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.
This news is a month old, but it has been sitting in my "to post" file and since I’ve done a lot with success and failure in paid subscriptions lately, here’s a success story from MediaPost: THE NEWLY FORMED INTERNET DIVISION of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. acquired Scout Media Inc., a Seattle-based online sports company…
PaidContent reports that Google is exploring creating a financial vertical, perhaps along the lines of Yahoo! Finance. Supposedly they are in an exploratory stage and have had meetings with many data vendors.
Duncan Riley shares a statistic that he came across that should serve as a reminder to those of us living inside the technology bubble: just 5 million Americans use mobile Internet services. Technorati tags: mobile Internet
Microsoft’s Robert Scoble frequently offers good insight and great links. But I’m afraid today his wife may be right. When he blogged today about "the world" I can only hope he intended to say "my world." RSS has totally changed how I work and how I get my information. In that sense, RSS has changed…
Time magazine was apparently motivated by the Google blog search announcement and decided to run a short piece on how to become a blogger and how to find blog posts. They decided this somehow amounts to the next version of blogging. The article itself seems to contradict the headline: "Google’s effort, while useful, is not…
Google News: The End of News Indexing As We Know It? is Google cutting secret deals with European publishers? (tags: copyright) The Value Of Aggregating Content disaggregation vs. aggregation — where are we headed? (tags: Aggregation media) Newspapers need to go hyper-local to survive echoing my argument that most newspapers can only differentiate on local…