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This is a really interesting article on the newspaper business; how the eyeball model is failing and why a “subscription consortium” could be a positive development if Congress changes the antitrust laws that likely restrict newspapers from enabling this now. Harder to foresee was the emergence of a painful paradox: Newspapers’ revenues have shrunk even [...]
Like every train wreck, you can see it coming but only at the point of impact does anyone really pay attention to it. But the more significant shift can’t be blamed on the strike. In the past television season, there has been a sharp increase in time-shifting. Some of the six million are still watching, [...]
Johannes Ernst is moderating a panel on OpenID that should be interesting, if for no other reason than Yahoo will be on it and talking about their embrace of OpenID. I wish I could go but I will be in Denver on the 29th.
Webwag introduced a collection of mobile widgets and synchronization engine that gives mobile users a seamless experience with Webwag’s start page service. "Synchronize your personal web with a mobile phone, enjoy your graphical attractive widget on your personal device, this helps users to keep in touch with their upmost important data and information." This goes [...]
"Sony is launching a social network for PS3 users called Playstation Home, according to news coming out of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today. The network is a 3D virtual world similar to Second Life, says Engadget, except that it’s much, much better." I’ve been pretty tough on Sony for their DRM strategy, [...]
I was thinking this weekend about the convergence of trends that we are experiencing in enterprise technology. In the Irregulars discussions these things get vigorously debated but there is invariably a thread that remains to be pulled on, not because we neglect it but because of the circular nature of things and how one trend [...]
I’m sure that pretty much everyone except one group of constituents is unhappy with this. For Apple it means that iPod owners can break free of ITMS for video content and for the MPAA it means that consumers can take their video content with them and not pay any “license” fees for the right to [...]
I’m outbound to Ireland today to speak at the IT@Cork event, my topic is pricing trends. I am looking forward to meeting Tom Raftery in person, having up until know just talked via email or phone with him. That I am speaking on pricing trends is somewhat interesting if for no other reason than this [...]
15Jun
Posted by Jeff as Enterprise Software, Trends
I am in SF at Panorama Capital’s CIO offsite meeting, which is a great get together between investors, startups, and actual CIO’s with large enterprise companies. For those of you that don’t know Panorama, it is a pure venture capital group spun out of JPMorganChase, so as you would expect their CIO Council features some [...]