August 9th 2010
Look around: These *are* amazing times. Who would imagine, in the “Summer of the Great Recession,“ that a digital content start-up and a phone company whose majority of customers pay nothing would be hot IPO news. But that’s the point. These two companies shift the status away from the status quo. And they’re heating up […]
July 26th 2010
It’s been six months since my post that 2010 investment in digital marketing would occupy an increasing share of marketing dollars. Since then, Oracle, CDC, and Hearst Media have taken the leap. And now, social business software company Jive has taken a $30M series C investment round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB). Here’s […]
May 28th 2010
Back in December I advised to be on the watch for digital marketing IPOs and acquisitions. It’s been two years since Eloqua took funding, ExactTarget seems always to be 90 minutes from an IPO, and Neolane and Marketo just keep on boarding venture capital. This week, Market2Lead, a niche player in marketing automation, was rolled-up by […]
March 22nd 2010
Today, Prime Minister Gordon Brown will announce a massive IT project to move in-person transactions with citizens online. (See coverage in the Telegraph.) This will change a wide range of interactions, including tax disputes and payments, vehicle licensing, applying for school, public housing issues, and passport applications. No less than Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the World […]
January 29th 2010
A call for insights & authors. We’re calling on you, our blog’s readers to help select the top online law issues you face today, and to describe what you see ahead. Dave Wieneke fills in the details in video above. We’d like to hear from you by email at “strategy2.0″ at “gmail.com“. Starting next week […]
March 3rd 2009
Mark the date. This announcement is the start of an effort by the FCC to regulate both Internet operations and content just as the Commission does in broadcast channels. After an earlier effort to regulate bloggers as lobbyists failed, this appears to set the stage for another attempt for regulation of Internet content. In a […]
January 20th 2009
It seems that only natural disasters happen suddenly. Man-made ones begin small. The EU is adopting policies that secretly allow the police to hack into personal computers anywhere, at any time, for any reason – all without any judicial oversight, which would be the start of a man-made disaster. According to the TimesOnline: The hacking […]
January 5th 2009
The sky is falling on ICANN’s ill-considered gTLD policy. I’ve been a skeptic of ICANN due to its incredibly slow response to fixing its own rules enable domain tasting.Also, last year its own domain was hacked, which didn’t increase anyone’s opinion of its chops as the world’s domain authority. I’ve read in disbelief as this […]
November 25th 2008
I simply didn’t expect this. INTA, The World Intellectual Property Review, and TelNic hosted a webinar to discuss the “revolutionary” landscape ICANN has proposed by opening up top-level domain ownership. There was real dissension against ICANN’s vision, and at best, muted support. You may view the recorded program for free. <Use IE, there seems to be […]
November 17th 2008
With the approach of the the December 3rd sunrise period for owners of trademarks to register .tel domains, brand owners have a decision to make. The .tel domain is innovative, but is a domain named after the phone really going to be a hot new innovation? .Tel: A Domain with no Websites, Just Contact Data Most […]
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