Daily Archives: Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Google & AOL – this changes things: Sorry, but this link to a WSJ story in tomorrow’s paper requires a subscription. It goes “inside” the talks between Google and Time-Warner regarding Google making a minority investment in AOL of up … Continue reading →

The real iPoop: Some no-spin observations about stuff announced today by Apple today from John Gruber. (via: kottke.org)

Rafat watches Lost in service to his readers: In his first test of the $1.99 video download on iTunes, Rafat Ali of PaidContent.org finds it takes him two hours rather than 20 minutes to download the program. Also, the video … Continue reading →

The way it will be: To me, the most interesting aspect of the big announcement today is the $1.99 video downloads of TV shows. Significant. Blockbuster? Netflix? Gotta be hearing footsteps. Also, it may surprise you, but I’m not interested … Continue reading →

Where traditional media fears to tread, there is opportunity: Susan Mernit points to Glam.com‘s development of a fashion blogging network as an example of a start-up company going where a big-media company’s risk aversion keeps them from going. Quote: As … Continue reading →

If a tree falls in a forest? The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft and Yahoo plan an alliance so that users of their instant-messaging services can communicate directly with each other. Quote: The expected linkup of Microsoft’s and Yahoo’s … Continue reading →