With 3.5 launch, Firefox faces new challengers

Great story from ZDNet

By Stephen Shankland, CNET News
Posted on ZDNet News: Jun 30, 2009 10:00:06 AM

A funny thing to happened to Firefox on the way to vanquishing Internet Explorer: the Mozilla browser’s success opened the door for a host of its other competitors. Read more

The Latest from “The New” General Motors

I just got some “inside” information from one of my contacts at GM about their newest model and wanted to share it with you.

Seriously, this was an interesting article from discovery.com

Models of Earliest (Camel-Pulled) Vehicles Found
Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News

June 26, 2009 — Some of the world’s first farmers may have sped around in two-wheeled carts pulled by camels and bulls, suggests a new analysis on tiny models of these carts that date to 6,000-5,000 years ago. Read more

Quantum Networks To Roll Out WiMax to Rural Operators

I thought you’d be interested in the press release I just received from my friend Ari Zoldan.

Quantum Networks To Roll Out 3.65 GHz WiMax to Rural Operators Nation-Wide on the Heels of the Obama Broadband Technology Initiative

Mon Jun 15, 3:01 am ET

Quantum Networks (http://www.quantumwimax.com), a turn-key WiMAX service provider, targets rural wireless operators by offering WiMAX services in the newly affordable 3.65GHz spectrum in the United States. Operators with shovel-ready WiMAX projects will be able to tap into the Obama Broadband Stimulus, to quickly and economically roll out WiMAX technology to their customer base. Read more

Why NPR is the Future of Mainstream Media

I have been a huge fan of NPR for as long as I can remember. While an undergraduate at UAlbany I interned at one of the best public radio stations in the country, WAMC. Here in the NYC area I listen to WNYC…both on the radio and on the web, plus Ira Flatow of NPR/Science Friday is a friend a past speaker at a NY:MIEG event. I remember back in my Albany days (late 1970’s) NPR was always on the cutting edge…for example, they were the first networks to use satellite for distribution and have been involved in digital “before digital was cool.” The following is a great article I recently read from Mashable via SmartBrief. Read more

Obama’s Cyber-Security Plan: Will it work?

From eWeek.com

President Obama issues his long-awaited cyber-security plan to near unanimous praise from the technology industry, not unlike the industry’s cheers that greeted former President Bush’s 2003 National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, which has done little to secure the nation’s networks. The difference this time? Industry executives claims it is Obama himself.

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Jim Anderson on Search Engine Semantics

My friend and recent NY:MIEG panelist, Jim Anderson wrote a fascinating article in Search Engine Journal about semantics and the frustrations of using search engines. Jim is the CTO at Dorthy.com and leads the company’s search, content delivery, social and mobile strategies, as well as technological vision. Full disclosure, Dorthy.com is a client of SobelMedia

We all live with keyword search and to varying degrees share common frustrations around our search experiences. Read more

BREAKING NEWS from The Big Freeze

The Big Freeze Worldwide is Introducing the first ever Live Capturing Digital 35-mm Camera System. Its capable of loading finished movies directly to the worldwide web.

Below is a New Link to the Making of the 2009 MTV Movie Awards 360 camera system. You will see it being built for the dress rehearsal before it ships to Hollywood. Read more

Loomia: Search with Panache!

I had a chance to spend time with my buddy Kate Rodler this past week while she was in NYC at the Streaming Media Show (Kate lives in SF) and we talked about her new opportunity as VP/Sales at Loomia, a Web technology company that that aims to bridge the gap between technological capabilities and user intents. The very cool Loomia technology analyzes the content on the Web site, as well as user behaviors and social contexts to offer additional content that reflects the user’s interests.

Apparently they must be doing something right. It is funded by Asset Management Corporation and has NBC/Peacock Equity and Telefonica Capital as strategic investors.

FOR MORE INFO ON LOOMIA CLICK HERE

Social Media and The White House

May 2 (Bloomberg) — The White House began using services from Facebook Inc., News Corp.’s MySpace and Twitter Inc. to connect directly with the millions of Americans on social- networking sites.

President Barack Obama’s administration has created pages on Facebook and MySpace, the most popular social-networking sites, along with Twitter, where users post short text messages, the White House said on its blog. The pages had already attracted more than 100,000 fans or followers yesterday — mostly on Facebook. Read more

Opening up Facebook to 3rd party developers?

Facebook Inc. is expected to announce significant plans to open up core parts of its site — namely the information that appears in the stream of updates on users’ homepages and profiles — to third-party developers so that they can build new services on top of it, people familiar with the matter say. Read more

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