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Michael Gartenberg: First Bloggers joining us
A very interesting move by Jupiter Research – they have selected three
bloggers to review and comment their reports. The bloggers will do this
on their own blogs, while the analysts at Juper Research will be
commenting etc.

Open Source market research as a basis for higher value information?

[update]

I got a reply (not via a trackback, but actually I found it via Google Alerts):

http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/gartenberg/archives/007044.html

Frank Michlick asks if what we’re doing is “Open Source market research as a basis for higher value information?” We view it as another way of extending our conversation with the marketplace.

Which I guess, could be seen as a type of ‘open’ approach. Maybe the
term “open source market research” is going a bit too far, but I think
it a great idea.

Full Press Release

When looking at the data one should keep in mind that Sedo and
“domain-spiegel.de” originally were very much focused on the German
marked. While this has changed over the years, the increasing
popularity in .INFO names could be related to this fact. However
adaption of the new gTLDs (info/biz) has certainly improved.

Since the part of the secondary market covered in the press release
mostly is limited to the public auction markets, it would be very
interesting to also see numbers from the drop-name catchers such as pool.com.

Press-Release: Did-it, Enquiro, and Eyetools Uncover Google’s Golden Triangle

An eyetracking study reveals which areas on the Google website receive
the most exposure. Only the featured ads above the search results are
in the ‘hot’ area.

Wait till I come! � Wonderful idea

How to build a simply and cool-looking ‘puppet’ Nice stuff.

Ourmedia.org opens: Come on in, the media’s fine! | Ourmedia

Share your videos, audio files, photos, text or software – for free – with a global community of creative individuals.

So I guess the idea is basically to have a central place for Open
Content. I guess that the cost of operating a site like that will
probably easily outdo the cost of running Wikipedia, so who is going to foot the bill?

[update]
As johnny points out in an email to me, the question with regards to footing the bill is answered in their FAQ:

Drupal, an open-source content management platform, has agreed to host the site for free through its Bryght
hosted service. Other sites will also participate in this open
registry, storing material on their servers. Most importantly, the Internet Archive has agreed to provide free storage space and free bandwidth for the media files published by our members — forever.

Which is quite a commitment. But I am sure that if need be, people
probably also would be willing to donate for this service in a similar
fashion as they did for Wikipedia. Amazing things are happening.

After a continuous flow of rumours by the Silicon Valley Watcher(s), it’s finally official:

FlickrBlog: Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr

Congratulations – I am looking forward to seeing the results of this
cooperation. Gee, it almost feels like the start of a new DotCom boom

In Feld Thoughts: The Torturous World of Powerpoint Brad Feld covers what he would like to see in a pitch for VC, based on his work at Mobius Venture Capital, apparently based on Chris Wand‘s thoughts).

In general, that seems to be a good list of items to focus on, if you
are not just toying with some idea, but have an idea that requires
serious capital investment.

Catching up with the recent launch of the Yahoo! Developer Network – here’s Google’s code.google.com.

Open the doors, everyone… looks like the Internet is really becoming
the public space it should be. The future holds faster development happening all over the globe.

I know it’s a little late for a follow-up…

Netcraft: Panix Hijack Prompts ICANN Review of Resellers’ Role

Apparently Melbourne IT had their Reseller authenticate the transfer
request on their behalf, and they failed to verify legitimacy.

While I find that the new current transfer process does make it easier
to complete transfers, end users are still confused by the rules and
obligations involved. Especially those, who just want their service
provider to take care of any technical issues, and just want the
services to work.

A possible solution is to list the reseller as the admin contact, which
seems to common practice in Britain. The only downside is that if the
reseller goes out of business or ‘turns evil‘, it might take a bit of effort on the registrant’s end to re-gain control of the domain name.

For registration service providers and their customers a seamless from one registrar to another is desirable.

In the end, who are we doing all of this for? Is it not our business to
make things as easy for the consumers/end users as possible.

I almost agree with Ross:
Random Bytes…by Ross Rader :: Hard lessons for DRM users

Here’s where I disagree: Ross says: