Monthly Archives: October 2006

Google buys JotSpot

Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 by Rex Hammock

From several sources, comes news of ‘The Google’ acquiring the wiki-creation tool, JotSpot. Here’s what the company’s blog says. Ross Mayfield, the early-entrepreneur in the wiki-tools category (his company, SocialText, focuses on wiki-tools and solutions for enterprises) is my go-to … Continue reading →

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Jason who?

Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 by Rex Hammock

Jimmy Wales has a response to Jason Calacanis’ unsolicited suggestion that Wikipedia run ads and contribute the revenue to charity. It includes this jab: “This was at Wikimania this past summer, and I barely even remember him… we were at … Continue reading →

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Sponsored spew from Google

Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 by Rex Hammock

The Diet Coke/Mentos guys have a new video, this time with 500 liters of Diet Coke and 1,500+ Mentos and what looks like, from the credits, some corporate underwriting/sponsorship/assistance from both of those brands and an exclusive deal from Google … Continue reading →

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Welcome back, newsreaders

Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 by Rex Hammock

Because of some technical difficulties that were particularly perplexing to this blog’s hackery team, our RSS feed has not been picked up by FeedBurner for the past week. I think that problem has been solved. The problem probably was caused … Continue reading →

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The relative pain of pinpricks in the history of Time Inc.

Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 by Rex Hammock

I especially enjoy reading about how giant media companies like Time Inc. are trying to figure out what their digital future is in publications (like the Wall Street Journal today) owned by other giant media companies that could write the … Continue reading →

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