Receive, Hunt, Do
The history of the Web is a transition between these phases:
Back in the mid-1990s, most people were happy to “receive” information on the Web. Content (meaning Web sites) was king, and so AOL, EarthLink (ELNK), and marketers responded by trying to create “sticky” Web portals where people would spend long stretches, returning often. [...]

What a great legacy he has left behind:

Yes, it is that Nostradamus time of the year when experts, pundits and amateurs enjoy looking into a crystal ball and venturing what the next year will bring to New Media.
It’s fun and it’s silly, so following from my somewhat successful forecast of 2007 ( here and here), these are some initial thoughts on what [...]

This is just silly… I often bump into a New York Times article that is not available without the free registration… for example, this one on Kerry and Edwards that appeared today…  I then have to right-click on firefox and do a Google search on the first line of the text.. to then find an [...]

I guess I came across flightstats.com around the time of the infamous JetBlue Valentine’s Day debacle earlier this year.
I was looking for a place to check flight departure status and was not satisfied with JFK’s website. Through a Google search I landed at flightstats.com (no pun intended) and found three features that really got me [...]

The Wall Street Journal had a good article this weekend about Facebook.
My favorite quote of the piece:
“The adults have invaded the playground and the kids don’t like it one bit” - Elizabeth Spiers, the founding editor of Gawker
The Facebook team has done an incredible job at breaking through the college and geek spheres and [...]

Like many other Wordpress users recently, my site was hacked recently by link spammers.
The spammers also deleted my backup files, so I had to reinstall Wordpress (now on version 2.3) and recover previous posts by using this excellent trick that makes the most of Google Reader to retrieve a feed.
I then converted the Atom Google [...]

Something is very troubling in Web 2.0 when the amount of content becomes so large that it becomes hard to track what is legitimate and what is not.
We have seen YouTube struggle with keeping pirated content from its site, despite using technology and user-flagging. It shouldn’t therefore come as a surprise that Google Ads is [...]

Couple of announcements from Gmail:
Digital Media Wire:

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According to The Guardian:
The BBC is in advanced negotiations with Google to make programming available via a branded channel on the search giant’s video-sharing site, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.
It is understood that BBC executives are keen that the deal, which involves BBC Worldwide and the BBC, is eventually expanded to include putting content on Google-owned YouTube.
BBC [...]