I finally got tired of Bloglines this weekend and bit the bullet, figured out how to export my feed list in OPML and import it into other readers. That, plus some playing around with TimesReader, got me thinking about how I want my news, in the end with a pretty unanticipated result. First, let’s talk [...]
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How I Want My News: TimesReader vs. Bloglines vs. … vs. Outlook?
June 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Tags: Blogging · Google · Microsoft · News and Media · RSS · Twitter
Dan Clancy of Google Book Search To Appear at Mark Logic User Conference
March 31st, 2009 · No Comments
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be conducting a 30-minute live interview with Dan Clancy, engineering director for Google Book Search, at the Mark Logic User Conference in San Francisco on May 12-14, 2009. Dan has been working on Google Book Search for approximately four years, worked directly on the Google Book Search class action [...]
Tags: Google · Google Books · Google Settlement · User Conference
Top Resources for Understanding The Google Book Settlement
March 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments
We’ve had major interest in our upcoming webinar on the Google Book Settlement and unprecedented downloads of the related white paper, Google’s Settlement with the Publishing Industry: Opportunites and Strategies for Publishers, written by Bill Rosenblatt of Giant Steps Media and available for download without giving contact details here. Given all the interest, I thought [...]
Tags: Google · Google Books · Google Settlement · Publishing 2.0
Valleywag Calls Hubris on Google SVP
February 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Check out this Valleywag post, The Height of Google’s Hubris, which calls out Google SVP of product management Jonathan Rosenberg, for his 4,492-word self-described “treatise,” pretentiously entitled From the Height of this Place, posted recently on the official Google blog. From Valleywag: Jonathan Rosenberg, a top executive at Google, has let loose with a 4,492-word [...]
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Google Settlement: Implications for Publishers White Paper
February 16th, 2009 · No Comments
I’m happy to announce the availability of a white paper on which we worked with information industry veteran Bill Rosenblatt of Giant Steps Media that analyzes the effects of the Google settlement with publishers, and identifies new opportunities that result from it. From the introduction: The first part of this white paper describes the Settlement [...]
Tags: Amazon SimpleDB · Giant Steps · Google · Google Settlement · Mark Logic · Publishing · XML