Luxury apartment hunting: Internet lags traditional methods
According to a survey of luxury apartment renters, only a small number found their apartments online.
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Ten questions for Google
Google's secrecy is frustrating all of its constituents: here are ten questions for Google.
More questions for Google: What do you want to ask Google?
What questions should Google be asked? Contribute your questions.
Collaborative Google Q & A: Call for questions
Google Q & A: contribute your questions.
U.S. financial industry enlisted to police online vice
Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup and PayPal are participating in the newly formed “Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography.
Dell wields its leverage and disrupts Wintel
Dell’s multi-year software distribution deal with Google, announced this week, follows its recent agreement with AMD to begin using AMD chips.
Web 2.0 trademark tailspin
Nicholas Carr laments a blogospheric lynch mob regarding the O'Reilly Web 2.0 trademark controversy (see my "Web 2.0 architecture of participation belied by Web 2.0 tussle").
Google clues on new ad product rollouts
During a Q & A at a Goldman Sachs conference in Las Vegas yesterday, Google revealed ad product development concepts the company is working on for future rollouts
Wikipedia official policy versus Slashdot moderation
Nicholas Carr’s “Now let’s bury the myth
Web 2.0 participatory index launched by The Museum of Sex
The Museum of Sex, with curated exhibits at its flagship Fifth Avenue museum in Manhattan, launched a Web 2.0 social posting and tagging site, the "MoSexIndex", described as a community-driven web site that lists the best sex sites on the web, as determined by its community of users.
Web 2.0 architecture of participation belied by Web 2.0 tussle
Tom Raftery has posted a cease and desist letter he says the not-for-profit IT@Cork networking organisation for IT professionals received from lawyers for O'Reilly publishers demanding the organisation cease using the term Web 2.0 in the title of their upcoming conference.
Online trumps print debuts, or vice versa
With the world living and reacting on Internet time, the mode and timing of publication debuts become strategic decisions with financial and intellectual property implications. I wrote about two different print magazine publications this week and their differing strategies regarding issue debuts in print versus online: Nylon and Wired.
Wired: Crowds are buzzing
I asked last weekend if "crowdsourcing" would be the next Web 2.0 buzzword: The buzzing may have gegun.
Yahoo & eBay vs. Microsoft, Google?
Yahoo and eBay formed a cross-promotional pact designed to boost their position against Microsoft and Google, according to Reuters.
Dramatic turns in the MPAA battle against movie piracy
Three months after the Motion Picture Association of America expanded its courtroom battles against unauthorized movie file downloading and began suing informational Web services, in addition to sites actually enabling unauthorized movie file sharing, Torrentspy has responded with a countersuit, of sorts.