Interesting, but not surprising.

YouTube finaly took a step to prevent Revver from stealing its members. With YouTube’s announced decision to share revenue with it’s users, it can hopefully maintain its position over the countless of competitors that have cropped up a dime a dozen. In October 2005, Revver — which like YouTube offers video clips online — announced…

LinkedIn has a new Question & Answers feature, so I thought I would post some of the answers I have shared within my LinkedIn network. Here is one on using free tools for business. I provide pro-bono consulting for a really small relief charity. This has really forced me to think carefully about the best…

Sobering reality of the challenges of parenting: Researchers continue to document just how deeply social networking Web sites have impacted American youth culture. The latest assessment from the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that 55% of all American adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 have a profile on MySpace, Facebook, Xanga…

Interesting article on a Swiss study on communication options. A recent Swiss study finds that as the communication options available to us expand, we tend to narrow the uses and audience for each And the options are growing… It’s one of the surprising recent findings of a study carried out in Switzerland. In the last…

You get Flock, thats what! I just discovered this tool last Friday, at the recommendation of our engineer, and I have been playing around with it over the weekend. So far, I’m impressed. Here is what I find useful so far: Got all set up with a Flicker account, and I’ll be inviting my whole…

Via IconCulture: Since 2002, online ad spending to reach Hispanics has grown 900%, says the Internet Advertising Bureau. Online expenditures now total an estimated $100 million which is more than several traditional media categories, including out-of-home and magazines.HISPANIC BUSINESS 12.05 Let’s hope some of this means that online business can grow in Latin American countries…

This is the way it’s going. Good story by Reuters on the pressures television is having to face in order to remain competitive. With more and more people going online, television will need to adapt, and integrate, or die. “We believe the Web site will ultimately replace the 30-second commercial as the central expression of…

Thank God the Internet is safe for now! Having the UN in control over the Internet would amount to censorship. I hope the UN just gives up this pursuit. It would stifle innovation, and delay progress. In effect, it would have the opposite effect of what they intended–to reduce the technology gap. Negotiators from more…

This via Zenit.org. It is an interesting and compelling essay on the relationship between truth, ethics and technology. What I don’t agree with is the treatment of technology and communication as a human right. This leads to a whole lot of social experimentation and socialist policy that have been proven to not work. NEW YORK,…

This sounds like a more solid, and economically feasible idea. It sticks to major communication technology standards, and focuses in on specific needed uses. I think this kind of product will do a lot more to gap the technology divide in third world countries. Radio Shack plans to start selling a low-cost alternative to the…

This is an interesting idea, and good effort, but I am not sure if it is realistic of the demands placed by computer users worldwide. Just because the user is in a third world country, does not mean the demands are first-world demands. Also, what is the use of students learning Linux, when companies want…