Another great plan from Google. I never cease to be amazed by how brilliant Google is. -- KM *** After months if not years of speculation, Google announced today that they are not in fact developing a single phone, but rather an ostensibly open-source mobile operating system called...

Privacy and trust is growing in importance and as such I think it represents a great opportunity. -- KM *** The Swedish Pirate Party (piratpartiet) held rallies across Sweden in an attempt to bolster support for strengthening personal privacy. The events, in Malmö and Stockholm, were...

Yet another great article on the global warming hoax. I know it's important to to support "going green" because it's cool and trendy, but there are other things that are trendy too -- like knowing the Truth and not falling for stupid ideas like a global carbon tax (the proposed solution to global...

The moral of the story is that advertising has to actually help advertisers sell products. Which is why I think the next big disruption in advertising is going to break us out of the CPC/CPM model, and into something else -- something that does a better job of blurring the line between content...

We're starting to see CRM providers (like Salesforce) enter the CMS space, and use integration capabilities as their competitive advantage. This is great. Although I don't really trust Salesforce, and I really believe businesses should have customer data -- the most important data -- on servers...

Lame because users are not going to pay attention to these ads; social networks require a different type of advertising. But interesting nonetheless, as we are starting to see more serious monetization attempts out of the big social networks. -- KM *** MySpace will announce plans to...

You can use house.gov to email your representative to ask them to support this impeachment initiative. -- KM *** Kucinich says he will force House vote on Cheney impeachment. http://prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/031107Kucinich.htm. Nick Juliano Raw Story :...

http://www.techmeme.com/071103/i5.jpg First OpenSocial Application Hacked Within 45 Minutes — It didn't take long for someone to hack the first OpenSocial application. In fact, it took just 45 minutes. — A developer who goes by the alias "theharmonyguy" and describes himself as...

ftc-logo.png That was the subtext of the message the Federal Trade Commission delivered to Web advertisers, in particular with relation to ads that track consumer behavior. According to Reuters:. FTC Commissioner Jon Leibowitz said ... Go to Full Article

See comments in this article on Digg for some opinions. -- KM *** After three intense months of voting, Packt Publishing can today announce that Drupal has won the Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award. With 18,000 votes on Packt’s website, coupled with the expert opinions from a panel...

Daaaaammmmn! Microsofter Don Dodge seriously hates on the blogosphere's love fest with OpenSocial. Looks like someone's upset because Facebook, and thus Microsoft's Facebook deal, is about to be outperformed? Sorry bro, but the truth hurts. I mean, just look at the Truth about 9/11!!! But,...

The privacy war is definitely going to intensify. To what extent is your platform willing to protect your privacy? Key basis of competition for the future. -- KM *** The University of Oregon (my alma mater, coincidentally) is believed to be the first US educational institution to...

OpenSocial is the talk of the web, and rightfully so. Here is some good insight from Steven Johnson; I agree with his point that social networking cycles will now accelerate. -- KM *** A few quick thoughts about OpenSocial. As you can see here, outside.in is one of the launch partners...

We’ve been waiting all day for Google’s OpenSocial site to start working, and it has finally happened. The site contains the official OpenSocial API documents, developers blog, featured community gadgets, and featured videos. ... Go to Full Article

I think the analogy is quite fitting. -- KM *** Facebook=Apple, Google=Microsoft — And no, by the title on this post I don't mean that Facebook is good and Google is bad (please see my previous post), or that Facebook is well-designed and Google is bloated and buggy. Instead,...