Some Loose Connections — Dave Weinberger Featured Speaker at ClickZ Interactive Marketing Excellence Awards
This evening Dave Weinberger author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Institute for Internet and Society will be a featured speaker at the ClickZ Awards being held at Gotham Hall in New York City. I am seriously looking forward to this gala event and was struck by several coincidences — loose [...]
Google Book Scans Gain Harvard Appeal
Three thousand people may not sound like a lot, but it is relatively early in Google’s book scanning endeavor, and that number of Harvard students may be the vanguard of scanned book readership.I’ve often seen an apocryphal figure of 58 percent cited as the percentage of people who never crack open a book after high [...]
Facebook Prevails In Domain Dispute
I can see how a typo could lead a person to visit Facenook, or perhaps Racebook, on their way to a certain social networking site. But now Facebook has won a dispute involving Face-book, which was formerly owned by a company known as YOLAPT. Facebook’s actions may have been entirely unnecessary – the “dash” key [...]
PeopleJam Improves Through Content Deals
If you want to lead a better life, PeopleJam is a social network that’s gung-ho about helping you achieve that goal. And Stream4 Media and Nightingale-Conant are presumably interested, as well, since they’ve just signed content deals with PeopleJam. Stream4 Media, a video company, is stepping forward “with more than 500 episodes of programming that [...]
Hot Site Facebook’s CEO Accused Of Stealing Idea
Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Facebook, will discover next week whether he faces legal action for claims he stole the idea for the $1bn website. A US judge will decide next week whether Mark Zuckerberg should go to court after three former classmates accused him of stealing the idea, software and business plan for the social [...]
Google To Offer Digitalized Text Books For Big Ten Schools
In an interesting move, Google has partnered with the universities of the Big Ten to offer digitalized versions of text books, according to a CNN report. Apart from the impact this will have in bonding college students with Google, the integration with universities, faculty as well as students, should have major longterm benefits for Google. [...]
PodZinger CEO Wilde About Digital Media
Tom Wilde has taken the corner office at audio and video search firm PodZinger, moving company founder Alex Laats upstairs and positioning the business for B2B2C success. Control issues aren’t just something that city dwellers in the Big Apple or the Bay Area talk to their Dr. Melfi’s about in bi-weekly therapy sessions. Big media [...]
Social Network Gains New Partners
Social networking site Gather.com has partnered with three publishers and a record label to provide exclusive content for the site. The partners are Harvard Health Publications, Publishers Weekly, McGraw-Hill Professional and Columbia Records. Harvard Health Publications will provide content for the Health channel; Publishers Weekly for the Books channel, Columbia Records for the Music Channel [...]
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