs. Facebook?
Or is it AIM vs. Yahoo! Messenger vs. GTalk?
Or Facebook vs. LinkedIn vs. MySpace vs. . . .
Okay. You get the picture.
Is this a ‘winner take all’ game, or can we expect that people will use many different services for some time to come?
It is most likely that everyone reading […]