Will News Corp Buy LinkedIn?

TechCrunch UK is reporting that:
An unconfirmed rumour has reached me via a reliable source that LinkedIn is in talks with media giant News Corporation over a possible buyout in January 2008.
This kind of move would really make sense given the growing importance of the “Social Graph” and the potential for LinkedIn to play a role [...]

Giant Global Graph - Duh, it’s the people that matter

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Techmeme is tracking a discussion about the Social Graph that got started with this post by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee at his blog. Sir Tim asks the question is the Social Graph the next big thing. [...]

Apple Says Don’t Give Up On Vista


Amazon Releases Kindle e-book Reader

Amazon introduced its $399 Kindle portable e-book reader device, and a library of more than 90,000 books available for download through the Kindle Store for about $9.99 each.
One nice feature of the Kindle is its ability to connect to a wireless network through a new service called Amazon Whispernet, which enables content downloads without a [...]

Vividas’ Anne Keegan on Streaming High Definition Video

Anne Keegan of Vividas met with me at Digital Hollywood to discuss streaming full screen high definition video.
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Vividas provides technology and services that enable video streaming live or on demand, full-screen and up to high-definition quality. Vividas’ technology allows the user to view content over a variety of bandwidths without needing to [...]

Katie Mocks Dan

Here’s the original video of Dan Rather that Katie is talking about.

SyncTV Launches TV Content Download Service

SyncTV, a Pioneer spinoff, launches today with a new TV download service that will compete with iTunes. The service is in private test form today, offering an online a la carte channel lineup with downloadable DVD-quality programs.
The plan is that you will be able to subscribe to a channel and each channel should [...]

Neighborhood America’s David Bankston Talks About Enterprise Social Networks

David Bankston, Executive Vice President and CTO of Neighborhood America, sat down with me to talk about Enterprise Social Networks. Neighborhood America is in the business of helping enterprises create and manage social networks. They provide a software as a service based platform to enable uploads of user generated content, user web pages, [...]

Gracenote’s Jim Hollingsworth Talks About Powering The Digital Media Experience

Jim Hollingsworth, SVP of Gracenote, met with me at Digital Hollywood. Jim was kind enough to go through interview twice, as it appeared our first take didn’t seem to record. It took some work, but I was able to recover the first interview session and I’m glad because the first take is almost [...]

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