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Comcast Limiting Internet Use

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:42:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Comcast is the first to do the dirty deed. Instead of investments into newer and more internet infrastructure, they will stop and charge xtra for more usage. As technologies evolve more and more, your bandwidth hog today, is the average consumer tomorrow. They will not only limit internet usage, but more importantly, they will stifle newer and better technologies. Games and HDTV will use way more bandwidth than anything today. Comcast-CONCAST- really, is standing in the way of the future of the internet

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Comcast to Place a Cap on Internet Downloads

Comcast, one of the country’s largest Internet providers, said this week that it would place limits on customers’ broadband usage.

Beginning Oct. 1, Comcast will put a 250 gigabyte-a-month cap on residential users. The limit will not affect most users, at least not in the short-term, but is certain to create tension as some technologies gain traction.

But on the Internet, consumer behavior does not stand still. As the technology company Cisco stated in a report last winter, “today’s ‘bandwidth hog’ is tomorrow’s average user.”

Some commentators were quick to characterize Comcast’s decision as having a chilling effect. Om Malik, the founder of the technology Web site GigaOm, called the cap “the end of the Internet as we know it.”

A 250 gigabyte cap may seem very high — and it is for today’s Internet use. But it’s essentially the equivalent of four hours of HD television a day.”

Popular Social Media Sites

Wed, 21 May 2008 20:26:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Two of my favorite sources of news.

Clip Source: www.brodeurmediasurvey.com

The survey also asked reporters to rank some of the most popular social media news sites in their respective field. Overall, the survey results suggested that in areas such as politics and technology, a handful of online news sites are emerging as key media sources.

Real Clear Politics and Talking Points Memo scored highest among political journalists in the category of “very credible” content.

But when it comes to credibility of content, journalists rated Arstechnica and GigaOm, along with Engadget, the top three sites. GigaOm scored the highest with 45% saying its content was “very credible.”

Tags: real clear politics, gigaom, om malik

Blogging to an Early Grave?

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:50:58 GMT

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Blogging may join the ranks of coal mining and Alaskan crab fishing as one of the most dangerous jobs, according to a recent report from the New York Times.

The danger factor results from high levels of stress that come with 24-hour, nonstop, sedentary reading and writing. In the world of blogging, time means everything. If you can be the first one to find, analyze, and post the news, then you can reap the rewards of the traffic it will produce, and therefore make more money, as many professional bloggers are paid per click or per post.

Some bloggers have seen the stress that comes alongside blogging to have a substantial health effect. The New York Times notes three whose stress may have contributed to heart attacks: tech blogger Russell Shaw, 60, and Marc Orchant, 50, who died recently. Om Malik, a well-known tech blogger, survived a heart attack as well. He is only 41.

Tags: blogging, stress

Blogging As Fast As We Can

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:22:44 GMT

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Clip Source: www.informationweek.com

Blogging As Fast As We Can

Three well-known tech bloggers have had heart attacks since December, and a story in the New York Times suggests that the high stress of blogging may be a cause.

The supporting evidence -- two of the bloggers died -- makes for a compelling story, especially to fellow information workers, as we are sometimes known.

I am not nearly as prolific as the bloggers who died, but the burdens of blogging can be felt by anyone who blogs, even amateurs. The urgency to express an original thought, and to post it first, is constant. The strain to find topics that will resonate with readers, unrelenting. Most importantly it's the constant pressure to drive page views that is onerous.

Tags: blogging, health, tech, om malik

Facebook to make Profiles Public

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:39:02 GMT

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Facebook opens profiles to public

Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates.

The function will initially allow anyone who is not registered with the site to search for a specific person.

More controversially, in a month's time, the feature will also allow people to track down Facebook members via search engines such as Google.

The firm said that the information being revealed is minimal.

Privacy erosion

The public search listing will show the thumbnail picture of a Facebook member from their profile page as well as links allowing people to interact with them.

Users who want to restrict what information is available to the public or opt out of the feature altogether can change their privacy settings. They have a month to do so.

"This move transforms Facebook from being a social network to being a quasi-White Pages of the web," commented technology writer Om Malik in his blog GigaOm.

Tags: facebook, profile, public, networking

Why Google Wins: Really Fast Data

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:25:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Om Malik does an interesting analysis of Google's real advantage: the Web's fastest supply chain in delivering data. To be fair, Google's initial advantage was its search algorithm. But I think he's right that as the company's other products like Apps and the coming Gdrive mature, super-fast data movement will keep Google on top of the heap.

Clip Source: gigaom.com

Google’s Infrastructure is its Strategic Advantage

Instead of trucks and assembly plants, however, Google’s supply chain is made up of fiber networks, data centers, switches, servers and storage devices.

Against this backdrop, it makes perfect sense for Google to build their own servers, storage systems, Internet switches and perhaps, sometime in the future, even optical transport systems.

With the exception of optical systems, Google has built or is building the gear. It has been rumored to be a big buyer of dark fiber to connect its data centers, which helps explain why the company spent nearly $3.8 billion over the past seven quarters on capital expenditures.

To sum it up, Google’s gigantic infrastructure is the big barrier to entry for its rivals, and will remain so, as long as the company keeps spending billions on it. That said, there’s another thing Google could learn from Dell: Maintain the quality of your search results — customers will only put up with shoddiness for so long.

Tags: google, om malik, gigaom, dark fiber, data centers, dell

The price of privacy

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:37:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Om Malik makes a great point here -- that with all the enthusiasm for social networking there are important privacy questions that will soon become mainstream. Look out for ads so targeted that they are like heat-seeking missiles!

Clip Source: gigaom.com

The world eagerly awaits the Facebook’s social advertising platform, likely to be announced on November 6th at the Ad:Tech conference in New York. The new advertising innovation is said to be a rival to Google’s (GOOG) AdSense, prompting some to label the opportunity big enough to deem Facebook a (ludicrous sounding) $100 billion company.

Will Privacy Concerns Take the Boom out of Online Ads?

Tags: social networking, advertisting

My Google People Reader Post Picked up on GigaOM

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:22:35 GMT

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Clip Source: gigaom.com

Google “People” Reader

Written by Om Malik
Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 8:58 PM PT | No comments

Amanda Mooney has a great idea: Google (GOOG) should build “capability to import my Outlook, Ziggs, LinkedIn and Plaxo contacts into my Reader account and have Google instantly subscribe to news and blog feeds related to my people.” In other words, they can implement some sort of “auto discovery” and turn Google Reader into a life stream aggregator ala Facebook. The only negative: Google will have even more information about us. What do you guys think?

| Sphere | Print Posts | Topic: Web |

Tags: gigaom, amanda mooney, google, rss, reader

Article - "Clipmarks Helps You Organize Your Web Research"

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:30:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: FYI: this blog was published on Dec. 2005, Om Malik has a technology blog GigaOM.

Clip Source: www.lockergnome.com

I travel many web sites daily in search for news, information, and the latest in technology (mmm, see a tag line in there? ;) ) for you the faithful reader. Organizing my finds have always been an issue and at the end of the day, it seems like I have a junk drawer more then a portfolio of clippings. Well thanks to Om Malik, I have found my little helper on the web, Clipmarks.

This ingenious software add-on works with Firefox and Internet Explorer.

With some information entered after the selection has been made to help properly file the clipping, you’ll be well on your way to creating a library like reference that is easy to find your previous clippings from.

Take a look, do the install and enjoy. Don’t worry, this is a cross platform solution (with Firefox) and works on Windows, OS X, and Linux. I told you, this was an ingenious piece of software. :)

Tags: clipmarks, om malik, firefox, os x

blog hit parade

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:22:01 GMT

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We Make Money Not Art by Régine Debatty
The Millions (A Blog About Books) by C. Max Magee
Media Guerrilla by Mike Manuel
The Jeff Pulver Blog by Jeff Pulver
Gapingvoid by Hugh MacLeod
Photo Matt by Matt Mullenweg
The Raw Feed by Mike (XML)
Email Overloaded by Itzy Sabo
Software Only by Jeff Clavier
Lifehacker by Gina Trapani
blog.no-panic.at by Florian Beer
Quick Online Tips by Pchere
CrunchNotes by Mike Arrington
alwaysBETA by the alwaysBETA team
ProBlogger by Darren Rowse
Defamer by Mark Lisanti
Sleepyhead by Espen Antonsen
Ajaxian by Dion Almaer
Connecting the Dots by Steve Borsch
Accentuate the Positive, 2.0 by Ike Pigott
The Nuvvo Blog by Dave, John, and the Nuvvo Team
VoIP Watch by Andy Abramson
Seth Godin's Blog by Seth Godin
Numerabile by Davide De Nova
PJ Hyett by PJ Hyett
VentureBlog by David Hornik
BuzzMachine by Jeff Jarvis
Conversion Rater by Pat McCarthy
O'Reilly Radar by O'Reilly
Blog Herald by Duncan Riley
Jon Swift by Jon Swift
Any on Enterprise Software by Any Hayler
Infectious Greed by Paul Kedrosky
Phil Renaud dot com by Phil Renaud, and Jesus.
Signal vs. Noise by Matt and Jason
BusinessWeek's Blogspotting by Stephen Baker and Heather Green
Emily Chang by Emily Chang
BASEMENT.ORG by Richard Ziade
SmartMobs by Howard Rheingold
Om Malik's Blog by Om Malik
Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection by Thomas Hawk
Ross Mayfield's Weblog by Ross Mayfield
Talkingtonobody by Ed Arnold

Tags: blogs

GigaOM has a few tech blogs in its stable, including Webworker Daily

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:02:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For my students in writing for electronic media, one web outlet by a journalist who started in traditional media (including print)

Clip Source: gigaom.com

GigaOM.com is an online news and weblog published by GigaOmniMedia, Inc., a San Francisco-based company. We deliver technology news, analysis and opinions on topics ranging from broadband to online games and Web 2.0 to a monthly global audience of 500,000 consumers and professionals interested in the world of hi-tech.

The site is among the top 50 blogs as ranked by Technorati, and part of C/Net 100 Most Influential Blogs.

Om Malik, is the founder of GigaOmniMedia, Inc. and executive editor for GigaOM.com. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. For more info on Om, see the Om Malik extended bio.

Investors

True Ventures

Tags: commercial blogs

The Venice Project

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:37:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very promising and possibly revolutionary way to watch tv shows on your computer.

Clip Source: www.engadget.com

Hands on with The Venice Project -- P2P TV from the creators of Skype

While Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis might've gotten a bit more respecting of IP over the years, it looks like they still haven't lost their knack for software design and industry disruption. Om Malik over at his GigaOM pad just go his hands on the latest from that intrepid Skype duo: The Venice Project. The basic gist of the app is to act as a distribution platform for next-gen TV, with P2P underpinnings borrowed and improved from Kazaa and Skype. Resolution is near the quality of standard TV, but with bandwidth use at around 250MB per hour, ISPs aren't going to be incredibly stoked about this one. Right now Venice is still in beta, but Om had plenty of love for the simple setup, slick design and ease of use, and while there's a little bit of channel-change lag right now, kinks like that should be ironed out before launch, making for a snappy online TV experience with the already "stunning and crisp" visuals. Unfortunately, it all comes down to content in the end, and there seems to be little of that at the moment, and no major prospects have been unveiled as of yet. A functional, protected and revenue-sharing platform could be just what doctor ordered for media companies looking to break into the currently fragmented market of online TV, but it looks like Niklas and Janus will need quite the winner of an offering, along with some Skype leverage (a bundle, perhaps?) to make this new player ubiquitous enough to succeed.

Tags: video, tv, iptv, skype

Widgets Defined

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:55:01 GMT

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If you sit in front of a computer at work, chances are there are certain Web sites that you monitor throughout the day, every day—to check e-mail, weather, stock portfolios or sports stats. But, thanks to widgets, taking multiple steps to track down headlines in one place and then check your e-mail in another may seem woefully outdated this time next year. These mini-applications—also called “gadgets”—are simple bits of code, easily dragged onto a desktop or pasted into a personal page, where they are constantly updated with whatever information you want. “It’s the exact opposite of what the Web used to be,” explains Om Malik, a tech journalist and founding editor of gigaom.com. Last month Malik and Niall Kennedy, another tech blogger, organized and hosted Widgets Live—an entire sold-out conference devoted to the topic (in, where else?, San Francisco). “Widgets,” he says, “bring the Web to you.” Think of it as tech jewelry—bling for your blog; ice for your desktop.

If 2006 was all about social networks, user-generated content and YouTube, then it’s a fair bet that 2007 will be about further personalizing life online. Already, portals like Google and Yahoo! offer customizable pages. Want to see a calendar, learn a new word-of-the-day and check local windsurfing conditions all from your homepage? No problem, you have thousands of widgets to choose from. And the fact that they’re so intuitive has made the features very popular. “The Google personal homepage is the fastest-growing Google product,” says Marissa Mayer, the company’s vice president of “search products and user experience.” “This market is going to be very large.”

Tags: widgets, widgetization

Om Malik to launch two new blogs

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:04:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Om's network expands. I've been impressed with what he's accomplished thus far and look forward to keeping tabs on these new outlets.

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Malik said the two new blogs would be called "NewTeeVee.com" and "GigaGames." NewTeeVee will cover television and presumably other types of video on the Internet and will launch shortly. Later this month, Malik is planning to launch GigaGames, which he said will be a spinout of game coverage on GigaOm, probably to be written by Wagner James Au, GigaOm's resident game expert.

Tags: om malik, blog, blogs, web, internet, newteevee, gigagames

Life without broadband not worth it?

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:27:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: While extremely useful, do people actually need broadband connectivity to survive? I'm a big 'Net user myself, but also wish for some time away from connectivity. Any thoughts?

Clip Source: gigaom.com

LiFe without Broadband Not worth it

Written by Om Malik Posted today at 7:33 AM

A survey by In-Stat says that US and Canadian consumers believe that they cannot live without broadband. For someone who has been champion the speedy connections for a while, this does come as a great bit of news, though it does seem obvious.

According to the survey, nearly 72% of all leading-edge BB households in North America already have a cable service bundle. Don’t take that stat too seriously - leading edge - is bound to create confusion. We don’t know what it really means. Cable’s share of broadband market is around 57% in the US. Of course people have a “cable service bundle.” Try buying cable broadband without television package!

The survey also shows that that 85% of the broadband household segments favor the quadruple play.They favor it - of course, because who wouldn’t want a single bill, and single point of failure: I keep forgetting to send in the check all the time. However, in order for four-play to work, the solutions have to be simple and easy to use.

Despite all that, the fact that we are thinking about broadband as our most important communication service - that is good news.

Tags: broadband, internet, ommalik