Recently, we told you about Glue, a new browser plugin from AdaptiveBlue that put the social web in context by letting friends share music, movies, books, and other sorts of things. Unlike social networks dedicated to these items, like Goodreads, Flixster, or Last.fm, which keeps the information isolated from the rest of your web activity, Glue pops up in your browser when you're actively viewing a book, movie, album, etc. Today, you can extend the functionality of Glue by also installing the new iPhone application.
Four years ago, an eternity in internet time, Dallas Mavericks owner and controversial web thought leader Mark Cuban allegedly used inside information to dump all his stock in meta search engine Mamma.com hours before the company announced a round of fund raising that caused the value of stock in the company to drop dramatically. That's what the Securities and Exchange Commission says, at least, according to a short but high profile report this morning by the Wall St. Journal. Cuban owned a 6.3% stake in
the company.
The full text of the SEC complaint is here and key points are summarized below. Update: For a really strange twist to this story, see this email exchange reported on by the NYT.
According to the Financial Times, Hulu, the online video service backed by NBC Universal and News Corp. is slowly catching up to YouTube in terms of advertising revenue. Screen Digest's Arash Amel forcasts that in 2008, YouTube will generate about $100 million in the U.S., while Hulu will make about $70 million. By next year, however, Amel forecasts that both sites will make about $180 million, even though Hulu only has a fraction of YouTube's traffic.
Do you remember when you were first introduced to Google.com? It's almost hard to imagine a life before them, isn't it? (B.G. - Before Google?) Their impact on the internet cannot be understated. As Google has come to dominate what it means to search the net, they've integrated themselves into our lives, our browsers, and our cell phones. But this wasn't always the case. Ten years ago, Google was just some new search engine trying to make a name for itself amid competitors like Excite and Yahoo.
Adobe and ARM today announced that they are joining forces to bring Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR to ARM powered devices in a move that Adobe hopes will lower power consumption for mobile devices running Flash and AIR content, and make it easier for users to play video on a variety of devices.
According to the statement, the partnership stems from the Open Screen Project, Adobe's industry-wide initiative set to address challenges of Web browsing on a broad range of screens.
The news that Barack Obama will probably have to surrender his Blackberry during his time in office seems incongruous. With a torrent of suggestions flying for how the new U.S. president can use the Internet to govern, and given the role the Internet played in Obama's election, it's ironic that he may be spending much of his time disconnected from the hive mind.
Too bad. I'd dreamed he'd be using Twitterberry to share tidbits from NSA briefings ("OMFG @Biden - can you believe Libya is at it AGAIN?!"). At the very least, I was hoping he could liveblog his own inauguration: "12:03 pm - Putting my left hand on the Bible, raising my right. Then bringing both hands over to the keyboard to type this. Roberts is starting to look impatient."
According to the New York Times, a basic privacy measure that is often overlooked is the proper destruction of data on hard drives. An ongoing study by British Telecom says that most people don't realize that deleting a file doesn't actually remove the data from a computer.
In fact, the BT research found that only 33 percent of second hand hard drives had been completely wiped clean. To ensure your drive doesn't contain any personal data before you give it away or sell it, you need to reformat the hard drive or use digital shredding software if you want to completely eliminate all traces of data. In this post, we'll show you how.
In an attempt to cut down on its carbon footprint, Microsoft last week opened an online store in the U.S, making it the fourth country that offers downloads directly from Microsoft.
Steve Ballmer hinted that an online store was in the works a couple of weeks ago during a speech to developers in Australia, but forgot to mention that consumers would have to pay premium if they wanted to help save the planet.
Yesterday, President Elect Obama's transition team announced the weekly Democratic address will be posted on YouTube. Today we saw the first of these fireside chats go live on the new video wire (video embedded below).
It's clear that Obama and his team are extremely competent when it comes to the social Web, but it might be useful to examine some of the reasons behind his phenomenal success online, and look at a potential misconception.
Black Friday has traditionally been one of the busiest shopping days of the year, but with the current state of the economy, many people are wondering whether 2008 will be a comparative disappointment.
Last year, online spending was recorded at $272 million on Thanksgiving, and $531 million on Black Friday; this year holiday shopping is expected to be more challenging with one in five shoppers saying they simply have less money to spend. With that in mind, we've created a Black Friday resource list to help you navigate your way to a bargain.
