“This past weekend, much of the Mashable team descended on Las Vegas for the second annual BlogWorldExpo. The conference, which brings together hundreds of bloggers and the companies that provide services to them (platform providers, widget makers, and ad networks) is a combination of dozens of discussion panels, exhibiting companies, and of course, parties. Along the way, much was gleamed about the current state of the blogosphere and social media, and where it all might be heading in the months …”
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Archive for September, 2008
Trendspotting at BlogWorldExpo: What’s Next in Blogging and Social Media?
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Automattic Acquires IntenseDebate to Shake Up the Commentsphere
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008“One trend we’ve seen this year is the rise of third-party comment systems, with much blog discussion moving beyond the original post. The space just got a whole lot more interesting today, as Automattic – the maker of WordPress – has acquired IntenseDebate, one of the leading providers of such commenting systems. The deal – announced today on IntenseDebate’s blog – could give the combined company a leg up on competitors, which include startups like Disqus, SezWho, and JS-Kit. Why? …”
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Ten Years Later, A “Third” Google Founder Comes Out Of The Woodwork
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008“Google truth, the truth of Google’s birth from googletruth on Vimeo . Just as Google is celebrating its 10th anniversary, a man claiming to be the “third” founder of Google has come out to stake his claim to history. In the video above, a man calling himself Hubert Chang claims that as an NYU Ph.D student in 1997 he was introduced to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin by Stanford professor Rajeev Motwani. He then helped the two come …”
via TechCrunch
The regulation of derivatives
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008“Be wary when you hear talk of “derivatives” without further qualification. They fall into three quite distinct categories: exchange-traded, over the counter (OTC), and swaps. Here is the best overall paper I know on that division. Wikipedia is useful as…”
via Marginal Revolution
Where is the Credit Crunch?
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008“Back in February I pointed out that despite all the talk of a credit crunch commercial and industrial loans were at an all-time high and increasing. At the time, Paul Krugman and others responded that this was just temporary as…”
via Marginal Revolution
T-Mobile G1 Launch Liveblog
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008“Live from New York, it’s G1 day. Pop through for images and our liveblog.”
via TechCrunch
Touching The Android: It’s No iPhone, But It’s Close
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008“So today I finally got to touch an Android phone. T-Mobile, Google, and HTC put on a big media circus in New York City (see our live notes ), complete with Google co-founders Sergey and Larry coming out on rollerblades to tell us how cool the phone is because you can hack it just like a computer. (Sergey wrote an app that uses the built-in accelerometer to measure how long it takes for the phone to hit the floor when …”
via TechCrunch
Nathan Myhrvold’s Patent Extortion Fund Is Reaping Hundreds Of Millions of Dollars
Saturday, September 20th, 2008“Don’t blame Nathan Myhrvold for taking advantage of the culture of rampant patent litigation in this country. He is only doing what large companies with vast patent portfolios such as IBM and Microsoft do on a daily basis: use the threat of patent infringement litigation to strike lucrative patent licensing deals. Except Myhrvold, who used to be Bill Gates’ right-hand man at Microsoft during the 1990s, does it through his patent-gobbling fund, Intellectual Ventures. The fund has collected more than …”
via TechCrunch
Japanese Girl Sensation: Virtual Boyfriends (Webkare)
Saturday, September 20th, 2008“In Japan, girls are crazy over virtual boyfriends. Webkare (Web Boyfriend in Japanese), a mix between a social network and dating simulation site, is Nippon’s newest web sensation. Geared exclusively towards girls, the site attracted over 10,000 members just 5 days after its release on September 10, racking up 3.5 million page views in the same time frame. The site is a huge hit over here. Girls sign up and become members of a social network but also users of …”
via TechCrunch
Microsoft Should Never Have Listened To Tech Bloggers
Saturday, September 20th, 2008“The tech blogosphere is all a buzz today with the assumed demise of the travelling Bill and Jerry show that was a $300 million dollar attempt to make to obscenely wealthy people look like the male version of Thelma and Louis but without the fancy car. Of course the tech blogosphere is claiming credit for their removal from the air waves like a bunch of masked Ninja tech warriors on a holy battle to make people believe that only they know …”
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