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CNNMoney Report on Webmasters and a Word of Caution from the World Organization of Webmasters

<p>CNNMoney.com is reporting that the Webmaster is back and salaries are up. The online report also reflects that IT professionals with Project Management Skills is one of the hottest IT jobs in the U.S. To comment on this, I'm on the phone with Bill Cullifer, <a title="World Organization of Webmasters" href="http://webprofessionals.org">WOW</a> Executive Director and the <a title="WhyITNow.org - The Zing is Back!" href="http://WhyITNow.org">WhyITNow.org</a> in ...

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10 Web 2.0 Questions to Ask Your Dev Team

You may not have any web 2.0 questions if you're reading this blog but just in case you stumbled upon this resource recently, I'll outline 10 or so questions to ask your development teams relevant to web 2.0. These are in no particular order.... Do we have a RSS feed? What’s the feed address? How does it look? Is it burned at feedburner? Where do I subscribe and is subscribing drop-dead easy? Can I subscribe via email and how does it look in IE7 and FireFox? How many s ...

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Google FTC and Apple Booms and Adobe Open Sources Flex

So what do you think of Google owning or logging your web surfing activities as well as your web searching activities? The FTC is receiving complaints over Google's acquisition of DoubleClick. If Microsoft would have won the bidding war, the complaints would have happened 5 days sooner. Google acquires Marratech, webex under direct threat. You already know about Google's possible PowerPoint competitor. Google could be infringing on Prefound's patent with Notebook applicatio ...

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10 Resources Web Developers Need to Know About Now

According to a recent NGI Survey, 60 percent of enterprises are aware of customer expectations for two-way Internet interactions. At the same time, only 19 percent give their current online applications high marks for the ability to offer two-way interactions. The graphs from the NGI Survey are below. Our customers want web 2.0 applications and now need the functionality and architectures to support our businesses for three main reasons listed below. >> Socially aware appli ...

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10 Resources Designers Need to Know About Now

If you can spot a pixel out of place at 1280x1024 this is for you. I researched design resources you should know about now. I can't mention them all in a minute but I'll give it a shot. You've probably already joined 9rules.com but have you added the design-feed.net opml file to your feed reader? Try it. Smashing Magazine has a great post of 5 questions for 35 designers. In it you'll find top designer's picks of online and print magazine they read regularly. Resources like, ...

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5 SEO Tools Marketers Should Know About Now

Today I’ve got 5 SEO tools marketers will want to know about. Number 1 : Seomoz.org will check your url online and return a search engine optimization metric. With 14 different data points this tool could be your only measure of seo effectiveness. But experts will also want to measure inbound links along side multiple domains. Number 2 : If you don’t want to pay for a premium membership with seomoz, use the free desktop app, Link Popularity Check to check total links to many urls at once, b ...

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Google Buys DoubleClick and Tonic Systems -Tellme launches

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google must be stoked. After winning a bidding war with Microsoft over DoubleClick they will now retain the largest ad network for years to come, so it seems anyway. 3.1 billion was the price and 300 million in revenue expected annually. The biggest part of this deal for Google was to keep Microsoft out. Google has also announced their acquisition of Tonic System and with some integration, will be releasing a Power Point competitor. Google has also impr ...

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IT Job Market for Web 2.0 Pros is Very Solid - Interview Katherine Spencer Lee

Interview Katherine Spencer Lee from Robert Half Technology. We've been conducting research provided by the US department of labor and we've been speaking with small and large businesses that hire aspiring and practicing IT workers. Our research is suggesting a gap between available jobs and having enough IT Pros to fill those jobs. Today I'm speaking with Katherine Spencer Lee, Executive Director at Robert Half International. Robert Half International is a major force in ...

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Why IT Now Panel Discussion and Technology Innovators Awards at Interop in Vegas

On May 23rd in Las Vegas we’ll be at a Panel Discussion with IT leaders from around the country. We’re also planning a technology Innovators Awards Ceremony following the panel discussion. We produced some audio in a podcast format over at WhyITNow.org to help folks understand the approach being taken to address some of our current issues like education and employment. I recently called Bill Cullifer to ask him specifically about the Why IT Now panel discussion and Technology Innovators Awa ...

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CitizenTube Xbox Messenger and AOL-Google Update Plus Yahoo!-Viacom Deal

If you need a place to express your political opinions online, you can use YouTube and a webcam to create and publish your video. Now you can also use a new channel from YouTube called, "CitizenTube". Look for this one to become more popular around October of next year. Look for Windows Live Messenger to be integrated into Xbox Live this Spring. In another story from WebProNews, David Utter updates us about the billion-dollar Google investment in AOL. Wanna try a Google exp ...

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100 Million iPods and Today's Tech News

According to Apple Inc., over 100 million iPods have been sold. Map makers rejoice! Google released My Maps which lets you create mashups of maps that can be used on your website and in Google Earth. Google also added some features to Google Talk. If you weren't aware, you can now embed Google Talk into any web page. Thailand is forcing YouTube to remove some more videos. Until then, they are banned from Thailand again. Nielsen released SiteCensus Streaming to help advertis ...

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Adobe Higher Ed Resources and Updated Kuler

Not a lot to report yet today. Happy Easter to everyone that celebrated the holiday. I took an easy day yesterday myself mostly preparing for the golf tournament next month in Vegas. I also poked around at adobe.com and was reminded of all of the resources at their site. Adobe has some really solid higher education resources including course materials, curriculum development help and lots of book references that aren't limited to showcasing their latest products. In fact, ...

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FCC Probing Broadband Providers

The FCC is investigating whether or not broadband providers are doing anything to stifle competition on the web. Net Neutrality is still very much at stake and a recent decision by freeconferencecall.com to counter-sue AT&T could be revealing for either side by the time this one is over. Specifically, the FCC is looking at whether companies like AT&T, Verizon or Comcast are setting aside higher speed connections for their own web services, perhaps blocking competing services or putting in ...

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Google Partners with TV Broadcaster and Intel Goes to China

Google is partnering with EchoStar to sell commercials over the satellite broadcaster's 125 national programming networks. From reading various takes on the story, it seems that cable operators are actually the better play for Google since the cable companies can target and segment their market's better. It is a sign of things to come though and if Google can keep it together with YouTube they're likely to have some huge opportunity coming their way and lots of work for the AdWords team. ...

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Zillow Going Bigger - Mozilla Going Social

Zillow.com has re-released their website. Now anyone can ask and answer questions, or post a home for sale. Zillow is run by the guys that disrupted the travel agent model in the nineties with Expedia. If you’re a real estate broker, you need to study these guys and get your tech people working on complimentary or better services. Also reported by TechCrunch, Mozilla is planning on building social networking features into FireFox. MySpace is gearing up to hold their first Presidential Ele ...

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Information-Freedom Milestone Lurking over DRM EMI iTunes Deal

EMI has released their entire music catalog without the constraints of digital copyright protection, or so-called, digital rights management. According to press reports, each song will cost $1.29. After you buy it, there will be no DRM to stop you from ripping it or sharing it. The quality will be doubled but the cost is thirty cents higher than the same song right next to it in iTunes. EMI also has DRM Free videos for sale. No price change there. If you already bought an EMI label artist’s ...

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April Fools is Finally Over I Think

For April Fool’s Day, Google busted out two new products, TiSP a free “wireless” broadband service for anyone that meets the minimum toilet flush requirements. I wonder if this is what Verizon was thinking when they came out with their so-called, “wireless broadband”? Google also released Google Paper. This handy service will let you click a print button and Google will snail mail you a printed copy of the page, complete with ads on the back. News.com got in the game at Cnet.com. Accessify ...

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World’s Leading Technology Companies Drop Shields to Save the World

In a move that can only been seen as Earth-Changing, the world’s most successful technology companies have agreed to install and manage classrooms around the world to reduce ignorance and increase understanding among today’s disparate cultures. Internet classes on publishing tools will be taught by volunteers and subsidized by major governments around the world. Google will be providing free wireless and necessary applications while Cisco provides the backbone. Microsoft, Apple and Linux w ...

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Aloha Friday ICANN says .XXX still a no-go and Google Health Search

ICANN again rejected .xxx as a domain extension. There's strong arguments for and against. Vint Cerf is in charge so it's probably going to be ok. Two board members did disagree with the board's decision.Yahoo! will be appointing a"Traffic Quality Advocate"as a result of a recent Click Fraud ruling in a San Jose Federal Court. Thousands of advertisers will get a dedicated Traffic Quality Advocate and a brand new Traffic Quality Resource Center. According to WebProNews,"Yahoo has estimated t ...

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Web 2.Now Conference in Las Vegas May 3rd and 4th Rooms Going Fast

In about a month we’ll be holding a Web 2.Now Conference. The World Organization of Webmasters will be hosting the event along with co-sponsors, Bizland, Readyhosting and media sponsor, Web Host Industry Review. We’ll all be at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on May 3rd and 4th blowing away myths, instilling facts and information you need to excel in today’s lightning-fast Web 2.0 environments. Anyone that works on the Internet should attend, the price is only $295 bucks for two days of critica ...

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Apple Releases Boot Camp for Vista FOIA Audit and SitePoint Articles

Apple has released a Boot Camp beta for Vista. iTunes reportedly still isn't Vista-ready. According to Eric J. Sinrod at News.com, "A recent audit by the National Security Archive --an independent, nongovernmental research effort at George Washington University--paints a bleak picture of governmental noncompliance with E-Freedom of Information Act a decade after its enactment." They've probably lost most of the information. Having the government manage their own information just sounds ...

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New Xbox New Skype and We’re Throwing a Golf Tournament at Interop!

Microsoft released a new Xbox… elite it’s called and also released a firmware update for the Zune. You can use the latest beta of Skype to send money via PayPal along with a photo of yourself if you want. If you’re going to Interop in Las Vegas this year, you’re invited to join us in some golf. Hackers, slackers and scratchers are all invited to mix it up with Industry leaders in golf carts. I’ll be reporting back on just who can actually hit the ball. The First Annual IT Golf Classic sp ...

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Adobe Device Central - Google Betas Pay Per Action

It's called Device Central and it's integrated into Photoshop, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Flash and more. Device Central is basically an emulator that lets designers and developers see how their work will look on a about one hundred different phones. Flash is now integrated with Photoshop and Illustrator. Upgrade versions of some of the software like Contribute, is reportedly going for around a hundred bucks. The Master Collection which appears to be similar to the Adobe Production Studio ...

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Yahoo! Mail Unlimited Storage Google Mobile Flight Info and Dell Linux

Yahoo! Mail is now offering unlimited storage. Competition is good. Maybe Google and Microsoft will step it up too. Here’s a new Google mobile feature you might not have heard about, text your flight number to Google at 466453 and Google will return your flight information. Now that’s nice. Especially since they just signed a deal with LG to put Google Mobile on millions of phones. WebProNews reports MySpace revenue at about 30 million per month according to one analyst. Rupert Murdoch pu ...

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Adobe Announcement Tuesday and 22 Software Companies You Could Learn From

First, a quick reminder that Adobe is announcing the launch of their new creative suite tomorrow, that’s our Tuesday for those of you in a far away time zone. This is the first major launch since acquiring Macromedia and subsequently some of my favorite tools. Let’s hope the integrations went silky-smooth. So I have a question for you. What do longjump, Proto, Teqlo, Calgoo, Tungle, System One, blogtronics, Cogenz and Stikkit have in common? They’re all companies you've probably never hear ...

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Google Buys Adscape and Trendalyzer and Adobe Releases Apollo Alpha

Google is buying Adscape. Inserting ads into games is apparently the idea behind the purchase. The terms were not released however, Google did say they have already been in talks with game developers for some time. Google also purchased Gapminder's Trendalyzer software. Trendalyzer animates various data points and is said to"create novel effects"out of statistical analysis. It sounds to me like Google Analytics is going to take longer to load.Adobe has officially released Apollo and as Mich ...

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Broadcasters Build YouTube Competitor Viacom Gets Sued Feedburner Gets Updated

The Adobe Flash Media Encoder is now shipping. This is a killer tool for prepping your Flash movies and videos for YouTube. Speaking of YouTube, NBC Universal among other broadcasters are officially in development of their own video website. TechCrunch reports the new service will include content from dozens of tv studios and at least 2 major movie studios. In related news, Viacom is being sued over a Stephen Colbert parody. The EFF and others don’t think it’s right to force video sharing ...

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Switch Domains Easily and Keep Ethical in SEO and Apollo Videos at Lynda.com

SiteProNews.com has all the things you should look out for when switching domains. You'll want to bookmark this one. Robert McLaws reports on software to cut the commercials out of your Recorded TV in Vista. The Google Webmaster Blog has some solid advice on "Site content and use of web catalogues" with specific advice for not hiring the wrong seo consultant. The post is valuable because it ties together real world practices with questionable ethics. If you're the black hat seo type you'l ...

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Google Webmaster Tools Exposes Key Phrases in Anchor Text

Vanessa Fox over at the Google Webmaster Blog has a new post about an enhancement to the Google Webmaster Tools. If it’s your job to make sure your site gets traffic, you’re aware of Google’s Webmaster Tools. These tools expose a lot of data about the way Google “sees” or indexes your website. For a while we've been able to check out the keywords other sites use in their links or anchor text when they point to our sites. Now you can get the complete key phrases used in the anchor text. Thi ...

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Cisco Web Conferencing TellMe for Windows Mobile(Someday) and Google Privacy Measures

Cisco just bought Webex. That’s the web conferencing company you've probably seen before. Also reported by TechCrunch, 1-800-free-411 is claiming a 6% market share If you’re willing to listen to short ad to get free information from your cell phone, you could become part of that 6%. SiteProNews.com has an article with ten steps to creating your first blog. No need to wait any longer. Microsoft is buying TellMe.com. TellMe has some Google-like search features aimed at mobile users. Micros ...

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Turkey Stops Blocking YouTube Viacom Starts Battle with Google

The Turkish Government is letting their citizens tune into YouTube.com again after blocking the service. YouTube removed offending videos exacerbating the situtation and showing a complete lack of ethics themselves. Yeah we know, the people of Turkey will benefit more in the longterm. Meanwhile Viacom is sueing YouTube for a billion dollars. WebPronews is covering the story and I found a quote from an interview with Google CEO, Eric Schmidt regarding the future of online video and YouTub ...

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Microsoft AP Video, Yahoo! Facelifts and Skype Prime

Microsoft and the Associated Press are working on a video site together. Microsoft is also building a Google Apps competitor. Will anyone want to use Google Apps if Microsoft brings their Office suite online? Yahoo! Answers has added some social features to their popular Answers website. These seem to be just the kind of features that are super popular on other social networking sites. They also released an all new, My Yahoo! In spite of CEO Terry Semel, Yahoo! seems to be doing a solid j ...

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2006 Good - Online Advertising Remains Strong For Now

WebProNews is reporting some Internet Advertising Bureau numbers showing a 34% increase over 2005 numbers bringing total online ad revenues up to 16.8 billion. Traditional big media continues to buy into the surge and they continue to build out websites with the intention of providing ad space. That goal doesn't jive with me as it seems a more natural growth of the Internet focused on user needs more than advertiser needs would foster sustain ability. Trying to convince ad publishers to p ...

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One user/pass for WordPress and Soon, the World

It looks like Google will be releasing a phone soon. The Xbox is getting a memory boost. WordPress users rejoice. With 2.1, you can now use your WordPress user name and password as an OpenID. That's right, no more remembering usernames and passwords, you can just use your WordPress credentials. With more and more companies adopting OpenID, this is really sweet. Speaking in front of the group Center for Democracy and Technology, Bill Gates urged for Federal laws to help data privacy issu ...

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750 Million Net Users Can't Be Wrong

Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 has been announced and like very other mobile application, it works on some phones. The Barvarian State Library in Germany is offering up it's book to Google for indexing. Thomas Rubin - Microsoft's associate general counsel for copyright, trademark and trade secrets say's the whole thing is wrong because they are using copyrighted work to sell ads. The whole idea sounds pretty kewl to me. And also to Friendster who just offered up some ad space ...

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Photoshop Going Online - Fireworks Ramblings

Look for an online version of Photoshop in the near future. Adobe has confirmed their plans to release a hosted version of the best photo editing software ever created. I'm diehard Fireworks user but like so many others, Photoshop is my roots. I've always preferred Photoshop but the speed increase I've gotten over the last few years from using Fireworks has been worth it. I don't think many people are ready for editing of 80 meg photos online, especially not the bandwidth providers. I'v ...

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Google Click Fraud Numbers, Paid Diggs and the RIAA Still Sucks

Google has published numbers on their click fraud rates. They reveal some details but there are some solid dissections of the data over at Search Engine Land. In unrelated news, Information Week is reporting the Recording Industry of America’s efforts to pressure College kids into rethinking their habits with music. Prosecuting teenagers apparently hasn't been working. Their goal seems to be to force their will and the law on a younger generation to effect long-term mindshare. They're cert ...

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Google Begins Charging for Online Google Applications

Google is now offering premium versions of their free software. They haven't stopped giving software away and they aren't running from their ad model but they are offering apps for money. "What," you say, you thought Google gave everything away and advertisers paid for it all? That was yesterday. With 450 million Office users and revenue at around 3.5 billion, there's probably money in selling Google apps. It looks like Google will try and charge fifty bucks a year. Not bad but the apps a ...

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Microsoft Ordered to Pay 1.5 Billion and Spending More

Holy legal battles! I’ve been reading various perspectives concerning today’s court order for Microsoft to Payl Alcatel-Lucent 1.5 billion for using mp3 technology in their operating system. Basically, Microsoft and nearly every other company in the world has been licensing mp3 technology from Fraunhofer. The court ruling says they all have it wrong and they should have all been paying Alcatel-Lucent all along. With that said, I’m not sure if any court has gotten a technology verdict right ...

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Adobe's New Offices are Greener Than Tourism in Hawai`i

After watching a ship burn and sink yesterday there off the coast of Waikiki Beach, I read another article about Adobe's new "Green" offices in San Jose. An amazing contrast in perspectives, for sure. A recent National Geographic cover story talks about Places We Must Save. The Hawai`i islands were mentioned. Stay with me for a minute. On Friday at Tech2007, here on Oahu, along with the World Organization of Webmasters we met with educators and students and talked about educational opport ...

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Google AdWords Tips Viacom is Using FlashCast Yahoo! Pipes Are Hot!

Google AdWords has some new optimization tips on their blog for web marketers. Part One went live last week. Viacom is using FlashCast in Spain in some trials. Look for some sweet mobile Flash apps later this year. We’ve got a link to Sir Tim Berners Lee, Mobile Web keynote at the 3GSM conference If you’re using a router at home and you haven’t changed the default password, you need to according to Robert McLaws. If he says do it, do it. Yahoo! Pipes are Hot! It’s safe to say that if yo ...

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Adobe, FeedBurner, Google News and Russian IT Leader is a Pirate

Feedburner made some nice improvements to their free feed stats product. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is now shipping. CNET.com is reporting that over half of U.S. homes now have broadband. Blackberry users will want to download a Daylight Savings Time patch before March 11th. The same goes for Windows Mobile users. Same for Palm Treos running the Garnet OS. Russia is attacking software piracy by attacking Microsoft. "We are constantly fighting against unlicensed use of software, but we ne ...

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Cisco Buys Five Across - Is VOIP Taxed Unfairly?

Cisco has apparently purchased Five Across, Inc. a Social Networking company. It'll be interesting to see how John Chambers moves forward with the acquisition. CNET.com has a interesting take in their podcast.The Feds are rethinking their decision last year to force certain voice over IP providers. The taxes forced on VOIP providers would require consumers to pay an extra couple of bucks every month. The money goes into the Universal Slush fund for something or other. The money is supposed ...

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Tech News Update YouTube Privacy Google Book Search Amapedia

Tougher penalties may be on the way for people stupid enough to commit a crime and post a video of it on YouTube. The engineers at Google Book Search are creating some interesting search results by combining maps with relevant data. BrandChannel has the top five brands broken down by global, North American and European. Google is the number one global brand. The other four in each of these areas might surprise you. Amazon is launching Amapedia, a wiki companion to their online catalog o ...

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Tech News Update John Knoll Interview at CNET.com

If you plan on upgrading to Vista, don’t uninstall XP first. You’ll need it installed to validate the fact that you’re performing a valid upgrade.YouTube is reportedly going to share revenue with video copyright holders. If this interests you, Revver and MetaCafe are already doing this with a smaller audience.Google is updating their backend much more frequently than before and Matt Cutts has some great advice for dealing with the changes aimed at slowing down the effects of Google Bombs.Th ...

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Will YouTube Get Duped By The Broadcasters? Plus Steve Jobs and Flash News

We recently reported (alsosee here) that eventually broadcasters will want to kill their deals with YouTube after they think they've successfully created their own video portals. They still seem to think they can do a better job and perhaps they even think that the video portal is more important than the community it facilitates. Google (YouTube.com) gets it. Broadcasters still don't but they're figuring it out much faster than the music industry did. Especially Viacom and Comedy Central ac ...

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Super Bowl Virus eBay Second Life Yahoo! Video RSA and Online Image Editors

If you checked out the Miami Dolphin Stadium website in the last week, you might want to run your virus scanner now. Scumbags hacked the site and tried to use it to install trojans on unsuspecting user's machines. Adobe is expected to release Photoshop Lightroom some time this month. It's officially out of beta. eBay is okaying sales of Second Life items in their auction. eBay has rules against selling game items from Warcraft and Everquest. Second Life claims and it appears to be less of ...

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Samsung Fuel Cell Tech and Phone Coming Zune?

Samsung will ship a laptop battery-docking thingy that will keep a laptop running 8 hours per day for about a month without recharging. It’s called, “Direct Methanol Fuel Cell” technology. There’s some news about a Zune phone over at CrunchGear.com and based on their report, it looks like Microsoft is going to watch the iPhone release and then release their own zPhone and music player just in time for the holidays. This reminds me of watching Richard Petty race at Daytona when even as a ...

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DEMO 7 Gone TechCrunch20 is Coming and Moxia Battery Mashups

If the majority of the companies that pitch their startups are pitching web 2.0 ideas, does that mean we're in for a much needed increase in web 2.0 spending? TechCrunch.com has an interesting take on Demo 7 the conference where a lot of companies get up and pitch their ideas. TechCrunch announced today that they'll be doing a TechCrunch20 Conference. This kind of activity in the VC market is always promising for web developers and web designers. Vringo.com is offering mobile video rington ...

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OLPC - One Laptop Per Child Gets Windows Vista Starter Edition Maybe

Windows Vista Starter Edition will be available in 70 languages and will run on machines as slow as 233mhz as reported by CNET.com. It includes tutorials that help people learn to use a computer for the first time. It sounds like the perfect match for the One Laptop Per Child project Nicholas Negroponte is dedicated to making a reality. Some say Linux should be the operating system. Bill Gates disagrees and has been critical of several aspects of the project. The OLPC project’s intentions ...

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Page Rank Isn't All That’s Dying in SEO World

Search Engine Optimization continues to become less relevant. It’s simply becoming easier to find and judge a website’s content through third party reviews and trusted sources. More than that, it’s becoming possible to judge or thin-slice a website without visiting it. Check out snap.com’s snapshot feature.Optimization techniques used to steer a visitor to a crappy site are becoming more transparent, less valuable and much less relevant along with current pay per click and page rank feature ...

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Adobe Apollo and PDF Strategies Microsoft Points System

Ryan Stewart has a solid recounting of why Apollo is important to entrepreneurs at TechCrunch.com. Apollo could easily be the breakthrough product for this year.In an effort to spread the PDF file format's adoption, Adobe is releasing control to the ISO. Adobe is hoping for widespread adoption overseas by further inviting more standardization.There's a few stories circulating and an announcement from Bill Gates that Microsoft will be opening up a payment processing system based on points. R ...

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Hybrid Storage Alliance vs. the SanDisk Flash Drive

I don't know a lot about computer hardware. But I do know that if I stick more memory in it, I get work done faster. I also know that if I create a ram drive, I can edit video faster. For a while the ram cartels (I just like saying that) kept the price of ram high as long as they could. Production was limited and only after other companies started producing ram, did we get the drop in price and speed increase in our machines. Now we're starting to see Flash drives combined with hard disk d ...

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Super-Bluetooth Is Another Option for Devices

I was reading a story today about "Ultra Wideband" or UWB. The CIO Tech Informer refers to this as Super Bluetooth. According to CIO Magazine, SK Telecom is going to use this EC approved, fast wireless technology. Once referred to as, "pulse-radio" this protocol has been beaten back by phone vendors that haven't figured out how to capitalize on the increase in speed it will bring it's users. Someone please tell these companies, "it's ok to innovate again." That's just what SK Telecom is do ...

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WordPress 2.1 Released - TechEd Conference on Oahu

Speaking of WordPress, a major update has just been released. WordPress 2.1 the so-called, "personal publishing platform" is what we use to power our website, wowtechminute.com. WordPress has well over a million installations and while it's great for bloggers, it's also customizable enough to function as a web content management system. In other words, you can build site for your client, teach them to use it and retain residual income from things like hosting or other services. But better ...

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Tech Spending Solid Anti-spyware Best Practices and Atlanta Tries to Connect

BusinessWeek online is quoting Mark Zandi from Economy.com. Mark predicts the tech industry will have its best year since 2000, creating 217,000 jobs with rising wages. After another million WordPress sites are built we’ll surely need more php, sql and plugin developers in 2008. Other predictions at Business Week Online include a rise in spending among CIO’s as reported by CIO Magazine. This was not the thinking waay back in October of last year when a dip in spending was predicted. In se ...

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Pretexting Is Illegal Integrity Still Legal

OK, just so you know. It's now illegal to fraudulently obtain someone else's phone records. HP knows it, the President knows it and now you know. What! No more ethics? You know who I mean. If these people will you'll spam you and spy on you and and malware your cracks when you aren't looking, what will they do when a a tighter economy persists with more competition? For you hotshot executives out there making all the dough how about setting some examples out there so other web 2.0 companie ...

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White Blackberrys Smelly Phones and Security Flaws All Around

There's a new Blackberry out, it's white. There's some phones being released at CES that smell, literally. The iPhone was copied before Steve Jobs got off the stage and Apple is a bit upset. They've sent some "stop now" letters to forums and bloggers that provided instructions on how to skin any Windows smart phone so it looks like the new iPhone. Flash Player 9 from Adobe is shipping. Adobe also has a new beta version of Sound Booth you might not know about and they've made Adobe Photosho ...

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International Telecommunications Union (Tubes remain safe)

The new head of the International Telecommunications Union said he’s not interested in taking over the governance of the Internet. This is important since he works for the United Nations who has expressed intentions to govern the Internet. Considering the previous director’s wishes, this is a very good sign. The previous director felt that government, specifically the ITU and the United Nations had a major role in the Internet. The United Nations has listened to Iran and China for many yea ...

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Joost launches, CES Rocks the Synaptics Onyx Phone

Joost.com is planning to distribute video in a much more tv-like manner. High quality, high speed is the promise from the founders of Skype. To succeed, they need to build relationships with content providers ahead of BitTorrent, YouTube and others. If they make it easy enough for broadcasters to use, they might get the users and ad revenues they’ll need to compete. The Consumer Electronics Show has some amazing gadgets. They just keep getting better. Kudos to all the hardware manufactures ...

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ebay buys StubHub Apple Releases iPhone

ebay is buying StubHub for around 310 million. StubHub is a ticket marketplace for second-hand tickets to various concerts and sports events. Fans can buy and sell tickets safely and ebay wants a piece of the action. Apple finally announced the iPhone -perhaps too early. It looks super cool and has some really trick features but it won't be released for another 5-6 months. Apparently it doesn't have a removable battery and is limited to 4 or 8 gig models but somehow I don't think that'll h ...

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AT&T merges with Bell South and Admits Net Neutrality Exists

There's been a bit of movement in the Net Neutrality debate. Although not binding, for two years AT&T has agreed to not limit or charge more for bandwidth based on the customer. This should keep the playing field level for everyone for a while. Net Neutrality proponents say this could buy enough time to get some legislation in the books to further delay the bandwidth providers. AT&T would like to charge some users such as Internet voice or video service providers higher prices for creating ...

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Security Executives Instill Trust and Call the Shots

A recent IBD executive briefing reports that about a third of top corporate and technology executives don’t trust their companies to secure or manage their sensitive data.According to the briefing, a survey conducted by Unisys, also cites that 1700 senior business and technology executives don’t think that business partners trust the way they handle such information. The survey also found that a third of businesses polled don’t task top executives with protecting sensitive data at all.“Secu ...

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Skype starts charging AOL makes change and Microsoft Robotics

Skype will start charging at the end of the month. There are some deals though for subscribers that get in early. This might help a few of the Senior Managers that have just been sent packing. AOL is also moving around 3 EVPs and one CTO. Microsoft Robotics Studio is now available. They’re providing a common development platform for building well, robotics and software for robotics. This just keeps getting cooler and cooler. A key concept called Quality Score has been explained in the Go ...

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Thursday’s Tech News from the Trenches

Mike at webpronews.com is reporting the new Yahoo! Mail Beta is slow. Internal reports back up his claims. Mike also reports that Ontario police are posting surveillance video of an alleged murderer. The video has received 2,000 views. No word on whether it's generating leads. Amazon is counter-suing IBM over patent infringement. TechCrunch has a review of Google's new domain registration service. Domains are just ten bucks a year but I have a feeling that even at hundred bucks a year, th ...

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More Real Estate 2.0 Disruptions Coming

The Houston Association of Realtors® has reached an agreement with Google to provide the listings for their multiple listing service. This is big considering the U.S. Justice Department is suing the National Association of Realtors® for possible antitrust violations. Realtors® will continue to see their margins decrease as long as their association keeps it's head in the sand. Adapting is the key and the opportunities are plentiful for brokers and real estate websites that can identify tho ...

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Faster chips are here and so is the EPA with EvergyStar Regulations

Intel has released their newest and fastest quad-core chips ahead of delivery expectations at the request of pc makers. Don’t expect a jump in quality video editing on YouTube as a result. CNET reports on a bill recently passed by the Senate. The government wants servers and data centers to be power miserly. Uh, yeah, save money, we get it. Did they miss the memo from Google and other touting the new super efficient data centers being built? In an effort to slow down even the most efficie ...

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Napster is to RIAA What YouTube is to Television Broadcasters

There’s been a lot of talk about YouTube.com. Let me try and summarize. First, television broadcasters like CBS are partnering with YouTube because they recently figured out that online advertising attracts viewers of their tv shows. By partnering, they agree not to sue YouTube for copyright infringement. YouTube’s members are constantly uploading copyrighted information. The broadcasters are also building their own video sharing websites to compete with YouTube directly. Once built, they ...

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Real Estate 2.0

Video is is here to stay. Video is educational. Most folks simply learn more by watching a video than they do by reading or listening for an equal amount of time. Video is a proven advertising method. We'll sit through television ads to watch video because it's compelling and entertaining. You can easily monetize your video clips and freely distribute them in socially aware video hosting networks that are somewhat viral in nature themselves. Because at it's heart video is just data, it ca ...

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Why web video is important now

Video is is here to stay. Video is educational. Most folks simply learn more by watching a video than they do by reading or listening for an equal amount of time. Video is a proven advertising method. We'll sit through television ads to watch video because it's compelling and entertaining. You can easily monetize your video clips and freely distribute them in socially aware video hosting networks that are somewhat viral in nature themselves. Because at it's heart video is just data, it ca ...

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News Roundup, Expression Web, SES, Yahoo!, One laptop per child

There's been a lot going on today. Here's what you need to know. Microsoft released their Expression Web, a new design tool. Cnet has some great screen grabs. They also have a photo of the 100 dollar laptop from the One Laptop per Child project. Yahoo! is losing executives according to WebProNews. Since that article was written, their COO also jumped ship. Search Engine Strategies is happening in Chicago with lots of discussion and sessions about video search, audio and podcast optimizat ...

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Flash flattery from Microsoft and small business is almost online

Microsoft appears to be going after Adobe with the new Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere. It’s basically a cross platform runtime engine that plays in all the major browsers and supports the new Expression Suite of Designer tools. More than a few folks out there wish Microsoft would have just used the Flash platform for Rich Internet Applications but Microsoft does like the control self development brings. It’s difficult to tell when or if this will have any affect on Flash. and ...

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The Broadcasters are Coming! and Google Releases Sitemaps for News

TechCrunch and others are reporting that CBS is super happy about their YouTube partnership. They specifically note a 5% increase in viewers on the David Letterman show as a result of displaying copyrighted CBS content on YouTube. Michael Arrington makes an excellent points when he writes, “Content owners are trying to figure out what to do and how to do it before offline television dies.” Apparently some Chinese knock-off electronics are beating the original equipment to market. The imita ...

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Adobe Kuler, Chinese porn and security flaws for the holidays

There’s an Adobe Labs project designers should check out. Adobe Kuler is the name and is basically an interactive color wheel, elegantly appointed with all the latest functionality including rich corinthian, web 2.0 trimmings. It’s super easy to use and in my opinion, more valuable than several other Adobe products that are still being supported.Educators teaching color theory will probably love this. Programmers that need to translate or look up color values will save time using this. Webm ...

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Bebo White Interview - The Value of CSS and XHTML

Today I am here with Bebo White, Bebo White Departmental Associate (Retired) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), a member of the team who established the first Website in the United States, and WOW Advisory Board Member. Bebo, good afternoon. I am often asked to respond about the benefits of CSS and the “rants and raves” in the Web design community regarding the use of CSS and I would like to hear your thoughts. Could you tell our listeners the value of CSS and what’s going on in ...

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Three easy steps to sitemap protocol heaven.

Google's Sitemap Protocol is now being used by the major search engines. Now there's finally a way to have more control over the indexing and reporting of the bots that crawl your website to index your pages. You need one of these and I'll quickly explain how to implement your own. First step, you have to create an xml file that validates according to the Sitemap Protocol. Freesitemapgenerator.com will create this for you. Google has some instructions for doing this too but their instructi ...

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Sitemap Protocol is endorsed by Major Search Engines

Now that Yahoo, MSN and Google have agreed to use the Sitemap Protocol as part of their official indexing routines, it’s time to get one for your site. By using the sitemap protocol, you can take the guesswork out of search engine optimization. With the Sitemap Protocol, you can build an xml sitemap that tells the search engines about the content on your site. The sitemap.xml file is stored on your server so the search engines have an easier time indexing your content. You’ll get the comple ...

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Use technology to build and describe your trust relationships

I found an interesting quote recently. So this is an excerpt from a blog quoting an online newspaper. The closest I could get to the source was the online newspaper. So I may be putting too much trust in the source but here goes: According to Crawford Kilian's excerpt from The Guardian, Sir Tim Berners-Lee believes devotees of blogging sites take too much information on trust: he says, “The blogging world works by people reading blogs and linking to them. You’re taking suggestions of what ...

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NoSlang.com for parents, Zune on sale, Quad Cores Coming

Stefanie Olsen at CNET.com quotes Ryan Jones from NoSlang.com saying, "A lot of teens get mad that I'm cluing parents into their little warnings." That’s because Ryan deciphers the little acronyms that teens use to hide their online prose. If you’re a parent, you know the drill. You walk up behind your teen as they’re chatting and you see some three letter acronyms appear like, "MOS" which means, "Mom over shoulder." NoSlang.com won’t just keep you informed, it'll keep you cool. Speaking ...

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From web 2.0 to web 4.0 back to web 2.1

Yesterday I mentioned Web 4.0 planning. A couple people noticed I skipped over planning for web 3.0. They’re right, I did and we may. Let me explain. Web 2.0 was built basically when no one was looking. Then BAM, it appeared. The standards came together enough to revitalize the development of ideas that had been lurking for years. The next generation of ideas will need to be built while Web 2.0 is being further developed and tested. No one knows how long web 2.0 will keep traction. One th ...

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Sun Sets Java Free and Web 4.0 Planning

The open-source clearing house continues as Sun releases Java under a General Public License (version 2). The source code became available today. I’m a bit surprised this didn't make bigger news and there isn't any clear indication of what impact it might have. For those of you that like to plan ahead, it’s apparently planning time for web 4.0. Web 4.0 is now in various planning stages among various thought leaders across the web. The semantic web, ontology proliferation and the learning w ...

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Reporters Without Borders calls out Net Censors

That's the new Windows Vista sound. Reporters without borders spokeswoman, Lucie Morillon recently called out the top ten countries that censor the net. As she put it, "We wanted to raise awareness of the history of censorship in these countries among democratic nations..." "But we also wanted to provide a means for people in repressed countries to show solidarity." Their top ten list starts off with Myanmar which was formerly the largest area of land in mainland Southeast Asia. China wa ...

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Exchange Server RTM, Yahoo!, Corel, Adobe, Mozilla, IBM, Google

Exchange Server 2007 will be released to manufacturing in December. Yahoo! is integrating chat onto their email pages and Corel like Adobe, is partnering with Mozilla. IBM recently announced a partnership with the University of Arizona's business school aimed at offering a New Media curriculum to students. One of the major components of this curriculum will likely focus on the concept of podcasting as a communication resource. Google has a very interesting two-part article at the Inside A ...

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Adobe Flash Video Emmy Palm sued by NTP

Adobe Flash Video has won an Emmy. For some reason this is getting more press from Adobe than the fact that YouTube was essentially a Flash Powered website when it sold for 1.65 billion dollars. Sorry, I just like saying, "billion." Palm shares dropped 7.6% on news that NTP, Inc. is suing them for patent infringement. NTP, Inc. nearly shut down the Blackberry wireless service and won a lawsuit against them for about 600 million last March. and finally, Windows Live Local 3D is hot. It was ...

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Zune, Yahoo! Food and the FTC Chairperson Favors Consumers

If you've wanted a video iPod but weren't sure if you're kewl enough to own one, there's more information out about Zune at their new site. If you work for Zune and would like for me to have one, here's my address: General Delivery Brent Norris Mountain View, Hi 96771 In exchange, I'll spend more time reading the copy at Zune.net -not an easy feat. In other news, Yahoo! Food is now open and it's really tasty. If you enjoy cooking this should prove to be a valuable 2.0 resource. and in ...

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Novell and Microsoft Front Calm or Calmy Fronting?

The Novell Microsoft deal could have some pretty interesting affects on Open Source Software. TheRegister.com is reporting that, "Under the Microsoft-Novell deal, Novell agrees to recognize Microsoft's intellectual property claims. Novell in return receives a "Covenant Not To Sue". This could send ripples all the way back to the European Commission and U.S. Open Source pundits are trippin on the news. I don't believe the Open Source movement has done a good enough job at explaining just w ...

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PayPal Bombing and Microsoft sets release date for Vista - Office 2007

A bomb exploded outside PayPal headquarters Tuesday night. Only about 26 employees were in the building and the offices remain closed until things get sorted out. No real details out yet but PayPal commented that is appears to be an isolated event. eBay owns PayPal and many employees will be working out of eBay offices in the area or from their homes for a few days. Microsoft will release Vista and Office 2007 to businesses at the end of this month. A general release is scheduled for Janua ...

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Video Sharing Payouts and Google News

Ever wonder what a video on a popular video sharing website is really worth? WebProNews has some interesting takes and numbers you might want to check out -especially if you're a jumpcut user. Jason at WebPronews writes, "For a MetaCafe.com user, a video of an acrobatic martial artist attracted over 4.6 million users and put nearly $24,000 in his bank account." Whoa, that sure sounds kewl to me. The article also mentions Google Audio Ads and possibly Google Video Ads. I previewed the Googl ...

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Comedy Central and YouTube Potential Deal Around Copyrighted Material

Comedy Central is owned by Viacom. Viacom recently ordered YouTube to remove any copyrighted material. Then it seems they changed their mind and YouTube put the videos back up. Is it possible that Viacom and other giants will all work out deals with video sharing services that are either large enough or popular enough to warrant revenue sharing? Where will the lines be drawn between original and copyrighted work? Can video artists sample videos to create mashups to distribute online? Rap a ...

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More Live Search and Live Academic Makes Beta

I just checked out Microsoft's Live Search again. No doubt Microsoft is serious about search. Search.msn.com is pretty hot. I found the interface to be helpful. I didn't do any formal testing, but moving around, searching and figuring out the interface is pretty straightforward. They obviously did do the formal testing. They seem to be keeping development cycles small and the stream of improvements is refreshing to see. However, Google will remain my default search provider in IE7 and Fir ...

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Adobe MAX Conference Closing Thoughts

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