Will Yahoo Shake Up Domain Pricing Trends?

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Royal Mail urges pricing shake-up

Royal Mail urges pricing shake-up 04/27/2004 12:28 AM
Britain's state-owned postal operator calls on regulator Postcomm to allow it to start pricing mail by size rather than weight.

Yahoo Search Tracks Changing Trends

Yahoo Search Tracks Changing Trends 09/10/2004 06:41 PM
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Yahoo catching flak over new pricing
plan

Yahoo catching flak over new pricing
plan 03/06/2004 02:04 AM
Paid inclusion is a cornerstone of Yahoo's strategy as it battles archrival Google, the leading search provider, over how users navigate the Internet.

Yahoo Japan Sells 100 Million eMacs on
Pricing Error

Yahoo Japan Sells 100 Million eMacs on
Pricing Error 04/24/2004 01:10 PM
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Yahoo to Sell Domain Names

Yahoo to Sell Domain Names 08/17/2004 03:53 AM
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Yahoo Enters Domain Name Business

Yahoo Enters Domain Name Business 08/17/2004 11:41 AM

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Watch out Go Daddy, Yahoo is entering the domain name selling business. Starting today, Yahoo will start the sell of domain names as a part of their small business services. They have already entered the world of Web hosting, E-mail, and Web design. This seems like the next logical step for them….

Shake, Shake the Ketchup Bottle - None
will come, and then ... By Mickey Kaus

Shake, Shake the Ketchup Bottle - None
will come, and then ... By Mickey Kaus 08/31/2004 07:19 PM
great point .. Mickey Kaus

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Yahoo to launch discount domain-name
service

Yahoo to launch discount domain-name
service 08/18/2004 06:58 AM
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Destra, Yahoo! in domain names deal

Destra, Yahoo! in domain names deal 09/19/2004 11:09 PM
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Yahoo enters discount domain-name
business

Yahoo enters discount domain-name
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Yahoo Offering Cheaper Domain Names and
Hosting

Yahoo Offering Cheaper Domain Names and
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Yahoo targets small business with domain
campaign

Yahoo targets small business with domain
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Commtouch: Yahoo.com most employed Spam
spoof domain in May

Commtouch: Yahoo.com most employed Spam
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Destra and Yahoo enter domain names deal

Destra and Yahoo enter domain names deal 09/19/2004 11:09 PM
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Affecting Small Businesses..."

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Small Business Trends|Analyzing Trends
Affecting Small Businesses, Midsize
Businesses and Entrepreneurs

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Affecting Small Businesses, Midsize
Businesses and Entrepreneurs 06/01/2004 05:45 AM
This week's Carnival of the Capitalists .. Small Business Trends

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GoDaddy.com: : Low cost domain names,
domain transfers, web hosting, email
accounts, and so much more.

GoDaddy.com: : Low cost domain names,
domain transfers, web hosting, email
accounts, and so much more. 04/23/2004 09:32 AM

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Canadian Domain Name Services Inc.
(caDNS.ca) .ca Announces .ca Domain Name
Registration Price Reduction

Canadian Domain Name Services Inc.
(caDNS.ca) .ca Announces .ca Domain Name
Registration Price Reduction 07/05/2004 02:55 AM
Canadian Domain Name Services Inc. (caDNS.ca), one of Canada's leading .ca Domain Name Registrars, has lowered its price for .CA domain registrations to $19.99, one of the most competitive prices in Canada. [PRWEB Jul 5, 2004]

Go Daddy Software: Low cost domain name
registration and domain transfers.

Go Daddy Software: Low cost domain name
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Domain Lab launches budget priced domain
registration service

Domain Lab launches budget priced domain
registration service 06/30/2004 03:17 AM
Domain Lab launches budget priced version of their corporate domain package at www.domainlab.biz [PRWEB Jun 30, 2004]

Domain Specialist - The Low Cost Domain
Provider Gets a Radical New Face Lift
and Website, www.DomainSpecialist.net -
Low Cost Domains From Only $6 Have Never
Looked So Good and Been So Cheap

Domain Specialist - The Low Cost Domain
Provider Gets a Radical New Face Lift
and Website, www.DomainSpecialist.net -
Low Cost Domains From Only $6 Have Never
Looked So Good and Been So Cheap 07/13/2004 03:08 AM
The Low Cost domain specialists have now revealed there latest website at www.domainspecialist.net . Bringing you fast slickly designed and easy to navigate domain buying and website hosting. The new site offers the user more choices when ordering there domain names, copyrighting or website hosting. DomainSpecialist.net is part of the IAAM Group of Companies situated at www.ItsAllAboutMarketing.com . domain Specialist is rivaling all UK Domain providers by offering a much higher class service, cheaper prices on the same products and above all else a total internet solution. [PRWEB Jul 13, 2004]

Why is Today the Best Day Ever to Get a
Free Domain Name? .Info Domain Names
are Free Through Sept. 9

Why is Today the Best Day Ever to Get a
Free Domain Name? .Info Domain Names
are Free Through Sept. 9 09/02/2004 12:23 PM
Domainsite.com announces free domain name registration for .info domain names [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]

Hot New Trends

Hot New Trends 06/09/2004 03:45 PM
In honor of my Indian heritage, but with a nod to my status as a contemporary progressive American, I'm going...

Essay about trends

Essay about trends 04/24/2004 04:42 AM

Here are some thoughts on where I think things are going in the mobile and content space.

I wrote this essay before reading Free Culture so I'm saying a lot of stuff that Larry says better...

Several crucial shifts in technology are emerging that will drastically affect the relationship between users and technology in the near future. Wireless Internet is becoming ubiquitous and economically viable. Internet capable devices are becoming smaller and more powerful.

Alongside technological shifts, new social trends are emerging. Users are shifting their attention from packaged content to social information about location, presence and community. Tools for identity, trust, relationship management and navigating social networks are becoming more popular. Mobile communication tools are shifting away from a 1-1 model, allowing for increased many-to-many interactions; such a shift is even being used to permit new forms of democracy and citizen participation in global dialog.

While new technological and social trends are occurring, it is not without resistance, often by the developers and distributors of technology and content. In order to empower the consumer as a community member and producer, communication carriers, hardware manufacturers and content providers must understand and build models that focus less on the content and more on the relationships.

Smaller faster

Computing started out as large mainframe computers, software developers and companies “time sharing” for slices of computing time on the large machines. The mini-computer was cheaper and smaller, allowing companies and labs to own their own computers. The mini computer allowed a much greater number of people to have access to computers and even use them in real time. The mini computer lead to a burst in software and networking technologies. In the early 80’s, the personal computer increased the number of computers by an order of magnitude and again, led to an explosion in new software and technology while lowering the cost even more. Console gaming companies proved once again that unit costs could be decreased significantly by dramatically increasing the number of units sold. Today, we have over a billion cell phones in the market. There are tens of millions camera phones. The incredible number of these devices has continued to lower the unit cost of computing as well as devices imbedded in these devices such as small cameras. High end phones have the computing power of the personal computers of the 80’s and the game consoles of the 90’s.

History repeats with WiFi

There are parallels in the history of communications and computing. In the 1980’s the technology of packet switched networks became widely deployed. Two standards competed. X.25 was a packet switched network technology being promoted by CCITT (a large, formal international standards body) and the telephone companies. It involved a system run by telephone companies including metered tariffs and multiple bilateral agreements between carriers to hook up.

Concurrently, universities and research labs were promoting TCP/IP and the Internet opportunity for loosely organized standards meetings being operated with flat rate tariffs and little or no agreements between the carriers. People just connected to the closest node and everyone agreed to freely carry traffic for others.

There were several “free Internet” services such as “The Little Garden” in San Francisco. Commercial service providers, particularly the telephone company operators such as SprintNet tried to shut down such free services by threatening not to carry this free traffic.

Eventually, large ISPs began providing high quality Internet connectivity and finally the telephone companies realized that the Internet was the dominant standard and shutdown or acquired the ISPs.

A similar trend is happening in wireless data services. GPRS is currently the dominant technology among mobile telephone carriers. GPRS allows users to transmit packets of data across the carrier network to the Internet. One can roam to other networks as long as the mobile operators have agreements with each other. Just like in the days of X.25, the system requires many bilateral agreements between the carriers; their goal is to track and bill for each packet of information.

Competing with this standard is WiFi. WiFi is just a simple wireless extension to the current Internet and many hotspots provide people with free access to the Internet in cafes and other public areas. WiFi service providers have emerged, while telephone operators –such as a T-Mobile and Vodaphone- are capitalizing on paid WiFi services. Just as with the Internet, network operators are threatening to shut down free WiFi providers, citing a violation of terms of service.

Just as with X.25, the GPRS data network and the future data networks planned by the telephone carriers (e.g. 3G) are crippled with unwieldy standards bodies, bilateral agreements, and inherently complicated and expensive plant operations.

It is clear that the simplicity of WiFi and the Internet is more efficient than the networks planned by the telephone companies. That said, the availability of low cost phones is controlled by mobile telephone carriers, their distribution networks and their subsidies.

Content vs Context

Many of the mobile telephone carriers are hoping that users will purchase branded content manufactured in Hollywood and packaged and distributed by the telephone companies using sophisticated technology to thwart copying.

Broadband in the home will always be cheaper than mobile broadband. Therefore it will be cheaper for people to download content at home and use storage devices to carry it with them rather than downloading or viewing content over a mobile phone network. Most entertainment content is not so time sensitive that it requires real time network access.

The mobile carriers are making the same mistake that many of the network service providers made in the 80s. Consider Delphi, a joint venture between IBM and Sears Roebuck. Delphi assumed that branded content was going to be the main use of their system and designed the architecture of the network to provide users with such content. Conversely, the users ended up using primary email and communications and the system failed to provide such services effectively due to the mis-design.

Similarly, it is clear that mobile computing is about communication. Not only are mobile phones being used for 1-1 communications, as expected through voice conversations; people are learning new forms of communication because of SMS, email and presence technologies. Often, the value of these communication processes is the transmission of “state” or “context” information; the content of the messages are less important.

Copyright and the Creative Commons

In addition to the constant flow of traffic keeping groups of people in touch with each other, significant changes are emerging in multimedia creation and sharing. The low cost of cameras and the nearly television studio quality capability of personal computers has caused an explosion in the number and quality of content being created by amateurs. Not only is this content easier to develop, people are using the power of weblogs and phones to distribute their creations to others.

The network providers and many of the hardware providers are trying to build systems that make it difficult for users to share and manipulate multimedia content. Such regulation drastically stifles the users’ ability to produce, share and communicate. This is particularly surprising given that such activities are considered the primary “killer application” for networks.

It may seem unintuitive to argue that packaged commercial content can co-exist alongside consumer content while concurrently stimulating content creation and sharing. In order to understand how this can work, it is crucial to understand how the current system of copyright is broken and can be fixed.

First of all, copyright in the multimedia digital age is inherently broken. Historically, copyright works because it is difficult to copy or edit works and because only few people produce new works over a very long period of time. Today, technology allows us to find, sample, edit and share very quickly. The problem is that the current notion of copyright is not capable of addressing the complexity and the speed of what technology enables artists to create. Large copyright holders, notably Hollywood studios, have aggressively extended and strengthened their copyright protections to try to keep the ability to produce and distribute creative works in the realm of large corporations.

Hollywood asserts, “all rights reserved” on works that they own. Sampling music, having a TV show running in the background in a movie scene or quoting lyrics to a song in a book about the history of music all require payment to and a negotiation with the copyright holder. Even though the Internet makes available a wide palette of wonderful works based on content from all over the world, the current copyright practices forbid most of such creation.

However, most artists are happy to have their music sampled if they receive attribution. Most writers are happy to be quoted or have their books copied for non-commercial use. Most creators of content realize that all content builds on the past and the ability for people to build on what one has created is a natural and extremely important part of the creative process.

Creative Commons tries to give artists that choice. By providing a more flexible copyright than the standards “all rights reserved” copyright of commercial content providers, Creative Commons allows artists to set a variety of rights to their works. This includes the ability to reuse for commercial use, copy, sample, require attribution, etc. Such an approach allows artists to decide how their work can be used, while providing people with the materials necessary for increased creation and sharing.

Creative Commons also provides for a way to make the copyright of pieces of content machine-readable. This means that a search engine or other tool to manipulate content is able to read the copyright. As such, an artist can search for songs, images and text to use while having the information to provide the necessary attribution.

Creative Commons can co-exist with the stringent copyright regimes of the Hollywood studios while allowing professional and amateur artists to take more control of how much they want their works to be shared and integrated into the commons. Until copyright law itself is fundamentally changed, the Creative Commons will provide an essential tool to provide an alternative to the completely inflexible copyright of commercial content.

Content is not like some lump of gold to be horded and owned which diminishes in value each time it is shared. Content is a foundation upon which community and relationships are formed. Content is the foundation for culture. We must evolve beyond the current copyright regime that was developed in a world where the creation and transmission of content was unwieldy and expense, reserved to those privileged artists who were funded by commercial enterprises. This will provide the emerging wireless networks and mobile devices with the freedom necessary for them to become the community building tools of sharing that is their destiny.

Partner: IT Trends 05

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TeamQuest predicts worthwhile data center trends for 2005

Web services trends

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Shake 3.5

Shake 3.5 04/19/2004 11:03 AM
The choice of Oscar-winning effects artists seven years in a row, Shake 3.5 is now optimized for the Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X at all resolutions. [Apr 18]

Shake me

Shake me 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
Geek Culture has created an amusement cum monitor pet for the apple geek in us all which even includes...

Shake 3.5 at NAB?

Shake 3.5 at NAB? 04/12/2004 11:18 AM
According to various rumors, Apple is planning on introducing Shake 3.5 (current version is 3.0) at the National Association of Broadcasters. Docum...

Origin of colour-trends

Origin of colour-trends 07/14/2004 03:38 PM
Teresa Nielsen Hayden has written an amazing, heavily linked, well-researched piece on the Color Marketing Group, a trade association that determines each season's "in" colours and dictates the national pallette.

I knew what was up with the big khaki push. Remember that one? Ads everywhere saying "Hemingway wore khaki"? We'd all been wearing black for several years. We had black levis, good black skirts, black leather or denim jackets, little black dresses—a great installed user base of basic black clothing, plus the colored stuff we wore with it. I hadn't heard anyone sighing for the return of khaki, and if I had, I'd have pointed them to one of the WASP mail-order catalogues. What's the big deal with khaki? It gets dirty too easily, and for a lot of people it's an unbecoming color. But there's only so much new black clothing you can sell a happy consumer who already has a closet full of black-and-coordinates; so the clothing industry pushed khaki remorselessly.

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New Trends in Virus Technology

New Trends in Virus Technology 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
True to their history of building on each other's work, virus writers continue to blend hacking techniques with worms and trojans -- hidden programs designed to open back doors into unprotected systems -- to take control of systems around the world.

Internet trends for 2004

Internet trends for 2004 04/25/2004 08:41 PM
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Ten Internet Trends To Watch

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Other News: Computer Trends

Other News: Computer Trends 09/13/2004 10:33 AM
The iMac G5 is at the center of the latest computer design trends.

CES 2004: Technology Trends

CES 2004: Technology Trends 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
HDTV is the big news but other technology trends lurked just beneath the surface at this year's CES. Loyd Case takes a look at some of the key tech trends driving the consumer electronics business in the coming year.

Blogosphere subscription trends

Blogosphere subscription trends 02/01/2005 08:52 PM
We've all seen the hockey-stick curve that shows the blogosphere growing like gangbusters. But I haven't seen much on subscription trends, so I took a look at the public information available in Bloglines. For a given feed you can ask Bloglines to show not just the count of subscribers, but also -- for the "public" subscribers who allow this information to be shown -- their usernames and the dates when they began subscribing. ...

Technical trends bode well for KM

Technical trends bode well for KM 03/14/2003 09:58 PM
One of the cultural trends, blogging, reached a fever pitch with Google's recent acquisition of Pyra, maker of the software that powers the popular Blogger.com ...

ten tech trends 2004

ten tech trends 2004 01/01/2004 07:55 AM
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new trends in comment spam

new trends in comment spam 08/02/2004 05:25 PM
kalsey has some good info as well. the hard part is getting people to upgrade.
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