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What is Squidoo?

Squidoo is a fast-growing new platform that leverages the power of online recommendation. Everyday enthusiasts, called lensmasters, build single page lenses on topics they care about and create context by pointing to content from blogs, Flickr, CafePress, Amazon, eBay, iTunes, and thousands of other affiliates.

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That inversion in the media marketplace is going to continue to happen. And not simply in the media marketplace but also in the technology marketplace, as the end nodes of the network are now the generators of the intellectual property rather than simply the recipients or the consumers of that technology. To us, that signals a transformation in how the market is emerging and obviously a huge amount of opportunity for those that are effectively able to position themselves to benefit from it.

The Power of the End Nodes

Blogs would be a welcome new addition to the Netscape Web portal. But it's hard to see how turning the site into a social networking hub would resurrect the Internet pioneer from its present position as an also-ran.

Social Networking Won't Lift Netscape from Web Limbo

Marty Ashby knows jazz inside and out. His organization is at the epicenter of the jazz world and is leading the industry forward. As Executive Producer of MCG Jazz, Marty has produced over 1,200 concerts in various cities and has created ten commercial albums, receiving three GRAMMY Awards from four nominations. Artists such as Nancy Wilson, Paquito D'Rivera, and The Count Basie Orchestra have all performed for and contributed to the success of the MCG Jazz label. The artists often devote their proceeds to MCG Jazz's parent organization, the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (MCG), a community arts and vocational training center in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

In this interview with Tim Zak, Marty charts his career from jazz musician in New York City, to director of orchestras in Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and finally to his current role as director of one of the country's top jazz performance and recording venues. For Marty, the spirit of collaboration and improvisation that characterizes America's unique music form, jazz, also infuses the culture of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild itself.

IT Conversations: Marty Ashby - The Future of Jazz

The rising tide of digital communication has not lifted all boats equally, and threatens to leave others stranded altogether, worry some of these panelists.

MIT World » : Innovation Everywhere—Why the World Isn’t Flat Enough

Samsung rolled out a 2.5-inch, 32GB flash drive that the company intends to market as a hard drive replacement unit. As it is with solid-state anything, it uses up just a fraction of the energy of devices with moving parts—in this case, 5% of the power of an old-fashoined spinning hard disk.

Samsung’s 32GB Flash Drive: Hard Disk Killer? - Gizmodo

Berggren and his colleagues have developed a tiny light detector that may lead to high-speed optical transmissions over interplanetary distances. The upshot could be real-time collection of large amounts of data from space, and ultimately color video transmissions between astronauts in outer space and scientists on Earth.

MIT professors attack last-million-mile problem - Computerworld

What is being proposed is more like building two roads into every town and up to every house, one smooth and well-maintained tarmac and the other a dirt track, and then letting Tesco and Waitrose bid for the right to use the good road.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Why the net should stay neutral

RENTAMARK.COM makes money by claiming ownership of 10,000 phrases, including “chutzpah,” “casual Fridays,” “.com,” “fraud investigation,” and “big breasts.”

Intellectual Property Run Amok