TV Stardom on $20 a Day
AMANDA CONGDON is a big star on really small screens - like the 4½- inch window she appears in on computer monitors every weekday morning or the 2½ inches she has to work with on the new video iPod. ...
A Little Sleuthing Unmasks Writer of Wikipedia Prank
It started as a joke and ended up as a shot heard round the Internet, with the joker losing his job and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, suffering a blow to its credibility. — A man in Nashville ...
A camera that has it all? Well, almost
At a recent technology conference, an executive from an electronics company was waxing snarky about her rivals. — "And then there's Sony," she said in a conversation cluster between seminars. "Thei...
Muted hello for Xbox 360 in Japan
Microsoft has launched its Xbox 360 games console in Japan to what seems like a more subdued response than it received in Europe and North America. — The software giant hopes to overcome rivals Sony...
Interview with Jimbo Wales
While this wasn't Interview with the Vampire, getting a live interview with Jimmy Wales of the Wikimedia Foundation is requiring more work and planning than ever. Four contributors to four different ...
Architecture of the Wordpress Structured Blogging plugin: is this forking?
For the last couple of months, we (along with XML expert Kimbro Staken and Movable Type consultant Chad Everett) have been working on extending the Structured Blogging plugin for Wordpress to publish ...
Et Tu Steve Case?
In a recent episode of Rome, an HBO series where Caesar is brutally murdered by the Senate. The killing blow coming from Brutus, the man whose life Julius Caesar forgave. The gruesome scene was runn...
THE BEST WEB 2.0 SOFTWARE OF 2005
It's getting towards the end of the year and I'm feeling the need to take stock of where we've actually come with Web 2.0 in the last 12 months. So much has happened in this space recently and a tida...
Sun and the data center meltdown
Sun Microsystems is a funny company. It jumped directly from hyperactive adolescence to midlife crisis, complete with ponytail. Ever since the dot-com crash decimated its free-spending customer base...
Project Gutenberg Fears No Google
Internet giants like Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are making headlines with their rival plans to create online libraries of books. Long before those companies even existed, though, there was Project Gu...
Yahoo Tops Portal Market In Visitors, News
Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) continues to lead the portal market in the number of unique visitors, and is also the top destination for news, a market research firm says. — The Sunnyvale, Calif., ...
Yahoo Devours Del.icio.us
SUNNYVALE, California — In its latest acquisition of a social networking service, internet powerhouse Yahoo on Friday chomped down on del.icio.us, a startup that enables people to more easily compile ...
The Signal to Noise Ratio Feels Out of Whack To Me
I monitor around 400 blogs and try to stay on top of them daily (I use FeedDemon and NewsGator Online and have developed an awesome personal algorithm for getting through all the items quickly.) I al...
Blog Content Theft
Two weblogs are republishing my content without permission. One is called "Advertisging, News & Information." This site is profiting off my content by running Adsense. The other is called Podcast R...
It's Time to Take It Apart
There has been a lot of speculation about what Time Warner should do to increase its lagging stock price, and the media giant appears to be nearing a decision on the future of one of the Washington ar...
Yahoo! makes a del.icio.us purchase
It's Web giant's latest deal aimed at letting users share content — In its latest acquisition of a social networking service, Internet powerhouse Yahoo! Inc. on Friday devoured del.icio.us Inc., a s...
XBox 360 Latest Live Update: Kills Backwards Compatibility
I thought this would be all over the news today or at least on the gaming sites, but no one seems to be picking up on it yet. Microsoft released a couple patches for the Xbox 360 over the past few da...
Writely Is Kicking A**
Writely (profiled earlier) continues to lead the pack in online ajax word products. — Writely has had great features from day 1: import and export into Word format, embedded images, a wysiwyg editor...
The Website Development Process
The photo was actually one in a whole series of photos I shot …