Tony Gentile | buzzHit
Placeholder AOL Journal... it came out okay, and wasn't too hard. Major sour grapes at this point... doesn't support embedded html in the editor (surprise surprise, it's AOL).
Monday, August 25, 2003
Placeholder AOL Journal... it came out okay, and wasn't too hard. Major sour grapes at this point... doesn't support embedded html in the editor (surprise surprise, it's AOL).
More on AOL Journals
Created a Tony Gentile | buzzHit blog on AOL Journals... on my second try; first try bombed in an internal error.
Anyway, as I start posting, I'm prompted with a pop-up window stating:
"Send an instant message
We've added a new buddy to your Buddy List - your own, personal AOL Journals Bot!
Now, anytime you want to update your Journal, you can just send an instant message to AOL Journals. Your message will be instantly transformed into a new entry on your Journal."
Smoooooooooth
AOL launches blogging service | CNET News.com
I'm sure Deeje Cooley (www.bloggerjack.com; www.deeje.com) will see this elsewhere before he sees it here, but j.i.c.
AOL has moved fairly quickly into this space (all things being relative), and apparently done the work internally. Interesting to note that the article indicates that they offer categorization, something I still can't get on Blogger.com.
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Overture Advertiser Web Services
Overture Web Services
Overture DTC-XML
Overture AWS
I won't get into a lot of additional details around the consulting relationship I have with Overture Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVER), soon to be part of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), to build their Advertiser Web Services (AWS/DTC-XML) business plan, product strategy and marketing plan (as well as build and co-sell the platform itself).
I will, however, mention that I am doing a significant amount of work in supporting their licensees, helping them optimize and deploy a variety of customized applications, with which they are generating non-trivial revenue. This looks like another space where there's a significant opportunity to provide consulting/professional services to hundreds of corporations who /should/ be developing an online advertising application that supports their business.
Monday, August 18, 2003
RollingStone.com: News: Stones Roll Out Online Tunes: "The Rolling Stones' entire catalogue -- more than 500 songs -- is available, legally, on the Internet for the first time today.
The online service Rhapsody secured an exclusive deal with the band that stretches through the end of the month: All songs the Stones recorded since 1971 and released on EMI's Virgin Records -- Sticky Fingers on -- are available for downloading and burning for seventy-nine cents each. All songs recorded before 1971, owned by the Stones' notoriously close-fisted former label ABKCO, are available for streaming but not downloading.
The Stones, along with the Beatles and Michael Jackson, had been one of the last holdouts against legal digital music services. Once the deal with Rhapsody expires at the end of the month, the Stones will also offer the post-1971 tunes through other online music stores, like Apple's iTunes and AOL's MusicNet."
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This is very welcome news. Then again, the Stones are in a revenue maximization stage at this point in their careers. Greater availability only helps their cause. Will artists at the peek of their popularity, ahead of the release of their (first or second) greatest hits albums make their full catalogs available?
Friday, August 15, 2003
Wednesday, August 06, 2003
Forbes.com: Four Gigabytes For Digital Photos: "At least on the digital side, the companies who make the flash cards used to store images are trying to make that experience happen less often. Storage cards are getting bigger every few months. The latest card with the largest capacity we've seen came recently from Lexar Media (nasdaq: LEXR - news - people ). It's a massive 4-gigabyte CompactFlash format card, which is as yet the most common format for digital cameras.
Aimed directly at professional photographers, the card can store up to 600 images in RAW format using a 6-megapixel camera. That should be good news for other high-end photographers, those who make up the so-called prosumer niche: expert consumers who love to use professional-quality gear. "
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Flash RAM capacity is growing quickly... but so are the requirements for storage! The 'new' RAW format is obviously the right decision from a quality perspective... but 600 images requiring 4GB? Ugh. And while the megapixels keep climbing, bandwidth isn't. I warned Ofoto about this a few years back when I was Director of Product Management there... but I've yet to see them develop a solution. With CostCo cranking out great quality at $0.19 a shot vs. Ofoto's $0.48, it's hard to see them as anything other than a boutique... certainly not what Kodak needs.
