A View on ViewThis blogs examines the world of online video from the hot companies and entrepreneurs to exciting new trends.Who's Doing it Right- December 5, 2006 I've spent quite a bit of time recently talking about how newspapers need to get their acts together if they want to survivethrive the growing popularity of the Web. The Bivings Report puts the spotlight on some U.S. newspapers that are doing it right. For the bloggers out there, the best blog network belong to the Boston Globe, which the Bivings Group aid "has an enormous network of journalist and citizen blogs that cover a wide variety of topics. Definitely worth checking out, especially if.http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/5/2552076.html I Want Om-TV- December 5, 2006 GigaOm is expanding again with the launch of a new blog, NewTeeVee, that will cover the online video industry's hot start-ups, talent, technology. With online video booming, it's actually been somewhat of a surprise these type of blogs haven't already flourished. Still, it's early days and there will more than enough news to keep an army of bloggers busy as YouTube, Google, Yahoo, Brightcove, DailyMotion, etc. become even bigger players in the video business. Nice work, Om. Technorati Tags:...http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/5/2550922.html LinkedIn Love- December 4, 2006 Ever since I made the leap from tech journalist to blogging executive, my inbox has seen a rash of LinkedIn requests. Maybe this has something to do with the fact few people want to network with a journalist. In any event, LinkedIn is one of those companies that has quietly become one of the more successful players in the social networking market. In the past year, its membership has doubled to more than eight million people, and the company expects to hit $100-million in revenue by 2008....http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/4/2549159.html TinyURL A Big Utility...but the Next YouTube- December 4, 2006 Have you ever come across an extraordinarily long URL and wondered: why does it have to be that long and is there a way to shorten it so it could become more user-friendly in an e-mail or blog post (Wow, that's a long first sentence could be shortened!). The answer to the second question is TinyURL.com, a small online utility that quickly squeezes URLs to a much more manageable size. For whatever reason, ZDNet's David Berlind believes that TinyURL has the potential to be the..http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/4/2548180.html Gripe o' the Day- December 3, 2006 In my office, I have more than a dozen ACDC power units for a variety of electronics devices ranging from cell phones and MP3 players to radios. The problem is most of them are totally useless because the devices they're supposed to power have been lost or been broken. And if I still have the device, the power unit has been lost or its broken. How comes the consumer electronics industry can't create a single standard for power units - a one size fits all approach I mean, if the high-tech...http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/3/2545819.html Hitwise on the Block- December 3, 2006 The Web metrics market is a hot space these days - hot enough that Hitwise has apparently decided to sell itself for about $350-million, according to The Telegraph. The company, which was started in 1997 by Australians Andrew Barlow and Adrian Giles, is one of the leading Web site monitoring services along with ComScore and Alexa. This industry has received more attention as the growth of the online advertising market has driven the need for accurate traffic data. The problem, however, with...http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/3/2545576.html Rogers' Down Under Customer Service- December 2, 2006 While drinking coffee and reading the newspapers this morning, the telephone rings (who calls before 9 a.m. on the weekend anyway) and it's one of those automated customer service messages reminding me that I haven't paid by Rogers bill yet. The weird thing is the computerized voice had an Australian accent!http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/2/2543815.html |