http://www.zhonganzhiyou.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:53:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Spotify is one of your distribution partners. That's the site everybody is talking about in Europe right? McDaniels: We've just signed Spotify. There certainly has to be a music solution out there that's getting all the buzz. In the seven years we've been doing this I can't tell you the ... http://www.zhonganzhiyou.com/index.php/2010/09/04/qa-ingrooves-ceo-on-digital-distribution-and-dol/ The researcher also revised its forecast for how much advertising money would be attracted by the two leading social networks, MySpace and Facebook. In its previous prediction, eMarketer said MySpace would bring in $755 million, down 11.2 percent from eMarketer's original $850 million estimate. Facebook advertisers are expected to spend ... http://www.zhonganzhiyou.com/index.php/2010/08/29/ad-spending-forecast-lowered-for-social-networks/ (Credit: Caroline McCarthy/CNET News.com) The real problem is that Mowser fit right into a niche that is likely disappearing. Here's the thing: the last year has seen a trend toward narrowing the gap between the desktop Web and the mobile Web. A bizarre hardware company called Apple released this cute little device ... http://www.zhonganzhiyou.com/index.php/2010/08/24/bubble-20-watch-mowser-withers-away-founder-see/ Predictions markets are no longer the province of academic research or consumer services, such as Hubdub and NewsFutures. In a new report from Forrester Research, "Prediction Markets: Wisdom Of The Crowd Comes To The Enterprise" ($279), Oliver Young makes the case that prediction markets are a valuable tool for executive ... http://www.zhonganzhiyou.com/index.php/2010/08/21/wisdom-of-the-crowd-comes-to-the-enterprise/ Computer scientists have discovered a novel way to bypass the encryption used in programs like Microsoft's BitLocker and Apple's FileVault and then view the contents of supposedly secure files. In a paper (PDF) published Thursday that could prompt a rethinking of how to protect sensitive data, the researchers describe how ... http://www.zhonganzhiyou.com/index.php/2010/08/21/disk-encryption-may-not-be-secure-enough-new-rese/ I'll admit it--one of my favorite sites years ago was Hot or Not. Not because it combined the best facets of MySpace and StumbleUpon before either site existed, but because it was devilishly fun to put your own picture up there and get a general consensus of how other people ... http://www.zhonganzhiyou.com/index.php/2010/08/21/facestat-what-happens-when-hot-or-not-hooks-up-wi/ As someone who attends a fair number of conferences in many different cities, it's become painfully clear to me that, in general, the confabs' organizers have not yet climbed fully aboard the green train. That is to say, conferences are often not the best examples of a focus on taking care ... http://www.zhonganzhiyou.com/index.php/2010/08/21/the-greenering-of-web-20-expo/ (Via Israel 21C) I wish I'd had the Easy-2-Pick electronic luggage tag in hand Sunday night. I was just off a long-delayed flight that appeared to transport the entire population of Southern California to San Francisco. And wouldn't you know it? Ninety percent of the seemingly millions of passengers jostling ... http://www.zhonganzhiyou.com/index.php/2010/08/21/device-could-prevent-baggage-carousel-hell/ I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft. I am not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our customers (both business and home) the most, but in my view we lost our way. I think our teams lost sight of what ... http://www.zhonganzhiyou.com/index.php/2010/08/20/microsofts-worst-emails-of-all-time/ (Credit: Apple) Moving on to cheap laptop news, it seems that manufacturers could very well be racing to the bottom, price-wise. The latest example: Dell confirmed its plans to build more cheap laptop models for the Asia market. It's a trend that has the attention of at least one senior vice ... http://www.zhonganzhiyou.com/index.php/2010/08/20/this-week-in-laptops/