Company of the Week: IBM

"International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or, colloquially, Big Blue; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century; it was founded in 1888 and incorporated (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R)) on June 15, 1911, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1916. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. With almost 330,000 employees worldwide and revenues of $US91 billion annually (figures from 2005), IBM is the largest information technology company in the world, and holds more patents than any other technology company."
Source: Wikipedia

Corporate site:
ibm.com

News:
IBM - Topix.net

Blogs:
IBM developerWorks: Blogs
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
IBM - CNET News
IBM Watch - eWEEK

Finance:
IBM - SeekingAlpha

Audio:
IBM - EarningsCast
IBM - Podtech.net

Bookmarks:
http://del.icio.us/Monten/IBM

Video of the Day: UC Berkeley on Google Video

Keywords: University of California, Berkeley

"The University of California, Berkeley is the preeminent public research and teaching institution in the nation . From classic literature to emerging technologies, the curricula of our 130 academic departments span the wide world of thought and knowledge. Supported by the people of California, the university has embraced public service as an essential part of its mission since 1868. The content on this page —drawn from campus seminars, courses and events—is just one part of UC Berkeley's commitment to the broadest possible dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of our state, the nation and the world."
Source: Google Video
[via Techmeme]

See also:
Audio of the Day: UC Berkeley Courses & Events Live and On-demand - The World 2 Come

Person of the Day: Dmitri Shostakovich

"Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (September 25 [O.S. September 12] 1906–August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. He had a complex relationship with the Soviet government, suffering two official denunciations of his music in 1936 and 1948 and the periodic banning of his work. At the same time, he remained the most popular Soviet composer of his generation and received a number of accolades and state awards, and served in the Supreme Soviet.

After an initial avant-garde period, Shostakovich wrote primarily in the romantic idiom, drawing heavily on the influence of Mahler. However, he combined this with atonality and on occasion tone rows. His music frequently includes sharp contrasts and elements of the grotesque. His greatest works are generally considered to be his symphonies and string quartets, fifteen of each; other works include operas, six concertos and a substantial quantity of film music."
Source: Wikipedia

Video:
Shostakovich - Google Video
Shostakovich - YouTube

Images:
Shostakovich - Flickr

Company of the Week: Adobe Systems

"Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, United States that was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. They founded Adobe after leaving Xerox PARC in order to further develop and commercialize the PostScript page description language. Adobe played a significant role in sparking the desktop publishing revolution when Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in the LaserWriter printer product line in 1985. The company name Adobe comes from the Adobe Creek, which ran behind the house of one of the company's founders.

Adobe acquired its former competitor, Macromedia, in December 2005."
Source: Wikipedia

Corporate site:
adobe.com

News:
Adobe Systems - Topix.net

Finance:
ADBE - SeekingAlpha

Blogs:
Adobe Blogs
Acrobat User Community Blogs
Adobe - Scoble

Audio:
Adobe Systems Incorporated - PodTech.net
ADBE - EarningsCast

Bookmarks:
http://del.icio.us/Monten/Adobe

See also:
Company of the Week - The World 2 Come

What's up with Tribe.net? - 3

Keywords: Tribe.net, social network

Tribe.net is back in the game!

Blogs:
Tribe.net Company Blog - tribe.net

See also:
What's up with Tribe.net? - 2 - The World 2 Come

What's up with Tribe.net? - 2

Keywords: Tribe.net, social network


Blogs:
Mark Pincus Blog
Mark Pincus - Valleywag
Tribe - Valleywag

See also:
What's up with Tribe.net? - The World 2 Come

Blog of the Day: Anousheh Ansari Space Blog

Keywords: Anousheh Ansari

"Anousheh Ansari Space Blog was made by friends at the X PRIZE Foundation to support Anousheh in her wish to inspire others with her historic spaceflight — the first woman to buy her own ticket to space.

So far as we know, Anousheh will also be the first person ever to Blog From Space!"
Source: Anousheh Ansari Space Blog
[via NevilleHobson.com]

Photos:
Anousheh Ansari - Photo Gallery
Space Explorer - Flickr

Company of the Week: Google

"Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA) is an American public corporation, first incorporated as a privately held corporation on 7 September 1998, that designed and manages the Internet's most used search engine. The company has approximately 8,000 employees and is based in Mountain View, California."
Source: Wikipedia

Corporate site:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html

News:
Google - Topix.net

Blogs:
Official Google Blog
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
Google Blogoscoped
InsideGoogle
John Battelle's Searchblog
Search Engine Watch Blog

Finance:
GOOG - SeekingAlpha
GOOG - Blogging Stocks

Bookmarks:
http://del.icio.us/Monten/Google

Audio:
Google - IT Conversations
Google - Podtech.net
GOOG - EarningsCast
Daily SearchCast

Video:
From the Googleplex - Google Video

Photos:
Google - Flickr

See also:
Google - The World 2 Come

Video of the Day: Our Lives, Our Facebooks

Keywords: Facebook

Image: Flickr

"Students at a large number of American colleges and universities have come to rely on The Facebook (http://facebook.com) as a vital supplement to their social lives. A social connector website, Facebook serves the information needs of students who have perpetually in-flux social networks. As a result, frequency and penetration of student use is remarkable. In this presentation, a longitudinal analysis of Facebook use by freshmen at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be presented. Use patterns will be analyzed, with a special concentration on factors that contributed to the product's success."
Source: Google Video

News:
Facebook - Topix.net

Blogs:
Facebook Blog - Facebook
Inside Facebook
The Facebook Book
Facebook - Okdork.com
Facebook Watch
Facebook Talk
Ban Facebook
Facebook Paul

Bookmarks:
http://del.icio.us/Monten/FaceBook

Audio:
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of TheFacebook and Jim Breyer, Accel Managing Partner - Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

Photos:
Facebook - Flickr

Video:
Facebook - Google Video
Facebook - YouTube
10,000 Companies Use Facebook, Co-Founder Tells Beet.TV - Beet.TV
Facebook opens up - Bambi Francisco

Discuss:
Kids In Facebook and Myspace - Myspace

Crime of the Day: Canada's Seal Hunt

Keywords: seal hunting

"Canada’s commercial seal hunt is the only legal and government-sanctioned hunt in Canada that allows hunters to exclusively target baby animals – the overwhelming majority between 2 and 12 weeks old."
Source: stopthesealhunt.ca
[via Grigor Gatchev]

Where did this evil come from? Shame on you, Canada!

Company of the Week: Amazon.com

Keywords: Jeff Bezos

"Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American electronic commerce company based in Seattle, Washington. It was one of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet and was one of the iconic stocks of the late 1990s dot-com bubble. After the bubble burst Amazon faced skepticism about its business model, but it made its first annual profit in 2003. Amazon also owns Alexa Internet, A9.com, and the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)."
Source: Wikipedia

Corporate site:
amazon.com

News:
Amazon.com - Topix.net

Finance:
AMZN - SeekingAlpha
AMZN - Blogging Stocks

Blogs:
Amazon Web Services Blog
Amazon.com - shmula
Amazon.com - paidContent.org

Audio:
Amazon Wire
Jeff Bezos - IT Conversations
Werner Vogels - IT Conversations
AMZN - EarningsCast

Bookmarks:
Amazon.com - del.icio.us

Photos:
Amazon.com - Flickr

4,000 del.icio.us links

Keywords: del.icio.us, tags

4,000 bookmarks in my del.icio.us account!
http://del.icio.us/Monten

Blogs:
del.icio.us blog

Video:
Getting Started with Del.icio.us Social Bookmarking - Google Video
Evangelism Del.icio.us - Google Video

Audio:
Web 2.0 Voices: del.icio.us creator Joshua Schachter - PodTech.net

Bulgaria: Tablet May Have Oldest Writings

Keywords: writing, prehistory, archaeology

"An almost 7,000-year old stone tablet found in Bulgaria bears carvings that might turn out to be one of the world's oldest inscriptions, a prominent Bulgarian archaeologist said. 'These signs are unique and apparently bear a meaning,' Nikolai Ovcharov told a press conference. Ovcharov said he had received the tablet from a private collector who had unearthed it 20 years ago."
Source: Townhall.com

News:
Archaeology - Topix.net
Anthropology - Topix.net

Blogs:
Discover Ancient Bulgaria
Archaeology in Europe
Archaeology - About.com
ArchaeoBlog

Person of the Day: Dave Winer

"Dave Winer (b. May 2, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA) is a software developer who created or was a lead contributor to several of the most popular XML dialects and APIs related to web publishing: RSS 2.0, XML-RPC, OPML, and the MetaWeblog API. He is also the author of Scripting News, one of the first weblogs."
Source: Wikipedia

Blogs:
Scripting News

Interview:
Dave Winer - AfterTV

Audio:
Dave Winer - IT Conversations

Video:
Who is Dave Winer? - Google Video

Fun:
Download the Dave Winer "Bastards of the Blogs" card - Those Bastards!

Question of the Day: Is Greed Good?

Keywords: greed, Wall Street (film)

"The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good.

Greed is right.

Greed works.

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.

And greed -- you mark my words -- will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
Source: American Rhetoric

Audio of the Day: American Rhetoric

Keywords: rhetoric, history of the United States

"Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two."
Source: American Rhetoric
[via Podtech.net]

You could listen to:
- John F. Kennedy
- Bill Clinton
- Martin Luther King
- Ronald Reagan
- Jimmy Carter
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Steve Jobs

See also:
Audio of the Day - The World 2 Come

Blogs on Homeland Security and Terrorism Issues

Keywords: terrorism, homeland security

Some interesting blogs on homeland security and terrorism issues:

LAPD Blog
http://lapdblog.typepad.com/lapd_blog/

Global Guerrillas
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/

Homeland Security Watch
http://www.hlswatch.com/

W. David Stephenson blogs on homeland security et al.
http://stephensonstrategies.com/

Counterterrorism Blog
http://counterterrorismblog.org/

Thomas P.M. Barnett
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/

John Robb's Weblog
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/johnrobb/

Sic Semper Tyrannis 2006
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/

Schneier on Security
http://www.schneier.com/blog/

ZenPundit
http://zenpundit.blogspot.com/

Marketing Podcasts

For Immediate Release Podcast
http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/

Across the Sound New Marketing Podcast
http://www.acrossthesound.net/

The Advertising Show
http://www.theadvertisingshow.com/en/articles/search.asp

MarketingMonger
http://www.marketingmonger.com/

WebmasterRadio.FM
http://www.webmasterradio.fm/episodes/

The Innovative Marketer
http://theinnovativemarketer.blogs.com/ideas/

SES 2006 - The Chris Pirillo Show
http://www.thechrispirilloshow.com/category/ses-2006/

On the Record...Online
http://ipressroom.com/pr/corporate/info/Podcast-Center.asp

Inside PR
http://www.insidepr.ca/

Oneupweb's Weekly Podcast — Straight Up Search™
http://podcasts.oneupweb.com/straightupsearch.htm

PodTech.net
http://www.podtech.net/

Marketing - IT Conversations

Web 2.0 "Masterpieces"

Image: Dilbert.com

1999: eyeballs, eyeballs, eyeballs…
2006: AJAX, AJAX, AJAX…

More “masterpieces”:
- create AJAX-enabled podcasts
- incentivize blogging network effects
- integrate user-centred ad delivery
- undefined citizen-media widgets
- integrate rich-client tagclouds
- post Cluetrain synergies
- share standards-compliant folksonomies
- beta-test A-list life-hacks
- remix data-driven web services
- post blogging blogospheres
Source: Emptybottle.org - The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator

Stop this madness! Solve real problems! There are lots of them… Create useful services!

See also:
Web Economy Bullshit Generator

Blogs:
Getting outside the frothy bubble - Robert Scoble
An interview with investor Paul Graham of Y Combinator - Techcrunch
Ycombinator says Yprofit? - Dead2.0
Eight Traps of Disruptors - Michael Urlocker Examines Disruption and Disruptive Processes
Comic Strip Blogger
bLaugh

Company of the Week: Apple Computer

Keywords: Steve Jobs

"Apple Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL, LSE: ACP) is an American computer technology corporation with worldwide annual sales in its fiscal year 2005 (ending 24 September 2005) of US$ 13.9 billion and 14,800 employees in several countries. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple develops, sells, and supports a series of personal computers, portable media players, computer software, and computer hardware accessories. The company's most well known products include the Macintosh line of personal computers, the Mac OS X operating system, the iPod portable music player, and the iTunes media player. Apple operates retail stores in the United States, Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom. The stores carry most of Apple's products as well as many third-party products and offer on-site support and repair for Apple hardware and software.

For a variety of reasons, ranging from its philosophy of comprehensive aesthetic design to its countercultural, even indie roots as a company that differentiates itself from the rest of the industry by 'thinking different,' Apple has cultivated a customer base unusually devoted to the company and its brand. This so-called Cult of Mac is as cherished by longtime Apple customers as it is inexplicable to outsiders."
Source: Wikipedia

Corporate site:
apple.com

News:
Apple Computer - Topix.net

Blogs:
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
The Apple Core - ZDNet.com
The Cult of Mac Blog
Apple - paidContent.org

Finance:
AAPl - SeekingAlpha
AAPL - Blogging Stocks

Audio:
Apple Voices - PodTech.net
AAPL - EarningsCast
MacCast
Apple News Log

Photos:
Apple Computer - Flickr
Steve Jobs - Flickr

Video:
Apple Computer - Google Video
Apple Computer - YouTube

Discuss:
Mac Geeks - Myspace
Mac OS X - tribe.net

Bookmarks:
http://del.icio.us/Monten/Apple

See also:
Steve Jobs - The World 2 Come

My Dream Media Team - 2

Image: Real Madrid - Wikipedia

I think Michael Arrington, Om Malik, Matt Marshall, Rafat Ali, Tom Foremski, John Furrier, Robert Scoble and Danny Sullivan should work together. Make an alliance. Coordinate your efforts. Build the next media empire.

See also:
My Dream Media Team - The World 2 Come