Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail
Companies will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of their customers. — America Online and Yahoo, tw...
German BMW Banned From Google
BMW.de as seen from Google: — PageRank zero and a "sorry" page. — From what it looks like, the German websites of car maker BMW have been kicked out of the Google index. BMW.de at this time has a...
Track your comments, no matter where you make them
Let's say you track 10 blogs and you regularly post comments on all 10 blogs. Isn't it a pain in the behind that you have to go around to each of the 10 blogs to participate in the comments? — Well...
Internet VC Activity in India
InfoEdge, which owns some of India's hottest Internet properties including the largest job portal Naukri.com, Real Estate search engine 99acres.com, and matrimonial site Jeevan Sathi has got funding f...
Increasingly, Internet's Data Trail Leads to Court
Who is sending threatening e-mail to a teenager? Who is saying disparaging things about a company on an Internet message board? Who is communicating online with a suspected drug dealer? — These qu...
The Rise of the Memetrackers
Has Memeorandum got competition? Over the last few months, a number of services have sprung up to help us find the most talked-about news of the moment. Time for a check-up on the state of the memeo...
What's Your Post to Comment/Trackback Ratio?
Awhile ago, (Before Stowe started begging for links to his new blog. Click that. It's too funny.) I posted about my blog to comment ratio. It was 0.9. — Now, it is: — Posts: 1694 | Comments:...
The Memeorandum Hunters
I've written about two new real-time news aggregators today, Megite and Newroo. — The space is clearly hot, with both funded and unfunded companies rushing to release products. The goal? Leverage ...
Samsonite Laptop Pillow
Not quite the pillow we were expecting, but then why would luggage specialist Samsonite make a bedtime accessory? — By applying memory foam to computer protection, Samsonite says it's paving the way...
The Conversational Index for blogs
Microsoft Emerging Business Team — The Conversational Index for blogs — Stowe Boyd has introduced the notion of a Conversational Index to measure the effectiveness of blogs. I agree completely wi...
Kleiner Perkins And Ram Shriram At It Again In India; Pick Up Stake In Naukri.com
The Economic Times has lost news sense. If India's largest internet classifieds company Naukri.com gets investment from world's fat cat VCs, it can't be shrugged away as a small news brief somewhere ...
Newbie's Guide to Asterisk@Home 2.5: Unabridged Soup-to-Nuts Installation Guide
Want a rock-solid PBX at a rock-bottom price: free! Well, it's been two days since our tutorial on AAH 2.4 but here we go again! Asterisk@Home 2.5 has hit the street because of another serious bug-f...
Goodbye to All This
What a Long, Opinionated Trip It's Been — Over the course of my nearly 10 years as Outlook editor, I witnessed the demise of the mass media. — Oh, there's plenty of media — more than ever before. ...
Microsoft Search Champs: Payola or just a good conference?
Our geeky sister was one of over 50 techies invited to Microsoft Search Champs V4. Attendees in the company's Redmond base heard about the new technologies in Vista. And the "Evil Empire" was quite ...
Our Internet, Up for Grabs
Tomb Raider: Legend
Published by Eidos and developed by Crystal Dynamics — TBC players, Autumn 2006. — The first lady of computing vaults, spins, poses and pouts her way onto the Xbox 360 — But has she learnt from ...
Inventions Inc.
BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Last summer, Bill Gates announced he wanted his Microsoft employees to increase the patents the company receives per year by 50%. That has yet to pan out: By the end of 2005, the...
Games that stick it to 'The Man'
Big corporations beware: Some video game developers are on a mission to skewer your reputation. — For several years, hard-core game players have complained that big consumer brands are increasingly ...
Rumor: Diablo III On the Way? You Better Believe It!
It looks like the Diablo III rumor mill has started up once again with a seemingly innocent post on the jobs section of the Blizzard web site. A few days ago they posted a job for an art director and...
Introducing Weblog Empire v2
Just a quick introduction and an invite to all Blog Herald readers to the reincarnation of Weblog Empire, this time as a blog link exchange forum. — The forum can be visited here: — http://www.web...
Phones of Greek, U.S., officals tapped
ATHENS, Greece — Mobile phones belonging to top Greek military and government officials - including the prime minister - and the U.S. embassy were tapped for nearly a year beginning in the weeks befor...
Listening and Learning Through Blogging
I've just finished my second posting, and I've realized how much there is to learn about the blogosphere. I've spent a lot of time looking at other blogs, listening to what others are saying about wh...
Daisy 1.4 released
Outerthought proudly announces the immediate release of version 1.4 of its flagship open source CMS Daisy, which now has become the only open source CMS to support book-quality publishing, making Dais...
Google to Acquire World
At least according to this article in the Times of London (which presumably is read by the Werewolves of London). — I don't even know where to start, so let's take this story paragraph by paragraph....
Alt Weeklies, San Francisco, Curiosity, and Bulls**t
I was startled by this phenomenally wrong-headed editorial in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond exposes his insecurities by arguing that Craig Newmark's work in Craigslist doesn't build com...
Feedback on IE7 Beta 2 from the Developer of FeedDemon
As most readers probably know by now, the second beta of Internet Explorer 7 is out, and it offers some nice improvements such as tabbed browsing and feed reading. I'm far too biased to comment on th...
Mobile phone tracking, girlfriend stalking and the law
A service has launched in the UK which allows you to track any mobile phone around the globe and follow its movements from your own computer. The Guardian ran a feature on it yesterday called 'How I ...
VMware moves to free with Server product
As anticipated, VMware has created a free version of its server partitioning software in the hopes of drawing new customers to its technology. In addition, the move counters open source rival XenSour...
Hey bloggers — MSFT doesn't care about you
MSFT doesn't care about you — Many of the reviews and comments about the new beta of Microsoft's Internet [Exploder] Explorer, IE7, have focused on the RSS implementation. Adam Green at Darwinianweb...
The Effective Emailer
Because of my recent post about schmoozing, you might think I'm a warm, fuzzy, and kumbaya kind of Guy. Most of the time I am, but I have strong feelings about email etiquette and what it takes to ge...
Why "Do What You Love" Is A Recipe for Web 2.0-Style Disruption
Mary Hodder's new online video aggregation service Dabble is launching its balpha (that's not quite beta but beyond alpha) next week. Om Malik, senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine, reviewed the se...
CoComment: Tracking Your Blog Comments
CoComment is experimenting with a new way for people to keep track of all of the comments they leave on various blogs. — To use CoComment, a user must install a bookmarklet on their browser and use ...
Cable companies fear the approach of IPTV
In the flip side of the stories coming out about giant IP service providers worrying over squeezing more profits, the world of cable television has started to wonder if their future revenue might suff...
Reading Feeds With RSS Bandit
Dave Naylor and I were IMing today about IE 7's new RSS feature. He was very excited. I haven't tried it yet, but the screenshot he sent me didn't make me think it was better than the RSS Bandit fee...
Yahoo's media boss: so out
So, please, let's just stipulate, already: Lloyd Braun is out of Yahoo. The rumors of his departure have been around so long that everyone's bored of them; we're promoting them to the status of fact....