links for 2006-11-01

31 10 2006

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Google acquires JotSpot

31 10 2006

From an email I just received:

We’re writing to let you know that Google has acquired JotSpot. We believe this is great news for our users. More importantly, we want to reassure you that you’ll continue to have uninterrupted access to your account. Both Google and JotSpot are committed to supporting our customers, and we understand that users have invested a lot in our products. In the near-term, we’re focused on migrating JotSpot to Google’s systems and datacenters. We’ll work hard to make that move as seamless as possible so that customers won’t be inconvenienced.

Why is Google acquiring JotSpot?
Google shares JotSpot’s vision for helping people collaborate, share and work together online. JotSpot’s team and technology are a strong fit with existing Google products like Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Google Groups.

What does this mean for JotSpot customers?
We believe that joining Google will accelerate our team’s vision of offering users the best collaboration platform on the web. Google shares that vision and presents us with the world’s best environment for delivering on it. We’ll be taking advantage of Google’s world-class systems infrastructure and operations expertise to ensure that access to your JotSpot is fast and reliable. We can’t share any of our plans publicly just yet, but we can tell you that we’re incredibly excited about the possibilities. We can’t think of a better company to have been acquired by.

Will paying customers still be charged?
We will no longer be billing customers for the use of the service. Although you will still have use of the product at your current pricing plan, we won’t charge you anymore when your current billing cycle expires.

What about security and privacy?
Your data is yours
— that doesn’t change at Google. We will continue to work to ensure the privacy and security of your data. Furthermore, Google is as committed to privacy and security as we are. Since the user information you provided to JotSpot will soon be transferred to Google as part of their acquisition of JotSpot, we want to provide you with the opportunity to retrieve your user information and cease usage of the JotSpot service before the transition. If you do not wish to continue using JotSpot, send an email to privacy@jot.com in the next sixty days and we will reply with instructions for retrieving your user information.
Answers to more frequently asked questions are available at
http://www.jot.com/. If you have any other questions, please email support@jot.com.
In closing, we wanted to offer our sincere gratitude to you
— our customers — for believing in us and helping us achieve success. We look forward to continuing that relationship at Google.

Best wishes,
The JotSpot Team

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Hear This: On Digital Media, Episode #11

31 10 2006

In this week’s episode, Ken Gellman and John Federico discuss:

* Sergey Brin enthusiastic about video search
* Zune rebuffed by Pitchfork
* The search engine/portal pecking order
* NBCU Projects $1B in digital revenues by 2009
* Newspapers need 20 30 years of digital revenue growth to equal current print revenues
* Follow-up to the Google vs. Yahoo Search Marketing comparison
* Bertelsmann starts digital media fund, headed by Richard Sarnoff
* Time Warner moves closer to networked DVR
* “Click Fraud threatens foundation of Web Ads�
* DVD Jon/DoubleTwist enabling devices to play iTMS content
* Boy Scouts teach kids the “evils of piracy�
* Vitrue: user-generated video advertising platform

Chia-Lin couldn’t join us this week - she’ll be back next week.

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu

Send us email to comments@odmcast.com or call our comment line: 775-860-2263. You can also reach us via Gizmo by contacting username ondigitalmedia.

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links for 2006-10-31

30 10 2006

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links for 2006-10-27

26 10 2006

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links for 2006-10-26

25 10 2006

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The Dark Side of Consumer Generated Media…

25 10 2006

…is bandwidth. Not the download speed, but the upload.

Sending a 77 MB Quicktime movie to YouTube or Google Video is just painful when your upload speed is choked off at 384 KBPS.

I’m a Speakeasy DSL customer and love their service, so I contacted them to see what they could do for me. Given the distance of my home from the Central Office, the best they can give me is an upload speed of 768 KBPS for an additional $30 a month.

That’s double the upload speed that I currently have, so I shouldn’t complain…but I want FIOS!

*sigh*

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links for 2006-10-25

24 10 2006

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The Digital Media Search Engine, Powered by Google Co-Op

24 10 2006

I created a search engine focused on digital media using Google’s new Co-Op service. Co-Op enables the creation of vertical search engines for specific topics, narrowing searches. (along with more targeted advertising, of course.)

Check it out here. If you like it, bookmark it. I’ll be adding sites to it over time.

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Just when I thought I had it all done…

23 10 2006

…I found out that I forgot to add a CNAME to the new DNS servers for the FeedBurner “My Brand” service. So, the feed for On Digital Media has been down since last night. (DOH!)

It should be back up shortly, as soon as DNS propagates.

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