Week 3 - The Shiny Issue
Macworld - MacBook Air took all the headlines but as you all know it’s all about the AppleTV and movie rentals. AppleTV is beginning to look like a true disruptor, especially since they’re beginning to promote podcasts as well. Thousands of independent video publishers just got a new distribution channel, with potentially making the same impact on video and TV as YouTube did for web and video.
Sun loves MySQL - The billion dollar acquisition is huge for the Open Source movement and was the final proof that it is a valid business model. It probably will have an impact on what kind of business models we’ll see more of in the future. Together with Chris Anderson’s upcoming book “Free” it’ll bring some extra fire to the discussion around valid business models, which is great fun!
Yahoo joins OpenID - 250 million new OpenID accounts at once, this is getting interesting. Yahoo is always in the news it seems like, small or big. They are also rumoured to announce massive layoffs next week. We’ll see. But it seems like they’re doing more and more things right in it’s product development, such as the implementation of Delicious results in their search results (it only took 3 years!).
Reading tip of the week: The search party - a long article about Google and their Washington efforts in the New Yorker.
Bonus: Fake Steve Jobs Crunchies acceptance speech
apple, macworld, yahoo, mysql, sun, databaser, fake steve jobs, macbook air, appletv
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- juan papa replied:
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January 25th, 2008 at 10:04 pm. Permalink.
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