Friday, August 08, 2003

This is a great name that caption photo.  11:52:51 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Question:  Does Adobe Acrobat allow you to embed audio in PDFs? 11:47:38 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

News.com.  Big Cos move to squash Google Adwords and search engine objectivity.  eBay is on the march.  The question:  should companies be forced to pay for Adwords placement to protect their trademarked keywords?  Here is an example for "Radio UserLand", "Blogger", and "Typepad."   The goofiest ad (attached to blogger in this instance) is for a $10 online book called "Chris Pirillo's Secrets." The ad copy reads: "Chris Pirillo shows you how to draw millions to your weblog -- instantly!"  LOL. Last year, Mark Nutritionals filed lawsuits against Overture, AltaVista, FindWhat and Kanoodle for alleged trademark infringement and unfair competition, suits that could help define laws in this area. Mark charges that the search companies used keywords related to its trademarked name Body Solutions but buried Mark's own links. The company is seeking $440 million in damages. 11:42:37 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Tim Oren posts a good defense of the Petagon's future market. 1:29:07 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

VC webloggers.  Introducing if you haven't started reading them yet are:  Tim Oren of the Pacificafund.  Charles Hudson, formely of In-Q-Tel.   Ventureblog, a group weblog.  Geekfishing, a group weblog, and Martin Tobias from Ignition Partners.  Rich Miller of Breo Ventures. 1:25:29 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

As William Gibson would say, the CA gubernatorial recall race is a real event that outpaces fiction.  It makes the job of a science fiction writer almost impossible.  We have met the future and it is now. 9:01:05 AM    Comment_ Trackback []