Next Up: Google Office?
There's a Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. These times must be really interesting for Steve Ballmer. — Microsoft's (Quote, Chart) CEO allegedly said he'd crush Google (Quote, Chart...
Yahoo-Backed Alliance to Open Web Library
SAN FRANCISCO — Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. is setting out to build a vast online library of copyrighted books that pleases publishers _ something rival Google Inc. hasn't been able to achieve. — ...
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
I assumed that asking for reader input would highlight many issues that I hadn't noticed in my own user testing.
37signals Writeboard for collaborative writing
37signals has released Writeboard. My first impressions? Meh. Honestly, I wasn't all that impressed with it, but overall, it is a great solution to collaborative writing. My expectation was to be ...
This Just in: Flops Caused Box Office Slump
Studio execs who pinned problems on factors beyond their control now take responsibility. — One of Hollywood's basic tenets is that when things go wrong it's somebody else's fault. — Which is why ...
WHAT'S WRONG WITH OPML
OPML is the Outline Processor Markup Language - an XML dialect invented by Dave Winer as a serialization format for outlines created in Userland applications such as Frontier. Winer continues to evan...
Yahoo! Played a Key Role in McDonald's Fake Blog Campaign
Remember McDonald's phony Lincoln Fry blog? Well, according to MediaPost (third story down) the umbrella Lincoln Fry campaign (TV/online) was successful and the fake blog played a big role in it. Wh...
Spark lights a capital fuse
Industryites create financial fund — A team of longtime showbiz industryites, including former Lions Gate, Sony and Turner exec Dennis Miller, has launched a venture capital firm called Spark Capita...
30GB Web Mail Launches Into Beta
A new web mail service launched today promising to bring users an email inbox of 30gb. — 30gigs.com started off with the idea of creating an "All in one" site for the webmaster and avid computer use...
Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 26 Sep - 2 Oct 2005
This week: Defining Web 2.0, Web-based office, Yahoo media/tv, Google Wifi, Techie Post of the Week: Tim O'Reilly's What is Web 2.0. — sponsored by: — Defining Web 2.0 — A lot of online trees we...
Do hybrids save money?
No. That's the conclusion of Joe White, Detroit Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal, who looked into buying a Prius for his own daily driver. White was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition Septe...
The Value in Volume
How did you buy software a couple decades ago (for those old enough to remember)? — You went to your local retailer (or back then, they sent a sales rep), you bought a box, with a manual, 20 floppy ...
Office 12 news broke on MVP blogs first
Daniel Larson notes that the big news about Office 12's PDF support isn't necessarily the news itself: it's how the news was broken. They released the news to MVPs who then broke it, got picked up by...