links for 2005-10-04

I graduated back in 1994 from American University in Washington, DC. I confess that I haven’t done the best job of keeping in touch with many of my fellow graduates — actually I can count on one hand the number of classmates I still socialize with regularly. But in recent years I have become a…

 Lately I’ve been fascinated by the consumer generated content/media space.  And I’ve had a number of ideas of my own (which I may share later), but here are some interesting things going on this area now: iPodders vs. Non-iPodders ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com attempts to answer an interesting question: “So are Apple iPod users the ultimate influencers or…

InfoToday reports: Alacra, known for providing a wide range of business databases to enterprise customers, has decided to open up its content to on-demand purchasing by individual business professionals and consumers. The company has just launched the beta of its new Alacra Store, an e-commerce Web site that taps into 30 of Alacra’s premium content…

Interesting report from UPI today: White House adviser Karl Rove said in a recent conference call that Internet lobbying by young grassroots Republicans will make or break the Bush administration’s proposals to revamp the pension program, just as the technology helped get out the vote last fall during the presidential campaign.

Akamai offers this fun little tool that shows volume of traffic to news sites around the world.  It’s more fun than useful, but Akamai could add value to it by trying to pinpoint the news stories that are causing upward fluctuations.  For example, at 6:45 PM ET tonight, it showed Australian news traffic was 200%…

So that I don’t overwhelm you with long reviews of all the cool stuff I saw on DEMOfall Day 1, here are the quick hits of companies and products that intrigued me: ·        U3 (see previous post) ·        Realm Systems (see previous post) ·        Hatsize Learning’s TrueLab – sort of like WebEx/GoToMeeting meets the computer…