This is very interesting (from the NYT): Google will begin showing ads on Wednesday to people based on their previous online activities in a form of advertising known as behavioral targeting, which has been embraced by most of its competitors but has drawn criticism from privacy advocates and some m...

This is going to be a very big deal. Or forgettable. I am not sure which. I had a conversation with a NYT reporter about this today. (Story here, but I was not quoted). It made me think. First off, this product was not launched by Eric, Sergey, or Larry. So who knows if this is a Big Deal Inside Goo...

Vittorio Colao, CEO of Vodafone, has been saying this recently: I don’t like the word ‘carrier’. A ‘carrier’ is not what Vodafone wants to be.” Instead, he’s keen to become a provider of “smart pipes” and perhaps even of “NaaS” - that...

Thanks to a $10,000 matching grant from the Harnisch Foundation, MinnPost is trying a micro sponsorship plan to underwrite the work of David Brauer, who reports about Minnesota media. Just click on a button for a $10 or $25 donation. As of this posting, $1,415 has been raised. Joel Kramer, MinnPost ...

For today’s post we are going to set the wayback machine to the year 1970. (Picture from Wikimedia.) Everyone’s wearing bell bottom trousers that get caught in your bike spokes. Everyone has long hair. Hey, I got hair! Anyway, I was 15. I wanted to be a publisher. Specifically I wanted t...

Update - and the Guardian's Open Access to it's own treasure trove of data is not fully open, notes Dave Winer with surprise: If it were actually open they'd announce it to all developers at the same moment, so we could all try it out at the same time on a level playing field, not give an advance to...

"MediaNews Group, the nation’s fourth-largest newspaper chain, said it would test a customized newspaper service this summer at The Los Angeles Daily News, one of the 54 dailies owned by the company.The service ..allows readers to pick and choose only......

According to a Nielsen Company report just released, 2008 was the year that social networking really took hold in the world, surpassing e-mail usage and growing the fastest not amongst the youngest Internet users, but the middle-aged — those in the 35 - 49 year old age range. While search engi...

Matt Asay has offered a rather strange post noting that if history had been different the roles of IBM and Microsoft would be reversed. If history were different I’d be George Clooney. It’s not. This is Clooney’s good fortune. Matt’s point is that, in future work, Microso...

Its been rumoured for a while, but this morning the Grauniad announced it was opening up the magic cave of its content - Kevin Anderson: The Guardian today launched Open Platform, a service that will allow partners to reuse guardian.co.uk content and data for free and weave it "into the fabric of th...