NewsGator as the Anti-AP

Considering this latest announcement is an evolution of things we have been working on all year, this is probably a lot less exciting to us than for people hearing it for the first time. But it is genuinely exciting because it delivers on a promise as old as the internet itself, the ability to integrate [...]

Social Software Notes

Two thoughts.

We’ve been using Yammer but it’s not clear to me what advantages this has over IM and chatrooms, providing you are already using those behind your firewall (we use Jabber). Having said that, Yammer is a very nice UI and the twitter-like desktop and mobile clients are great. It’s possible to have too much [...]

Fat newspaper profits are history

Alan points his substantial intellectual capacity to an issue that most of us miss, which is that despite a gutting of classifieds and other forms of advertising the newspaper business is very profitable when it is profitable. Newspaper sustain their profitability by cutting into the meat of their business, payroll and physical inventory (i.e. number [...]

Apple’s Checkbook

I wrote a post 20 months ago saying Apple should certainly acquire Adobe and why, in the time that has passed Apple has doubled their cash position and the market cap for ADBE has been cut by 25%. I wrote back then that Apple’s cash position would become a drag on their balance sheet, of [...]

Gmail Canned Responses

HAH! How about “hey this looks like a press release, please remove me from your list”.

Gmail already lets you create filters based on a combination of keywords, sender, recipients, and more in your incoming messages. Turn on Canned Responses in Labs, and you can set a filter to grab one of your saved [...]

Reuters and NewsGator Partner on Election Coverage

I was remiss in not writing about another announcement we made yesterday. Reuters and NewsGator have teamed up to offer U.S. election coverage widgets for individuals and publishers.

The idea of doing widgets with specific event coverage is nothing new, but what makes this program unique is that we are offering full text Reuters coverage and [...]

Rules vs. Results

UPDATE: Nike did the right thing and reversed the decision thereby awarding the win to O’Connell.

Interesting story about a women who ran the Nike women’s marathon and had the best time (by a wide margin) yet was not declared the winner because she didn’t race in the “elite” group of runners. This is wrong and [...]

RSS Adoption Rates

What’s holding RSS back, asks Rubel, the answer is simple: R S and S. Nobody outside of a minority group of self-described geeks will use an RSS client or online reader. I know our numbers and I know what Bloglines and Google Reader do in terms of daily users. It’s no more than half a [...]

Create

I read this resignation letter that has been sent around lately with mixed feelings. On one hand I admire the accomplishment of someone who walks away with success, as quitting and quitting while ahead are different things altogether.

Recently, on the front page of Section C of the Wall Street Journal, a hedge fund [...]

Blu-ray Fights the Last War

I wrote a couple of posts about Blu-ray that emphasized the last war aspect of the technology and ignored where consumers would ultimately be getting their entertainment from, the internet. It will do okay but for Sony and the content owners banking on it, Blu-ray will be a disappointment.

Analyst Roger Kay predicts a [...]

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