Links for October 27th through October 28th:
- Advertising – Bold Moves and Crowdsourcing Techniques at Agencies – NYTimes.com – “There are hundreds of agencies in New York, but there’s still a desire for something different,”
- FT.com / Media – Jordan’s business-friendly approach pays dividends – So how is a country as small as Jordan able to account for such a disproportionate share of corporate stars in the region? There are three main reasons for Jordan's fertile corporate environment.Second, Jordan has one of the region's best pools of skilled labour and one of the lowest wage rates for a given level of qualification. Relatively cheap, skilled labour is a competitive edge for an aspiring business hub, especially so when the country has modest natural resources to support business activity.
- Official Google Blog: Making search more musical – Today, we're rolling out a search feature that does just that by enabling you to search and more easily discover millions of songs, all via a simple Google web search. If you're searching for music, "time to result" is really "time to music." Now, when you enter a music-related query — like the name of a song, artist or album — your search results will include links to an audio preview of those songs provided by our music search partners MySpace (which just acquired iLike) or Lala. When you click the result you'll be able to listen to an audio preview of the song directly from one of those partners. For example, if I search for [21st century breakdown], the first results provide links to songs from Green Day's new album. MySpace and Lala also provide links to purchase the full song.
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Net pirates to be ‘disconnected’ – It has asked Ofcom to monitor levels of file-sharing.
ISP TalkTalk said the plans were "ill-conceived" and said it was prepared to challenge measures "in the courts".
"What is being proposed is wrong in principle and won't work in practice," the firm said.
"In the event we are instructed to impose extra judicial technical measures we will challenge the instruction in the courts."
Lord Mandelson emphasised that cutting off internet connections would be a "last resort".
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Net pirates to be ‘disconnected’ – It has asked Ofcom to monitor levels of file-sharing.
ISP TalkTalk said the plans were "ill-conceived" and said it was prepared to challenge measures "in the courts".
"What is being proposed is wrong in principle and won't work in practice," the firm said.
"In the event we are instructed to impose extra judicial technical measures we will challenge the instruction in the courts."
Lord Mandelson emphasised that cutting off internet connections would be a "last resort".
- Books of The Times – ‘Painting Below Zero’ Is a James Rosenquist Self-Portrait – Review – NYTimes.com – I’m the one who gave steroids to Pop art,” Mr. Rosenquist cheerfully admits. He spends a good deal of time distinguishing his work from that of painters like Warhol and Lichtenstein. “I was never concerned with logos or brand names or movie stars, like Andy, for instance,” he writes. “Unlike Roy, I wasn’t interested in ironic simulations of pop media; I wanted to make mysterious pictures.”
Speaking of his generation of artists, he writes: “What united us was dread of the drip, the splash, the schmear, combined with an ironic attitude toward the banalities of American consumer culture. If anything, you might say we were antipop artists.”
- Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years – * Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content.
* Today's teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years – they jump from app to app to app seamlessly.
* Five years is a factor of ten in Moore's Law, meaning that computers will be capable of far more by that time than they are today.
* Within five years there will be broadband well above 100MB in performance – and distribution distinctions between TV, radio and the web will go away.
* "We're starting to make signifigant money off of Youtube", content will move towards more video.
* "Real time information is just as valuable as all the other information, we want it included in our search results."
* There are many companies beyond Twitter and Facebook doing real time.
* "We can index real-time info now – but how do we rank it?"