AOL Co-Founder Calls for Split of Time Warner
As Time Warner nears a decision on a big alliance with Google or Microsoft for its America Online unit, Stephen M. Case, the co-founder of AOL, has spoken out against the plan, aligning himself with t...
There's no Wikipedia entry for 'moral responsibility'
Seigenthaler libeller unmasked - thought it was a joke site — No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood - Despair.com — On Monday, in one of his now-weekly appearances on cable news...
Yahoo offers Movable Type for bloggers
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. and Six Apart Ltd., creator of Movable Type — the most popular software used to create professional blogs — said on Sunday Yahoo will be the preferred supplier of ...
Hotwiring Your Search Engine
Google a topic, and the results are based on popularity, right? Wrong. Inside the shadowy world of 'SEOs.' — Linked In: Fishkin with his mom and SEO partner Gillian — By By Brad Stone — Dec. 1...
To Promote a Cable Network, a Plan to Inundate the Internet
The MSNBC cable network plans to flood the Internet this week with its largest concentrated online pitch, running advertising on hundreds of Web sites and blogs. The cost of the campaign, to promote ...
Clarkson University Engineer Outwits High-Tech Fingerprint Fraud
Eyeballs, a severed hand, or fingers carried in ziplock bags. Back alley eye replacement surgery. These are scenarios used in recent blockbuster movies like Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" and ...
Zucker on Anchors and iPods
NBC Universal last week became next in line to make its TV content available via Apple's iTunes, which follows an earlier deal it had made with DirecTV to supply programming for video-on-demand. And ...
Handhelds Go to School
OLATHE, Kansas — Aesop's fables came beaming across the classroom and landed in Eva Hernandez's Palm handheld. On the bottom floor of Ridgeview Elementary School, she sat scrolling, using her stylus ...
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
Introduction — Nokia 770 — It's been a long quest, the search for the perfect handheld device has. It dates back to the late 1990s for me and has seen a progression of PDAs, smartphones, and Pock...
Touring the Microsoft Xbox facilities
So if you hadn't noticed, Peter and I were in Seattle last week — one of the things we were treated to for driving out to Redmond was an all-access tour of the Xbox facilities, courtesy of our main ma...
The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users
First things first, real quick like. At it's core, del.icio.us is a place where you can store your bookmarks and get to them from anywhere you can find an internet connection. Accounts are free, get...
China overtakes U.S. as world's leading exporter of information technology goods
12/12/2005 - China overtook the United States in 2004 to become the world's leading exporter of information and communications technology (ICT) goods such as mobile phones, laptop computers and digita...
Konfabulator 3.0 Goodness
There's a new version of Konfabulator, now called Yahoo! Widgets, available at widgets.yahoo.com. Since Konfabulator became part of Yahoo! in August, we've seen some pretty amazing usage numbers (all...
Briefly: 13.3-inch iBook, Mac OS X 10.4.4, Plaxo for Mac
December 12, 2005 - Apple appears on track to deliver an Intel-based iBook early next year, sources report, and in doing so will replace its long-standing 14.1-inch model with a widescreen 13.3-inch d...
ESE (Evil Search Engine) movies: a scenario
John Battelle (whose blog is a must-read) has posted a scenario worth pondering: … Notice the keyword "forever" ("leave, forever, on third party servers"). In a subsequent reply to a reader's comment...
The Firefox Hacks You Must Have
With the release of the new version 1.5 of Firefox, there's never been a better time to download the open-source browser, take it for a drive, kick the tires and see what it can do. In the case of a ...
T-S 0.2b - Talking-Shop Podcast Beta 2
(Recorded at Barramundi Restaurant/Lounge, Paris after Day 1 of the Les Blogs conference.) — In this podcast, we discuss the new facial-recognition photo search Riya as well as the Flock browser. O...
Just Google 'thou shalt not steal'
It's late at night, and you are in the bedroom cruising auction sites for furniture on the Internet. You should go to sleep, but you don't. Then you see them, the pair of chairs from your own living...
Evaluating multiple tablets
Rob Bushway recently blogged about taking four tablet PCs into a customer and gauging their reaction. Interestingly they preferred the slates in the group. … Interestingly I too have been taking mult...
PodOmatic Adds Video Podcasting Support
PodOmatic, a free service that lets podcasters find, create and distribute podcasts, has added video podcasting support. — Video podcasters can now upload and host video content for free via the Pod...
A Tablet search tool
Here's another one of those hard-hat projects I've been working on that you might want to try out. It's a web page that contains a TIP in which you can launch a search. I call it SearchTIP. Here's ...
Hotwiring Your Search Engine
Google a topic, and the results are based on popularity, right? Wrong. Inside the shadowy world of 'SEOs.' — Linked In: Fishkin with his mom and SEO partner Gillian — By By Brad Stone — Dec. 1...
Vista Stakes Its Future on Security
Microsoft Corp. is banking on enhancements to what it has dubbed the fundamentals to entice enterprises to upgrade to the next version of Windows, known as Vista. — The company will use upcoming ind...
Will more moblog help?
I'm sitting in a car on the way home from the airport after arriving in Japan from New York. I had a 14 hour plane trip where I caught up on email and wrote some reports. As it has been noted, the f...