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  • The future's bright the future's 3D

    This week is 3D Week on Channel 4. They are running a series of programmes, including a Derren Brown Special and Friday the 13th) in glorious 3-Dimensions. Coupled with the fact that there is not a single kid's movie released at the moment that doesn't have a 3D version (Pixar's recent 'Up', Disney's new version of ...
  • Archiving the web: a record of history

     Anyone visiting the Amazon website last week would have been struck by a letter on the home page from Jeff Bezos informing UK shoppers that they could now purchase Amazon's e-reader, the Kindle, for shipping to the UK. Cue a flurry of commentary about the death of books and the demise of culture. Inevitably we are moving towards a ...
  • Challenges for the ad-funded business model

     The 'ad funded' model has taken a bit of a beating this year. The big question is whether it can continue in a recession-hit media world. Last month Blyk (the ad-funded mobile operator) withdrew their consumer offer and just this week Joost (the online video company) announced that market conditions meant that it too was moving ...
  • Breaking news

    Seth Godin recently predicted that by 2012 "there will be no significant newspapers printed on newsprint in the US". Now whilst that may be sensationalistic in terms of timescale - there is no doubt that the newspaper industry is in trouble. In the six months to March of this year the decline in US newspaper weekday ...
  • re: Are decision engines the Emperor's new clothes?

    Thanks for the post.  Agree that it's not fair to compare Bing and Wolfram Alpha to one another -- but they have both positioned themselves in this new 'decision engine' category in an attempt to (a) create a new search segment  (b) [in Bing's case] to try and separate it from being compared to Google -- Jed  
  • Are decision engines the Emperor's new clothes?

    It's been a big month for 'decision engines'. First we had the build-up and launch of Wolfram-Alpha as mentioned a few weeks ago and now we have the launch of Microsoft's own decision engine called 'Bing'. Bing went live last week, a couple of days early. The earlier-than-planned-launch is a strong indication of the ...

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