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Who owns what? There's a battle going on right now, and it's spreading to every possible domain: what exactly IS intellectual property, and who owns it? In an era in which copyright protection is seemingly extended indefinitely, a la the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, corporations are seemingly trying to prevent anything from ever entering the [...]

It's the weekend, and news tends to be slower. This is usually the only chance I get during the week to sift through my feeds, catch up with everything I missed during the week, and hopefully get the number of unread feeds under 100. This week, however, I've been trying to weed out feeds I'm [...]

This week has seen a great deal of nattering on about Generation Y: how the interact with the web, how they are going to solve all the world's problems with no coherent business model, and what they expect out of social networks. To be honest, I'm old. Very old. I'm Generation X. And when someone [...]

At the risk of participating in a little more blogosphere navel-gazing, one of the strange things I've seen in FriendFeed is the conversations that break out there completely out of the blue. Whether it's due to the frequent Twitter outages, or just a different way of looking at a lifestreaming service, I'm not sure, but [...]

We first covered Iterasi back in January, when they launched at DEMO, and were disappointed that our signals crossed when they launched their public beta earlier this month. Alex Williams, Director of Product Marketing for Iterasi, was kind enough to talk to me about where they are and where they are heading after the launch [...]

I may be heading toward a future as a Steven Hodson acolyte, because I'm starting to feel a little bit too cranky about some of the latest entrants into the Web 2.0 space. I'm all about democracy in site creation and user-generated content, but I guess I draw the line at letting the unwashed masses [...]

The legal standing of much of Web 2.0 is based on the U.S. concept of safe harbor, which essentially means that no web site operator can be held accountable for anything posted on their site by the users. I'm no lawyer, and turned to an excellent breakdown of what safe harbor is and what laws [...]

There's been a little bit of buzz today about the news that IAC bought StarNet Interactive, the Israeli start-up that created GirlSense, but nowhere near the buzz it's gotten in my house. StarNet was spun out in late 2006 with $2.7 million USD in venture capital, and the details of the deal with IAC have [...]

This is actually the second time I've sat down and mulled over the idea of co-browsing. The first time was a few months ago when I saw a launch, but I eventually decided it must be a passing fad (or a bad dream) and it would disappear. However, two other co-browsing applications have caught my [...]