Mega Bloks wins SCOC ruling on Lego trademark
Canada's highest court ruled unanimously Thursday that Mega Bloks does indeed have business in the playrooms of the nation, along with Lego. — The Supreme Court of Canada decision marks the end of a...
An Attention Namespace for OPML
In a recent post I said that OPML would be a great format for sharing attention data, but I wasn't sure whether this would be possible due to uncertainty over OPML's support for namespaces. This afte...
Xbox 360 Hits a High-Def Homer
I lean back in my chair, press a button on my game pad, and the console turns on. Why hasn't anyone ever thought of this before? — Well, now they have. On Tuesday, Microsoft unleashes its next-gen...
Building a Better Boom
IT sure feels like a bubble, doesn't it? Let's tick off the signs: a red-hot market for Internet stocks (Google, for example, has more than quadrupled since it went public in 2004); fawning articles ...
How The Sony DRM Debacle Can Benefit the Digital Music Market
In discussing the impact of the Sony DRM debacle, Paul Resnikoff made a fairly bizarre assessment: "But just how aware is the average consumer in all of this? ... A worst-case scenario would involve ...
Google-Mart
Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did — Play to your strengths. That's the key to success in any industry. This is the week I promised to explain...
Reasonable Interview: Shel Israel, Co-Author, Naked Conversations
In the inaugural Reasonable Interview, Shel Israel, co-author (with Robert Scoble) of the upcoming book Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, talks about ...
Open Source Media group met with harsh criticism
OSM, the Open Source Media group formerly known as Pajamas Media, launched Wednesday, but it hasn't received the positive response one might have expected from the blogosphere. The group, which just ...
Open Source Hardware
Other blog titles we considered... Power to the People — Open-Gratis-Libre — Friday Free Stuff — (...but, Mary sort of has that one already.) — Let Freedom Ring II — The latter follows up o...
Cisco Set to Enter Cable Field
Cisco Systems Inc., the Internet equipment provider, plans to announce today the acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta, a maker of television set-top boxes, for $7 billion, according to people who have be...
High-tech photos give new meaning to 'talking pictures'
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how valuable would it be if someone added a sound track? — Italian start-up Zanetti Studio aims to find out. The Milan, Italy-based company is preparing a ne...
Microsoft Enhances Phishing Protection for Windows, MSN and Microsoft Windows Live Customers
Cyota Inc., Internet Identity and MarkMonitor to provide phishing Web site data for Microsoft Phishing Filter and SmartScreen Technology services. — REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 17, 2005 …
MEDIA FUTURES: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
A Story in Five Parts: — Wall Street Meets Madison Avenue — Problem: Marketing is Inefficient — Solution: /ROOT Markets is a Financial Exchange for Consumer Leads — How the Securitization of M...
E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago
It's being replaced by software that promotes real-time collaboration — Darren Lennard is a managing director in the London offices of European-based investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. ...
The End of Process
If a knowledge worker has the organization's information in a social context at their finger tips, and the organization is sufficiently connected to tap experts and form groups instantly to resolve ex...