Email and letter writing share fundamental pattern
Both Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein relied on pen, paper, and the postal service to communicate with correspondents around the world. But researchers have now found the pattern of their replies i...
Your Photos - not on Flickr!
Over the last year, we've been asked 15,381 times, "How about printing? When are we going to get printing!?" Today we are happy to answer: "Today!" For now it is U.S. only (we know! we're working h...
The Ups & Downs of a Successful Service
As many of you have noticed, during the last couple of weeks TypePad performance has not been what we aspire to and you pay for. While I am as displeased as you, at the current time I can do nothing ...
From My Web to Your Website - A Button Share!
Over at SearchEngineWatch, Danny Sullivan has been asking why we haven't offered a "Save to My Web" button. Well here it is! — Save to My Web is a simple, sociable button you can add to any and eve...
Anil wants Flickr to pay
Interesting little debate going on the blogs this morning. Anil Dash wants Flickr to pay its users, particularly the ones who put the most popular content onto the service. Caterina, co-founder of F...
Will Pajamas Media Wake Up Blogs?
Big-name political bloggers are banding together to try to bring order to the sometimes-chaotic blogosphere. — Pajamas Media has signed up 70 bloggers including Instapundit.com's Glenn Reynolds, CNB...
How do you feel about someone else making money off your content?
Jason Oct 26 — 36 comments Latest by Stewart Butterfield — Anil makes an interesting observation regarding Flickr, Yahoo, and your content. He uses Flickr and Yahoo as examples, but of course thi...
Time Warner board to discuss AOL future
Time Warner's board of directors will hold crucial discussions about AOL's future at a meeting on Thursday, focusing on whether to partner with Microsoft or Google, although a final decision is not ex...
AT&T Brand Lives On as Buyer Adopts Name
SBC Communications, which is awaiting regulatory approval to buy AT&T, announced today that it will adopt the AT&T name once the acquisition is approved. — The announcement means that AT&T, formed i...
Microsoft aims to trounce Google
People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with search technology, says Bill Gates. — The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search. — ...
Microsoft Reports First-Quarter Earnings
Microsoft delivers double-digit operating income growth, announces plans to accelerate share repurchase. — Income Statements — Balance Sheets — Cash Flows Statements — Segment Revenue/Operatin...
Microsoft RTMs Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005
Microsoft on Thursday released to manufacturing its Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 products, previously known by the code names Whidbey and Yukon respectively. — Officials at the Redmond, Wa...
GOOGLEBASE: STRUCTURED/VERTICAL/DOMAIN SEARCH AIN'T THE FREEWEB
I recently spoke to a reputable person who is a senior exec in a major structured database company ( I promised not to name this person or the company/industry.) I can't go into specifics, but the co...
The Ultimate Freeware Package for your iPod.
The Mac developer community has given us Mac users a ton of great software for our iPods. I've talked about many of my favorite programs in the past. Most of these, like Pod2Go and Podlock are sha...
Court Issues Surveillance Smack-Down to Justice Department
No Cell Phone Location Tracking Without Probable Cause — New York - Agreeing with a brief submitted by EFF, a federal judge forcefully rejected the government's request to track the location of a mo...
TITANS COLUMN: OMID KORDESTANI
I interviewed Omid a couple of months ago for my B2.0 column, here it is in full. — TITANS OF TECH — The Wizard of Ads — Google's Omid Kordestani conjured a formula that took its sales to $3 bil...
'I use my iPod to store medical images'
GENEVA, Switzerland (CNN) — Osman Ratib, professor and chief of nuclear medicine at the University Hospital of Geneva, has co-created a computer software program called Osirix. It enables medical pro...
Gizmondo executives quit under cloud
A number of senior executives at Gizmondo Europe quit the company last week ahead of the US launch of the firm's handheld games console and amid allegations in the Swedish press that some had criminal...
The Facebook unplugged at Stanford ETL
I have attended last night's session of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL) program featuring Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder and CEO of the Facebook, and Jim Breyer, the Managing Partner of Accel ...
Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show
Spam, scams and scatterbrains — the same problems that plagued the old internet are cropping up again in a new wave of technologies known collectively as Web 2.0. — But this time around, proponents ...
Google Loves Seniors
It seems Google has intensified the ranking factor of one key data point that is very tough to manipulate: the age of your domain name. I have been keeping an eye on trends with Google's search resul...
Terri Stone: Will Aperture replace Photoshop?
Joe Schorr: Depending on your workflow, there may be a need to use tools that go beyond Aperture. One of the things pros do is launch Photoshop, so we integrate with Photoshop. — Aperture was devel...
Producing Open Source Software
Open Source Software is more than just software that has an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license. It's a whole development style and culture. Karl Fogel is one of the developers of the Subv...
Rip and Burn and Download on a Stereo
JUST because a bunch of individual ingredients are delicious doesn't mean they'll taste good when they're all cooked up together. Ask anyone who's ever sampled a 5-year-old chef's rendition of chocol...
Sounds great. Where do I upload eBay's business plan?
So how did Google become the world's single largest marketplace? Paul Ford posed that question back in 2002 in a seminal essay entitled "August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic W...
US Supreme Court denies RIM request to postpone action in Blackberry patent case
WASHINGTON (AFX) - The US Supreme Court has refused a request by Canadian firm Research in Motion to suspend a potentially devastating injunction in a patent dispute over its Blackberry handheld compu...
Red Hat CEO decries open source pretenders
Red Hat is shying away from taking "control" of its relationship with customers and instead hopes to become a thought leader that champions innovation through freedom of the community. — Matthew Szu...
Cinematical Seven: Videogame Movies
Yeah, so we all know by now that DOOM is a terrible movie. Reviews have hit it fast and hard, and nobody seems to like it. Is anybody really surprised by this? With very few exceptions, video games...