Yahoo's new pretty maps are doomed (and so are Microsoft's)
Has Google disrupted the businesses of Yahoo and Microsoft? Yes! It got me out of bed to write this post. No, that's not the disruption I'm talking about (I'll hopefully be able to take a couple of...
SonyBMG and First4Internet Release Mysterious Software Update
SonyBMG and First4Internet, the companies caught installing rootkit-like software on the computers of people who bought certain CDs, have taken their first baby steps toward addressing the problem.
Microsoft Acquires FolderShare, a File-Synchronization Technology Provider
Deal aligns with Windows Live goal of connecting customers to the people and information that matter most to them. — REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 3, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has acquired F...
Alleged Pop-Up Hacker Busted
In the first U.S. prosecution of its kind, FBI agents arrested a 20-year-old Los Angeles man Thursday on charges that he cracked some 400,000 Windows machines and covertly installed pop-up-generating ...
Don't Fear Google
NEW YORK - Google wants to scan all the books in the stacks of several of the world's major research libraries to make these books searchable online. But lawsuits are threatening to shut the project ...
Clone the Google APIs: Kill That Noise
Yesterday Dave Winer wrote in a post about cloning the Google API Dave Winer wrote … and earlier that … This doesn't seem like a great idea to me for a wide variety of reasons but first, let's start w...
MySpace.com creates own record label
MySpace.com, one of the top music destinations on the Internet, is starting its own record label. — The imprint, to be manufactured by Universal Music Group's Interscope Records, will begin life Nov...
Exclusive: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates talks to Computing
Bill Gates reflects on Microsoft's past and future plans, in an exclusive two-part interview looking back on Microsoft's 30 years — Thirty years after founding the world's biggest software company, ...
World of Warcraft hackers using Sony BMG rootkit
Want to cheat in your online game and not get caught? Just buy a Sony BMG copy protected CD. — World of Warcraft hackers have confirmed that the hiding capabilities of Sony BMG's content protection...
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Google Patent : Organic Results Ranked by User Profiling
Google Patent : Organic Results Ranked by User Profiling — Google has filed for an organic search patent which is a bit different than what we're used to seeing in Google search, and perhaps somethi...
Saving journalism isn't about saving jobs
Every time we hear about another cutback in newspapers — and there are plenty of them these days — we automatically hear the notion that journalism jobs must be saved to save journalism. I'm afraid i...
Preserving public domain books
The world's libraries are a tremendous source of knowledge, much of which has never been available online. One of our goals for Google Print is to change that, and today we've taken an exciting step ...
Pimp my ride: Tricked-out cars no longer just for rich
Soon, your new car will be more entertaining and informative than your best friend. In addition to playing your favorite songs, your car will find parking spaces, identify upcoming traffic jams and t...
10 ISSUES FACING WEB 2.0 GOING INTO 2006
Now that industry leaders like Microsoft are not only taking Web 2.0 concepts very seriously, they are apparently intent on banking on them as well, we're certainly living in a slightly different worl...
Web's never-to-be-repeated revolution
The web is having a birthday. This month, we will have the 15th anniversary of the creation of the first web page. It is the birthday of Tim Berners-Lee's amazing idea that there could be a worldwid...
Yahoo! Maps: drag 'em, search 'em, hack 'em
Today we're giving you a first look at the next generation of Yahoo! Maps which, we think, has a lot of features you're gonna like. We've really worked hard to make the product as intuitive as possib...
Teen Content Creators and Consumers: More than half of online teens have created content for the internet; and most teen downloaders think that getting free music files is easy to do
American teenagers today are utilizing the interactive capabilities of the internet as they create and share their own media creations.
The new Robert Scoble Services agenda
Oh, Dave, I couldn't say "clone the Google API" in public! But you did. So I'll riff on it. I agree with it. I'll even repeat it. Clone the Google API. Clone the Google API. Clone the Google AP...
Preserving public domain books
The world's libraries are a tremendous source of knowledge, much of which has never been available online. One of our goals for Google Print is to change that, and today we've taken an exciting step ...
Reining in Google
You're probably reading the byline above and wondering, "What could these two, from opposite sides of the aisle in Congress, possibly have in common with each other?" — The answer is when it comes t...
Microsoft Acquires FolderShare, a File-Synchronization Technology Provider
Deal Aligns With Windows Live Goal of Connecting Customers to the People and Information That Matter Most to Them — REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - Ne...