Just a week after a widely read news story about how Twitter, three years in, doesn’t have a business model, here comes the news today is that Google is in late stage talks to buy Twitter. Gosh, I wish someone had suggested last week that lack of a business model [...]
Yesterday Facebook released the first drafts of their principles that “will guide development of the service”, and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. It reminds me that I’ve been meaning to post about the kerfuffle from a few weeks ago over Facebook changing its Terms of Service. Facebook changed the terms [...]
The debate over the continued relevancy of the “Long Tail” theory reignited yesterday following a press release by eMusic that claimed its internal numbers prove the theory. Mike Masnick over at TechDirt, an erstwhile defender of the Long Tail, jumped on the news as more proof the theory lives on. Mike argued that: [...]
Today's event on "open" and "participatory" government at Google's DC office was interesting, if inconclusive. We all agreed that making government more transparent and ready for participation by the citizenry was good. But I left not knowing what it all really means or the best way to get there. Tech [...]