Mechanical Turk = Genius
Amazon is attempting to disintermediate the whole 'let's farm out our manual, monotonous tasks to the third world via some exploitative local company with ties to the home country' industry with their...
GeoCool!
Wide-Flying Moguls: Google Duo's New Jet Is a Boeing 767-200
Included Are Two Staterooms, — A Shower, Seats for 50; — It's 'Good for the World' — On the road, Sergey Brin and Larry Page have owned environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles such as the Toyot...
Feeds and well-formed XML
Here in Windows, we're working hard on Windows Vista Beta 2, and we've recently been doing some work on how we parse feeds. — Our years of experience in with HTML in Internet Explorer have taught us...
New AdSense referral feature launched
If you have wanted to make money by referring publishers to AdSense, yet haven't been accepted into the AdSense & AdWords referral program, you are in luck! You can now earn $100 per new publisher, w...
Google's Next Buy
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz (TMFBreakerRick) — Don't tell me that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) printed out 14 million new shares back in mid-September without a game plan. Don't tell me that Google fattene...
xMax sparks low power wireless revolution
A little-known start-up has demonstrated wireless broadband 1000 times more efficient than WiMax - and claims the technique could also make wireless LANs that will run for years on watch batteries. —...
Silicon Insider: Forbes Fumbles the Blogosphere
Does an Attack on Bloggers Signal the Dawn of Blogosphere-Dominant Media? — Nov. 3, 2005 — It's déjà vu all over again. — I was halfway through the blogosphere summit in Manhattan last week, runn...
Minority Report: Will Apple send in the clones?
A wise move, or just an old one? … In the months since Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the Mac was making the seismic shift from PowerPC to Intel processors, the murmurs about the possible resurrection...
Creative-Weblogging: What a bunch of thieves
People are frequently inspired by Weblogs, Inc., and we love that. Heck, we were inspired by folks like Ted Leonsis at the AOL Greenhouse and Scott Kurnit at About.com. However, once and a while som...
Xbox 360 and iPod interoperability? Sort of
If you play "Project Gotham Racing 3" on an Xbox 360 after the console hits stores later this month, Microsoft invites you to use tunes straight off your iPod as an alternative to the game's sound tra...
The Weblog Ad Directory (+ Weblogs, Inc. v. Gawker stats!)
My pal Nick has been asking me to expose our stats forever (in fact, trying to bait me by saying that I was afraid). I never wanted to put them out there because the stats really layout the WIN busin...
IPorn?
NEW YORK - Get set for what could be yet another porn boom. — It seems that Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) announcement this week that it has sold one million videos at $1.99 a pop just 20 ...
Attack of the Clones
So the latest ruckus in tech.blogosphere is about Dave Winer's call to Clone the Google API (note the URL name). Robert Scoble wrote an enthusiastic post entitled Yahoo's new pretty maps are doomed (...
WiFi Internet cafes "must have firewall" - Westchester County
Just outside New York City, Westchester County has become the scene of the latest WiFi scare, with County Executive Andy Spano [left] announcing legislation to prevent insecure WiFi hotspot operation.
Want 'War and Peace' Online? How About 20 Pages at a Time?
In a race to become the iTunes of the publishing world, Amazon.com and Google are both developing systems to allow consumers to purchase online access to any page, section or chapter of a book.
AdSense Policies update time again!
When AdSense is down or there are login problems, it often means there is something new and shiny to keep us publishers amused with. And sure enough, we have a brand new Google AdSense Policies avail...
U.S. Patent Office Publishes the First Patent Application to Claim a Fictional Storyline; Inventor Asserts Provisional Rights Against Hollywood
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will publish history's first "storyline patent" application today from an application filed in November, 2003.
Podcasters, meet Fruitcast
Fruitcast is a new service that is not only great for advertisers, but podcasters as well. The founder of Fruitcast, James Archer of Forty Media, saw a problem when it comes to making money with podc...
SBC Head Ignites Access Debate
The head of a major telecommunications company stirred up a hornets' nest this week by suggesting that he wants to charge companies like Google and Yahoo a fee for bringing them into consumers' homes....
Google posts first books online
The first works scanned and put online as part of Google's controversial print project have been unveiled. — Included in this opening swathe are many 19th Century works of American literature and hi...