Is it still sharing if it stops working three days later?

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-UPDATE-

According to this post today on ArsTechnica, Zune doesn’t actually change the shared file:

Trusted sources tell us that Zune’s wireless sharing feature, which requires Zune’s DRM to function, will only monitor the presence of shared songs for the purposes of controlling playback. Files themselves will not be modified, either on the player or on a local PC.
We also learned that users cannot share files that they have received by sharing.

Sounds to me like a distinction without a difference. Sure, the device doesn’t change the recieved file, but it also doesn’t allow you to share that file with anyone else, and after 3 days or 3 plays it will no longer allow you to play the file someone shared with you.

Can you take a file you recieved via sharing and move it to your PC, and play it forever? Unclear.

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Malcontents, Episode One: Web 2.0 and your CM Strategy

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Updated 10/24/06

Thanks to Seth Gottlieb and Bryant Shea (not Shea Bryant), I participated in the first episode of the new CM Professionals podcast, Malcontents. The other guest was Riccardo La Rosa, who is at Molecular with Bryant.

The topic was essentially Web 2.0, and what impact it has (or should have) on your enterprise CM strategy.

The podcast doesn’t yet have it’s own page or feed link (I will post it when it does) but

You can look for episode one on the Malcontents page or you can find it in the breaking news section at the top of the CM Pros site, or grab the mp3 directly (30MB, 33 minutes).

Special bonus – my dogs make a brief appearance in the background at about 26 minutes in – you may have to turn it up a bit to really make them out but they’re barking up a storm – presumably the newspaper got delivered or the mailman came. It’s their first podcast too.

Open Source Content Management Webinar (Microformat)

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Open Source Content Management Webinar

Begins: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 at 1:00 PM

Ends: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 at 2:00 PM

Location:

Link: Interactive Webinar: Ask the Experts Your Questions About Open Source Content Management

Update 10/24/06 – The audio from the event is available on the Optaros site or at this direct link (MP3, 14.5MB).

(Sorry for duplicate postings – I’m testing Microformats using the Structured Blogging plugin for WordPress. This post contains an Event notice microformat).

The latest trends in Internet technologies and the rise of the knowledge worker have put pressure on the enterprise to be more responsive and deliver more usable technologies for collaboration and improved efficiency. To meet these challenges and capitalize on new opportunities for growth, content management technologies must be agile and innovative. Flexible and typically lower in cost, open source content management technologies have the potential to quickly deliver targeted solutions that answer immediate needs and can evolve to the changing demands of the enterprise. At the same time, many new questions need to be answered when considering open source content management solutions.

Join leaders in the open source content management space from Optaros, Alfresco, and ZEA Partners as they offer multiple perspectives to address such questions in a panel discussion. Audience participation is encouraged by submitting questions for discussion prior to and during the event.

Panelists include:
Seth Gottlieb, Content Management Practice Lead, Optaros
Matt Asay, Vice President of Business Development, Alfresco
John Eckman, Next Generation Internet Practice Lead, Optaros
Paul Everitt, ZEA Partners

Tags: Open Source Content Management

With friends like these, who needs marketing?

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728177134_m.jpg Social networking and user-contributed content sites are increasingly forming partnerships with traditional media companies, as the media companies try to retain their place in the attention-economy.

One recent (and significant, in terms of size and who the players are) example of this is the black carpet service from MySpace. By adding “Black Carpet Screenings” as a friend to your MySpace profile, you join 82196 (and counting) other MySpace users in opting in to receiving marketing messages from the studios about premieres at local theaters.

I have to say I’m conflicted about the whole phenomenon. I can understand the enthusiasm of those who see this as a major validation of social networking and opt-in marketing is certainly better than the alternative.

But is the metaphor in which “Black Carpet Screenings” needs to accept me as a friend the best we can imagine?

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