by Shane Perris on Thursday, 26 June, 2008
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Since its debut in 2004, del.icio.us has been the market standard for social bookmarks. Its reputation was further enhanced in late 2005 when it was acquired by Yahoo!. Social bookmarking was going places. It wasn’t that long ago that every second blog (particularly in the tech niches) had some type of del.icio.us widget in a sidebar somewhere. Sometimes it was a simple list of the latest bookmarks the blog author had while other times it was a tag cloud of recently added items. Either way, del.icio.us seemed to be around every corner. [click to continue…]
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by Shane Perris on Wednesday, 11 June, 2008
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I understand that content owners have licensing agreements around the world and feel that they can’t open up television programs globally to protect the financial investment of various regional licensees.
However, content owners, you need to understand that if you deny people a way to legally access your product simply on the basis of geographic location, they will get it anyway without you. [click to continue…]
by Shane Perris on Tuesday, 3 June, 2008
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Apparently, no one is safe from the Google spam filter.
I recently wrote another guest piece for Sarah Perez:
Stocktake time. Despite the fact that Jaiku has everything that the hottest 2.0 properties have, all tied up on one neat basket, Google has failed to get any mindshare at all amongst users and developers. Unless Google has some fiendishly cunning plan for world domination, it really looks like they’ve dropped the ball here.
Click through to read the rest of Google dropped the ball on Jaiku at Sarah’s site, Sarah in Tampa.
