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The Long Tale 
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
The least surprising thing about Google’s Chrome browser announcement was the reaction from most of the media that this was an attack on Microsoft. Google founders Sergey and Larry were both present at the press event, with Page apparently the more engaged on a regular basis with the project for the last two years. But Brin took most of th
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Why Twitter is winning
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Mon, 01 Sep. 2008
Twitter is winning and most of its competitors remain in denial. In spite of almost 5 months of unavailability of its most viral service, Twitter remains the platform of choice for most users. FriendFeed remains a hybrid of conversations and semi-realtime aggregator, capturing most of the energy of Google Reader as a citation engine but stubbornly refusing to allow its metadata to flow back int
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Goodbye, BitTorrent. Hello, Streaming.
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunch on Fri, 29 Aug. 2008
Comcast’s decision to cap monthy broadband usage at 250GB is being decried as the end of the Internet as we know it. Maybe so, but it can also be seen as the dawn of the Streaming Era. As th
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Free Internet Radio?
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
Last week on The Gillmor Gang and this weekend on TWiT, the subject of the sorry state of the music business came up and in particular the notion of “Free Internet Radio.” Part of the discussion was triggered by a threat (plea?) by the founder of the Pandora music service to shut down. Pandora employs an ingenuous strategy based on something called the Music Genome Project, which breaks dow
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The Role Of Social Media In Covering The Political Campaigns
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunch on Sat, 23 Aug. 2008
With just the weekend between now and the start of the major party conventions, the amazing thing about the New Media is just how little it has impacted so far on the story. No major leaks about the vice presidential nominations, no blogger unmaskings of damaging revelations about the candidates at the top of the ticket, no shaky video of loose talk or surrogates jockeying for position.
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The Invisible Social Revolution
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
With just the weekend between now and the start of the major party conventions, the amazing thing about the New Media is just how little it has impacted so far on the story. No major leaks about the vice presidential nominations, no blogger unmaskings of damaging revelations about the candidates at the top of the ticket, no shaky video of loose talk or surrogates jockeying for position.
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The Bearhug
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Sat, 16 Aug. 2008
Dave Winer used the bearhug to wrap his arms around Netscape’s version of RSS and not let go until a merged RSS was born. With Twitter’s announcement of “a minor change to the API that should have a major impact on the Twitter community” the time may be here to bearhug Twitter and
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Another Brick in the Wall
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Thu, 14 Aug. 2008
The battle for Tw*tter took another interesting turn as Identi.ca developer Brad Williams rolled out a bridge between Identi.ca and Twitter. Register for the beta service and all subsequent posts on Identi.ca will be reposted on Twitter, prepended with a user configurable flag that defaults to Identi
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The Zero Sum Games
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
Dare Obasanjo does a good job of gathering together the sad sack stories of a number of startup acquisitions. The rule of thumb he suggests is that rewriting in the acquirer’s technology base destroys the confidence of the startup’s developers, who
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I Want My iPhone TV
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunch on Thu, 07 Aug. 2008
The dog days of August lend themselves to kicking back and letting the world slide by. Since the advent of the Web 2.0 ecosystem, they’ve also been the province of a tech company version of the summer shows the networks play off - failed pilots, reality programming being tried out for the Big Show or another writer
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TV-Interactive
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Wed, 06 Aug. 2008
The dog days of August lend themselves to kicking back and letting the world slide by. Since the advent of the Web 2.0 ecosystem, they’ve also been the province of a tech company version of the summer shows the networks play off - failed pilots, reality programming being tried out for the Big Show or another writer’s strike, and ratings stinkers that can be buried outside of Sweeps months.
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Microsoft as in Free
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Wed, 06 Aug. 2008
IBM, Red Hat, Canonical/Ubuntu, and Novell announced an initiative at LinuxWorld today in San Fransisco to create a Microsoft-free environment. The strategy is simple: undercut Vista and Office in the enterprise with a software stack of
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Twitter and Identi.ca - State of the Union
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Mon, 04 Aug. 2008
Over the past weekend I recorded a special Gillmor Gang edition with Dustin Sallings, the inventor and chief proprietor of the famed TwitterSpy hack around Twitter’s late great Track feature. With Track over XMPP still disabled, a small but vocal group of Twitter users has used TwitterSpy, and another growing grou
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Water found on Yahoo!
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Sun, 03 Aug. 2008
Ever since Microsoft’s failed bid for Yahoo, we’ve all been waiting for some sign of water on the dead planet. For months an away team led by Carl Icahn has kept alive the possibility that the second most popular search company and most aggressive acquirer of Silicon Valley startups might be concealing a clue.
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Divide and Conquer
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Sat, 02 Aug. 2008
The news that Apple has extended its exclusive iPhone distribution deal with AT&T until 2010 closes the loop on the subsidized price of the 3G upgrade. It seems most observers think Steve Jobs has compounded a mistake he made in limiting the market for the revolutionary device to those early adopters hungry for the advanced Web experience and elegant design.
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Some Thoughts on Standards and Dare Obasanjo
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Thu, 31 Jul. 2008
I’m a big fan of negative gestures, something I’ve talked about over a long period of time. What I mean by that is the power that can be derived from not saying something, not liking something, not tipping a hat to something, etc. I’ve used (jokingly with a smidgen of truth) the John Dvorak test, where if John comes out strongly against something (blogging, podcasting, Twitter) it’s lik
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Running, Jumping, Standing Still
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Thu, 24 Jul. 2008
It hasn’t been a month yet and the parachutes are floating at Microsoft. Kevin Johnson’s sudden move to Juniper Networks comes less than 24 hours before the Microsoft analysts meeting. This is the new Microsoft, where Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie start running the company. It’s also the beginning of the end for the classic power centers at Microsoft - and not a moment too soon.
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Magic Bus
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Sun, 20 Jul. 2008
Note: If you think Twitter is a joke, or that Microsoft has no chance of being trusted with anything, or that Apple will fall to the surging citizen militia, or any other common wisdom of the Internets, please move along, I beg you.
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Back on Track
Steve Gillmor via TechCrunchIT on Wed, 16 Jul. 2008
Now that Twitter has gone public with its Summize acquisition and Evan Williams’ detailed discussion with Mike Arrington at FooCamp, we can put to rest the garbage that Twitter is not per
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