Verbatim: Search firms surveyed on privacy
update To find out what kind of information the four major search companies retain about their users, CNET News.com surveyed America Online, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. — We asked the same seven qu...
It's a different world today
Adam Green: "Microsoft long ago mastered the trick of calculating exactly the minimal feature set needed to suck the air out of a market it wants to enter." — Like me, Adam is a dinosaur who walked ...
The Social Scale of Social Media: The Conversational Index
I think it was Brian Ritchie, one of the inventors of Unix and C, who said "All large systems that work start as small systems that work." This is an enormously powerful thought, one that can be carr...
Rumours mount over Google's internet plan
Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who are in commercial...
The End of the Internet?
The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded...
Libraries fear digital lockdown
Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future. — Many publishers put restrictions on how digital ...
What's New for CSS in Beta 2 Preview?
We have heard all your feedback asking us for full CSS compliance. With the now public available Beta 2 Preview build on XP, we get a big step closer to this goal. Chris talked about our priorities ...
Google's China portal inaccessible in Shanghai, Beijing
SHANGHAI (AFX) - Google Inc's recently launched China portal was inaccessible in the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Beijing on Friday, although the US-hosted Google.cn site could still be reached from...
Verizon & Unnecessary Roughness
Business Week article about how Verizon wants to reserve 80% of its network bandwidth for itself, caused a minor ruckus yesterday as one after another, everyone brought up the issue of network neutral...
The iPod Ecosystem
In the weeks leading up to last month's Macworld conference, few people knew what the notoriously secretive Steven P. Jobs was going to announce. — Gavin Downey, the director of product management a...
VMware to make server product free
VMware, an EMC subsidiary whose software lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer, is expected to announce next week that it will begin giving away one of its key products for free, CN...
The Type-A Bathroom
For workaholics, it's the new home office. Jon Weinbach and Peggy Edersheim Kalb on showerproof computers, mirrors with stock quotes and the latest water hazard: 'BlackBerry dunk.' — With a BlackBe...
Interview with Gabe Rivera, founder of Memeorandum
Tech Memeorandum is part of my daily reading list, actually I read it several times a day. There are several other "clipper" services out there that approach the problem from a slightly different ang...
Tomorrow's games, designed by players as they play
LOS ANGELES—Game budgets are skyrocketing. Development teams are swelling almost to film studio's proportions. The only way out of this trap is to enlist players to help create their own worlds, a p...
MediaCentral HTPC frontend for the Mac
The most recent iMac comes with a nice simple home theater PC front-end called FrontRow, and acts as a nice gateway to your music, movies, and photos using the provided remote. I have one of the new ...
Have a cell phone? Make a movie
Eight cell phones, $160,000 and a good idea—could this be the future of filmmaking? — South African director Aryan Kaganof thinks so. And to prove it, he made "SMS Sugar Man," which is billed as th...
James Cameron's Game Theory
Get kids hooked on a multiplayer game, then show them the movie — James Cameron has transported film audiences to worlds inhabited by carnivorous aliens, time-traveling assassins, and passengers on ...
Tony Perkins' embarrassing web stats
To turn around the phrase on its head, on the web, everyone knows you're a dog. The internet may provide anonymity to individuals, but it leaves publishers nowhere to hide. A reader emails in about ...
Company Building For Eight Year Olds
When you're a doctor or an architect, it is relatively easy to explain to your kids what you do for a living. "I help make sick people healthy." "I help build houses." When you're a venture capital...
PubSub, Rollyo Offer Web Search Services The Big Engines Don't
The Internet search business is a hot topic. But most of the talk centers on the advertising revenue it generates, not on what is happening in the actual search process itself. And most of the atten...
OneNote "12" and the Tablet PC
I promised some time ago to write about the Tablet experience in OneNote 12 and how it has changed. This is a tricky topic to cover since there are still a lot of people out there who think OneNote i...
What Comes After the Blockbuster? The Nichebuster
I am at the Entertainment Gathering conference in LA and there is a lot of talk about the death of the blockbuster. Wired editor Chris Anderson showed some nifty charts from his upcoming book on the ...
Interview with Digg's Kevin Rose, Pt 2: On Personalization and Fighting Spam
In Part 1 of my interview with digg founder Kevin Rose, we discussed digg's popularity, reputation systems and recent issues with GroupThink. In the final part of this interview, Kevin and I talk abo...
Building a business based on copyright infringement (or, "Bad business idea #487")
YouTube.com gets some ink in the New York Times today. The piece spends a decent amount of time explaining the success of the site: it's makes money off other people's IP. — How do you build a busi...
FAQ: When Google is not your friend
FAQ Google's recent legal spat with the U.S. Department of Justice highlights not only what information search engines record about us but also the shortcomings in a federal law that's supposed to pro...
New Gossip Rag On Google Execs Dating
New gossip rag ValleyWag discloses that Google cofounder Larry Page and Google vice president of search products Marissa Mayer apparently used to date, backed up by an anonymous comment on a blog. He...
More People Underwhelmed by RSS Support in IE 7
A few days ago, in my blog post entitled Some Thoughts on the IE 7 Beta 2 Preview release I described the RSS features of IE 7 as unsatisfactory and disappointing. It seems I'm not the only one who d...