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Articles by Mathew Ingram
Reznor's Bad Internet Tax Idea
By Mathew Ingram - Thu, 01/10/2008 - 2:12pm.
There’s a great interview with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails up at CNET, in which he talks about his experience with the Saul Williams album he recently released as a “pay what you want” download (which I wrote about here).
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Financial, NIN, Money, Saul Williams, music tax, Internet Tax, Nine Inch Nails, taxes, Music, Trent Reznor
The Truth About CES
By Mathew Ingram - Thu, 01/10/2008 - 11:49am.
Brilliant. That’s all I can say about Adam Frucci’s post at Gizmodo on “Ten Reasons We’re Doomed: CES Edition.” Bloody brilliant. It describes every tech trade show I’ve ever been to. Some of my favourite highlights:
More and More People Turning to Online Video
By Mathew Ingram - Thu, 01/10/2008 - 11:19am.
We appear to have two data points related to online video that are worth paying attention to. Number one: According to the BBC, Nielsen says that traffic to some online video sites has doubled since the Hollywood writers’ strike in October turned the TV into a wasteland of reruns and unfunny late-night talk shows (although it may be stretching things to call the Nielsen figure a data point, since I can’t find a report that has those numbers in it).
New Version of Yahoo Browser-Based Music Player
By Mathew Ingram - Wed, 01/09/2008 - 10:21am.
In keeping with the “open media” vision described by Yahoo Music exec Ian Rogers in his latest call to arms (which I wrote about yesterday), Yahoo launched a second iteration of its browser-based music player — this one allowing anyone to add a line of Javascript and have a Yahoo-branded player pop up wherever there’s an mp3 link.
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Technology, Yahoo, browsers, Flash, applications, wikis, facebook, developers, Music, Apps
Facebook Joins Data Portability Group
By Mathew Ingram - Tue, 01/08/2008 - 1:38pm.
This is pretty big news, it seems to me, after all of the back-and-forth about data being trapped inside Facebook — the social-networking site has joined the Data Portability Group, along with Plaxo and Google, and will now be helping come up with a standard for moving personal data into and out of different networks.
News Tags:
Social Media, Google, Robert Scoble, Data Portability Group, plaxo, data portability, facebook, Data
Blogosphere Being Hard on Wikia Search
By Mathew Ingram - Mon, 01/07/2008 - 2:10pm.
I’m generally in favour of bashing those who need to be bashed, and I definitely like taking the wind out of the Web 2.0 windbags (you know who you are), but I think the blogosphere is being a little hard on Wikia Search. Mike Arrington says that it’s a letdown, Allen Stern at Centernetworks
MixxMaker Facebook App like a Modern Mix Tape
By Mathew Ingram - Mon, 01/07/2008 - 12:24pm.
Music has to be one of the most social forms of content — most of us, even if we listen to our favourite music alone, like to talk about it, tell others what we like and why. That’s why things like Last.fm and Pandora are so popular (although I can’t use Pandora because I’m Canadian and they recently blocked us Canucks for licensing reasons).
News Tags:
Social Media, Music, Donat Group, social networks, facebook, Last.fm, MixxMaker, pandora, Project Opus
The Data Portability Issue Isn't Going Away
By Mathew Ingram - Fri, 01/04/2008 - 11:58am.
So Robert Scoble has his account suspended by Facebook for using an automated script to harvest his contacts and their email addresses (see my previous post), and all hell breaks loose. Scoble, whose account is later reinstated, is denounced for being a publicity-seeking limelight hog, and for using a script from Plaxo that is an egregious breach of Facebook’s terms of use (since it uses optical character recognition to grab email addresses, which the site keeps as image files).
News Tags:
Social Media, data portability, Scott Karp, Data Portability Group, facebook, Robert Scoble, Data, plaxo
Who Does This Facebook Data Belong To?
By Mathew Ingram - Thu, 01/03/2008 - 10:37am.
In his post about Facebook disabling his account, uber-blogger and Facebook tart Robert Scoble admits that he was doing something that breached the site’s terms of use — specifically, he was running a script that accessed the social network and “scraped” data from it.
Paying Writers Based on Traffic
By Mathew Ingram - Wed, 01/02/2008 - 9:58am.
It may be a new year, but we’re still talking (well, some of us are anyway) about an old issue: namely, the idea of paying writers based on the traffic they get. The focus of the debate right now is Gawker, where Nick Denton has apparently started paying his bloggers based in part on how many views their posts get. This one has been around for awhile, but now it’s official thanks to a memo on (Gawker-owned) Valleywag.
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