Do I Owe Apple and HTML5 an Apology?
Leo Laporte mentioned that anyone can test HTML5 video at http://youtube.com/html5 . I gave it a try and even though it didn’t load any quicker, it played better. Right now it’s in tests or…
It Takes Two Men to Replace SAP CEO Léo Apotheker
By Tom Foremski
SAP, the world’s largest business software company, said Léo Apotheker has been replaced as CEO. The SAP Executive Board, in agreement with the SAP Supervisory Board, has appointed two Co-CEOs: Bill McDermott, head of…
Mobile Rumor: The wPhone Coming? Microsoft Launching Windows Phone in Barcelona
By John Furrier
There is some exclusive rumor going around according to PPC Geeks Blog. PPCGeeks is reporting that the a Windows Phone 7 is coming – I call it the wPhone. Note: according to PPCGeeks all…
Are Mobile Networks Melting? Growth Puts Massive Pressure on Carriers
By John Furrier
The recent growth of the iPhone, Android (smartphones in general), and now the iPad has put enormous pressure on carriers and bandwidth – the networks. As the world has come to experience, the mobile…
Foremski’s Angle: Brusilovsky Situation a Result of Low (or No) Wages
By Tom Foremski
[Editor’s Note: Tom Foremski has a great deal of experience, having worked at the Financial Times as a news reporter and columnist. While John and I have a combination of strong editorial and business…
Chicken or the Egg: Link Made Between Depression and Social Media
Have you ever wondered how some members of your online community (or any community for that matter) can get so overwhelmingly caught up in online drama with people they hardly know? I know I…
Facebook: A New, Final Hope for True Media Democratization?
By chrissaad
Marshall Kirkpatrick has written a thoughtful piece over on Read/Write Web entitled ‘Facebook and the future of Free Thought‘ in which he explains the hard facts about news consumption and the open subscription models…
Who Woulda Guessed? Social Media Budgets Grow While Heritage Media Budgets Shrink.
By Tom Foremski
A global study by Econsultancy, commissioned by ExactTarget, an email and personal marketing firm, has found that 41 per cent of marketers will decrease their spending on print and other offline media this year.…
Was Deleting All Daniel Brusilovsky’s Posts an FTC Blogger Guideline Violation? [#bruhaha]
[Update: Mike Arrington contacted John this afternoon and clarified that “the posts were turned off, not deleted.” This really doesn’t change my analysis in the post, since the damage has been done, and attempting…
Techcrunch Blogger Accepts Product for Posts – Fires Under Age Blogger Daniel Brusilovsky
By John Furrier
UPDATE: Daniel Brusilovsky wrote a blog post and would not go public with the information that he told me which I have on tape. Daniel’s post is not much of a denial and not…