GOOGLE ADDS TAGGING
Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you've visited. If Google in the future opens this up, letting users share the...
A question of principles
Many of you no doubt know about the latest controversy that has broken out in the blogosphere, about Arindam Chaudhuri and IIPM. In case you don't, a quick summary: A few months ago Jam Magazine, edi...
Yahoo Gains Podcast Directory
News from the Yahoo Search Blog that Yahoo's gained a new Yahoo Podcasts site, where you can search for podcasts or listen to them online. I'm looking forward to playing with it further in the near f...
It's Gada.Be the First Metasearch Engine Powered by RSS
The first metasearch engine to be powered by the efficient fuel of RSS technology, Gada.be, went live on Monday. — Gada.be strips away the multiple layers necessary to search, which is particularly ...
At Newspapers, Some Clipping
When Amanda Bennett, editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, heard last month that she had to cut 75 jobs in her newsroom - 15 percent of her staff - she was sick to her stomach. — But after some refle...
Verisign acquires Moreover Technologies
The company that Nick Denton, Angus Bankes and I started on my kitchen table in Shoreditch, in 1998, sells to Verisign - I can't comment, but Tom Foremski has the scoop and Rafat Ali more details, inc...
A Game Console for the Rest of Us
Note to hard-core video game players: Microsoft says it is aiming for your mothers and wives. — In the coming weeks, Microsoft plans to introduce a marketing campaign to expand the appeal of the new...
IPTV versus TV-over-IP
In the battle for video over broadband, the odds might just be stacked against IPTV, a complex and expensive technology. Instead, the fortunes might be favoring the more simplistic, television over I...
Beer and Loathing at Web2.0: Part Two
Last year's Web2.0 conference was held at Hotel Nikko elsewhere in San Francisco. This year the organizers had moved to The Argent. The Argent is a nice hotel but when I first laid eyes on the secon...