Chris Ladd in the latest issue of Good magazine: Consumer Justice Online. Some great examples here of the power of the Internet to redress the balance of power between corporations and citizens. Excerpts: Dave Stolte, the guy with the $3,000 iPhone bill, struck out dealing with AT&T’s service representative. Stolte would have to pay, they […]
Ballmer: No more newspapers in 10 years
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, predicting the future of media, predicts that all print publications will die within the next decade. He couldn’t be more wrong, but that’s not surprising, given Microsoft’s track record of late. When I worked for Microsoft in 1997-98, I found a lot of Microsofties who didn’t read any print […]
Pandora: the site for personalized radio
At the Digital Hollywood conference last month I appeared on a panel with Jessica Steel, vice president of business development for Pandora, and afterward she spent a few minutes talking about how Pandora’s music recommendation system works. Pandora is my favorite music site (Last.fm is another), and they’re constantly serving up artists that I hadn’t […]
Mashing up public records
In this 8-minute video interview I conducted Wednesday at the NetSquared conference — notice the venue: Cisco, not a media company — founder-CEO Michael Schnuerle discusses Louisville-based YourMapper.com, a young startup that hopes to make a business in part by helping the public gain public access to public records. The company has already licensed its […]
NetSquared: helping social change campaigns
Here’s a 9-minute video interview I conducted Wednesday afternoon with Marnie Webb, co-CEO of TechSoup and NetSquared, at the close of the third annual NetSquared conference in the conference center at Cisco in San Jose, Calif. (This year’s theme was "remixing the web for social change." Here are links to the sessions and attendees, and […]