The Viacom vs. Google court battle is getting downright nasty. Viacom has dug up a bunch of e-mails and instant messages they claim show YouTube’s founders were purposely leaving copyrighted material online during YouTube’s early days — damning evidence against Google. But more interesting are Google’s claims that many of those copyright-infringing videos came from …
Monthly Archive: March 2010
Mar
17
Microsoft is sneaking up on the tech world. I’m serious.
I get especially excited about web browsers (I know, I know. I’m a browser geek). I was using the IE8 beta the day it was released, and I installed Google Chrome the day it came out (Chrome is now my default — I love it). Like a lot of informed geeks, though, I skipped Microsoft’s …
Mar
15
Twitter: Where nobody is really *just* a follower
In a matter of a couple of weeks, Conan O’Brien has managed to cause a huge stir, just by signing up for a Twitter account. He’s already up to 670,000 followers, and doesn’t seem to be slowing down. I can understand why he’s got so many followers; the guy’s already got fans, and they’re dying …
Mar
11
Attacking the attack on the attack on jargon
I don’t know much about Randy Michaels, the CEO of Tribune Company, but judging by the comments on this post, he’s not very well liked. And I don’t know much about the post’s author, Robert Feder, either. But I do know English. Sure, I abuse it from time to time, but almost always on purpose, and …
Mar
10
Part II: Why HR can’t fix your crappy employees, either
You may have seen my post on why blocking access to social networking sites (or even the Internet as a whole) won’t make your employees more productive. But every company attacks its fear of social media with the same two swords: IT and HR. If there are reasons why IT can’t wholesale ban certain sites …
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