Built To Be Bought (Bubble 2.0)
Over the last couple of months I've noticed an increasing sense of unease in the venture community about the trend in Web 2.0 company creation and financing events. While no one is officially willing...
The Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance David
Google has reintroduced their Google Web Accelerator with a vengeance. It was evil enough the first time around, but this time it's downright scary. — In version 1., web masters at least had a figh...
BUDGET LAUNCHES BLOG-BASED, SIXTEEN CITY TREASURE HUNT
In a first, Car rental company Budget has launched a blog-based, four-week, 16-city treasure hunt, called UP YOUR BUDGET, which offers a total of $160,000 in prizes. To win, participants must find a ...
"Working Late" Won't Work Anymore
New services can track you-or your loved ones-by cell phone — It sounded too Orwellian ever to succeed. In 2000, Korean cellular carrier SK Telecom introduced a service called "find friends" that l...
Why You Should Pay to Read This
IN a bedroom in New Jersey, there is a shrine to Entertainment Weekly. A 17-year-old who lives there - that would be my daughter Erin - has the magazine's covers on her wall, and she divines a film's...
Poor Nations Are Littered With Old PC's, Report Says
Waste from electronic devices littered a neighborhood in Nigeria. Computer monitors can contain large amounts of toxic materials. — Much of the used computer equipment sent from the United States t...
Techcrunch Tsunami
Last night, I went to megablogger Mike Arrington's Techcrunch party, akin to an open house for nerds, if one can imagine such a locale on tony Atherton's main drag, with free food, drinks, and a TV sc...
Cingular Introduces E-Mail Access on Cells
NEW YORK - Cingular Wireless is introducing a service for nonbusiness users to get BlackBerry-like mobile access to their personal e-mail accounts from AOL, Yahoo and MSN Hotmail on a cell phone. — ...
BlogOn 2005
The Copacabana Hotel in Manhattan is said to be an excellent place to enjoy salsa. This week it was also a place to enjoy a discussion about the past, present, and future of blogging as more than thr...
Good News - People are Social Animals
It turns out that we voluntarily do thing we don't get paid for, even for strangers. Sometimes we even do good anonymously. Now go figure. What a way to screw up the economists' models. — This ab...
A guided tour of the Microsoft Command Shell
Introduction — The Windows community is a universe of uniformity in which users depend on robust commercial applications and standard graphical utilities. With the Vista release right around the pr...
Once It Was Direct to Video, Now It's Direct to the Web
IT was a late night in Seattle. It was probably raining. Scilla Andreen was still haunting the offices of her as-yet-to-be-started Internet movie company, IndieFlix, when the phone rang. It was - n...
Some Thoughts About Apple Front Row
I've been following the Apple's Media Center PC End Around post over at http://www.applematters.com. It's sort of like watching a very loooonnnnng tennis volley. 'Apple copied Microsoft.' 'No, Micr...
Publishers to build own online book network
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German publishers, keen to defend their copyrights as Internet search engines seek to put the world's literature online, aim to set up their own web-based database allowing reade...
RTF EULA
The End User License Agreement. You probably have grown accustomed to clicking through on these when installing new software, so accustomed that you don't even read them anymore. Well, we have and h...
Ooh-aaar, cows do milk themselves, down on the robotic farm
THEY are the cows that milk themselves. Farmers have teamed up with scientists to create a farm where the cows choose when they want to be milked using automated booths. — The new parlour, develope...