Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category
New Network Companies See Red Over Rights To The Color Magenta Or Use Of Stripes
Posted on Nov 16, 2008 02:00:07 AM
Today, The IT company, Compello, is locked in a legal struggle with the German giant, Deutsche Telekom over the color magenta while Adidas is pursuing ways to keep garment makers from decorating clothing with two stripes.
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New Impressive Even If Royalties For Web Radio Fall, Revenue Remains Elusive
Posted on Nov 15, 2008 12:05:03 PM
Today, Internet radio stations have never found a way to make substantial money from streaming music that listeners expect to hear free.
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Networking Contrust Pledges To Closely Monitor Your Content And Community
Posted on Nov 15, 2008 08:25:03 AM
Today,
The industry that is New Media is very much about two-way communication. We all recognize this. Rather than content simply being doled out to the masses, data on the Web travel in all directions. And while this arrangement hugely effective for a myriad of parties, there are the odd apples which, with barriers lowered, can damage a process.
Blogging for one, is filled with interesting discussion, much of it very open and wonderfully so. But it is also wrought with annoyances, some worse than others, and those troublemakers can become a management nightmare if not dealt with. And if you’re keeping tabs on an outlet or forum that requires especial jurisprudence, you’re bound to devote much of your time to being a watchful eye on matters. This is where a middleman by the name of Contrust comes into play.
Now, Contrust is not only aiming at independent Internet publishers and New Media upstarts to give its SaaS (software-as-a-service) monitoring system, presently a semi-exclusive beta, a solid spin. The company is hoping to climb into a chair where it can provide as much for social media actors as old media stalwarts and corporations and so forth. Regardless of this aim, the product it delivers is one that certainly goes above and beyond what common filters of Akismet’s making offer.
Backed by Xenia Venture Capital and headed by co-founders Shai Wolkomir (CEO) and Nir Abraham (CTO), each ranking as software and security specialists, Contrust presents itself as an automatic moderator of sorts. This doesn’t entail the user to simply flip the switch and step aside to allow a magical cleaner to sweep rubbish from view. It’s more about offering the user a good set of parameters, almost entirely customizable, that enable one to specific what may fly and what may not fly in a particular venue. This goes for things text-, video-, and still image-based. (The latter two options are enhanced by UK-based Image Analyzer.)
Flexibility is how they phrase it. Which is naturally necessary if the company is to adapt itself to the full variety of clients it seeks to deliver for. It might seem a bit heavy-handed for some in the media industry compelled to monitor themselves without being quite so strict. The specifications are indeed quite detailed, but if the inflow of undesirables is too much to bear, as annual reports of spam proliferation make all too clear, there’s reason to seek more control. Contrust may not be the appropriate engine for everyone. But for some, it may well be.
To reiterate, Contrust at present is in closed beta. If interested, you can submit your contact information via a simple application form, which the team pledge to review.
Action December 2007
Posted on Nov 15, 2008 02:00:58 AM
Admin wrote: In Smart Libraries Newsletter This Month”Checkpoint Systems and 3M LibrarySystems Converge on RFID” by Marshall Breeding Two of the top makers of library-focused RFID and library security products, 3M Library Systems and Checkpoint Systems, have consolidated their efforts. “This strategic sales and marketing alliance gives 3M Library Systems full responsibility for the marketing and support of Checkpoint products to libraries.Checkpoint will continue to develop and manufacture products, but they will be sold exclusively by 3M,” reports Breeding.And in SLN in December by Tom PetersIn “Librarians Out of Step on Privacy Issues?” Tom Peters discusses the OCLC commissioned report, ” Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Out Networked World” released last fall. Peters outlines the basis of the research as well as some of the findings listed in the 280-page report. “This is just one research report, but the prospect that our professional attitudes and practices concerning privacy, confidentiality, and trust are on a divergent path from the overall attitudinal and behavioral patterns of the general populations of these six developed nations is worthy of careful professional discussion and further research,” notes Peters in his conclusion.Also in Smart Libraries in December”Building the eXtensible Catalog” by Marshall Breeding”Gluttons for Punishment?” A look at the online social network, BookGlutton by Tom Peters”OCA Plans to Scan on Demand in 2008″ by Tom Peters”Entwined” A Look at Twine, an application to help organize your digital documents by Tom Peters (Source: ALA Techsource)
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New Sources David Pogue Reviews The Latest Pen Scanners
Posted on Nov 14, 2008 04:15:18 PM
Admin wrote: Pen scanners are cool, spyish gadgets: You can slip one out of your shirt pocket to scan a book, article, receipt or top-secret enemy dossier - and then dump the results, as fully editable, typed text, into your computer through a USB cable.
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New Internet Sugarsync Makes Peace Of Mind Easy
Posted on Nov 14, 2008 10:05:03 AM
Today, If you have ever lost important computer files, you know about the five stages of grieving: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Moving to a Desert Island.
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Source Feedburner Glitched Numbers Fixed
Posted on Nov 13, 2008 11:05:05 PM
Admin wrote:
The blogosphere hiccuped this weekend, as FeedBurner started reporting what most folks are calling “half the number of normal RSS subscribers.” Lots of folks around the blogosphere seemed real concerned about it, and it even hit TechMeme for a while, but we didn’t note it while it was going on. I suppose that most of us have better things to do than obsessively check our feed counts.
Most folks figured it out without panicing, though there were some exceptions: Feedburner glitched, and something caused it to mis-report Google Reader’s Feedfetcher hits as zero.
Feedburner posted an official explanation today:
It appears to have rallied, however, and amid firm declarations of “I’m never doing that again”, Feedfetcher has started diligently reporting subscriber numbers to us, early this morning Pacific Time.
They also said that numbers may not quite be up to snuff today, but should be fully righted by Monday.
Thank goodness. We can now go back to our lives, free of abandonment issues.
Updated Corporate Open Source Specialist Sugarcrm Raises $14.5m
Posted on Nov 13, 2008 05:40:03 PM
Today,
When you think on-demand CRM software, you’re default points of reference are likely to be NetSuite and/or Salesforce.com, right? Sure, that’s likely to be so. The guys in the corporate software biz who stand out most prominently are, for obvious reasons, the big-name benchmarks to which all other market forces are measured – or at least associated. Competitively speaking, of course.
This week, however, a CRM specialist of another name is reaping a good bit of attention all its own.
SugarCRM is its label. The company, headquartered in Cupertino, California, specializes in “commercial open source customer relationship management software for companies of all sizes,” a new package of which it released just last month, dubbed Sugar 5.0. And according to Private Equity HUB, the company took hold of $14.5 million this Wednesday in venture funding, a sum which so far accounts for three-quarters of the $20m it seeks in an investment round designated Series D.
A number of SugarCRM’s earlier backers are responsible for the new infusion, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, New Enterprise Associates, and Walden International.
The $14.5m delivery - a transfer presumably made in order to further sustain the business as it moves to increase its client base and eventually strengthen its hand amid larger challengers – is not the first significant amount of financing to pass through SugarCRM’s door. Its history shows that an amount totaling $26.5m in startup capital was provided since its founding in April 2004.
A quick look at its much-larger rivals - Salesforce (founded 1999; current retention of some 35,500 clients across its three primary businesses) and NetSuite (founded 1998; now managing “thousands of customers”; and nearing the close of its third week as a ticker symbol on the NYSE) - will tell you however that SugarCRM has a good bit of ladder still to climb before it starts making those at the top noticeably edgy. Despite the impressive financing it’s managed to attract, the gap between its standing and that of the others mentioned above is quite noticeable in its spread.
But hey, Sugar’s open-sourcing its way to higher places, so we’ll give props where props are rightfully due. Keep it up, we say.
Network Still In A Galaxy Far, Far Away, George Lucas Plots His Future
Posted on Nov 13, 2008 05:25:03 AM
Today, Lucas’s next two ventures will be “Star Wars” projects, no less ambitious than his previous films yet potentially less commercial. And they come at a time when even the “Star Wars” faithful wonder if Lucas’s continued mining of this fantasy world has anything more to yield.
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Network The Iphone 3g Is A Nice Upgrade
Posted on Nov 12, 2008 10:55:37 PM
Admin wrote: While the new Apple phone more than keeps pace with advancing technology, it is not so much better that all those original iPhone owners will need to upgrade.
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