Early adopters, and early majority for online video services are now tapped out. In the following chart we see from 2008 to 2009, the number of unique viewers actually went down by around 2%. Usage rose, but uniques are flat. To take a shopping-mall analogy, sales, and foot traffic are up, but [...]

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Short attention span web-television is not the entire story. Reacting to a NYTimes article, MarketingVOX points out, longer form should not be counted out.
At INTV in 2002, and up through our current release on intv.com, Ryan Fields and I believe long form has legs. Back in the day I had an investor tell [...]

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“So maybe Jackson couldn’t keep the world moving to music, and maybe he did terrible things or maybe he didn’t. But for one long, glorious moment he made the world dance. And he did it like no one ever had or probably ever will.”
– Bill Werde, Billboard Magazine in Remembering Michael Jackson
MICHAEL JACKSON – [...]

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The text of this speech is here.

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This Sekai Camera iPhone demo gets a “Standing-O”, and in my book awards for best application and most entertaining presentation. In the video our presenters are very clear in their effort to motivate the audience and investors panel to:

Please Join Us. Let’s make together. Whole world.
Please imagine there is no web.

And yes, [...]

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Will the future feel object-free, and placeless? If so, won’t we not know it when we’re there?
Joho liveblogs Bruce Sterling at reboot: “For people of your generation, objects are print-outs. Their frozen social relationships. Think of them in terms of hours of time, and volumes of space”
Zero History references a book-in-progress by [...]

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Opera releases Unite, and analysts rain down with run downs.
http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/06/why-a-centralised-web-is-here-to-stay/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jun/17/opera-unite
http://www.inquisitr.com/26360/oh-duncan-if-opera-unite-is-the-future-then-were-going-back-in-time/
And so on.
So it’s been done before: Microsoft Live Sync, and IRC fserve
And it’s not secure enough for some things, but is it secure enough?
Blah, blah, blah.
Ignore the chatter. The back story is this…
Opera Unite makes personal file sharing into a browser setting, instead of [...]

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http://www.ustream.tv/luckyyoufilms

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Charlie Miller hacks browsers, and I suppose other web techs, but this little tidbit from our title shows a bit of the future. He works for Independent Security Evaluators, and in this ZDNet articles points the way forward for exploitists.
I have a new campaign. It’s called NO MORE FREE BUGS. Vulnerabilities have a market value [...]

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