Topic: The Internet and the World Wide Web
Audio from Gnomedex 4.0: The Future of Online Advertising. How to make money from blogs and more from a panel of experts: Dave McClure, Jeff Barr, Henry Copeland, Bill Flitter, Gokul Rajaram and Mark Pincus.
From Gnomedex 4.0, The Future of Online Content. Blogging, RSS and more from the experts: Scott Johnson,
Greg Reinacker,
Steve Gillmor,
Dan Gillmor,
Peter Kaminski, and
Jason Calacanis.
From Gnomedex 4.0: With already more than 500,000 RSS feeds, Yahoo! rolls out RSS for the masses--20 million My Yahoo! users. Scott Gatz, senior director of personalization products for Yahoo!, explains what's behind the enhanced My Yahoo! service.
The Gillmor Gang: Google Desktop Search is this week's hot topic even though Doc isn't happy that it's not available on either Mac or Linux. No doubt it's a powerful personal tool, but what does it mean for IT departments? If it sneaks in at the desktop level, what about security and privacy? For that matter, what does it mean that "the application sends non-personal information about things like the application's performance and reliability to Google?"
Does Microsoft continue to have a blindspot for search? There were rumors of a pending Google browser. Is this even better for the company and for us? What's the commercial value for Google, and will Yahoo! follow suit? Finally, is GDS just a platform for additional services?
All of this plus the podcasting phenomenon on another chock-full edition of The Gillmor Gang. This week's special guests are Scott MacGregor (Mozilla Thunderbird architect) and Brendan Eich (chief architect) of the Mozilla Foundation.
From Gnomedex 4.0: A panel of experts explores the future of IT security. Are hardware methods superior to software? How do memory-managed languages help? How can we make security management within the skill set of the average user? Is automation the answer? Should upgrades be mandated? Should there be a security tax for those who don't upgrade their systems. DRM: Does it increase security risks? And what attacks should we expect in the future?
A bi-coastal panel explores how some of the most successful web-based
dating and wedding related Internet businesses are faring. Hear how the Internet is creating wealth for these savvy Internet entrepreneurs. What is the secret sauce behind their business models, and what lessons can be applied to other businesses not in the "romance" space?
This presentation is part of a series of events produced by SofTECH.
Is this the start of Browser War II? Can Mozilla-based browsers corner 6% of the market by year end? And if they do, will they be targeted by the same crackers who go after IE flaws? Does the potential for "tag soup" sound like what Microsoft did to the browser market in 1996? This week's special guest is Brendan Eich, chief architect, Mozilla Foundation.
Humans are inherently social, but computers have traditionally been solitary beasts. No more. Yet ten years into the Internet era, with wireless connectivity and broadband links sprouting up everywhere, we're just starting to grapple with the forms and practices of social software. Weblogs, social networking tools, and cameraphones are manifestations of a people-centric digital ecosystem. How should the tools evolve to take into account the subtleties of human social behavior? Can they survive as businesses? And what about the unintended consequences, like spam, when people and large-scale networks intersect?
Syndication feeds using formats such as RSS and Atom allow users to aggregate and manipulate information from many sources. They are a staple of the Weblog world and are increasingly conquering Web content. But is there more to syndication than reading 300 blogs at once? The growing number of entrepreneurs and investors working on syndication-based tools seem to think so. Where is syndication going, and what are the missing pieces for it to get there? Is syndication a shortcut to the Semantic Web, the vision of adding rich structure to the mass of information online?
