Archive for May, 2008

Is anyone else getting the feeling that safe harbor legislation for sites that host user-generated content are going to be changing soon? The uber-conservative World Net Daily (WND) is reporting that the FBI is investigating reports of child pornography on Wikipedia, starting with a nude album cover from the 1976 Scorpions album Virgin Killer. The [...]

And with that title, I may actually end up struck by lightning. I have a love-hate relationship with the Gawker properties. I find most of the blogs in the network witty and a welcome respite from the constant regurgitation of the same old news items that I end up reading most of the day, but [...]

There were several excellent reasons to attend the DEMOParty in Boston on Tuesday. You could go for the start ups in attendance, or to meet venture capitalists. You could go to meet the people you have been networking with online in person. Whatever your reason for attendance, there is no denying the best part of [...]

After talking with Angela LoSasso at Web 2.0 Expo, I started thinking about some of the “dinosaur” companies: enterprise and Web 1.0 companies that are trying to find their way in the Web 2.0 space. I had just seen a press release announcing the appointment of a “Chief Blogger” at Eastman Kodak Company. Like most [...]

I have been using Twitter for a while now, and it is quite a useful tool. I don't know that it is an indispensable utility that I depend on, but it does help generate short conversations and has many other helpful uses. With any new communication tool that pops up on the web nowadays, there [...]

Web 2.0 has developed its own ecosystem, with application builders able to build their apps using mash-ups, AIR clients, and new apps on the backs of popular 2.0 apps already in wide distribution. Virtually every day we see announcements of new applications based on Twitter and FriendFeed and Google Reader, as well as Facebook apps, [...]

While 15 May is set aside for Bloggers for Human Rights, the reality is that bloggers in many countries risk their safety every day to continue doing what so many of us spend weekends whining about incessantly. Malaysian blogger Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin, the editor of the news portal Malaysia Today, had his home raided [...]

Up until now, having a movie night with friends or family meant that everybody had to get together at someone's house and gather in front of the television (or visiting a local movie theater). Now however, using it's patent-pending SimulStream technology, Lycos Cinema (when was the last time you heard anything from Lycos?!) introduces a [...]

I will be representing Profy at the DEMOParty in Boston tonight at Saint on Exeter. If you are going to be there, be sure to come talk to me about Profy's exciting new platform, or just come say hello and introduce yourself. For more on the party, you can see their event page here. If [...]