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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.”

Social Networking: Taking Off or Taking a Dive?

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:41:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.readwriteweb.com

Social Networking: Taking Off or Taking a Dive?

Today on GigaOm, Om Malik reports on some of the new numbers coming in for social networks here in the U.S., specifically new comScore data which shows that the two biggest networks - MySpace and Facebook - are beginning to plateau in their growth.

On the flip side, a completely different, and more positive, report on social networking was also released today. The report is called "The Consumer Internet Barometer" and is produced by The Conference Board, a global business research and membership organization, and TNS, a world leader in market insight and information who surveys 10,000 households across the country and tracks who's doing what on the Internet.

Tags: social networking, web 2.0, trends, myspace, research

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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Clip Source: blogs.pcworld.com

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

Blog till u drop?

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:33:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.

Of course, the bloggers can work elsewhere, and they profess a love of the nonstop action and perhaps the chance to create a global media outlet without a major up-front investment. At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among their ranks have died suddenly.

Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at 50 of a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack in December.

pressure even gets to those who work for themselves — and are being well-compensated for it

Tags: blogging, 24/7, stress, internet, new economy

Valleywag Reads Gigaom So You Don't Have To

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:07:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Two great blogging tastes that sure taste strange together.

Clip Source: valleywag.com

Back when GigaOm was just a side project for then-Business 2.0 writer Om Malik, I used to edit the man, and let me tell you, the guy is wicked smart -- but he has a tendency to go on. In a post about why Google continues to dominate search, he even realizes this, ending the post before he digresses: "This one is already 750 words." Want to know why Malik thinks Google is winning? His theory: Google's like Dell, because business is all about speed. And if you buy that theory, you'll like this 100-word version of his post. This edit's on me, Om.

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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

Proof that the tide has turned....

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:17:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If you ever doubted it the online word is still growing at exponential rates, not necessarily in new users but as shown here in paid advertisers.

Clip Source: gigaom.com

As Online Advertising Grows, The Question Is How Much Is Too Much?

Written by Om Malik

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 11:45 PM PT

This being the week of ad:tech, news of online advertising has dominated the conversation: from MySpace’s hyper- targeted ads to Facebook’s new ad system to broadband advertising systems introduced by companies such as AnchorFree. The advertising, of course, is becoming social, mobile, and behavioral.

If you take all this into account, and juxtapose it against the recent eMarketer’s forecast — U.S. online advertising nearly doubling from $21.4 billion in 2007 to $42 billion in 2011, representing about 13 percent of the total ad-spend — what you get is a pretty decent context for the ongoing battle amongst Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo (YHOO), phone & cable companies, wireless carriers, Facebook, MySpace (NWS) and countless other startups.

Tags: online advertising, advertising revenues, online

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

Facebook to make Profiles Public

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:39:02 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

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

Citizen Media: A Progress Report

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:34:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: report

Clip Source: citmedia.org

Citizen Media: A Progress Report

1. Recognition of citizen media.

2. Traditional Media Get It Now

3. Backlash

What worries may of the more honest critics? Among other things, the sense that mass amateurization in media lead to a meltdown of quality.

(Michael Gorman’s “Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters” and Clay Shirky’s rebuttal, “Old Revolutions, Good; New Revolutions, Bad” are a prime example of the latter.)

4. Tools and Ideas

Jay Rosen’s NewAssignment.net,

Placeblogger,

5. Business Issues

Scoop,

When Om Malik secured funding to expand his journalism

6. Experimentation is Cheap

7. Some Experiments to Pursue

SMS experiment

Openness

Use tools that already exist

Collaboration

Take risks

8. Ethics, Reliability, Civility

9. Assisting Trust

NewsTrust

10. Media Literacy

Be skeptical

Use an internal “trust meter.”

Learn media techniques

Keep reporting

Thoroughness

Accuracy

Fairness

Independence

Transparency

NowPublic

heartening signs,

business models

Pambazuka News, an African podcasting

Tags: ohmynews, media, citizen journalism

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

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.

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