Monday, November 14, 2005
Today's Assigned Reading
Industrial market is still relatively untapped for the Internet, at least according to this article
Article: http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3562711
Press release: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051109005071&newsLang=en
Summary of last week's ad:tech show
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3563481
A UK columnists muses about e-books and publishers
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1641234,00.html
Google proposes a book rental plan
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113192806168096032.html?mod=home_whats_news_us
Publishers are still spooked about Google according to The Economist
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5149499
... and Der Spiegel has a story about the issues as well
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,383978,00.html
100 zillion years ago, AOL and Time Warner merged to create a cross-media giant. Internal legal wrangling and bad management led to a big zero.... until today. Yes, this is the announcement we've all been waiting for! Classic TV shows will now be online! This is incredibly underwhelming.
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3563926
Hilarious story of unintended consequences! Someone figured out that computers actually use lots of electricity! Maybe paper is cheaper? This is a case of really bad planning, but it is funny.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113193708767796182.html?mod=home_whats_news_us
Seniors who blog: yes, old people use computers. Shocking!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/11/09/financial/f215536S77.DTL
Podcasting story: radio stations will actually be encouraging it!
http://www.bridgeratings.com/press_11.12.05.PodProj.htm
Skype will be computer-free?
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123507,tk,dn111105X,00.asp
Last week, people were up in arms over some Microsoft memos where Bill Gates warned that the world was going to change. Imagine that.
http://news.com.com/Gates+memo+warns+of++disruptive+changes/2100-1014_3-5940792.html
Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop is closer to reality. The Microsoft comments are pretty funny. They won't be able to do the 3E plan that they normally do with industry standards ("embrace, enhance, eradicate") to this idea.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113193305149696140.html?mod=home_journal_links
Article: http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3562711
Press release: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051109005071&newsLang=en
Summary of last week's ad:tech show
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3563481
A UK columnists muses about e-books and publishers
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1641234,00.html
Google proposes a book rental plan
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113192806168096032.html?mod=home_whats_news_us
Publishers are still spooked about Google according to The Economist
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5149499
... and Der Spiegel has a story about the issues as well
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,383978,00.html
100 zillion years ago, AOL and Time Warner merged to create a cross-media giant. Internal legal wrangling and bad management led to a big zero.... until today. Yes, this is the announcement we've all been waiting for! Classic TV shows will now be online! This is incredibly underwhelming.
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3563926
Hilarious story of unintended consequences! Someone figured out that computers actually use lots of electricity! Maybe paper is cheaper? This is a case of really bad planning, but it is funny.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113193708767796182.html?mod=home_whats_news_us
Seniors who blog: yes, old people use computers. Shocking!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/11/09/financial/f215536S77.DTL
Podcasting story: radio stations will actually be encouraging it!
http://www.bridgeratings.com/press_11.12.05.PodProj.htm
Skype will be computer-free?
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123507,tk,dn111105X,00.asp
Last week, people were up in arms over some Microsoft memos where Bill Gates warned that the world was going to change. Imagine that.
http://news.com.com/Gates+memo+warns+of++disruptive+changes/2100-1014_3-5940792.html
Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop is closer to reality. The Microsoft comments are pretty funny. They won't be able to do the 3E plan that they normally do with industry standards ("embrace, enhance, eradicate") to this idea.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113193305149696140.html?mod=home_journal_links
