Exclusive: Google to offer feed API
Google plans to offer a feed reader API to allow third-party developers to build new views of feed data on top of Google's backend. The new APIs will include synchronization, feed-level and item-leve...
Google Reader API
Google Reader is an online feed aggregator with heavy use of JavaScript and pretty quick loading of the latest feed data from around the web. Google's AJAX front-end styles back-end data published in...
Why your music collections will bite the DRM dust
I was really glad to see Dave Winer say that, in his opinion, the problems that he and other people are having with their iPods and iTunes are DRM-related. Dave: It is the real culprit and your issue...
Google Faces Patent Infringement Lawsuit Over Google Talk
While doing some research, I've learned that Google is being sued for patent infringement over the VoIP portion of the Google Talk program. I've posted the full text (38 pages; PDF) of the complaint ...
Nerds in the Hood, Stars on the Web
For most aspiring rappers, the fastest route to having material circulated around the World Wide Web is to produce a work that is radical, cutting-edge and, in a word, cool. But now a pair of "Saturd...
Businessman wins e-mail spam case
A businessman has won what is believed to be the first victory of its kind by claiming damages from a company which sent him e-mail spam. — Nigel Roberts, who lives in Alderney in the Channel Island...
Businessman wins e-mail spam case
A businessman has won what is believed to be the first victory of its kind by claiming damages from a company which sent him e-mail spam. — Nigel Roberts, who lives in Alderney in the Channel Island...
'Intel Inside' dumped
Intel turns inside out — INTEL IS to dump its tagline 'Intel Inside' and run a huge logo launch in early January. Chipzilla has been extremely precious about its 'Intel Inside' tagline and even tak...
Read Most of O'Reilly's Hacks Books for Free Using Google
I am taking a break from my 2006 trends series tonight because a) I found an awesome hack I just had to share, b) I am lazy this week and c) I am in the mood to get Digged. — O'Reilly publishes a gr...
2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards
Tech execs say the darndest things. And so do shuffling presidents, and disgraced scientists, and Wikipedia fakers. It's time to relive 2005's biggest spoken gaffes. — "Screw the nano." — Motorol...
You don't want to download MSN Messenger beta 8
There is no MSN Messenger 8 yet. Not in public beta anyway. — However, there's a new virus going around pretending to be "MSN Messenger 8 Working BETA". — There's two ways to catch it. First, by...
iPod continued
Paul Thurrot: "The fact that Posen's post is so long should alarm people. I think it proves that Winer has a point." — Of course I have a point. I've been using iPods for three years. These are n...
I'm feeling silly
Not long ago, I walked by the desk of software engineer JJ Furman, and saw that he had made an interesting addition to his desk: a large blob of Silly Putty, about the size of a grapefruit. Intrigued...
Microsoft eyeing deal to rival Google-AOL
NZ analyst speculates that Microsoft might be in talks with Yahoo — Microsoft may be cooking up a major internet partnership to rival Google's newly bolstered relationship with American Online (AOL)...
The Net Is a Boon for Indie Labels
Even as the recording industry staggers through another year of declining sales over all, there are new signs that a democratization of music made possible by the Internet is shifting the industry's b...
Shop 'Til They Lock
Post-Christmas sales are a must for bargain hunters, but this year brings a new incentive to stock up on electronics: 2005 might be the last good year to get gizmos that aren't locked down. — As the...
Best Search Engine Community Blog : 2005 Search Blogs Awards
Best Search Engine Community Blog : 2005 Search Blogs Awards — Although Threadwatch and Search Engine Roundtable were both nominated for different awards for covering search engine news and search r...
Age of information overload
(AP) — Books are being scanned to make them searchable on the Internet. Television broadcasts are being recorded and archived for online posterity. Radio shows, too, are getting their digital conver...
Google announces feed API
Niall Kennedy, of Technorati, has the news that Google will release a feed API in early 2006. — Here's another note to Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Ray Ozzie. Hey, I asked you guys to acquire New...
Spitzer's music probe said to expand
N.Y. Attorney General has subpoenaed at least three major record labels in ongoing probe: reports. — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three major music labels have been subpoenaed by New York Attorney Genera...
How to become an independent programmer in just 1068 days.
If you watch the Evening at Adler video you'll come across a part where some of the guys on the panel talk about how much it costs to make the transition to doing the independent macintosh programmer ...
Top 10 tech trends for 2006
Once again, it's time for the Mercury News annual look into a crystal ball for technology trends in 2006. Never mind that the smartest people in tech wouldn't dare make serious predictions about what...
With a few ponchkes in the belly, it's time to prognosticate on Apple in 2006
I've been having loads of fun over the Christmas break with my blog entry about The Apprentice's Season 4, Episode 12 using Apple equipment to produce videos promoting Microsoft's Live Meeting collabo...
Q&A: Europe's Galileo project
Europe is building its own satellite-navigation system called Galileo. BBC News looks at why such a network is deemed necessary when we already have the US Global Positioning System (GPS). — What i...
Finally, a USB adapter for Cardbus 3G cards
Elan Digital Systems is releasing a USB adapter specifically designed to accept Wireless PCMCIA cards for portable devices that have no PCMCIA slots. The U132 will ship in February and allows users t...