PaidContent has (no) details of a deal between Time and Google in which Google will scan the first 12 million Life photos.

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eWeek reports:

Entertainment giant NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric, will announce this week it is bringing in a new, younger chief executive to better compete in the digital age, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported on Feb. 4.

It’s enough to get you worried. But the piece goes on to say that Jeff Zucker, an NBC executive, is 41 – so hardly a “digital native”. Still…

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Google announced a new feature – a link at the bottom of any Gmail which contains an attached document, inviting the recipient to open it up immediately in Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Not an Office killer yet, but…

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Pew, the internet research company, has found that a surprising 28% of Americans have tagged content and 7% have done so on a particular day. That bodes well for Web 2.0.

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One of the Demo 07 presentations was from ZoHo Notebook, which if it is anything like as good as the demo (it’s “coming soon”) will cause a real stir. My prediction is that either Microsoft (Ray Ozzie will appreciate the intricacies of such online collaboration) or Google will snap them up.

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A few years ago the view was that the enterprise portal – the intranet – was going to be the saviour of big business, but putting all the apps and info that individuals needed onto one screen. Companies like Plumtree and Hummingbird were going to make it happen.

However, legacy got the better of everyone and the dream didn’t come to pass.

In recent months, though, I sense the idea coming back and this time I think it may in fact make it. The Maxthon browser, written on top of IE 7, aims to bring a wide range of tools into one interface, using, of course, RSS and the Atom publishing protocol.

And at this year at Demo 07 there were a few RSS enabled apps, the most significant, perhaps, WorkLight. This is an app which allows corporates to create secure RSS feeds from enterprise systems. From these, microformats and widgets, maybe the future workplace will be built.

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Wired has news of new tag-less image searching technology that uses 3D modelling to get results.

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Ofcom have issued a consultation paper asking for views on whether it should set up a Public Sector Publisher to act as a kind of Web 2.0 platform – complete with P2P functionality – to provide quality content not yet available. They argue that the new service would contract out to media companies to provide the content, which begs the question a bit about why such content is not already being provided. And, given the row every time the BBC tries to develop deeper, more useful content, you would have thought it was a non-starter…

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There’s a lot going on in the world of TV/internet convergence. The AOP has this:

A report by Informa Telecoms and Media predicts that global revenue for online TV and video services will increase ten-fold to £3.2 billion in 2012.

Second only to the US, the UK recorded revenues of almost £22 million last year which are set to soar to £708 million by 2012. According to the report the US will be the global leader in online TV and video, expecting revenues of up to $3.94 billion by 2012.

The Informa research points to the increasing popularity of watching online TV and video and states that is wider cultural changes that are creating a new breed of consumer who “find it difficult to align themselves with the passive model of traditional linear TV”.

We’ve already seen the deals done between the studios and YouTube, and this week’s bust up with Viacom.

And there are rumours that the studios are considering building their own site to rival YouTube

But things are heating up. Wired this month has a feature about Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström the geeks behind the P2P network Kazaa who went on to build Skype before selling it to eBay for $2.6bn. It seems they are building their own internet TV model which combines P2P technology, industrial strength DRM and a solid ad model.

Does this point to TV 2.0? Maybe. But there will be a lot more fall out before the dust settles…

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A Million Penguins is a novel experiment from Penguin Books to see if collaborative intelligence can achieve a single, authorial voice in a novel. Can’t be worse than Jeffery Archer…

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