Web 2.0 Naysaying reaches an all-time high (or is it low)
Looks like the Web 2.0 Naysayers are starting to drown out those of us who've been preaching the 2.0 Gospel. — Joel on Software, who has a lot of influence in the programming world, comes down hard ...
Pumping Indies on MTV
Norbury and Finch are a folk duo based on Vancouver Island. They aren't signed to a music label, but fans of the Ozzy Osbourne reality show and HBO's Real Sex have heard their music, thanks to an inn...
Accidental invention could light up the future
Quantum dot mixture takes LED lighting to a new level — The main light source of the future will almost surely not be a bulb. It might be a table, a wall, or even a fork. — An accidental discover...
Tale of the tape: Tablet Guy vs. Channel 9 Guy
Warning: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY - the following post is highly sensitive, confidential and privileged information. An NDA (Non-Disagreement Agreement is required) . — Lora asks: … Please note Lora's cu...
Energy Crisis
It's Hard to Make a Buck When You Are Storing Everyone's Stuff for Free — Combining themes of several recent columns, we can see that a lot of money is being bet on a future user computing experienc...
Wine will go beta next week
After roughly 12 years of work, the Wine Project is about to take its widely used Windows translation layer to a place it has not been in all that time: beta. — Wine Project leader Alexandre Julliar...
Touching Babies
The woman in front of me was playing Adult DS Brain Training demo for a good ten minutes. She must've been forty. Her mother must've been mid-sixties. A parasite single or a spinster. Take yer pic...
Video Search To Go!
As I eagerly await the arrival of my brand-spanking-new 60gb white Video iPod (for research purposes only, I assure my manager), I've been thinking about how I can fill my new device up with content, ...
Flock, Under Those Feathers
Flock is the latest open source browser, catering especially to bloggers and Web 2.0 savvy users. It is heavily based upon open source code from Mozilla's Firefox browser and was developed by a group...
Apple lobs grenade into Microsoft media center camp
APC Magazine's Dan Warne reckons Apple is about to deftly round-house kick Microsoft's media center strategy for six. First Apple leaves a mysterious header on the Mac Mini motherboard for a non-exis...
Microsoft, OSI Discuss Shared Source Licenses
While Microsoft Corp. has publicly said it has no immediate plans to submit its newest Shared Source licenses to the Open Source Initiative for approval, the company met with the OSI board this week t...
Where's the love for web 2.0?
I'm reading john heilemann's piece in new york magazine about 'diller's foxy strategy' and amazed that a journalist could in one article be so critical and dismissive of silicon valley's 'kacki clad v...
Build to flip the Flickr of evrything
Later today I'll give a keynote address, at a BBQ. — That's got to be a first. — It's a tradition that when I give a talk, I prepare it on Scripting News, in the open, for all to see. — Since th...
How ATM fraud nearly brought down British banking
This is the story of how the UK banking system could have collapsed in the early 1990s, but for the forbearance of a junior barrister who also happened to be an expert in computer law - and who discov...
Web 2.0 Bozo Bit Reflipped
As I mentioned in my previous post on Understanding Web 2.0 the "web 2.0" meme isn't about technology or people, it's about money and hype primarily geared at VCs and big companies looking for small c...
Access announces the death of PalmOS... sooner than later
For those holding out that PalmSource's acquisition by Japanese firm Access would grant the PalmOS a second life, we have some bad news for you. We have it that Access officially declared what indust...
YahooSarah
Official Representative (formerly OvertureRep) — Reputation: — Actually, Yahoo! Search Marketing sent an email to advertisers today to announce that we've eliminated the $20 monthly minimum spendi...
SIPphone on Rupert Murdoch's Radar?
Rupert Murdoch had planned to spend $2 billion on Internet related acquisitions. With today's $373 million acquisition of EasyNet, and $1.2 billion buying up properties like IGN and MySpace, he has a...
Qualcomm's Belk Dissects Mobile WiMax
Let's admit upfront that Jeffrey Belk has a vested interest in cellular data networks: But let's look beyond that. Belk is well known as a Qualcomm marketing executive who, two years ago, circulated ...
$94, ER, $106 BILLION
That's a very large market cap. Today is a quiet posting day, for various reasons, but I did find the time to step into a CNBC studio and mull why Google seems to be pulling away from everyone else i...
MSN Shopping Launches in Australia
MSN Shopping is very pleased and excited to announce the launch of the new Shopping site on ninemsn in Australia! The new site is built upon the same application platform recently released in the Uni...