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Premium Content Available
In the next few days, you’ll be introduced to Technosailor Premium Content. It’s premium because you have to do something to get it. In many cases, that something is paying a fee. Not in this case. This premium content is completely free. You might think I’m going to collect your email address or make you…
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Google Video Security Flaw: FALSE; MySpace Flaw: Confirmed
Tamar Weinberg writes a post declaring that “Google Video Flaw Raises Privacy Concerns By Exposing Usernames and Passwords“. Nice linkbait, but completely false. The real weight of this flaw lies solely on MySpace (I know, there are apparently no security issues with MySpace, but I digress). In fact, if you examine the headers of a…
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Federal Judge Ruling Issues In New Era of Non-Privacy
Never before has any judge declared that the memory footprint stored in RAM on computers was evidence. Now one has. CNET reports that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has asked the courts to rule that the small memory footprint that is stored in BitTorrent servers when users download videos from Torrent servers is…
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Safari OS To Become the New Standard
I was not one of the folks who had the pleasure of being at WWDC07 today, however I followed closely what was being said through the variety of websites who were live blogging Steve Jobs’ keynote. I was expecting a little more in the way of announcements today but got very little of that. Cool…
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Washington D.C. Area New Media Conference
For those of you in suburban Washington, I’ve been asked to be a panelist at the New Media Nouveaux Conference in Tyson’s Corner on July 13. The topic is “Futurists, what’s coming next?” and I’ll be sharing the stage with Sean Gorman, CEO of FortuisOne and Brian Williams, CEO of VigetLabs. The entire conference is…
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Hosting the Carnival of Maryland
Just a word to let you all know that I am hosting this week’s Carnival of Maryland. The Carnival is spearheaded by members of the Maryland Blogger Alliance, a loose confederation of bloggers from Maryland that began as political blogs banded together a few years ago and today represents a much broader cross-section of the…
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The YouTube Video Revolution
It was announced the other day that YouTube would begin serving H.264 video format on all their YouTube videos. This is an announcement that was made in conjunction with Apple regarding video formats for their Apple TV which uses Apple’s Quicktime format. If you’re not familiar with H.264, it is a high definition video encoding…
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The Art of War: Facebook’s Strategic Plan for Ultimate Victory
Have you heard of MySpace? I had, once upon a time. Now, it seems to be off the grid. Facebook on the other hand has been making a progressive march to the sea and is taking no prisoners. In February of 2007, Facebook reported 18M users, up from 7.5M 7 months earlier. (Edited) Toronto claims…
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Video Interview at Mesh
Loren Feldman and I sat down for an interview while at Mesh. Loren is probably my favorite new media guy ever. Says what he thinks and is highly entertaining, if sometimes mildly disturbing. Check out this video with him and I sitting down and talking about b5media, Macs and other stuff. Thanks Loren!