This past Monday, Fred Wilson, a friend (and investor in Instant Information) gave the keynote presentation at the Software and Information Industry Summit in New York. It’s titled “Does Information Want To Be Free?”, and focuses on the challenge of monetizatizing content in a digital world. Scribe Media recorded the presentation and has […]
Archive for January, 2007
A Keynote Presentation By Fred Wilson…
Published January 31st, 2007 in Digital Media, Technology & Society and Trends. 0 Comments
The first hard drive I ever had was Apple’s ProFile Disk…
I bought it in 1981 as part of an Apple III system (don’t laugh!). It had a ’spacious’ 5 Megabyte capacity and was enclosed in a stylish case designed to sit ‘unobtrusively’ under a monitor. It was also slow and noisy — and available for […]
Vista Officially Launches At Midnight…
Published January 29th, 2007 in Systems & Software. 2 CommentsVista has been available to corporations for a few months already…
If you had a corporate software subscription or were part of one of Microsoft’s developer plans, you had the chance to install and run Vista. But it was not available for sale to the general public.
That will now be changing…
Come midnight tonight, Vista will […]
YouTube’s Monetization Model…
Published January 29th, 2007 in Digital Media and Web Video. 0 CommentsI became aware of this clip through a post on Fred Wilson’s AVC blog…
It is a brief clip of Chad Hurley - one of the founders of YouTube - talking about how they plan to let content owners monetize their copyrighted materials, and share revenue with those using it:
What YouTube will be doing is using […]
Some design decisions are really surprising…
I got to spend a week with Samsung’s Blackjack phone. Though I’m not a fan of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS, the handset itself has a lot going for it. First off, it has a really slim form factor - thin enough to fit in a shirt pocket. It also has […]
“I Am Legend” Filming In NYC…
Published January 26th, 2007 in New York City and Personal. 4 CommentsAs Hollywood has discovered, New York is a great place to make movies…
A screen adaptation of Richard Matheson’s 1954 science fiction novel “I Am Legend” has been filming in downtown New York this past week. Will Smith is staring in the lead role of Robert Neville, the ‘lone survivor’ of a bacterial pandemic. It’s a typical […]
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