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Web 2.0 Expo – A Drive-By

Posted in Blogroll, Technology, web 2.0 on April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I did a one day “drive-by” at the Web 2.0 Expo. I scored a free exhibition pass and was limited to certain sessions and panels, but what I did see looked like a great event. I caught the John Battelle interview w/ Jeff Weiner (Yahoo) and the Joost demo showed me how to [...]

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Kill Internet Radio

Posted in Blogroll, Copyright, Technology on April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A recent decision by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC to nearly triple the licensing fees for Internet radio sites is irrationally high and will hurt music sites like Pandora. The new royalty rates are more than 4X what satellite radio pays and broadcast radio does not pay these. These new royalties [...]

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Sharpton Wins, Imus Loses

Posted in Blogroll, Imus on April 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I don’t condone what Imus does. I do embrace freedom of speech —- in America, we are a land and a people that embrace controversial speech and we don’t like thought police or censorship. Basically Imus is a guy who has made lot of money spewing hateful stuff for [...]

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Tell Me What You Want

Posted in Blogroll, Customers, Social Networks, Technology, prediction, prognostication on April 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I recently sat in on panel discussions and audience interactions at ETECH. At each session we were met by enthusiastic people/companies that have a genuine concern about understanding what customers want.
In a world where the noise of the social crowd is amped up exponentially with endless streams of chatter…what I took away was confirming some [...]

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China Mobile – More Subscribers Than The U.S. Population!

Posted in Blogroll, Etiquette, Mobile TV, Privacy, Technology, iPhone on April 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Imagine every man, woman and child in the U.S. with a cell phone — now imagine they all ring at the same time!! Its possible now that China Mobile, the worlds largest mobile operator, recently announced that its subscriber base grew to 301 Million, surpassing the total population of the United States.
Now [...]

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Scooters R Us

Posted in Intel®, Mashup, OCC, Teutul on April 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Intel Corporation is celebrating 30 years in the embedded business. They must have contracted the Teutul boyz (Doug Davis (left:Intel GM), founder Paul Teutul with sons Paul, Jr. (‘Paulie’) middle and Mikey, on the right) of Orange County Chopper (OCC) and American Chopper/Discovery television fame. The high-definition TV show has become popular in [...]

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EMI Music DRM-Free – Who cares?

Posted in Blogroll, Music, Piracy, iPod/iTunes, prediction, zune on April 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Apple will sale EMI music without anti-piracy (DRM – digital rights management) technology — Steve Jobs proclaimed in February that music companies should sell their music DRM-free. Evangelizing that DRM-free music would create a truly interoperable music marketplace.
About a month later (4/2/07), in agreement with music label EMI, Apple is making EMI songs available [...]

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Anna Nicole – I’m Not The Father!

Posted in Anna Nicole, Blogroll, Privacy, homeland security on April 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Coming at you from my new stealth blog haus here in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, specifically on Nassau/Paradise Island. I have all the latest in technologies. For example, my mobile laptop has an automatic popup umbrella and sand shield for added protection.
I didn’t want to admit it before, but now that I’m [...]

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