AOL Coaxes Google to Try Busier Ads
Users of Google's search engine will soon see something they are not used to on the notoriously spare site: advertising with logos and graphics. And the advertisers will not be limited to America Onl...
Wikipedia Founder Looks Out for Number 1
I spent a little time this morning expanding the Wikipedia biography of Gordon Keith, a dark-humored and hilarious radio host on the Dallas sportstalk station KTCK. — Having a biography in Wikipedia...
An unwired Minneapolis a step closer to a reality
The city has cut the field to two bids to build a Wi-Fi network that could lower consumers' costs for high-speed Internet access. — Minneapolis is moving closer to becoming one of the nation's leadi...
If we're Tech City, where's our WiFi?
Advocates blame delay of a key study, need for project czar — Wireless data networks are being installed free of charge in cities across the nation. But Boston, a city with a reputation for innovat...
Yahoo Launches Open Shortcuts, Allows Creation Of Custom Search Commands
The new Yahoo Open Shortcuts service lets anyone create their own custom search commands for use on Yahoo. Want to navigate to a particular site quickly or have Yahoo remember a particular search str...
Time Saving Search Shortcuts
I'm addicted to shortcuts. Shave 5 minutes from my commute by exiting 2 streets early and cutting through the back roads? I'm there. And with the Internet I'm always looking for ways to do things f...
U.S. Patent Office Likely to Back BlackBerry Maker
OTTAWA, Dec. 19 - The technology patents at the heart of an infringement lawsuit by NTP against Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, are likely to be struck down by ...
Google acquires stake in AOL
Internet search giant to pay $1 billion for 5 percent stake in AOL; Microsoft shut out of deal. — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. and America Online Inc. Tuesday expanded their search and advertisi...
Performancing for Firefox is Here!
Well, despite falling asleep on the job last night, Performancing for Firefox is finally here! Jed and I worked all night on this, and we're finally happy to put our new blogging firefox extension ou...
PROXY HACK
Google free proxy! — Access restricted web sites using Google language tools service as a proxy. — Contributed by: bigthistle — A little tutorial found on the italian site www.manuali.net inspir...
Reuters video to get mass distribution
International news agency Reuters is launching a pilot program on Tuesday that will allow blogs, news organizations and other online publishers to show Reuters news video on their Web sites. — The v...
BitTorrent Reloaded: Unauthorised installs lead to pirated movie files on victim's PCs
Yep, the title is a mouthful but you heard it correctly: those crazy guys behind the Middle-East connected Rootkit-powered Botnet (phew! mouthful alert) experimented with something I haven't seen befo...
Public Relations lesson of the day
One Billion Internet Users
Cutting Through the Patent Thicket
The current U.S. system is harming innovation. A simplified process with stronger patents would encourage economic growth — For over 200 years, the U.S. patent system has catalyzed economic growth ...
Making Technorati easier to use
We just rolled out a whole raft of improvements and tweaks that are built to make Technorati easier to use and easier to understand. A few things that we rolled out: — 1) Charts. Get live, updated...
WORLD OF WARCRAFT® SURPASSES FIVE MILLION CUSTOMERS WORLDWIDE
Customer base reaches new heights as Blizzard Entertainment®'s MMORPG continues its growth in North America, Europe, and Asia — IRVINE, California - December 19, 2005 - Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. ...
8 Cool Firefox Plugins You Never Knew Existed
1. Stopwatch - This simple little extension gives you a neat stopwatch. That's it. A stopwatch. It's simple,easy, and it works. — 2. Search Status - This is one of my favorite extensions. It s...
Pegasus Partly Debuts 'CitJ'-Based Operation in Dallas
For those of us watching the "citizen journalism"/"grassroots media" space, the wait to see what Pegasus News is up to is almost over. The Dallas-based start-up, which first announced its intention t...
Xbox modders charged with copyright crime
Two owners of a Los Angeles game store and a third man face a up to five years in prison on charges filed Monday in a federal copyright infringement case for selling modified Xbox game consoles, prose...
Google Base + Vertical Search + RSS = Death of Walled Gardens
A few weeks ago, I promised to write a follow-up on my post about Google Base that detailed how the launch of Google Base might affect the Internet's so-called "Walled Gardens" (content sites that cha...
Pro-Hollywood bill aims to restrict digital tuners
A new proposal in Congress could please Hollywood studios, which are increasingly worried about Internet piracy, by embedding anticopying technology into the next generation of digital video products....
MS Research: Typo-Squatters Are Gaming Google
Researchers at Microsoft Corp. have blown the lid off a large-scale, typo-squatting scheme that uses multi-layer URL redirection to game Google's AdSense for domains program. — The scheme was uncove...
AOL Coaxes Google to Try Busier Ads
Users of Google's search engine will soon see something they are not used to on the notoriously spare site: advertising with logos and graphics. And the advertisers will not be limited to America Onl...
Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio
Sleuthing into the accuracy of the open-source web encyclopedia known as Wikipedia has led to the door of its founder, Jimmy Wales. — Public edit logs reveal that Wales has changed his own Wikipedia...
Making Technorati easier to use
We just rolled out a whole raft of improvements and tweaks that are built to make Technorati easier to use and easier to understand. A few things that we rolled out: — Charts. Get live, updated ch...
Need For Speed... How Real?
After years of being stuck in the slow lane, the US consumers are finally going to get a massive speed upgrade and taste the true broadband for the first time. From a 512 Kbps world to 6 Mbps, then 8...
Dell Recalls Laptop Batteries
About 35,000 Latitude, Precision, Inspiron, and XPS models pose fire risk, vendor says. — Dell and the Consumer Products Safety Commission have announced a recall of about 35,000 notebook batteries ...
The Search for Net Neutrality
Appeared in the Toronto Star on December 19, 2005 as Dangers in ISPs' Bid For New Tolls — The Search, a popular new book by John Battelle about Google and the search engine industry, provides a reve...