iPod owners are thieves. Ryze purchased by Nokia? Amanda Condon to HBO. CB radio gets violent.

November 13, 2006

If you own an iPod, you’re a thief. That’s according to Universal Music Group chairman and CEO Doug Morris. And that’s why he demanded his record company get a percentage of every Zune sold in addition to standard music licensing fees for downloads. Zune is Microsoft’s new MP3 player that goes on sale tomorrow. Rumor […]

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Skype click-to-call ecommerce available.

November 10, 2006

Ever since Skype, the free Internet phone calling program, was purchased by eBay, we all knew they’d eventually institute click-to-call ecommerce. Well, all our predictions were right. Skype 3.0 beta is now available with this feature. What this means is instead of just posting a phone number on your online store, you can add a […]

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Forget the Zune.

November 9, 2006

We’re less than a week away from the release of Zune, Microsoft’s iPod killer, and I predict it’s going to go over like a fart in church. Microsoft has so pissed off all the non-iPod MP3 player manufacturers that were strong-armed into adopting their failed PlaysForSure platform only to watch Microsoft abandon it themselves while […]

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Web 2.0 companies from Israel

November 8, 2006

There’s a rash of Web 2.0 conferences going on in town. There’s the Web 2.0 conference. The Web 2.2 conference. And yesterday I attended Israel Web Tour, a conference of Israeli Web 2.0 companies. For those of you not yet in the know, Web 2.0 is the hot new buzzword to describe the next wave […]

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CNN covers robocall Republicans. Hacking Democracy on Google Video. Can I photograph my polling place?

November 7, 2006

Follow up on a couple of stories mentioned yesterday. CNN is the first legitimate news source giving coverage to the Republican robocall story in which Republican members are supposedly posing as local democratic candidates and repeatedly calling democratic voters at all hours just to annoy them. HBO’s Hacking Democracy, the documentary that Diebold complained about […]

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Diebold can’t even accurately complain. Robo-calling Republicans on the loose.

November 6, 2006

President of the voting machine manufacturer, Diebold, wrote a nasty letter to HBO for its film “Hacking Democracy” saying that “Truth and accurate reporting are the biggest casualties of the film.” A cogent point had Diebold seen the movie. But like a voting machine that can’t accurately count votes, Diebold’s examples in the letter were […]

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Comedy Central blocked my ZDTV video from YouTube

November 2, 2006

On Sunday, Viacom demanded that all Comedy Central content be pulled from YouTube. By Wednesday, the two companies reached an agreement and Viacom reversed their decision. Ironically, on Wednesday I received a threatening email from YouTube telling me I had infringed Comedy Central’s copyright. And as a result they have disabled access to an uploaded […]

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Viacom changes its mind with YouTube. Google continues it’s attack on MS Office. Cingular’s music plan.

November 2, 2006

It took Viacom only three days of negotiations with YouTube to realize that maybe they shouldn’t have demanded that clips from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report be removed. Those clips that were recently pulled down, are now coming back up. And Google has purchased JotSpot for about $50 million. The Web collaborative application […]

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Yahoo! buy AOL? MySpace fingerprints your tunes. Don’t make a deal with Google Video.

October 31, 2006

Fortune magazine says Yahoo! is in negotiations to buy AOL. The online powerhouse blew it with YouTube – a content house on the way up. Will they be able to pull it off with AOL – a content house on the way down? Yahoo! has been trying for quite some time to make an original […]

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Congdon to the big 3. Hoovers vs. LinkedIn. Classic interview mistakes.

October 30, 2006

Former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon claims she’s signed a vlogging deal with one of the three major TV networks. We’ll find out which one later this week. Business research site Hoovers will begin treading where LinkedIn has been for quite some time: Business social networking. Both sites are focused on making business contacts. But unlike […]

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