Rumor Mill: Acquisition Time? Is Google Going to the Opera?
I'm not one for spreading rumors but sometimes...? Feel like a hot one? OK, we've got one or should I say Dirson has one. What is it? Google is going to acquire Opera. That's right, the wonderful...
Industry Leaders Announce First Large-Scale Near Field Communication Trial in North America
Atlanta Spirit, Chase, Cingular, Nokia, Philips, Visa USA and VIVOtech to pilot next-generation mobile phone contactless payment and content applications — Atlanta, Dec. 14, 2005 …
Cingular to test near-field cellphone services in Atlanta
Looks like Cingular will work with Chase, Visa, Nokia, Philips and a host of other bigshots to test next-gen NFC (near-field communication services, ala FeliCa) for cellphones at Philips Arena in Atla...
Icons: It's still orange
My last post shared some of our conceptual designs of the feed icon and expressed some of the criteria that we are using to select the right icon. Several of the comments liked icon #4 simply because...
Structured Blogging is official
It's been announced, so now Structured Blogging 1.0(pre-X) is official! — Doing a Technorati search for structuredblogging.org seems to be the easiest way to see what people are saying at the moment...
Now that we've got your attention
I was in a conversation last night where the subject turned to Office and whether it's dead or not. You know, the good old Notes is Dead micromeme that I pushed out into the world way back when Ray O...
Syndicate Conference: StructuredBlogging.org is officially launched
Marc Canter is on stage to announce the launch of StructuredBlogging.org, a non-profit initiative supporting the development and deployment of micro-formats in blog posts. The idea is pretty simple …
Technorati Kitchen: it's what's cooking
Technorati just introduced the Technorati Kitchen, an area where we can post projects we have been working on that we do not feel are ready for integration on the main site. The first project availab...
Xbox 360 sold out on some major Web sites
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360 video game console remained sold out at some major Web retailers on Tuesday and one analyst said he expected holiday shipments at the lower end o...
Monster mash
The free-for-all continues. Amazon.com has opened up its Alexa search engine to all comers. Just as Amazon's affiliates can tap into the company's merchandise catalog to build their own stores, so e...
CYBER CITY
Typically, video games are set in places with names like Myst, Zanarkand, and, slightly less fantastically, Vice City. True Crime: New York City, which was released last month by Activision and is be...
Rails 1.0: Party like it's one oh oh!
15 months after the first public release, Rails has arrived at the big 1.0. What a journey! We've gone through thousands of revisions, tickets, and patches from hundreds of contributors to get here....
Year in Review: AJAX Desktops and Homepages
Review: Home pages are making a comeback, thanks to AJAX and Flash-powered "desktop" applications. Inside, a look at seven desktop and homepage apps vying for your news feeds, bookmarks, and sticky n...
Regulators warn of text message stock scam
WASHINGTON (AP) — Securities regulators are warning investors about a new twist on the "pump and dump" stock-fraud scam that uses text messaging on cell phones to tout stocks. — The National Associa...
The Hydrogen Gold Rush Is On
Move over, Ben Franklin. Todd Livingstone has a plan to solve the energy crisis by capturing huge amounts of energy from lightning. — The idea itself is not new. But Livingstone, an inventor and e...
Microsoft Fixes Critical IE Problems
Microsoft this week fixed a widely reported flaw in its Internet Explorer (IE) browser that had been used by attackers over the past few weeks to take over the PCs of unsuspecting users. The flaw was...
Aperture
Because of the popularity of our not-so-glowing Aperture review, we've prepared an addendum to our review to address some questions, concerns and misconceptions people had. There were three main stre...
Reuters Selects FeedBurner to Deliver Global News and Advertising to RSS Subscribers
Chicago, IL — December 13, 2005 — Reuters, the world's largest international multimedia news source, has selected FeedBurner, the leading feed management provider, to expand its delivery …
10 Questions with Doc Searls
It's time for another 10 questions segment and today I have a wonderful interview with Doc Searls. I have got to say the more interviews I do the more I am getting something out of each of them. And...
Study: Online music sharing can spur sales
The record industry has long considered online file sharing a serious threat to its livelihood. But a new study scheduled to be released today suggests that consumer-to-consumer music recommendations...
Silence = New FeedDemon
Whenever my blog remains quiet for more than a few days, you can bet the reason is that I'm nose-down in development, working on something new. Which begs the question: what have I been working on si...