Riya's Launch Party @ TechCrunch
We reached a new milestone in our ongoing experiment to see how many people can fit inside my house before the police come and arrest me: over 250 last night (previous record was 200ish) at the Riya L...
The Story of the Search, Applause Included
THOUGH "The Google Story," by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed (Delacorte Press, $26), is as adoring a business profile as I have read, there are occasional hints that the extraordinary success of this ...
RIAA President To Stop Downloading, Save The Empire
Cary Sherman wants you to know that he isn't against you enjoying music in your own fashion. According to the RIAA president, he is deeply concerned about investing in new artists and keeping your lo...
How Google Tamed Ads on the Wild, Wild Web
FIVE years ago, Web advertisers were engaged in an ever-escalating competition to grab our attention. Monkeys that asked to be punched, pop-ups that spawned still more pop-ups, strobe effects that im...
Owning ideas
The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all — The difference between ideas and things is obvious as soon as someone hits you over the head with an idea - so obvious...
Ten Wikipedia Hacks
When something's working, you stick with it. My series of social media hacks (RSS, Technorati, blogging) has been such a hit, I am going to keep it going! So, with that in mind, here are 10 hacks th...
Copy Protection Still a Work in Progress
BOSTON - It's been the better part of a decade since Napster and other free song-sharing services began scaring the daylights of the music industry. And still recording companies can't find an effect...
Google Base v. microformats
I've read the little background material on Google's Base and still can't see whether the material you put there can be found by other search engines. I also cannot find evidence of an API that share...
Cisco's Bold New TV Bet
The Scientific-Atlanta deal pushes the networking giant deeper into consumers' home and helps it court cable and telecom providers — Until three years ago, Cisco Systems (CSCO) steered clear of cutt...
Changes to SEOChat
There's been some major changes to SEOChat, the forum where I moderate and spend most of my online forum time. The owners, DevShed and John Caputo, have decided to enforce strict "nofollow" tags on a...