I did a little mini-doc containing my thoughts around Location Based Social Networks (entitled “The Great LBS Wars of 2010”). Full description and post is up at SiliconANGLE. This is a non autoplaying version of the embed, so feel free to share it around for those of you who hated the other version. From my post at SA: Jeff Pulver and Justin Kownacki have been advancing a conversation last week week that the germ of which started at this...

I’ve seen some puzzling messages from Google Voice’s transcription, but this attempt to translate an automated reminder to pay my cable bill left me really scratching my head. After listening to the message (embedded below), it turns out it was attempting to transcribe in English what the automated attendant was saying in Spanish. The puzzling text excerpt: Hello, this is Time Warner your cable television telephone internet provider. We...

In my personal blog’s web stats, I’ve been consistently (for the last month and a half) getting five times as much drop-in traffic from MSN Live search users than from Google. Why do you suppose that is? That’s completely up-side-down from how it’s ever been in my experience.

I saw a note on FriendFeed from Duncan Riley earlier today indicating he’d posted on OmniDrive, the back-up solutions company that’s had an uncertain future for quite some time. Duncan and Nik Cubrilovic, both of which who have history at TechCrunch, also have history with each other. I know exactly what it’s like to have piss-poor relations with someone in the Web 2.0 world and subsequently blog about it. Todd Cochrane of...

Steve Rubel just twittered an article from today’s International Herald Tribune entitled “Google shows vulnerability in Advertising.” It’s almost a completely ridiculous article, but for the small weaknesses that Google does have in its ad platform. Of course, because the Time Magazine, Digg and Facebook havedecided to go with other ad partners other than Google, it isn’t necessarily spelling the beginning of the...