Authors Sue Google
U.S. writers are suing Google Inc. in a federal court, alleging that the Web search leader’s bid to digitize the book collections of major libraries infringes individual author’s copyrights.
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Upon Further Review Let’s Have a Booth Umpire for Baseball
I was just two years old when Larry Barnett served as the home plate umpire of Game 3 of the 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds. Needless to say, I have no contemporaneous memory of the game, but I came to learn as a young boy that he had made a controversial non-call in that game that many believe cost the Red Sox a victory.
Free Ad for Slingbox
Got a Slingbox last week. It allows place-shifting of your TV viewing. Where TiVO allows for "time-shifting" (you can watch when you want), Slingbox lets you watch where you want. The net effect for this road warrior is that I can watch Red Sox games from hotel rooms around the country. Costs $250, you hook…
WOMBAT Day 1
I attended the Word of Mouth Marketing Association’s WOMBAT conference today in San Francisco. Day 1 had a number of good panels, including one which covered some research about how people respond to word of mouth recommendations and whether online opinion matters. Interestingly, the research suggested that about 90% of word of mouth recommendations come…
WashPost Creates Supreme Court Blog
The Washington Post has started a blog dedicated to the campaign to confirm Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court to replace Sandra Day O’Connor.
eBay to Buy Skype
It feels like it is 1999 again. WSJ reports eBay is paying $2.6 billion (more with earnouts) to buy Skype, an Internet phone company that projects revenues of $60 million this year. UPDATE: PaidContent reports on eBay’s efforts to explain why it isn’t 1999 and the deal makes sense. It includes a 78 slide PowerPoint.
Topix Categorizes Partner Content
Topix.net “announced the availability of its NewsRank(TM) categorization technology across the 177 newspaper and television station Web sites of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Knight Ridder, Inc. (NYSE: KRI) and Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB). Articles on Topix.net powered sites provide links to related, categorized content, discovered through their NewsRank(TM) technology.”