Tag: robert_scoble
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Is there even a short-term gain for Viacom here?
Much has been said about the fact that Viacom are suing Google for $1bn because YouTube (now owned by Google) hosted Viacom copyrighted shows. Technically, Viacom are well within their rights to sue Google for this copyright infringement but what good does it do Viacom, apart from adding up to $1bn to their bottom line,…
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Another Scoble in the works!
I see Maryam and Robert Scoble are announcing that they are expecting a baby sometime this September. Great news guys – sincere congrats.
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Salim launches Confabb
My good buddy Salim has taken the covers off his latest venture Confabb and it has received a glowing review from TechCrunch, amongst others. Confabb is a conference aggregation and organisation site. It has a database of over 16,000 conferences and the ability to log in and add more or use the site to help…
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Can Google Reader scale the Great Firewall of China?
Jeremiah Owyang is on a trip to China at the moment. He put up a post on his blog the other day saying he couldn’t access Robert Scoble’s blog from inside China – it seems to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China for some reason. I don’t know if this applies to all…
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Finally, an outstanding online RSS reader
I have had issues with Google Reader (Google’s online RSS/feed reader) in the past but in the latest update to Google Reader, released today most of those issues have been addressed. Lots of people are posting opinions on this from Marshall Kirkpatrick on TechCrunch to Robert Scoble on Scobleizer to Richard McManus on the ReadWrite…
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Apple claims trademark infringement on 'Podcast'
Apple has yet again sent in the lawyers – this seems to be a favourite tactic of theirs which is increasingly giving them a bad name (and I am a Mac fan!). This time, Apple have gone after a company called Podcast Ready for their use of the word Podcast and myPodder (their product name).…
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IT@Cork Web 2.0 conference talks podcast
I finally got around to putting up the talks from the IT@Cork Web 2.0 Conference! Shel Israel led off the talks at the IT@Cork Web 2.0 conference with a great introduction to blogs and social media – drawing very much on his experience co-authoring a book on business blogging called Naked Conversations called Naked Conversations…
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Is there something in the air?
Om Malik announced today he is leaving his job at Business 2.0 to setup a new business. Robert Scoble let slip that he is leaving Microsoft to join a startup, at a bloggers dinner the other night. Tara Hunt announced last week that she’s leaving Riya to go out on her own. Ben Metcalf has…