Cuban Romping in Billions While Yahoo Tries to Make His Brainchild Pay

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Yahoo To Spend Billions On Buyback

Yahoo To Spend Billions On Buyback 03/25/2005 04:00 PM

Helping your brainchild play well with
others

Helping your brainchild play well with
others 04/10/2004 06:22 AM
George Santayana wrote in 1905, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Nearly 100 years later, independent software vendors should heed his aphorism. Too many ISVs create software as though it will exist in a vacuum, humming along doing its thing without the need to interface with other enterprise applications. It was this type of thinking that created the enterprise application integration industry.

Bush's Latest Brainchild Could Be Left
Behind (Los Angeles Times)

Bush's Latest Brainchild Could Be Left
Behind (Los Angeles Times) 01/04/2005 09:01 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — At first glance, President Bush seems well-positioned to expand his No Child Left Behind program of academic standards, testing and accountability into the nation's high schools.

Billions and Billions served

Billions and Billions served 03/14/2005 06:11 PM

14.2 billion video streams sent over the Net in 2004, a 79% increase over 2003, according to AccuStream iMedia. (via IT Facts)

That doesn't include the vast amount of P2P video downloads through BitTorrent and similar services. The videonet is coming faster than we think.

Plaxo, Yahoo make deal on search

Plaxo, Yahoo make deal on search 05/24/2004 10:38 AM
San Jose Mercury News May 24 2004 2:30PM GMT

Could Ask Jeeves Make Prize Acquisition
for Google or Yahoo?

Could Ask Jeeves Make Prize Acquisition
for Google or Yahoo? 04/20/2004 11:19 AM
Search Engine Lowdown Apr 20 2004 3:16PM GMT

Yahoo! Store Owners Can Make Quick Work
of Froogle

Yahoo! Store Owners Can Make Quick Work
of Froogle 09/07/2004 03:44 PM
Source: Search Engine Guide - A new web-based service being offered by Somacon allows Yahoo! store owners to make quick work of Froogle feeds....

Google, Yahoo Make Nice over Patent and
Stock Disputes

Google, Yahoo Make Nice over Patent and
Stock Disputes 08/09/2004 04:37 PM
Ahead of Google's planned IPO, the close rivals settle battles over a search-engine advertising patent and a stock-issuance agreement. Google expects at least a $260 million hit from the deal.

Cuban on Sweat

Cuban on Sweat 06/08/2004 09:50 PM
Via Mark Cuban, some very wise remarks about how to build a business from scratch, and why you should avoid taking VC money if you possibly can. [PS: I’m not going to turn ongoing into a collection of pointers to other Web stuff, this is just a coincidence, partly due to the fact that I’m hovering over the aggregate PlanetSun feed to see how this experiment goes, and I keep seeing interesting things go by.]

Cuban: No wimping out

Cuban: No wimping out 03/28/2005 08:05 PM
Blog: He’s got a big mouth and an ego the size of the Grand Canyon. But Marc Cuban also has moxie – and that counts for a...

Cuban vs. Google: It's On!

Cuban vs. Google: It's On! 08/03/2004 02:44 PM
Mark Cuban, who obviously just has too much time on his hands, is teaming up with Icerocket in an attempt to thwart Google for search engine dominance.

Cuban artists

Cuban artists 01/07/2004 04:27 PM

One of our friends has a young Cuban lover and she goes to visit him there periodically.  This situation spurred some reflection:  "Why are there so many artists and musicians in Cuba?"The next thought "Well, why not?"In the U.S. when Johnny decides to ignore his family's advice and take up oil painting or guitar playing instead of investment banking it is a big crisis.Johnny is very likely giving up the opportunity to own real estate, send his kids to private school, and otherwise enjoy the great festival of materialism that is the United States.  In an economy with hardly any opportunity, however, why wouldn't a person choose to do art or music?

Art doesn't require a lot of capital investment.  You really just need a crayon and some paper (or scissors and paper if you were Matisse).  If human ability is equally distributed across the globe you'd therefore expect the best art to come from the poorest countries where people have no competing bourgeois job offers.  Yet paradoxically the art for which people are willing to pay the most money seems to come from advanced economies such as Germany, England, Japan, and the U.S.

For the comment section:  Why?

[I'll start by throwing out a personal opinion:  art can only touch you if the artist shares a similar social and economic environment, which is why Westerners mostly like the art that is produced in Western countries; art produced in poor countries is actually much better but we can't appreciate it because, despite heavy doses of ecotourism, we can't understand the milieu in which it was produced.]

The Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Revolution 03/30/2005 06:49 AM
Maverick billionaire blogger Mark Cuban wants to take the film out of the film industry. And his all-digital vision is coming soon to a screen near you. By Xeni Jardin from Wired magazine.

Three Minutes With Mark Cuban

Three Minutes With Mark Cuban 09/02/2004 07:32 PM

Two more Cuban dissidents freed

Two more Cuban dissidents freed 06/24/2004 10:57 PM
Two ailing Cuban dissidents are released, including poet Manuel Vázquez Portal, after four left jail earlier.

Cuban on Music Retailing

Cuban on Music Retailing 04/05/2005 07:07 PM
Mark Cuban is always worth reading, but when he’s right, as in this piece on the extinction of the CD, he’s really right.

Mark Cuban, Longtailer

Mark Cuban, Longtailer 03/30/2005 06:11 PM
Xeni Jardin: On the Long Tail blog, Wired Magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson lists ten reasons why Mark Cuban is "today's Long Tail hero." Incidentally -- I wrote a profile on Mr. Cuban's digital cinema plans ("The Cuban Revolution") for this month's issue of the magazine. Excerpt from the ten-point list:

1. He's promoting HDTV the right way, by commissioning and distributing content. 
2. He's funding the Grokster defense. 
3. He's a real blogger, warts and all. 
4. He says that he won't use the broadcast flag. 
5. He got the idea of reinventing TV a decade ago, and his work lives on in Yahoo!'s excellent video search and music video services. 
6. He doesn't believe the RIAA. 
7. He sent a team to cover the Iraq elections, live, in high-def. 
8. He has a successful reality TV show. 
9. He really gets the Long Tail: "Popular items are just that, popular. My guess however is that in absolute numbers, the long tail of the download distribution curves, both in terms of number of songs and in number of songs downloaded, overwhelm the number of copyrighted songs illegally being downloaded."

Link to blog post. Mr. Anderson also has an op-ed about MGM v. Grokster in today's Los Angeles times, and it's well worth a read. Snip:

What's at stake is the realm of ideas, sliced and diced a million ways. The peer-to-peer music sites are the closest current approximation to the celestial jukebox we all want. Kazaa, for instance, has 25 million unique tracks, dwarfing iTunes' measly 1 million. BitTorrent has more videos than Blockbuster. Much of it is pirated, to be sure, but a significant portion of it — videogame highlights, say — was never intended to be moneymaking in the first place. The problem is that we don't know how to stop the piracy without chilling the creativity.

The main flaw in the case against Grokster is that the action attempts to criminalize a technology rather than a specific use. It also fails to distinguish between commercial content and noncommercial content. Restricting these powerful new distribution tools to fight piracy would hobble the new emerging creative class too. The potential collateral damage to legitimate users is much higher than in the Betamax case.

Link

"Cuban assures us he's not "The Donald""

"Cuban assures us he's not "The Donald"" 04/17/2004 03:09 PM

Mark Cuban On The Death Of The CD

Mark Cuban On The Death Of The CD 04/05/2005 10:17 PM

Accusations fly over Cuban Internet

Accusations fly over Cuban Internet 08/11/2004 05:07 PM
Big News Network Aug 11 2004 8:32PM GMT

Mark Cuban, DVD killer

Mark Cuban, DVD killer 09/17/2004 11:56 AM
Xeni Jardin: Dallas Mavs and HDNet owner Mark Cuban has an interesting blog entry today on the future of DVDs and PVRs:

I love looking for ways to screw up conventional wisdom. Right now in the entertainment world, the conventional wisdom is that both sides on the HD DVD vs Blue Ray DVD will battle it out and a standard for HD on DVD will emerge. No one is trying to rush to a compromise because the big media companies want to squeeze as much money as they possibly can out the current DVD business cycle.

Good. The longer it takes, the less chance any format of DVD has of having a place in the future of home entertainment. Don’t look now, but the price and size of hard drives have fallen like a rock, while capacities have soared, with no slowdown in site.

Which leads to the question — What is the best way to distribute content? DVDs which will be limited in capacity to 9.4gbs on a single DVD for another year, and then after that 50gbs on a single disk for years to come after that, or rewritable media that can hold 2gb already in a device half the size of a pen, or in a hard drive that can hold 200GBs plus in a drive the size of your cell phone?

Link

Interview With Mark Cuban About Grokster

Interview With Mark Cuban About Grokster 03/31/2005 12:18 AM

Mark Cuban on the future of HD Media

Mark Cuban on the future of HD Media 08/23/2004 02:25 PM

Cuban dissidents held at Gitmo?

Cuban dissidents held at Gitmo? 05/20/2004 11:43 AM

No Waste, a booklet about Cuban
recycling

No Waste, a booklet about Cuban
recycling 08/20/2004 07:59 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Bruce Sterling sent me a copy of No Waste, a free booklet published by Pentagram Design about the ingenious re-use of stuff by Cubans. In a country where new appliances and vehicles are unheard of, resourceful people are turning soda cans into mousetraps, glue bottles into toy cars, plastic jugs into taxi lights, and fumigator engines into motorcycles. These "objects of necessity" are works of wonder. You can get a free copy of the book by emailing Pentagram.

Mamma Slides as Cuban Sells

Mamma Slides as Cuban Sells 07/02/2004 09:52 AM
TheStreet.com Jul 2 2004 1:58PM GMT

"Like those who smuggle Cuban goods into
their country."

"Like those who smuggle Cuban goods into
their country." 06/11/2004 03:17 AM

Mark Cuban to fund Grokster vs. MGM case

Mark Cuban to fund Grokster vs. MGM case 03/27/2005 01:20 PM
Slashdot Mar 27 2005 4:33PM GMT

Mark Cuban to finance Grokster defense

Mark Cuban to finance Grokster defense 03/27/2005 05:49 PM
Billionaire announces he will finance the peer-to-peer software company's defense to preserve technological innovation.

Pope Possibilities Include Cuban, Indian
(AP)

Pope Possibilities Include Cuban, Indian
(AP) 04/12/2005 06:19 AM
AP - Recalling that Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla made almost no top-contender lists the last time a pope was chosen, prognosticators this time are casting a wide net — along with a dozen front-runners, cardinals from Cuba, Canada, India, even Indonesia have been mentioned.

Maverick man Cuban explains Hollywood
disgust

Maverick man Cuban explains Hollywood
disgust 03/31/2005 11:39 AM
Hollywood vs P2P It's a morality thing

Mark Cuban Sells Mamma.com Stake

Mark Cuban Sells Mamma.com Stake 07/02/2004 06:09 PM
Source: InternetNews.com - Mamma.com tumbled 15% Friday on news that the Internet billionaire had sold his stake in the company....

Mark Cuban to fund Grokster vs. MGM
case.

Mark Cuban to fund Grokster vs. MGM
case. 03/27/2005 10:46 AM

Reach Out To Billions

Reach Out To Billions 08/30/2004 02:58 AM
WebDevInfo Aug 30 2004 5:26AM GMT

~WikiSpam by the billions

~WikiSpam by the billions 05/12/2004 10:00 AM
For the past week, someone has been hitting jspwiki.org, adding advertisements to a couple of addresses I am not going to mention here. I figured they were isolated incidents, but... It seems that Dave Johnson of RollerWeblogger has had the same guys on his wiki. I just hope nobody is trying to build a bot to target a specific WikiEngine?. It could be devastating to the open nature of Wikis.

You see, the problem with open systems is that they are easy to abuse. For the most part, manual damage can be controlled thanks to social pressure and sheer volume of good people, but automatical damage, as inflicted by bots may become intolerable. The reason why we have so much email spam these days is because of the wonderful openness of the SMTP, mail transfer protocol. Because it was open, license-free, and easy to implement, it became the killer app of the all-pervasive Internet these days. But openness also has vulnerabilities, and as with anything popular, people are abusing it right now.

I am not worried about people trying to destroy wikis. That would be too easy to protect against. But I am worried about bots that would roam around, and change the text or a link slightly to destroy links to competition, or to add Googlejuice for someone. Would it be possible to notice every single change on your wiki, and check every single outgoing link? Considering that most Wikis don't even provide an RSS or Atom feed it may be difficult to keep track on what is really happening. I have two open Wikis which I administer - and I'm having trouble coping with them already. Especially smaller wikis may be in trouble, as their administration have no tools to combat a dedicated spambot.

It is entirely possible that public Wikis will have to start to protect themselves somehow. I think we should start thinking about technologies that would prevent spambots from destroying an entire subculture, but in a WikiFriendly way. Let's not do what everybody else seems to be doing these days, and sacrifice the one thing that we want to protect.

Spending those billions

Spending those billions 05/06/2004 12:17 AM
USA Today May 6 2004 4:19AM GMT

What will Google do with its IPO
billions?

What will Google do with its IPO
billions? 05/06/2004 11:40 AM
Search Engine Lowdown May 6 2004 4:13PM GMT

Bush's search for clean Cuban hookers
goes awry

Bush's search for clean Cuban hookers
goes awry 07/28/2004 06:37 PM
Castro wronged by Internet gaffe

Mark Cuban Explains Why Grokster Is
Worth Supporting Any Way Possible

Mark Cuban Explains Why Grokster Is
Worth Supporting Any Way Possible 03/28/2005 03:37 AM
While most of the coverage of Mark Cuban's latest announcement focuses on the fact that he recently agreed to fund the EFF's legal defense of Grokster at the Supreme Court, reading his full statement on the matter is much more interesting. It's not about the fact that he's helping out, but goes into the details of what's at stake -- and why everyone should support the Grokster case, however they can. What he's saying (in somewhat different words) is that, if the entertainment industry wins, they'll have succeeded in turning the internet in the US into television: a medium where they are the sole gatekeepers of the content and what can be done with it. That ignores the fact that the internet is about commu nications, not broadcast content -- where anyone can create the content they want and deliver it however they want. Mark Cuban is creating a ton of content and he wants that "content to get to the customer in the way the customer wants to receive it, when they want to receive it, at a price that is of value to them." He can do that now. He can't if the entertainment industry wins the Grokster case, because they'll cut off many of the channels by which content now reaches people.
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