Ha! Less than 24 hours after I made the comparison between Google and newsagents [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/12/the_murdochgoogle_phony_war.html] in yeterday’s post, Matt Brittin, managing director of Google UK, makes that very same point in front of a committee of MPs: >
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In the end, a war on Google is a much more appealing spin on the newspapers’ current position than “we haven’t figured out how to make money online in a decade of trying”. They’ll blame Google, they’ll blame the shadowy cabal of infomation-must-be-free proponents [http://www.buzzmachine.
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[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/Boxhill.jpg] It’s awfully easy, in this perfect storm that besieges publishing, to be rather negative about traditional media companies – even my employer, [RBI](http://www.reedbusiness.co.uk/rb2_home/rb2_home.htm). So, once in a
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2009/09/New%20Picture%20%2834%29-1414.html] That’s the thumbnail view you get in Safari, Apple’s web browser, when you open a new tab. The confluence of these two ideas suggest that, as the processing power and bandwidth develops to do
I’ve just been reminded by a discussion on our company [Yammer](https://www.yammer.com/home) that I meant to recommend a new podcast called [This Week in Google](http://www.twit.tv/twig). It’s the latest offering from the [TWiT](http://www.twit.tv/) stable, is hosted
I have a confession: the news paywall debate irritates me. It irritates me, because this discussion was had years ago, and discussed with a great deal of depth and intelligence across the emergent publishing and journalism blogosphere. And then it was promptly ignored by the majority of the publishing industry
The WiFi problems continue at LeWeb, so liveblogging is hard-to-impossible. However, I have a load of notes, and I’ll try to get them online before the Techcrunch party tonight. However, Marissa Mayer, vice president, search products and user experience at Google, said a few blog-worthy things that are rapidly
For example, OpenID is a profile web address that you can use to login to any site that supports it. OpenSocial solves the desire to use any app on any site on the web, with the same people relationships and profile data you have elsewhere. Apps written for this standard
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[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2008/12/Lo%C3%AFc%20and%20Geraldine-1148.html] And so, Le Web 08 gets underway. Loïc and Geraldine kicked things off slightly late, as they struggled to drag people away from the (rather good) coffee and croissants. The mood of the conference is rather
Nikesh Arora, SVP, Google and President, EME Operations, talks the future of the search engine.
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[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/09/IMG_0536.jpg] As my delicious.com account still steadfastly refuses to allow daily blog posts, here’s a manual equivalent: * Paul links to some research on podcasting [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/09/02/podcasts-research-suggests-theres-still-growth-in-it/] that suggests that it’
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Google is starting to smack down spam, but it’s still an issue – affiliate links.Calacanis had some suggestions for the attendees about how to manage this: - Build curation into your service. - Police your service - Reduce anonymity without reducing freedom - Punish bad peopleUsers have to “own