Posts By: Jim Clark

Tougher legislation won’t stop Internet piracy, experts caution

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Description: As the federal government pushes to modernize the country’s copyright laws, a new study suggests that relying on tougher legislation to stop online piracy simply won’t work. Source: Globe&Mail.com Date: March 16, 2011 It found that anti-piracy education has done little to stigmatize illegal downloading in emerging economies and that market conditions are directly to… Read more »

Start a YouTube empire, quit your day job

Posted by & filed under branding, business models, YouTube.

Description: A surprising number of people are turning their video production skills and on-screen talents into entrepreneurial ventures, providing a service and managing to make a sizable income at it via YouTube’s Partner Program. Source: Globe&Mail.com Date: March 17, 2011 The program allows YouTube to share advertising revenue, generated from ads that are overlaid or appear… Read more »

Superior apps sought for Windows Phone 7

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Description: When it comes to supplying the coolest smartphones on the planet, Microsoft has long been an also-ran. So last fall, the software giant fired up a fresh strategy to close the gap on Apple‘s iPhones, Research In Motion‘s BlackBerrys and Google‘s Android models. Source: USAtoday.com Date: March 14, 2011 Microsoft’s goal is for Windows… Read more »

Google’s Quest to Build a Better Boss

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Description: IN early 2009, statisticians inside the Googleplex here embarked on a plan code-named Project Oxygen — What makes a good manager? Source: NYTimes.com Date: March 12, 2011 They wanted to build better bosses. So, as only a data-mining giant like Google can do, it began analyzing performance reviews, feedback surveys and nominations for top-manager… Read more »

Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything About You

Posted by & filed under M-commerce, Privacy, revenue model.

Description: There is now an enormous multibillion-dollar industry based on the collection and sale of this personal and behavioral data. Source: Time.com Date: March 10, 2011 Google’s Ads Preferences believes I’m a guy interested in politics, Asian food, perfume, celebrity gossip, animated movies and crime but who doesn’t care about “books & literature” or “people &… Read more »

Banks fight fraud with new social networking weapons

Posted by & filed under cyber terroism, Digital Policy, fraud, Privacy, Security.

Description: An older type of social network, and it’s being used to help detect fraud. It is the connections between people in the physical world. Source: Globe&Mail.com Date: March 8, 2011 Banks, telecoms providers and insurance companies, among other businesses, are using analytic software to correlate all of their various data sources to produce visualizations of relationships… Read more »