Google IPO site is live
Google's IPO site is now live. You can access the prospectus, watch the management presentation (27 minutes 6 seconds), and request a bidder ID....
July 2004 archives
-
-
Kazaa 2.7 promotes user weblogs
Users of Kazaa 2.7 (currently in beta) can promote their weblog or Web site within search result and traffic panes. Once you enter your Web address through the options menu your user name will be hyperlinked in the search results and traffic display. Interesting feature and it adds accountability. I am guessing this feature will be more useful to distributors than end-users. Independent music distributors can direct users to their Web site for more bands or a rich media presentation. Vendors can offer sample clips on Kazaa and link to their sites where a full-length clip is available for purchase....
-
How to legally distribute cover songs
CD Baby put together a summary of copyright considerations when releasing a cover song as a download or on a CD. More simple than I thought. The toughest part is identifying who to contact. Identify the publisher.Send a letter of intent.Pay royalties. (via BoingBoing)...
-
We the Media introduction
This Friday is the official launch of Dan Gillmor's first book: We the Media. The text will be available under a Creative Commons license. Currently only the book's introduction is online. I thought it would be cool to have an audio version of a portion of the book available by the Creative Commons party this Friday. Tonight I am happy to make available to the online community my reading of the introduction to We the Media by Dan Gillmor in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis audio formats. My reading lasts 19 minutes and 6 seconds. If you are interested...
-
MailFrontier tests phishing
MailFrontier showed 1,000 consumers examples of phishing e-mails as well as legitimate e-mails. The respondents fell for the phishing message 28 percent of the time. Take the sample quiz and see how you score. (via Slashdot) "About 20 percent of the Web sites devoted to stealing information are hosted in South Korea; another 16 percent are in China, and 7 percent are in Taiwan."...
-
Weblogging about work
I received an e-mail this morning from an executive from my company asking I remove all references to my current employer (Callan) from my Web site. Thanks to Lawrence Lessig, Wendy Seltzer, and Robert Scoble I am already aware of some of the issues at play with branding and trademarks. Someone came across my blog by doing a Google search on Callan. I assume it was someone inside the company because this was passed along to Callan's legal representation (Cooley Godward LLP) and then I was contacted. The first mention of my Web site within search results for Callan Associates...
-
Corporate branding on New York subways?
New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority is exploring selling naming rights to its subway stations, bus lines, bridges and tunnels. Mayor Bloomberg has also proposed selling naming rights to the city's parks. What's in a name?...
-
iTunes on your cell phone
Motorola and Apple announced a partnership to transfer songs from iTunes to a Motorola phone via a USB or Bluetooth connection. Before Steve Jobs made the announcement Ed Zander held up an iPod and a Motorola phone and said "It would be great if we could just figure out a way to bring these two devices together." The start of something bigger?...
-
Jürgen Klinsmann named head coach of German national team
Jürgen Klinsmann is the new head coach of the German national team under a two-year contract. Holger Osieck will be an assistant coach with a general management role and Oliver Bierhoff will be an assistant coach focused on training....
-
Re-recruit employees instead of focusing on retaining employees
Todd L. Pittinsky of Harvard University and Margaret J. Shih of University of Michigan wrote Knowledge Nomads: Organizational Commitment and Worker Mobility in Positive Perspective, featured in the February issue of American Behavioral Scientist. Mallory Stark of Harvard interviewed Pittinsky about knowledge nomads and approaches to turnover in the July 26 issue of HBS Working Knowledge. I like the conclusions from the studies. More managers need to understand motivation and commitment rather than hours and salary. Turnover is a symptom, not a problem. Change your mantra from "attract and retain the best employees" to "attract and re-recruit the best employees."...
