Monthly Archives: December 2004

My email to Sony’s CEO about Jason Kottke

(Note: Howard’s email address is bouncing… I’ll update this when I can get my hands on a live address. Update: Fixed) TO: howard_stringer@sonyusa.com; ann_morfogen@sonyusa.com SUBJ: Please stop your harassment of Jason Kottke Howard, Ann – In your roles, you may

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Forbes.com drops Vibrant Media from editorial content

According to this article from AdWeek, Forbes has decided to stop using Vibrant Media’s “contextual keyword advertising technology” (known as IntelliTXT) in their editorial content, due to objections from their Editorial staff… but will keep using the technology in their

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Deeper Thoughts on Netflix Friends

Update: Kevin Newcomb wrote a solid article on Netflix Friends that touches on the business benefits of the new functionality. I’m quoted liberally, so if you’ve had enough of me after reading my product review, below, you might want to

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Is that a Sony boycott I’m smelling?

Appearantly, Sony TV thinks throwing the hammer down on bloggers who are earnestly helping them spread their memes (i.e., Ken Jennings defeat on Jeopardy) is a good idea; at least if the BS happening to Jason Kottke is any indication.

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Netflix to finally add social networking layer

(If you’re visiting from Techdirt or SiliconBeat [many thanks Mike and Michael], you can find a more detailed review here, if this post doesn’t have what you’re looking for.) Tip of the hat to MikeK over at HackingNetflix.com for the

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Feedster rolls out the welcome wagon for MSN Spaces

(Note: Disclaimer due to an active relationship around this general space.) Scott Johnson (VP of Engineering and Co-founder of Feedster) announces a new bit of Feedster functionality that allows users to search only MSN Spaces blogs by heading to spaces.feedster.com.

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UltraPing, a new business for UltraDNS?

Dave Winer’s post about MSN Spaces pinging Weblogs.com reminded me that I hadn’t blogged a semi-interesting idea… I mentioned to one of the senior execs of the company working on blog related offerings that I’m consulting to that there seemed

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MSN Spaces Launches (review inside), Targets MyYahoo too

Here’s the press release for MSN Spaces, which I wrote about yesterday. Aside from everything we knew yesterday, there’s one additional tidbit of note in the press release… It looks like Microsoft is in ‘fast follower’ mode, and intends to

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