Yahoo! Music Welcomes Webjay and Lucas Gonze
It's with great pleasure that I announce the addition of Lucas Gonze and Webjay to the Yahoo! Music family. — I met Lucas more than a year ago when searching for a suitable default playlist format f...
How Apple Could Mess Up, Again
The Innovator's Dilemma author Clayton Christensen outlines his case for why Apple's propietary strategy will soon fail, just as it did before … These days it's hard to find a pundit willing to questi...
Search Engines as Leeches on the Web
We've known since AltaVista's launch in 1995 that search is one of the Web's most important services.
Teens hang out at MySpace
Shanda Edstrom can't stop herself. Every day — pretty much no matter where she is — she's just gotta go to MySpace. — Her friends are there. Her former high school classmates hang out there. Heck...
Microsoft Abandons 90-Day Sales Forecast
Company chooses to focus on longer-term projections. — January 9, 2006 - According to a report published in this morning's Financial Times newspaper, Microsoft has abandoned its highly ambitious sal...
Microsoft Abandons 90-Day Target
Microsoft now admits it will not meet its target of up to 3 million Xbox 360 sales within 90-days of the console's launch. — In a report in today's Financial Times, the company shifted its attention...
THE SHADOWLAND/LIGHTROOM DEVELOPMENT STORY
Because that's how long I've been working on it. — Back in October of 2002 Mark Hamburg sent me a little developmental application he called PixelToy (breaking his own rule, there was an innercap) a...
Sun-Times nets Google ad deal
Web behemoth tests classifieds in print — Google Inc., the new-media giant, now has a decidedly old-media partner: the Chicago Sun-Times. — In a quiet and small-scale experiment, Google is running...
Eve of Expo: Rumor recap
January 9, 2006 - With Macworld Expo San Francisco 2006 set to kick off Tuesday, Think Secret presents a compilation of information we have received and reported over the last number of months concern...
Google set to push play on Video Store
Get your goggle box fix online... Google announced a service on Friday that will let people rent or buy downloadable videos online. — The online behemoth said Google Video Store will be "available ...
The Engadget Interview: Bill Gates (again!)
CES wasn't only about crazy gadget news and booth tours - we also scored a second chance to sit down withour new best friend Bill Gates and ask him all about the big announcements he made during his k...
Verizon's Music Service Hampers MP3 Ability
NEW YORK - The first edition of a new music service from Verizon Wireless hampers a cell phone's ability to play MP3 songs acquired elsewhere, a handicap the company says is purely temporary and unrel...
Welcome to the Long Run
How Can DRM Be Good? is the most depressing thing I've read in some time: … That's by Lloyd Shepherd, Deputy Director of Digital Publishing at Guardian Unlimited, which has long been one of the most c...
Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch
Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites. — T...
Slashdot is Going out of Style in 2006
Okay, since I'm apparently in "2006 doom and gloom" mode here's another observation that I can re-brand as a 2006 prediction. … Unlike the death of Feedster, Slashdot will likely take years to really ...
Don't Blow Your Beta
I've seen hundreds of new products launch over the last six months, and I think I have some pretty good advice for companies that want to improve their beta release. — In addition to my personal exp...
My Inevitable Predictions For 2006
Every pundit has to do them, so here are mine: My 12 predictions for what will occur in the mobile content space in the coming 12 months (well, 11 months and 22 days). I know what you're thinking...h...
Goodbye, SEO Push. Hello, SEO Pull
› › › Search Results — I seem to have opened another can of worms before the holidays, judging from the reaction to my post on the Search Engine Watch Forums. I tried to rationalize it on my blog...
Gathering conversations continue
"I attended a gathering of Tablet PC owners at a place called Cheese Burger (which BTW makes WONDERFUL burgers!). It was nice putting a face to the people I have been conversing with this past year o...
Feedster Will Die in 2006
Is it just me, or has Feedster been completely useless for over 6 months now? I have no idea if it's related to the recent departure of Scott Rafer (former CEO) and Scott Johnson (former co-founder),...
Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs: Guy gets it right
Jason Jan 08 — Guy Kawasaki follows up his Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists with Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs. — I obviously don't get pitched for investment by other entrepreneurs, so I don't...
Buying Music From Anywhere and Selling It for Play on the Internet
Working in the media and entertainment group of the consultants McKinsey & Company, Greg Scholl got a firsthand look at the inefficiency in the music business: the major record labels focus on creatin...
The State of Search Engine Marketing
A longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members discusses pricing trends revealed by the survey, including where search marketing budgets are coming from, keyword pricing trends and how...
Hands on with Google Pack
During its first-ever appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2006 (see my show report), Internet search giant Google unveiled two initiatives, both of which are aimed, in part, t...
Game Year in Review: 2010
Clive Thompson is on leave this week. He'll be back on Jan. 23. — Well, 2010 was quite a year. Sony's attempt to hang onto its thin lead in the gaming market by only selling the PlayStation 4 to s...
First Look: Adobe Lightroom beta
The first impulse most photographers will have is to compare Adobe's just announced Lightroom to Aperture, Apple's pro level photo app. And well they should. We may have a real clash of the titans o...
Toshiba to Push Blog Reviews to Mobile Shoppers
There is a report that Toshiba is developing software that will allow people to take a picture of the bar code label of many products, send it to a related service and quickly receive back information...
What DRM argument?
I enjoy both of Lloyd Shepherd's blogs. His work blog, given that he is Deputy Director of Digital Publishing at Guardian Unlimited, helps me see into the world of commercial publishing and follow th...
Google Video Player Removed From Downloads of Google Video Pack
Several people have sent along notes this weekend and I've seen a few blog postings mentioning that the new Google Video Player has been removed from downloads of the new Google Video Pack that went l...