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Some of eBay’s sellers are angry. They’re angered over the auction giant’s planned changes to its fee structure and feedback system. A portion of sellers are so angered about the no-ifs-ands-or-buts-like method with which the marketplace is enacting the changes that they’ve coalesced and have threatened to strike. And now they’ve set a date, reports Lenora Chu of Fortune Small Business.
Actually, several dates. The whole five-day week of February 19-25 to be precise. Yep, they’re striking on President’s Day. (Those among them who are American citizens, anyhow.)
One can understand their collective grievance. It’s not so much the alteration to the auction fees. It’s that they will no long be given the option to deliver negative feedback and commentary to buyers, and thus affect their public user ratings.
Instead, if conflicts during the sales process arise, sellers will be required to file tedious complaints with eBay’s Security & Resolution Center, a process guaranteed to take more than a few clicks for merchants big and small to accomplish.
Why is this change being made? Well, there is likely to have been more complaints filed with eBay’s SRC by buyers than sellers. Far more. So one would suspect that site administrators have simply caved to popular demand and are making it more difficult for distributors of various goods to send criticisms the way of distributees.
But it must now be evident to the company’s executives that the very public dispute over the proposed amendments has reached a level of serious concern. It does not help eBay at present for the media to be giving the most vocal of sellers upset over the imminent move. (February 20 marks the date the new rules are to be put in place.)
Will eBay eventually be forced to alter course and perhaps reverse its controversial decision? Yes and no.
The company will likely not perform a complete shift to the past. But it will presumably be required to make further edits to its feedback system, following which all users may be forced to jump through several more hoops than is currently necessary to register disagreements and objections. I reckon this would be a reasonable negotiation for all site members to make.
There are two primary things that make sites, services and applications successful. Marketing is one. Design is the other. Let’s focus on the latter here.
Mind you, I don’t necessarily mean to say looks are everything. (Though visual appearances are no doubt important.) Rather, I mean to highlight the code beneath the candy coat.
Stacey Higginbotham of GigaOM today announced a $22 million fundraising effort by Coverity, a software company that offers businesses the chance to check their code structures for weak links as they are created. And, frankly, I can understand how the specialist has managed to net such an investment.
It all has to do with impressions and execution. There are a lot of businesses - startups and well-established entities alike - who wish to prove themselves to be of a class greater than the competition. Businesses willing to invest a bit more to stand out for both potential and existing clients, and perform the best they are able.
Look at me. I sound like a motivational coach or a corporate strategist.
In all seriousness, those businesses looking to move ahead are of course interested in getting as much help as needed to “get the job done,” as it were. And some - particularly those which rely on software to pay the bills - get help from companies like Coverity.
So much help in fact that Coverity, having just received financing from Foundation Capital and Benchmark Capital, are claiming to be on track to produce revenue of $25-30 million in 2008. Yep, the same year the check(s) got written. Ambitious, huh?
Yeah, a pretty nice level to aim at. Yet, having been in business for five years now, Coverity has likely shown its merit to clients time and time again, and so I would peg its chance of reaching its goal as something quite possible - if not probable.
As in the culinary industry, success is in how you meld and manipulate your ingredients. Software designers know this all too well. That’s why a number of those designers - Mozilla and Cisco, to name a couple - seek guidance from Coverity. And why Coverity has gotten the green it has sought.
The 58th annual Berlin International Film Festival is currently winding down, and with it will go the sixth annual Berlinale Talent Campus, a workshop for 350 up-and-coming filmmakers.
Sara P. at YouTube Blog is filling readers and viewers in on “Garage Studio,” an opportunity for the students to work on original productions with well-known filmmakers such as Mike Figgis, the director of Leaving Las Vegas. Besides the normal week-long seminar filled with lectures, classes and panel discussions, Garage Studio lets the aspiring filmmakers work with state of the art equipment to make short films made specifically for the Internet. All four of the final productions can currently be viewed at this YouTube channel.
With YouTube running their own short film contest recently, and situations such as this one in Berlin, it is fascinating to watch how the market for short films has grown over the past few years. Once relegated strictly to film festivals, and running between feature-length movies on pay cable channels, short films were always difficult to find, an many talented artists suffered from a lack of exposure. If it wasn’t for venues such as YouTube, who knows if sizable audience would have ever gotten to see these films by the possible future stars of film making? We’ve embedded one below for you to enjoy (It Could Happen To You by Juliana Block), and highly recommend you check out the channel for the other three, as well as some behind-the-scenes clips.
If you happen to be feeling especially brave, the Campus is taking applications for the 2009 seminar now.
Are social networks healthy? That is what is now being asked by an increasing number of analysts today in response to the growing number of violent crimes and suicides related to the world of MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and other sites.
In a so-called “Freakonomics quorum” arranged with six “wise people,” Stephen J. Dubner at The New York Times recently questioned if social networking technology has “made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective? And in a guest post published earlier today on Center Networks, Matt Harwood picks apart the more basic and straightforward question: “Are social networks responsible for teen suicides?”
The general consensus among all viewpoints expressed in both instances mentioned above is that social networks are on the whole beneficial, but do have their downsides. A summary which I can agree with.
As with most things deemed “newsworthy” in this day and age, anything representative of a negative occurrence or development typically achieves greater notoriety than anything positive. This is true when considering events ranging from the political to the technological and far beyond. So there is something to be said for maintaining a sort of sensible view of things that, upon immediate glance, appear quite shocking. (In some cases, rightly so, I should add.)
What do I mean exactly? Well, on the whole, I can tell you that the stories referencing an alarming number of suicides by young people in a particular region of Wales are very disheartening. They show that the influence of connections made on the Internet can be much more impactful for some individuals than had been widely perceived many years ago. So there is understandably a quest now being undertaken by privacy and health advocates to emphasize caution to network users and push network developers to incorporate into member accounts more powerful monitors and controls to try to remedy the present situation.
But the subjects of convenience and unparalleled user empowerment - in both social and economic senses - that must also be given a fair shake. The good must be measured for what it offers as well as does the bad.
And in the social networking universe, the advantages outweigh the faults. Exploits must be addressed, absolutely. But networks are inherently great devices. Though a percentage of Web users find them useless, redundant, and banal, tens of millions have found such services to expedite tasks - for work or personal purposes - and essentially streamline their lives significantly. There is, after all, something important to saving time and energy. That is what allows for individual and societal advancement.
So, while social networks do need further development to prioritize user happiness and safety, it behooves us to take any disconcerting and unfortunate headlines extracted from the realm of “BeboSpacebook” and hold them in perspective.
Some advise to concerned parents: If the use of social networks online by your children worries you, don’t do the instinctual. Don’t restrict them from those sites. Instead, teach them (as well as yourselves) as much as possible about any and all networks. Knowledge is a fantastic repellant of ignorance and disastrous behavior.
In a highly unusual occurrence for Amazon, the company’s S3 storage service had an outage yesterday. It left many people scratching their heads. Late yesterday evening, the corporation has decided to take the open explanation path and let the public know what happened behind the scenes.
Nicholas Carr of Rough Type passed along the explanation that Amazon gave to everyone as to what caused this problem. It seems that at approximately 3:30 AM PST on the 15th, a user started sending a high volume of authentication requests through to one of the S3 data centers. Amazon saw this happening, but did not move more capacity through at that time. And when another customer slammed them with requests less than half an hour later, the downfall of S3 commenced. The authentication service was pushed over its maximum level, and it took them time to move more capacity into the right areas. Essentially they ended up with a denial of service attack.
Whether intentional or not, we don’t know. Considering the size of some S3 customers, one has to wonder how two customers could have suddenly needed to send that many requests through to the authentication server. (According to a supposedly leaked internal email that Mr. Carr shows on his blog, at least one Amazon executive wonders the same thing.)
As the S3 storage service is used by services as large as Twitter, this could have had some fairly serious ramifications if it had happened in the middle of the day.
While the questions are sure to linger for some time, Amazon is already taking steps to ensure things like this can not happen again. They are taking steps to up their capacity, build a service health dashboard for customers and add more defenses around the authentication systems.
It is refreshing to see a company being so forthright with their explanations and pointing out their systemic failings. What happened here should have been avoidable. Considering how they tout their service to be greatly scalable with superb uptime, they will have to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.
It seems comScore just can’t get enough of studying every aspect of your online life, and video is the latest target of their stat-crunching ways.
Leo Blanco of 901AM points us to their newest study about how users of YouTube engage the service and other video sites around the Internet. The heaviest users of the site, who spend an average of fourteen-hours a month browsing videos and make up 20% of their viewers, also seem to be the likeliest to head out to more niche-style sites, like MegaVideo.com and Youku.com, to see what they have to offer. In other words: online video addicts are addicts through-and-through.
The next level of users, who make up 30% of the audience, spend just over an hour a month on YouTube. Unlike their heavier using cousins, they tend to go to more destination-specific sites, such as ABC.com or CNN.com, for more focused video such as news or TV clips.
And the last group, who make up 50% of YouTube’s users, only spend a few minutes per month on the site. Instead, they spend roughly 13 hours per week watching ordinarily old broadcast television.
With the amazing breadth of content on YouTube, you have to wonder why people feel the need to go elsewhere to get more of their fix? True, competition in a marketplace is always nice, but what are these “power users” looking for that is so specific that they have to go hit up niche sites? Are they looking for better quality? Specific subjects? Or do are they simply so addicted to Internet video that they need more sources to satisfy their cravings?
Now that the interview frequency for Mashable Conversations is shaping up to be just about a daily conversation, it behooves us to do some weekend wrap-up posts that recap the conversations for the week.
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My favorite so far was actually a re-run from the week before. News of Will.i.am joining up with Tiny Pictures gave us a reason to present the Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas interview, in which we talked about file sharing, the future of the big record labels, and Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama. Best quote from the interview? “New Media is [fscking] dope.”
The embed is available below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here.
You can check out Will.I.Am’s Blog here.
The interview that kicked off the week was a conversation with Alex Quilici, the CEO of YouMail. Aside from an uncanny ability to pronounce his name correctly on the first try, the other thing I learned from our conversation was that I had no idea that the business of giving away free voice could be so lucrative, or the targetted advertising side on SMS and email advertising could be so effective. This is definitely one of the more eye-opening conversations I’ve had in a while.
The embed is available below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here.
You can check out YouMail here.
I also had quite an interesting interview with ReframeIt’s Bobby Fishkin. Mr. Fishkin has put together a system that effectively allows you to scrawl in the margins of any web page, a concept that doesn’t sound that revolutionary at first. (It recalls endless numbers of implementations of website chat modules or the infamous web-based PostIts!) The thing is, once I started playing with this thing after our discussion, I really liked it, and it may become a permanent part of my essential toolkit.
The embed is available below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here.
You can check out ReFrameIt here.
We also aired a couple of video interviews taken by guest host Brad Hunstable during this year’s Open Web Awards ceremony. One of the more interesting of the whole set was one of the unnamed guest ‘Jim’ of Cre8buzz.
The embed is available below, or you can download the MP4 file directly here.
You can check out cre8buzz here.
The other was a short conversation and intro from whitelabel social networking service provider NetModular’s Jesse Tayler.
The embed is available below, or you can download the MP4 file directly here.
You can check out netmodular here.
Virgin America has sponsored our MashMeet DC REMIX with a 2 round trip ticket giveaway. (See below.) Also, there are only 2 sponsorship spots still available, so please contact me immediately. Further information and tickets will available next week.
As a reminder, in correlation with the upcoming Politics Online Conference, MashMeet DC REMIX will be a twist on our MashMeet platform and will incorporate presentations, food and music all within a private space. The 170 person event will be held on March 5th at 7 pm in Ogilvy PR’s DC offices. Myself, Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins (who is speaking at the Politics Online Conference) and Adam Ostrow will be in attendance. Tickets will be available soon.
We are still looking for several sponsors, so please contact me immediately if you are interested. Presentations will be streamed via the Web on Mashable and our 2 affiliates for this event, The Social Times and Ogilvy PR’s 360° Digital Influence group.
Thanks to Virgin America for providing the ticket raffle….
Thanks to Virgin America, we will have 2 round trip tickets to raffle off at the event (*Terms and Conditions at the bottom of the post). Virgin America serves the major “tech hubs” of the United States including San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle and Las Vegas! On a personal note, I flew on Virgin America recently and it was not only comfortable, but the TV and Movie options are amazing. Plus, I got to play Doom!
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Full Terms and Conditions: the promo code will deduct 100% of the ticket base fare. Promo code can only be used towards newly-booked travel and cannot be applied to prior bookings. All travel must be completed by May 31, 2008. If travel is changed to a date after May 31, 2008, the promo code discount will become inapplicable and the guest will be responsible for the full air fare, including any increase. Please note that seats are subject to availability and may not be available on all flights. Blackout dates apply: February 14 – 18 and May 22 – 26, 2008. Fares, routes and schedules are subject to change without notice. This offer is not redeemable for cash. Free tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. The guest must pay Passenger Facility Charges of up to $9 each way, September 11th Security Fees of up to $5 each way and a Federal Segment Tax of $3.40 per domestic segment. A segment is a takeoff and landing.
Though Google is often said to be moving well ahead its primary competition (Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.) as far as new innovations are concerned, it is really behind the times with respect to some of the smaller things in life.
Case in point: the post scheduling feature long found as standard inside various independent blogging platforms.
Yes, it’s true. While millions of Internet authors fortunate to lay roots with services like Automattic’s WordPress and SixApart’s TypePad, those digital penmen and penwomen who’ve taken a liking to Google’s Blogger over the years have had to contend with the lack of a scheduler in the standard software design.
But no longer. According to a new memo by Jason Wilson on the Blogger in Draft website, Blogger users won’t have to stick by their computers, tediously watching the clock, waiting to click the Publish button. Google has finally incorporated a scheduling feature inside its popular blogging software that will allow users to spend their idle hours climbing mountains, watching sunsets, spending time with family and friends, and generally been freed of their screens.
Keep in mind, the feature isn’t yet part of the full-fledged Blogger system. Users will need to sign in through ‘http://draft.blogger.com‘ to put some snazzy time delay magic on their posts. But hey, it’s something. And it couldn’t have come sooner enough.
(Image Source: Blogger In Draft)
According to Richard Lawler of Engadget, Samsung is getting a lot closer to the point where the Internet and TV are to become far more integrated. It is doing so through software burrowed inside a device the company is calling See’N'Search.
The new See’N'Search is a set-top box that reads the closed captions on a television show, as well as listens for keywords, to search for related Internet articles to the content you are currently watching. Say you’re watching the news and they do a story about the President, links to information on the President will appear at the bottom of the screen. For programs such as scripted shows, the system will pull up information on the actors as well as whatever they are discussing in the show.
Furthermore, while it may be annoying to have information covering the bottom portion of your screen, you can instead choose to have any requested info show up on handheld devices or a computer connected to the local network.
As with most new technologies, this will probably be the tip of the iceberg of what functionalities they will come up with down the road. It’s a bit hard to imagine that this solution can offer truly in-depth information. People who eat and breath the Internet will find search results lacking in great quality. But it will be good for casual users of the Web. For someone non-Net-savvy, a basic, interface handed via a remote control could be a sufficient expansion in the power of traditional television.
While we are probably still a ways off from full TV/Internet integration, this is a good first step in that direction, and makes one hopeful of what may just be a few years away.
A video (warning: autoplay is enabled) demonstration of Samsung’s See’N'Search technology can be found here.
Guess who’s attending the 2008 Republican National Convention? That is, besides McCain, Rush, and all the other GOP devotees.
Google! Yes, Google. The company is serving as the convention’s Official Innovation Provider, said convention president and CEO Maria Cino. The announcement was, very appropriately, first made on the convention’s own YouTube channel, and later followed with a press release published on the organization’s main website.
The relationship Google will have with the GOP is to be purely technical, of course. No partisanism to speak of. (As it should be.) According to the description laid out by the convention’s organizers, Google will “enhance the GOP’s online presence with new applications, search tools, and interactive video.” Google will also employ its “proven online marketing techniques” to spread the reach of the GOPs message to as large a virtual audience as it can gather in September.
Google will work in tandem with the technical team at the convention, which is being held this summer at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The company will offer visitors to GOPConvention2008.com several products to use, including several pieces of the Google Apps suite, the Google Maps utility, and SketchUp, its hallmark 3D modeling program. It will also work to owners options to connect to the convention through mobile devices and will establish bridges with blogs.
Lawsuits are nothing new for Google. Most of them lean towards the silly and patent-infringement type. But when they’re getting accused of intellectual property theft, it’s a whole other ball game.
According to Elinor Mills of CNET, Google has received a lawsuit to the tune of $25 million dollars over their supposed theft of the idea for Google Sky.
For those unfamiliar with it, Sky is the portion of the Google Earth application that allows users to turn their viewers from the Earth itself to the stars and galaxies that surround us. The man filing the lawsuit, Jonathan Cobb, started working as a contractor for Google in 2006, and at some point during his tenure he says he shared an idea for something like Sky with a similar interface and functionality.
As this suit is being positioned as an accusation of intellectual property theft, it’s going to be a tough case for the complainant, or plaintiff, to prove. The burden to establish proof will be fully on his shoulders to: show the original piece he wrote; who it was sent to that was possibly involved with the creation of Sky; and also prove that they indeed read whatever it is he wrote.
This is the primary reason that television shows specifically say that they will not accept unsolicited scripts because, if they would end up using ideas similar to ones in said unsolicited pieces, they could encounter issues similar to what Google now has to contend with.
All said, it will be quite a while before this case sees any sort of resolution.
You didn’t think the BitTorrent diehards would take Comcast’s conviction, as stated quite publicly this past week to filter out file sharing from its network, sitting down, did you? Of course not. It would be highly unusual for them to remain motionless on the sidelines.
TorrentFreak’s Ernesto reported yesterday evening that “several BitTorrent developers have joined forces to propose a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass…interfering techniques used by Comcast and other ISPs.” So, you know, transfer troubles may confront you now, but the so-called kings of peer-to-peer will have you torrenting at quick and leisurely speeds real soon. Probably.
And just to clarify, we do refer to online transfers of legally “torrent-able” goods. Like Linux distros. And a number of independent films and music releases. (Radiohead’s In Rainbows and the digital copyright documentary “Steal this Film 2” are two recent examples that gained relative prominence in recent months.)
It certainly goes without saying that the efforts of developers of peer-to-peer systems generally have proven effective at subverting blocks placed in their way by various well-financied agencies. Time and time again, use of the BitTorrent protocol has managed to proliferate greatly, despite some corporations’ and officials’ efforts to deter such growth.
Yet it is nonetheless unfortunate that the vehicle (BitTorrent) upon which both legal and illegal data transfers are made is the target of ISPs and copyright owners and protectors. (RIAA, MPAA, IFPI, etc.) It has been labeled an unsavory and illegitimate platform, regardless of its clear benefit to the promotion of efficient data distribution on the Web. Indeed, the network operators should ideally be seeking ways to integrate their own systems with that of the BitTorrent protocol. If the health and efficiency of their respective networks is in fact their primary concern, they should have no reason to so openly denigrate the invention.
What drives the “fair use” point home further is that there is legitimate business being conducted through the use of BitTorrent. The BitTorrent Entertainment Network is an example. Vuze, a Web-based storefront for video programming derived from sources all over the globe, is another. Both are profit-seeking ventures. And yet they are relegated to an Internet demographic by ISPs that simply “does not pass go.”
Perhaps legislation recently introduced by a US House representative, Ed Markey, written to bring added legitimacy to the Net neutrality effort in all its various forms and motives, will help grant BitTorrent a better name in the seasons ahead. Perhaps not. Whatever the case may be, there’s reason to give the protocol its due. As something that promotes efficiency on an Internet whose infrastructure is being pressed with greatly increasing amounts of media each and every day, it certainly carries some worthwhile technological merit, and should not be allowed a tarnishing by corporations.
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If you haven’t been following the recent RSS and linkblog aggregator discoveries of Louis Gray recently, he’s been uncovering them at quite a amazing rate. The man has knack for finding them, and is quickly becoming a recognized expert in the emergent area. Today he posted a bit of reflection on the role of the early adopter, something he’s quite qualified to comment on (I knew there was a reason I dubbed him a ‘thought leader‘).
The post seems to come partially in response to Steven Hodson’s complaints of aggregator overload. I, like Steven Hodson, enjoy discovering the new services Louis uncovers, but hold off on reviewing them for slightly different reasons. Steven simply can’t keep up; I identify with that, but I also am generally a harsh grader when it comes to website reviews, and want to give these new upstarts a chance to round out their feature list before casting my critical eye in front of the millions of Mashable readers.
One of the unique problems with this particular space of new startups is that a lot of the usefulness of the system relies on the size of the userbase.
Take, for instance, a site that Louis really seems to love and has been pitching to me for quite a while: AssetBar. AssetBar is, in it’s essence, yet another web based feedreader. There’s nothing wrong with that.
The feedreader space is still young and there is a giant world of new users that haven’t been reached yet. Even though there are dominant leaders in terms of userbase, another can grow to large proportions without taking away from the userbase of another. What’s more, AssetBar has social functionality that us avid users of Google Reader have been wishing they’d implement for what seems like years.
Here’s the problem: folks like me, folks who are demanding of their software and who virtually live in their feed reader require a certain level of features that are not present yet in AssetBar. An early adopter like Louis can see past that, since he can see the potential in what the software can become. Folks like me (that review far too many sites a day than is healthy) have a harder time seeing past that, though. And that’s the catch-22.
For me to want to reccomend it, AssetBar’s features must be up to snuff. For AssetBar’s features to be up to snuff, I need to reccomend it.
I’m picking on AssetBar a little bit here, but the same can be said for a number of sites Louis has sent my way recently (and sites I fully intend to review, eventually). I love that the space is burgeoning, and I hope that it continues to mature. I think that this is the Web 3.0 that Eric Schmidt and Ken Rutkowski were talking about: the human element mixed with the integrated experience.
I suppose that all this is to say to the folks in this particular niche of startups - don’t be miffed that I haven’t reviewed you yet. I want you to incubate, so I’m letting the early adopters prime the system so that I can bring in the floods of the later stage users.
I may be somewhat of an early adopter, but sometimes it takes a while for me to get it. When I finally do, you can be sure that I’ll mention it.
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