Now that is a great consumer claim!
Read this article. As an evangelist for the benefits of the Web for a long time, I always thought the Internet could make you happy and smarter and add to your productivity and longevity. We are social animals. Solitary confinement is considered torture.
If crossword puzzles are good for your mind then so is the Internet.
I was made happy reading this article.
I am not making this up.
I went to Google today — and a screen popped up that said…” Were sorry — but the computer you are using may be sending automated inquiries; to make sure you are human — type in the term you see below”…
The term was blurry — and I had to concentrate on the type face and there was a small box to enter the term; and guess what the term was to type in?
Belessfed.
Can’t make this stuff up!
Google was forced by a court to turn over information regarding a blogger’s identity. This is big news. The offending blogger turned out to be a friend of the victim in this case. How sad. And to be honest, it was all about some “name calling” and not actual physical threats.
Anonymity only goes so far these days. Be careful about what you post on message boards and on blogs. Threats and statements that you don’t want ultimately to be tagged with your name or email address - or even your photograph - are easily traceable. Be careful out there. Most people’s identity can be found out using email, Facebook, Google and, in this case, a court order.
There is less and less anonymity on the web so be prepared to stand behind what you say. Or don’t say it in the first place and believe that you will remain anonymous. This court ruling was surprising to me but it is what it is. New rules are being written daily about privacy on the web. Stay atop of what is happening out there. Read this article.
Read this article on voice services at Google. Back to the future.
I envisioned, founded and launched - with the help of John Borthwick, founder of Betaworks - AOL By Phone. That was ten years ago. We acquired Quack; a voice recognition company, to help launch it.
The service still works. It combines email, voice mail-location based services; mapping and more onto your phone. You could browse the web via voice; have your email read to you; and even respond. It was fast and very accurate. You could ask for a phone number; a map and directions; a movie time; a sports team score; and then place a call. It leveraged our data in MapQuest and Moviefone and Digital Cities. It used presence from AIM and our technology and platform in email.
Would you feel a sense of loss if your local newspaper shut down?
Do you think your local paper is a public trust and should there be a bailout to help local media concerns by the Federal government?
Why aren’t local newspapers loved by their community? (more…)
That doesn’t roll off the tongue easily now does it?
Here is the new search based platform that all of the digerati are buzzing about. It is called Wolfram/Alpha. It is being called the next BIG THING in search, and knowledge capture and presentation. (more…)
Been there. Done that again. Read this story. Doesn’t it sound old and familiar? This doesn’t represent innovation or new thinking.
Interop - single sign on - dual-headed clients. Sign up once and get an open ID into the web.
Ever hear of Microsoft Passport?
How about AOL’s Magic Carpet?
Or Sun Open SSO?
Or Google Talk and AIM cooperation and interop?
It was a good week in business, Google had what I believe was a terrific quarter with huge profits and its stock is closing in again on $400 per share.
Rosetta Stone, a local DC based company filed for an IPO and its share price soared at the end of the week to $28 plus from this week’s opening of $12. Congratulations to them! Way to go.
And Citibank had a profitable quarter. Big banks are slowly and surely reaping the benefits of all of that pruning and those big write-offs and the government’s intervention and cash to prop them up.
These are three tangible signs that a turnaround has really started. Don’t miss the signs.
