Between last week’s news that Google might be putting in a feature to block flash ads from automatically playing, and this week’s news that Apple is including ad-blocking as part of the Safari browser for mobile, am I the only one who wonders how the ad-supported web economy will survive?
I haven’t had any word from my hosting provider about what the real server path to the site is, so no testing for now. Still keeping my fingers crossed that using it will speed things up a bit. In the meantime: Via Scripting News, I see that Dan Gillmor puts into more elequent words the…
Normally, I respect what Preston Galla writes about over at Computerworld, but yesterday’s article just seemed like a whole lot of FUD to me. The BBC reports that researchers at the University of Texas at Austin were able to take completely anonymous data from Flickr and Twitter, run an algorithm on it, and from that…
Lots of upgrading since last night. First it was the new version of Twhirl, 0.8 with the additional Friendfeed support. On my Vista desktop last night it had some stability issues after I first installed it and tried connecting to Twitter and Friendfeed at the same time. It crashed a couple of times on me,…
Jevon, from blogtrack.com is working on a fix as we speak. Of course since I have lost the ability to ftp to my own domain, I don’t know when anyone will actually get this update! And the hosting company was doing so well there for awhile..tsk tsk. Update: according to their site news, the security…
It’s been an issue before, but firms have always been able to work around the edges, limiting the impact those efficiencies had on their overall billable hours. This feels different. The entire point of AI tools is to create significant efficiencies across the business world. Not using them will end many client relationships. They won’t accept that level of inefficiency. On the other hand, a firm investing in AI technology does not get a return on investment if their revenue method is hours worked.