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SES NY: Copyright In The Digital Age

The digital age brings with it a ton of legal questions, many of which have yet to be fully addressed by the courts. Much of this has to do with the lack of precedent and legislation, and sometimes judges’ reluctance to allow digital evidence. At SES NY, a team of legal experts was assembled to address all of these issues.

Memeorandum, my favorite memetracker…

Hey, Gabe, love the new design of Memeorandum! I guess that this proves that I actually do read it about 10 times a day.

AMD Legal On Line For Skype

Lawyers at chip maker AMD are very curious as to why the Skype VoIP service permits 10-way conference calls from Intel dual-core processor machines, but only 5-way calls from AMD dual-core equipped computers.

DoubleClick DART Search Party

There were several after-conference events last night at SES NYC. Marchex held a bash and there was a small, invite only thing for MSN AdCenter as well.

Google Shares Slammed

Google Stock plummeted Tuesday, losing $30.58 and going down to $362.62. At one time, shares were as low as $338.51.

Ether to Open Up Services

Michael Arrington, over at TechCrunch, again launches another new company.

Click Fraud Zombies

Did you happen to read the guest post we had on click fraud and how easy it could be for unscrupulous companies to create fraudulent clicks?

SES NY: The Click-Happy Searcher

Research is showing that the bulk of Internet users make snap judgments about websites and what links to click. Surfing is instinctual, not calculated. In fact the only ones doing any calculations are marketing researchers who say that a website has an astonishing 50 milliseconds to make an impression, and if no impression is made, the mouse trigger finger gets itchy and starts clicking at will.

Lyceum Multi-User Blog Tool Released

A stand-alone implementation of Wordpress for the enterprise added several features while licensing the actively developed project under GPL terms.

Apple: 50 Percent Of Line Runs Intel

Amid all the excitement over Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ announcement of a new Mac mini and the iPod Hi-Fi, many missed one bit of news about Apple’s transition to Intel processors.

Ranking SEO Firms

Today I received emails from two different SEO firm ranking lists that have ranked my SEO firm, TopRank in the top 5.

Logitechs New CS2 Tool For Developers

Two major tools in the toolbox for many developers remain the Mac and Adobe Software. Logitech recently announced new tools for use with Macs and Adobe’s Creative Suite 2 (CS2), which consists of Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.

Oracles Free Database: 10g XE
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Database monster Oracle popped out a new child yesterday in the form of their Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (XE). The nifty thing about XE is it’s free and is considered a starter edition.

The Top Five LAN Security Issues Facing IT Managers Today

IT managers face many difficult LAN security issues today, but are confronted with a huge array of established and emerging security technologies that promise to deal with these issues.

DreamWorks Imagines Linux Development SOA

Hewlett-Packard announced DreamWorks would implement a service-oriented architecture (SOA) solution based on Linux.

Papers Need Eyeballs To Survive

For every print subscriber who decides to cancel a subscription and get news from the Internet, newspapers will need from 20 to 100 online readers to replace that subscription.

Powering Up Managerial PR

For many managers, talking about how to power up managerial public relations means talking about favored communications tactics such as press releases, broadcast plugs, special events and brochures.

ESRI Developer Summit

A reminder from ESRI points out that the First annual Dev Summit is only 17 days away.

Google Says Choose Your Mobile News

The latest service from Google on the mobile phone front lets users hit Google News from the Google.com page and browse the headlines.

BOTW Does Blog Search

Yesterday at the New York Search Engine Strategies conference I ran into Brian Prince, CEO of Best of the Web (BOTW.org), who clearly have plenty of fans as evident from all the black, long sleeve t-shirts worn by conference attendees. In fact, they ran out the first day of the conference and had to get more.

SES: Pimp My Site

Today, I sat in on the “Pimp My Site” session, which kicked off with a bunch of trumpeteers coming in with the speakers, playing “The Saints Go Marching” while spreading confetti over the audience.

SES NY: Meet The Blog And Feed Search Engines

Tuesday was a very busy day for me, with the expo floor, a pretty major interview (more on that as it develops) and lots of busy work for me.

Yahoo Claims Former Employees Stole Secrets

AP reports Yahoo is suing seven former exployees, alleging that they stole trade secrets when they left to start MForma Group Inc.

Paint.Net 2.6

The latest version of Paint.NET is out, version 2.6, it offers full 64-bit support (including an installer that works regardless of 32- or 64-bits and does the work for you), color curve adjustments, seven new layer blend modes, aesthetic improvements, better performance and zooming and support for really high screen resolutions, among many other improvements and fixes.