"Over Thanksgiving weekend, I had a great search experience that I think is worth laying out here, because it captures three of the key dimensions of digital search."

Google is a capitalist tool—and a useful one. Better, surely, to face the coming storm on that foundation, than on a trite slogan that could be your undoing.

It would seem that the best business strategy for record companies at this point is to open the floodgates for online music retailing, which would almost certainly bring a burst of innovation in packaging and pricing.

Don't innovate; extract value instead of creating it, by building iron curtains around the valeu chain; focus on synergies (read: marketing economies of scale and scope).

When you upload a video, we'll attach a RevTag -- a single frame ad at the end of the video. Every time someone clicks on the ad, you'll earn money.

Maybe the hybrid approach is an iterative one based on iteration between rapid research and feature experimentation.

Compute and storage resources that allow users to quickly process and store large amounts of web data. Users can view the results of their processes interactively, transfer the results to their home machine, or publish them as a new web service.

Federated Media helps leading independent authors turn their publications into sole-proprietor media businesses.

artists can license their music into productions without giving up any ownership, while TV and advertising producers can discover new music ready for use.

Here are some unsorted thoughts from a really interesting grouptalk discussion on Web 2.0 led by Dan Perkel.

I think the most interesting aspects of Web 2.0 are new tools that explore the continuum between the personal and the social, and tools that are endowed with a certain flexibility and modularity which enables collaborative remixability.

Content designers need to think not about shoehorning content from other media onto the one-inch screen, and relying on marketers to goad the audience into buying it, but about investing in content design that is sympathetic with and extensive of the char

The next step for this project is to stop working on infrastructure and start working on apps.

Power in the Web 2.0 comes not from controlling the whole system, but in controlling the connections in a larger network of systems. It is the power of those who create not open systems, but semi-open systems, the power of API writers, network builders an

Nokia is having a mobile filmmaking contest in Asia to promote its new N90 camcorder phone.

For a long tail to have niche content producers, like amateur bloggers or podcasters, they need tools which will lower the barrier-to-entry to content-producing for those niche producers.

Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense entrepreneurial capabilities and buying power.

Multiple attempts at services that want to be Flickr 2.0, and tools that want to be iTunes for video, seem to me to be missing the mark.

An extensive list of examples showing how the DIY/hacker ethic is being commodified.

The idea here is to let the users of the archive promote the collection by creating things so the free tier promotes the paid tier. Today’s remixer is tomorrow’s licensee.

Brian Eno: "I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside."

Value shifts from the transformation of bits rather than bits themselves, to services, to the selection of content, to the presence of other people, and to the assurance of authenticity - reliable information about sources of bits and their future flows.

Now that most Internet users have high-speed connections and television executives view the Web as more an adjunct than a competitor, sports leagues are opening their video vaults to fans who just want the highlights.

The Digital Art Auction is an online service providing a facility for en masse sales of digital content.

Bruce Mau's articulation of questions around how the studio works, or should work, as well as his own beliefs, motivations and strategies.