Mathew Ingram

HOW DO I RATE THEE? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS

If your company has any kind of consumer-facing Web presence--and most companies do--or you're an entrepreneur with your own website, chances are that you've run into one of the biggest grey areas on the Internet: How do you...

Blogging is alive and well and living everywhere

The news today that Silicon Alley Media Inc., a collection of tech and business blogs, has raised some funding is rekindling a debate among various tech and business blogs about the future of--surprise!--tech and business...

Google's Video Search Gadget: The Holy Grail of Search (at Seeking Alpha)

by: Mathew Ingram posted on: July 16, 2008 | about stocks: GOOG Full-text search of video has been the Holy Grail of search — or at least one of them — for years now, pursued by startups like Blinkx and others. The vast...

Spreed for Speed

Whenever I think of speed-reading, memories of late-night television info-mercials come to mind with promises of being able to read Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” in hours. This perception will be one of the major challenges facing...

Apple TV or XBox: Which Is the Living Room Winner? (at Seeking Alpha)

by: Mathew Ingram posted on: July 15, 2008 | about stocks: ) announced a deal yesterday that allows Xbox 360 owners to download movies through their game consoles, which appears to be another step in the software company’s...

Jason Calacanis retires - Death of the blogging A-list or just a prank?

Jason Calacanis, owner of Mahalo, and celebrity blogger, has just announced his retirement from blogging. This is either a complete non-story, the beginning of the end for blogging, or a wind-up, depending on who you listen to....

Yahoo: Merger of the Living Dead (at Seeking Alpha)

by: Mathew Ingram posted on: July 08, 2008 | about stocks: I think even infamous zombie-movie director George Romero would have felt outmatched by the ongoing Yahoo takeover saga, which has gone beyond drama into farce, then...

Judge Demands That YouTube Coughs Up IPs (at Seeking Alpha)

by: Mathew Ingram posted on: July 07, 2008 | about stocks: GOOG / VIA In the long-running Viacom vs. YouTube case — one that falls into the “desperately trying not to adapt” category — a judge has ruled that the Google owned...

Is Google Becoming a Content Company? (at Seeking Alpha)

by: Mathew Ingram posted on: July 03, 2008 | about stocks: GOOG I know it’s been a couple of days since this was announced, which in blogosphere terms is a lifetime ago, but something about the announcement of a deal between...

Will Today's Music Fans Buy What Nokia Is Selling? (at Seeking Alpha)

by: Mathew Ingram posted on: July 02, 2008 | about stocks: NOK / WMG ) now has three of the Big Four labels signed on for its upcoming “Comes With Music” service, which is expected to launch later this year. Although the terms...