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	<title>Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0</title>
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	<description>Orginal Signal aggregates the 17 most popular Web 2.0 sites. The main purpose of the site is to provide 
a quick glance on what's happening without using your desktop/web RSS reader. New headlines (since your 
last cookied visit) come in pretty orange, visited ones are grey. All credits go to the authors of these weblogs. 
Without their hard work Original Signal would not exist. Original Signal was inspired by Popurls and the Web 2.0 Workgroup.</description>
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  <title>Mufin Moves Into Public Beta</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:33:51 CET</pubDate>
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  Berlin-based music recommendation service Mufin has moved into public beta today. Mufin launched in private beta in October. Check out initial Mufin reviews on VentureBeat, Download Squad and Webware. It looks like Mufin provides song previews and in my testing, many of the songs had no previews. However there are lots of links to buy the songs and/or albums.The company notes that they have 4 million songs (previews??) in their database. Since their initial private beta launch, Mufin has added a Facebook application along with the ability to tie Mufin into an iTunes account and generate recommendations from songs in an iTunes playlist.While their technology sounds and looks very impressive, the service just doesn't seem ready for primetime -- it feels incomplete. What good is it to recommend a song that I can't listen to? I really like the idea of taking my iTunes library and recommending other music close to it as you know I am all about discovery. I'd like to see them tie into more music retailers and clearly if possible they need to provide the ability to listen to the entire song.CN Sponsors:Lending Club - Try Social Lending.  $25 bonus for new Lending Club lendersCloudContacts - make your business cards work for you!          ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>AT&amp;T Controls the Future of Privacy — Seriously</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:33:45 CET</pubDate>
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  I've spent the past few days pretty immersed in the SC 08 conference here in Austin, Texas, but I'm still embarrassed that I missed the formation of a new lobbying organization think tank called The Future of Privacy that's being funded by AT&#38;T. The group hopes to help policy makers and business leaders figure out how to manage online privacy.A big source of irony from the group, other than its purported focus on online privacy to benefit consumers and the industry alike, is that Co-chair Christopher Wolf also headed up one of my favorite astroturfing efforts, Hands Off The Internet, the phone company think tank dedicated to Net Neutrality. Somehow, that connection isn't mentioned in his FOP bio. Wolf is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Proskauer Rose LLP, a firm that does work for AT&#38;T. The other co-founder of FOP, Jules Polonetsky (here's a great interview on his views on Internet privacy), was the former chief privacy officer at AOL. Prior to that he worked at DoubleClick, which was bought by Google.The creation of the FOP is both a good thing and bad thing. It's a sign that consumers worried about how their private information is collected and used on the Internet have been taken seriously. On the other hand, the backer and members of this particular organization are highly likely to influence legislators in a direction that will keep consumers' data in their hands.I hope that some of the more privacy focused representatives can cut through the corporate double-speak that I have seen firsthand from the telecommunications companies on other issues. Perhaps Google, which is not represented on the board, can start its own privacy think tank and we can watch the fight unfurl between caching private data for later use, and profiting from data as it travels through the ISPs' pipes.This issue of Internet privacy has gained more momentum in the last few months after ISPs contracted with a startup called NebuAd to monitor where a consumer surfs the web and serve ads against those visits. Other companies are trying this as well. Since then, Congress has held two hearings on online privacy, with one related to data collection and the other related to deep-packet inspection as employed by NebuAD and its ISP customers.As the online experience becomes more interactive, the rules around of who's watching us as we're watching the web need to be defined. But in addition to worries about corporate spying, legislators and lobbying organizations should also take a close look at what governments can now access and use. For those of you following this space, the advisory board includes: Dorothy Attwood, Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer, AT&#38;T, who went before Congress to decry NebuAd's tactics but noted that perhaps in exchange for lower rates a consumer might be willing to share more data with the ISP Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy, Facebook, the company that brought you the privacy nightmare known as BeaconSimon Davies, Director, Privacy InternationalPeter Swire, a law professor at Ohio State University and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, who is advising President-elect Barack Obama on technology  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Mufin Opens Automated Music Recommendation Engine To The Public</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:33:42 CET</pubDate>
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  Mufin, a powerful music recommendation engine that actually works, has launched to the public.  We last covered the site in early October, when it opened in a restricted private beta.The site, which was created by the same organization that created the now-ubiquitous MP3 file format, uses an advanced algorithm to 'listen to' songs and identify similar sounding tracks based on over 40 characteristics.  Such automated systems are very hard to pull off (which is why Pandora, another music recommendation engine, uses human experts), but in my testing Mufin had fared surprisingly well.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Mufin Now Open to All: Discover Music by Sound Analysis on iTunes and Facebook</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:03:45 CET</pubDate>
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  Mufin, the music recommendation engine that suggests songs based on their sound characteristics, is now open to everyone in public beta.  With the launch, Mufin is also introducing two new applications: Mufin for iTunes and Mufin for Facebook.  As you might expect, Mufin’s iTunes add-on analyzes the songs in your iTunes library to suggest new music.  While you’re playing a song, or an entire playlist, Mufin recommends new tracks simultaneously in the sidebar.  You can then play 30-second previews of the new recommendations, and purchase them in iTunes if you enjoy them.  Since Mufin’s recommendations are based on properties like tempo and rhythm, the suggestions are a bit different than what you’d get with iTunes’ own Genius Sidebar, which performs a similar function.  Meanwhile, Mufin for Facebook is essentially the same application that the company launched on MySpace during their private beta.  You can search Mufin for specific artists and tracks, and then have the service recommend new music, all within the Facebook interface.  When you “discover” a new piece of music, that action is broadcast to your mini-feed.  You can also send a song to your Facebook friends.So is Mufin worth the download?  I’m not blown away by the recommendations so far, but they are distinctly different than what you’d expect to see with a “people who liked this also liked” type list, or what you might see in browsing social discovery engines such as iLike or Imeem.  From a business perspective, Mufin now has all of the pieces in place for success – a destination site, applications on the social networks, and an iTunes add-on.  But, if it’s going to stand out from the pack, it will need to continue to tweak its recommendation engine to offer something significantly better than the alternatives.---Related Articles at Mashable | All That's New on the Web:Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)My iTunes: Apple Launches iTunes WidgetsiTunes&#8217; DRM-free Music Now AvailableWidgetbox Showcase Offers iTunes Widget and PlaylistiTunes Wi-Fi Music Store Now LiveScobblePod Lists iTunes and iPod to Last.fm SimultaneouslySoundcrank: iTunes, Meet MySpace  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>eMusic: 250 Million Songs Downloaded. iTunes: 5 Billion+</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:03:44 CET</pubDate>
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  Will the music subscription business ever grow beyond its current niche?  It looks increasingly doubtful.  Today, eMusic announced that since it launched its current music subscription service in 2003, customers have downloaded 250 million songs.  Apple's iTunes, by comparison, has sold more than 5 billion songs since it opened the iTunes Store in April, 2003. That makes eMusic one twentieth the size of iTunes.The way eMusic works is you pay a subscription of between $12 and $20 a month and then you can download 30 to 75 songs a month and keep them.  You can also purchase songs above those limits, starting at $0.25 a track.  eMusic has a catalog of 4.5 million songs, and is particularly strong in independent music.  It currently has 400,000 subscribers, and the company expects to make $70 million in revenues this year.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>A New Backchannel For Live Events: The Brightkite Wall</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:33:46 CET</pubDate>
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  Whenever there is a conference or event, there's a secondary bit of action taking place behind the scenes: the backchannel. Here, the attendees are live blogging, twittering, posting photos, and streaming live video about what they're seeing on stage or in and around the venue. Twitter has always been the microblogging platform of choice in this scenario, but starting today, they just might have new competition from Brightkite, the mobile social networking service that's making a name for itself among the early adopters. SponsorLast night, Brightkite released a new feature for their mobile social networking platform called the "Brightkite Wall." This wall displays the live stream of notes, photos, and checkins at any one place. When launched full screen, the Brightkite Wall's placestream can be shown on any monitor, projector, or TV, which obviously makes it perfect for conferences and events.Using the WallTo get started, simply browse to the desired place and click the new Wall tab. Then click on the embedded Brightkite Wall to go full screen. Organizers can even customize the Wall beforehand, if desired. The message and location name can be modified, the shortcode can be selected for use within the U.S. or outside the U.S., and checkins can be turned on or off. Of course, Brightkite has a much smaller user base than Twitter, which could have made this new feature a non-starter. However, Brightkite has that problem covered. With the Brightkite Wall, anyone can participate by texting a pre-defined shortcode provided for you by the service. Better Than Live Blogging?Brightkite's Wall may soon beat Twitter to become the microblogging platform of choice for live events because it offers a much richer stream of information. Instead of just displaying 140-character notes, Brightkite's Wall also displays photos. Combined with notes and checkins, this makes the Wall a much more engaging experience. For those virtually attending the event, watching the Brightkite Wall could end up being even better than refreshing a blogger's post featuring their "live" coverage of the event. A live blog only gives you one point of view and set of images. Even if it's a group effort, it's not the same as being immediately tapped into the thoughts and reactions of all the event's attendees as you are with Brightkite. Potential ProblemsOur only concern for this new feature is that it doesn't appear to be any sort of administrative control over who can configure what. If some rogue conference attendee wanted to, he or she could highjack the Wall by customizing their own personalized greeting for all to see. That could lead to problems, especially if the message was profane or offensive. Another concern is that there doesn't seem to be any sort of archiving system in place, so while the Wall may be a great real-time view into the thoughts and activities that are taking place at a particular point in time, going back to view older images and notes could be a challenge if the same locale (address) is used over and over again for subsequent events. The Wall feature is still in beta, though, so as people begin to use it and submit feedback, it may be updated to even better reflect people's needs than it does now. Discuss        ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>CafeMom Launches Ad Network for Mom Sites</title>
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  NY-based CafeMom has announced the launch of a new ad network today. The CafeMom Plus Ad Network could help CafeMom sell more ads by selling not only into CafeMom but into a variety of other mom-related websites. The other sites in the network include: Greatschools.net, Sittercity.com, Education.com, Baby-Gaga.com, BettyConfidential.com, SavvySource.com and BabySpot.com.CafeMom notes that the new Plus Ad Network will reach 8 million unique visitors a month. Back in January, Burst Media launched a moms ad network.In other CafeMom news, Aimee Higgins joins CafeMom from MySpace as SVP, Sales Strategy and Creative Services.Google Trends shows CafeMom dropping in traffic month-over-month since the summer:CN Sponsors:Lending Club - Try Social Lending.  $25 bonus for new Lending Club lendersCloudContacts - make your business cards work for you!          ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Victoria's Secret Moves Onto Mobile With Flo TV</title>
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  Flo TV and Victoria's Secret have announced a very exciting new mobile television channel today. Models like Miranda Kerr (seen on the right) will be part of the channel which is a partnership with CBS.The channel shows video clips now through the night of the live Victoria's Secret show on December 3. From December 4 - January 2, you can &quot;re-live the excitement&quot; anytime you want with post-event clips.Call me lame but I can't imagine anyone who wants to see Miranda and the other models hit the runway in the lingerie will watch on a 2&quot; mobile video player. Also note that the service only works on the Verizon and AT&amp;T mobile services.CN Sponsors:Lending Club - Try Social Lending.  $25 bonus for new Lending Club lendersCloudContacts - make your business cards work for you!          ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>10 Things to Know About Salesforce.com</title>
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  These are reflections from having spent a few days at the annual Salesforce.com event, Dreamforce. We hope they are valuable to people who need an executive summary-level understanding of the company and its position in the cloud and SaaS marketplace. Full disclosure, the company paid for my flight and hotel to attend Dreamforce.Sponsor1. They Are AmbitiousSalesforce wants to be the dominant cloud platform for business. Their view is that computing has seen two waves: the first was the mainframe, and then the PC client server, and now the third is cloud computing. They have been consistent about this since their inception in March 1999, so this is no recent bandwagon hopping.2. They Have a Good Shot at Meeting This AmbitionThey have a powerful mix of capability and relentless focus. They have the resources -- cash, cash flow, clients, track record, management team, and so on -- needed to execute on this vision. Their competitors are bigger, but Salesforce has the advantage of focus. They are pure play, and they have no legacy to protect.3. They Are a Marketing Machine with FlairHaving attended a few big rah-rah events, such as Java One, I see that Dreamforce compares well on scale, details, and flair. Its messaging and visuals were consistent and powerful, and everything just worked well. This all costs a lot of money (which relates to the next point), but that money has to be well spent, and they seem to be doing that. The presentations had real flair and humor. Benioff knows how to be controversial to get press. They are a billion-dollar business that still acts like a start-up. Even the music was good.4. Their Biggest Issue Is Maybe PriceThere are many lower-cost competitors to their base CRM application. Now that SaaS is increasingly accepted, due in part to Salesforce's evangelical marketing, smaller competitors spending a tiny fraction of what they spend on marketing can undercut them. Their most visible competitor is Zoho, and it does not look like Zoho is going to shy away from this battle, and they have staying power. So Salesforce is fighting on two fronts. On the one hand they are competing with Oracle and SAP for big enterprise accounts. On the other hand they are fighting low-cost competitors, such as Zoho. This will require all their marketing and management skills.5. They See Today's Troubled Economy as Their Moment to Win BigThey got their early big traction in the last downturn around 2001 and 2002 and have never looked back. They are greedy while others are fearful. They spend more, grow, and hire, while other firms lay off people. The basic economic advantages of cloud computing, such as lower capital expenditures and a faster time to market, resonate in a downturn to the point that they overcome the resistance of conservative buyers to cloud computing.6. Their Vendor Eco-System Is Making Money and Acting BullishSalesforce knows that this matters. This is the lesson they learned from Microsoft. Will they move into the spaces currently occupied by vendors? Of course they will. Vendors will have to be agile; that is just how the game works. But today, in these tough markets, we see vendors that are profitable, growing, hiring, and raising money. The winners in many segments are being defined now. It is a great time to be an entrepreneur in this space. Salesforce knows how to leverage all its capability to make a few winners do very well and then promote that success big time, thus inspiring others to come on board.7. They Believe That Good Software Design Matters to the Core Economics of Cloud ComputingThey refer constantly to their "multi-tenant kernel," which sounds very techie for a such a marketing-driven company. It does appear that they are not suffering from the scaling and reliability problems that we have seen affecting consumer Web 2.0 ventures such as Twitter and Facebook.8. They Also Know How to Partner with Big Companies to Make Themselves Look BiggerThey wheeled out large companies, such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon, as partners. The message was, "We are at the center of an eco-system with big partners." This makes large conservative enterprise buyers feel comfortable.9. Focused Research and DevelopmentThey have a predictable and focused R&D plan, with a major theme each year. This again makes large conservative buyers feel comfortable: they know what to expect.10. They Will Need to be Careful About Usability IssuesThey are adding so much functionality and so many partners that they face the danger of users getting confused and going to simpler point solutions. That "hairball-of-complexity" problem bedeviled Microsoft as it grew fast, but Microsoft enjoyed a lock-in that Salesforce cannot count on. The SaaS world is naturally lock-in resistant, with low switching costs. There is no sign of this being an immediate problem for the company, but it is something they will have to look out for.See also our most recent story about Salesforce: Salesforce.com Says Hello World.Discuss        ]]></content:encoded>
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  Google was once invincible and unable to make a mistake. Well, although its share price is not what it used to be, one can argue they&#8217;re still invincible in most areas they&#8217;ve dabbled in, but the mistakes and flops are now piling up. Google Lively, a virtual world in which users can create their own environment and avatar and communicate with each other, is about to be shut down. True, this was one of Google&#8217;s 20% projects, meaning that it was created by one of Google&#8217;s engineers in their &#8220;spare&#8221; time, but still, time and money were invested in it and it flopped badly, with hardly anyone ever using it. Competing with Second Life is obviously not something that can be done casually. The most clear example of a Google failure, however, is Google Answers. A high profile project and a direct competitor to Yahoo Answers - which, by the way, is still operational - Google Answers was shut down back in 2006. Its model of experts answering questions (instead of just having an open model with everyone answering, like on Yahoo Answers) didn&#8217;t hold up too well, and although the service is still a valuable resource, it wasn&#8217;t meant to be. Jaiku has not officially flopped yet. But, the fact remains that after acquiring the service back in 2007 Google has done absolutely nothing with it, while Twitter - Jaiku&#8217;s direct competitor - has grown immensely. Hell, even other competitors in the space, such as Pownce, have experienced better growth than Jaiku, which can be seen from the Compete traffic comparison below. No innovation, no new features; in fact, after the service was acquired by Google, its official blog has had only two updates: one to say that the service is back up, and another to warn about maintenance downtime. Perhaps Google has something huge in stock for Jaiku, but from what can be seen on the surface, it&#8217;s going nowhere. Directly related to the Jaiku-Twitter story is Dodgeball, another short messaging service that Google had acquired in 2005. Unlike other Google flops, this one wasn&#8217;t entirely wrapped in nice, apologetic words. Dennis Crowley, the founder of Dodgeball, was frustrated with his experience working with Google, and he claimed that Google simply didn&#8217;t think Dodgeball was worth investing any resources in. It&#8217;s no secret that every startup&#8217;s wet dream is getting acquired by Google, and the Dodgeball incident has so far been the only stain on Google&#8217;s near perfect resume. Is there a lesson that can be learned from these mistakes? Perhaps it&#8217;s still too early to tell, but if you add Orkut - Google&#8217;s social network which is arguably doing well, but also hasn&#8217;t done anything revolutionary lately - to the mix, it becomes fairly obvious that Google is not good at building communities. One more reason to bet on Facebook one day being bigger than Google, if you&#8217;re the betting type.---Related Articles at Mashable | All That's New on the Web:&#8220;Getting Bought&#8221; is Not a Business Model!There.com Gets CosmoGIRL for Virtual Parties &#038; ShoppingGoogle To Launch Google WikiFlip.com Flops?Google Maps Hangs Up on Click-to-CallGoogle Checkout Trends Knows Your Shopping HabitsGoogle Gets Ghoulish  ]]></content:encoded>
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  The current economic climate is having a devastating effect on almost every business around. In order to adapt to changing conditions and opportunities, businesses will need to use flexible, adaptable systems to survive. The days of expensive year-long implementations of behind-the-firewall software look to be behind us.SponsorI recently attended a Forrester Briefing and listened to comments by analyst Peter Burris, a very smart guy. The company has done a host of studies showing that technology will be a growing part of how businesses compete and differentiate themselves in the future.While systems and software used to be very "behind the scenes" and often transaction-based, that is the case no longer. Consumers and businesses alike buy differently, consume differently, and recommend differently. Trends such as social networking, video on demand, and e-commerce will continue to force businesses to adapt to keep up with their customers. They cannot rely on systems that take years to implement, and most don't have the budgets to make large investments, at least they won't for the next couple of years.The growing focus on SaaS, cloud computing, application platforms, etc. are all responses to this growing trend in the market. There will be other solutions in the future for mobile, etc. that we haven't even imagined. They all drive businesses to use systems that they can deploy, change, and retire quickly. In my main job, I remember meeting a venture capitalist who talked about how his firm looks for opportunities in which it sees lots of "wiggling." He couldn't describe what that really meant, or how one gets paid for wiggling. I thought he was a lunatic.In retrospect, he does make a good point. Things happen quickly on the Internet and in this changing global economy. When a business sees wiggling (or opportunities), either positive or negative, they need agile systems to respond. One-size-fits-all software and packaging are going the way of the VCR. I think this will continue to grow in importance and focus as enterprises evaluate new systems and invest in new technology. What do you think?Discuss        ]]></content:encoded>
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