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Telcos could be the key to Twitter’s revenue model

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Sam Ramji - Jun. 26 (Interview) - At WWDC this year Apple and Twitter announced a new partnership to bring Twitter to iOS devices. While this is impressive, the total number of new iOS users is dwarfed by the number of people who use feature phones worldwide. So how will services like Twitter bridge this opportunity gap?

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Future of Media: Curation, Verification and News as a Process

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Mathew Ingram - May. 21 (News Analysis) - As part of a “social media summit” this week, the BBC posted an overview of how its user-generated content desk handles reports from the field — verifying and curating them in much the same way that Andy Carvin of NPR has been doing for the past few months during the upheaval in the Middle East. As I’ve written before, there is a growing need for this kind of curation, but there is also the need to start looking at news as a process and not as a pristine, finished product. While many media outlets have web editors who track reports on Twitter and other social media, the BBC is unique (as far as I know) in having a special desk that sits in the middle of the newsroom and pulls in reports from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and anywhere else it can find information. The desk staffers then try to verify these reports, and some of the ways they do that are fascinating.

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Video Killed the Radio Star, But Might Save Newspapers

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

GigaOM - By Mathew Ingram - Dec. 22 (News Analysis) - What comes to mind when you think of newspapers? Whatever it is, its probably not streaming video. And yet, one of the interesting facts in a new survey of the online video market (PDF link) from video-hosting platform Brightcove and analytics provider TubeMogul is that newspapers overtook broadcasters in terms of the total number of video minutes streamed in the third quarter of 2010. As news publishers of all kinds try to move their operations online, more and more seem to be getting the message that the future includes video. The Brightcove and TubeMogul report shows that the number

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OptiSolar Crashes: Lessons for Greentech

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

earth2tech - By Katie Fehrenbacher - Mar. 20 (Breaking News) - ... the faults of the struggling cleantech firms have been largely both underestimating how expensive it is to manufacture “stuff” and not being able to reach a large manufacturing scale quick enough before the credit crunch hit. It seemed as if OptiSolar had announced it was building one of the largest solar photovoltaic projects ever built at 550 MW, before it had even disclosed its funders or explained how its technology was superior to any competitors.

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A Quarter of Americans Aren’t On the Web

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

GigaOM - By Stacey Higginbotham - Jan. 23 (News Report) - Amid the discussion of universal broadband access, those without broadband get all of the attention. But what about the 17 percent of Americans who regardless of cost or access simply don’t want to go online? Or the 1.7 percent who think dial-up is just fine? As hard as it is for the technically literate to imagine, roughly 25 percent of Americans don’t use the web.

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FAQ: The Obama Energy Plan

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Craig Rubens - Jun. 09 (Opinion) - Now that the Democratic Party has a presumptive nominee, it's time to take a closer look at Sen. Barack Obama's energy plan and how he intends to use the office of the president to accelerate our transition to a greener economy. We profiled Sen. John McCain's energy plan earlier, and since energy will almost certainly not get as much debate time as Iraq, health care or the economy, we encourage you to compare McCain's and Obama's plans and comment below. (The Wall

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Why Tiered Broadband Is the Enemy of Innovation

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Om Malik - Jun. 04 (Opinion) - It should come as no surprise: Incumbents are beginning to act like incumbents. But while the cable companies are the first ones to jump on the tiered broadband bandwagon, they won't be the last. Their argument for limiting bandwidth and data transfers based on price sounds like a good idea, especially as a way to get bargain hunters to buy. In the long run, however, tiered broadband is a terrible idea that will bring the innovation inspired by flat-rate broadband to a screeching halt.

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Yahoo's New Video Effort Symbolic of Its Troubles

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

GigaOM - By Chris Albrecht - Feb. 16 (Opinion) - In addition to a redesign, new features to the video section include a 16Ã--9 player, larger file size limit for uploads, enhanced sharing options and in-depth profiles. The new look is clean and easy to navigate, and uploading videos is a snap. Yet it feels like a silo, devoid of a unified connection with the rest of the company. There is no real integration with the other divisions that could have made this so much more.

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Q&A with Austin Mayor Will Wynn

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:05:43 -0700

GigaOM - By Katie Fehrenbacher - Sep. 13 (Review) - Will Wynn, the mayor of Austin, Tex., says he publishes his electricity bill in the paper to show how a little energy management can produce results. (It's frequently below $50 per month.) Sure, we have Al Gore, and every trend-seeking celebrity waving the climate-change flag and driving a Prius, but we really need more likable public officials that are actually creating change in meaningful ways.

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Finally, Google and Schmidt go 'All In'

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:01:36 -0700

GigaOM - By Paul Kapustka - Jul. 23 (News Analysis) - Friday's letter from Eric Schmidt to the FCC was something telecom wonks have been waiting for: Google has not just stepped up to the lobbying table, it has pushed in its entire stack of chips, challenging the incumbent telco status quo in a way no other entity out there can. And by making it personal at the highest executive level, Schmidt has taken another important step: he has made telecom and communications a hot-button priority issue, guaranteeing its entry into mainstream business and political discourse.

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Facebook aims to be Social OS

Fri, 25 May 2007 17:44:08 -0700

GigaOM - By Liz Gannes - May. 25 (Opinion) - Facebook's platform strategy will be announced today in San Francisco. In discussions with multiple sources involved with the launch, we've come to see the platform as a highly ambitious idea, approaching the idea of Facebook being an operating system with other web apps riding on top of it.

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Why is Comcast Web Serious

Mon, 07 May 2007 11:10:13 -0700

GigaOM - By Om Malik - May. 07 (Special Report) - Not happy with 2.5 billion page views a month, Comcast (CMCSA) is looking to enhance its position as one of the top Internet destinations in the US. And as it does so, Comcast challenges the traditional Internet names such as Yahoo (YHOO) and Google (GOOG), by moving into their (proverbial) domain, by offering similar services such as rich email, visual voice mail and video sharing sites.

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Small is The New Big

Fri, 04 May 2007 10:28:45 -0700

GigaOM - By Om Malik - May. 04 (Special Report) - Richard Moross, a twenty-something Londoner, was bored with the business cards most people were exchanging. He decided to do something about it. He started Moo Prints, a 10-person start-up that takes images from popular websites, like Flickr and Bebo, and prints them on cards that are exactly half the height (28mm x 70mm) of a regular business card. Size alone makes Moo cards memorable. Moross cleverly dubbed them "mini-cards," leveraging a marketing trend that's already been über-successful in selling autos and iPods. Better still, Moo minis are highly personalized. For instance, Moross will take photos from your Flickr account and print it on your cards.

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Quietly, a web giant takes shape

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:41:35 -0700

GigaOM - By Om Malik - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - Comcast has been slowly leveraging its position as the number one broadband provider in the US into a position at Web's version of the big-boys table, where stakes are high and tempers higher. The company, today acquired online ticketing company Fandango, for what is rumored to be a $200 million sticker price.

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Web 2.0 gives birth to Politics 2.0

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:55:57 -0700

GigaOM - By Drew Clark - Mar. 19 (Opinion) - When it comes to adapting information technology, Washington is always about two years behind the rest of the country. So it makes sense that, finally, Web 2.0 is catching hold and gathering momentum here, in early 2007. Washington's political operative and consulting class has been energized by the early start to the 2008 election. And no one is ignoring the Web this campaign cycle. Call it Politics 2.0, and watch how it changes the media power balance when it comes to political discourse.

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Is 'Social News' the New Trend?

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:22:13 -0800

GigaOM - By Om Malik - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - As a child I remember sitting around with the grown-ups at the neighborhood tea stall - grizzly old blokes, friends of my grandfather and listening to them discuss political developments of the day, reading from the newspapers, and putting their spin on it. It was my first experience with social news. Of course the world has changed a lot since then, and so has the news business.

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Online Video, lifting all boats

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:42:55 -0800

GigaOM - By Om Malik - Feb. 27 (Opinion) - YouTube, Joost and dozens of online video start-ups have done something many thought impossible: they have gotten the telecom executives excited. So excited that some of them are sponsoring Web 2.0 cocktail parties and cutting deals with little companies, hoping that Internet video will keep pushing the demand for bandwidth, and bring in some much needed relief.

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The New, New Music Industry

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:54:38 -0800

GigaOM - By Raghav “Rags” Gupta - Feb. 15 (Opinion) - The music business has been transforming before our eyes. Many players in the industry are struggling to survive amidst the tectonic shifts as the industry transforms itself for the digital age. And yet there has never been more demand for consuming music, and the ability to satifsy that demand, as there is today. The events of the past few weeks point to an acceleration of change that promises to make 2007 a landmark year in the music industry.

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Neutrality Debate Simmering Down?

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:19:48 -0800

GigaOM - By Paul Kapustka - Feb. 12 (Opinion) - ould the once-boiling debate over network neutrality be headed back down to a saner simmer? That was the question, or maybe the quest, of most of the discussion Sunday at the Silicon Flatirons conference here on the University of Colorado campus, one of the pre-eminent events for telecom policy wonks in the U.S. While no consensus was reached -- c'mon, we're talking about a room full of lawyers -- there was at least a better-than-average amount of time spent trying to debunk myths and provide real information from both sides of the argument.

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Adobe and its P2P Ambitions

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:11:26 -0800

GigaOM - By Om Malik - Jan. 24 (Special Report) - Adobe Systems, now the owner of Flash multimedia technology, seems to be getting pretty serious about spreading its tentacles into new product categories - from VoIP to peer-to-peer networking. But it is P2P that is at the heart of San Jose, Calif.-based company's grand design.

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Telcos Target Google in 'Neutrality' Fight

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:21:25 -0800

GigaOM - By Paul Kapustka - Jan. 20 (Opinion) -

Telcos Target Google in 'Neutrality' Fight -- The latest round in the battle over net neutrality has started, and as usual the telcos have their game plan sussed out and in widespread, synchronized action. The message? Google is bad, and wants to control the Internet to keep its cash pile growing.

Source: GigaOM
Author: Paul Kapustka
Link: http://gigaom.com/2007/01/20/google-netneutrality/

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Forget Neutrality -- Keep Packets Private

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:04:04 -0800

GigaOM - By Daniel Berninger - Jan. 14 (Opinion) - Never mind net neutrality, I want my privacy. As in packet privacy. The telcos say they need to sell non-neutral routing of traffic to recover the cost of building broadband networks. Moving from the Internet, where a packet-is-a-packet, to something that looks suspiciously like the 20th century telephone network requires remarrying the content and connectivity that TCP/IP divorced. It requires deep packet inspection. It requires looking at the content of communication.

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Daylife's Webified Newspaper Launches

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:06:09 -0800

GigaOM - By Liz Gannes- Posted Thursday, January 4, 2007 at 12:16 PM PT - Jan. 04 (Opinion) - While Daylife is engagingly pretty, it's hard to comprehend as a whole, and it'll take some learning to figure out how to use it. The company seems to understand this and has sent its data elsewhere to power the Huffington Post's News Ranker5 and Treehugger's grndx6. This seems like a good direction, but the indexes have inadequate explanation of what makes something more newsworthy or more green, so they're pretty much useless.

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Are You Ready for the Sofa Web?

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:32:52 -0800

GigaOM - By Om Malik - Dec. 22 (Opinion) - In less than 72 hours from now many kids, and many more overgrown kids will be tearing off carefully wrapped packages, and with glassy eyes head to the nearest television to plug in their Xboxes1, Wiis, and an odd PlayStation 32. And after playing around for a bit, many of you will discover that these new living room monsters have amazing3 Internet abilities. Welcome to the sofa-web!

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Who Wants to Be a Virtual World Millionaire?

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:04:18 -0800

GigaOM - By Wagner James Au - Nov. 29 (Special Report) - So, it's semi-official: the Second Life avatar known as Anshe Chung, featured in a recent BusinessWeek profile of SL1, is now worth over $1 million dollars. The news has already stormed through the blogosphere (as here2, here3, and first scooped here4), but judging by most of the commentary, it's provoking more confusion than understanding.

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