If a site gives it content away for free, can it still be considered commercial? What if it’s running ads? What if it’s owned by the New York Times?
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Veoh Provides a Video Compass
The new Veoh Video Compass plugin lets you search for videos on YouTube, AOL, Google and others.
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Make Money, Cut Jobs
Microsoft and Intel post profitable quarters and cut over 10,000 jobs. Sony loses billions. Duck.
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The Future (and Threat) to TV and TiVo
On Wednesday’s “Naked Media” live show (soon to be available on demand at NakedMedia.org), Web TV entrepreneur (and long-time TV animation executive) Fred Seibert talked about how TiVo brought a lot of viewers to the programs on his Next New Networks, home of everything from car enthusiast shows to Obama Girl on “Barely Political” to [...]
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Britannica 2.0
The 241-year-old Encyclopedia Britannica embraces Web 2.0 and says they’ll allow users to edit and update articles.
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Obama Administration: Day One in the Oval Office
Nothing like playing with political action figures. Enjoy episode one of A New America, the first in a recurring series about the excellent adventures of Barack, Joe, Hillary, Michelle, Bill, Rahm, and, of course, Jack Bauer.
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Will the US Government go Open Source?
The BBC reports that Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has been tapped to submit a paper outlining how the US government can implement open source solutions.
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Can Google PageRank Predict Nobel Prize Winners?
Two researchers ask whether citation patterns in scientific papers can be analyzed to figure out future Nobel Prize winners. And the answer is… sort of, kind of, yes.
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Score One for TV
Barack Obama’s inauguration saw a 54% spike in worldwide internet traffic, with most Users seeking video. The result wasn’t necessarily pretty.
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So Many Dreams So Little Space! Russian Dreams in Miami
Alexandra Lerman’s brief account of the Russian Dreams exhibition at the Baas Museum during the week of Miami Art Basel.
