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2006 Predictions

December 28, 2005

Since 1997, It’s been a long run­ning game here at TNL.net cen­tral to make wild pre­dic­tions about the upcom­ing year that have turned out to be only some­what off (and, as always, I promise to revisit them around the end of next year to assess how far off base I was) so here goes this year’s edi­tion. Broadband […]

Getting to Know You

December 16, 2005

Google’s intro­duc­tion of new exten­sions for Fire­fox is all about know­ing more about some users. This week, Google intro­duced two new Fire­fox exten­sions: Google Safe Brows­ing and Blog­ger Web Com­ments which are pro­vid­ing richer inte­gra­tion with the desk­top and a num­ber of new fea­tures based on your surf­ing pat­terns. But the ques­tion, when look­ing at those is […]

Uncovering a Spammer

August 8, 2003

I’ve received a lot of emails about Emailresults.net, the com­pany that sent me the spam for Howard Dean’s cam­paign. The inter­est­ing thing is that they all seem to point to the fact that the com­pany is using har­vested emails and offer­ing them to cus­tomers as an opt-in list. A lot of their cus­tomers have been unaware of […]

astroblogs

March 4, 2003

The rag­ing­cow blog got me think­ing about the con­cept of Astro­turf blogs (I would call them astroblogs). A lot of peo­ple are say­ing that a blog like rag­ing­cow can’t work and yet, there is a num­ber of dis­cus­sions about it all over the blo­gos­phere. Now, if it doesn’t work, how come I now know about a prod­uct that I didn’t know […]

Marketer, Marketer, where have you been?

March 3, 2003

There is much dis­cus­sion about Rag­ing­Cow, a new site cre­ated to mar­ket a new Dr. Pep­per soft drink. The funny thing is that some say it won’t work but the site is already get­ting free pub­lic­ity from blog­gers all over. I didn’t know about the drink prior to see­ing it on Blogdex so that makes me a suc­cess­ful target […]

History repeats itself

February 27, 2003

Back in the early-ish days of the com­mer­cial Inter­net (circa 95), we were talk­ing about the browser wars to describe the fight between then-leader Netscape Nav­i­ga­tor and Microsoft’s upstart Inter­net Explorer. Should we start talk­ing about the search engine wars as Over­ture and Google are about to go head to head in a new set of […]

Napster Shut Down

July 27, 2000

It’s offi­cial: it’s cur­tain for Nap­ster for now. The judge in a law­suit filed the Record­ing Indus­try Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica ordered the ser­vice to shut its doors by mid­night this Fri­day. The genie is out of the bot­tle Yet, I can’t help but believe that the shut­down of Nap­ster will not do much in terms of limiting […]