Google, Skype Fund FON
[Updated with comments from Martin Varsavsky and Glenn Fleishman]. FON a wireless services company started by maverick entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky has just raised $21.7 million from Google, Skype, ...
A dream come true
As you know, FON is a global community of people who share WiFi connections. We call these people "Foneros", as a tribute to our heritage as a Spanish company. In order to become a Fonero, you go to...
How RSS can bust through
Fred Wilson says "RSS has to become brain-dead simple to use." — I'm pretty sure we can do it, but it would require the companies to give up hope of locking users into their software, into their ext...
Comment Tracking with coComment
(Update: Look at the end of the review for a Greasemonkey script for coComment) — Tracking comments that you make at a blog has always been a hassle. The way I usually do it is by making a comment ...
The Conversational Index: Thoughts After The Deluge
Wow. What I thought was a modest post with a neat and helpful small idea — The Conversational Index — took off in a big way yesterday, getting picked up, and picked on, by a long list of smart people...
AOL/Yahoo: our email tax will make the net as good as the post office!
AOL and Yahoo have proposed a system to charge senders a quarter of a cent for guaranteed delivery on each email sent to their customers. They justify this as an anti-spam measure, but of course it c...
Dell drops hard-drive MP3 line
Dell Inc. stopped selling its most expensive digital music players after failing to take market share from Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod. — Dell, the world's largest personal computer maker, discontinu...
Amazon-Sense?
Amazon is apparently looking into the feasibility of starting their own ad network like Adsense. They've been contacting select members of their associates programs, including myself, asking if we'd ...
Ramping up on international webspam
Remember my previous post noting that Google would be paying more attention to webspam in other countries and languages this year? This week our webspam team continued ramping up our anti-spam effort...
Apple Special Event - Feb 22nd - Airport Video?
We've known Apple's planning a specialmedia event for a week or so, but didn't know the precise date or what would be announced. On Flickr today, someone has posted up what claims to be an image used...
The 14-year old coders are back in business-proof of Internet 2.0
Yes, it is official, the 14-year old programmers are back, that means concrete proof that we have a new dotcom boom emerging-but this time with an interesting twist. — The twist is this: The 14 yea...
Gillmor Gang: Memeorandum and the future of media
Gabe Rivera of Memeorandum joined a partially populated Gillmor Gang (Steve, myself, Doc Searls and Mike Arrington-Jon Udell, Mike Vizard and Dana Gardner unavailable) podcast on Friday. As I said du...
This idea originally ran on 4/12/04.
A search engine views the Web as a set of pages. Before Google, they were unrelated pages, but Google started a practice where pages were considered more relevant …
Email vs. RSS (continued)
I first posted on this topic in October 2003 as I was starting to blog. — I posted again in the middle of last year. — And once more in the fall of last year. — I can save you the trouble on cli...
Lessons from the Cluetrain: Imperatives for presenters
If you follow people like Hugh Macleod and Robert Scoble, etc., you know that we're living in the era of "the cluetrain." I first read the Cluetrain Manifesto four-five years ago. One of the central...
First Take: 30 Boxes
I am joining in the chorus of praise for 30 Boxes (along with Scoble, Thomas Hawk (who calls it the best calendar ever), Matt Mullenweg, and Om, who called 30 boxes the gmail of calendars) even though...
Software-defined radio could unify wireless world
A device capable of skipping between incompatible wireless standards by tweaking its underlying code has been given world's first go-ahead for outdoor trials in Ireland. — Ireland's communications r...
Blogs — it's all about the conversation
it's all about the conversation — This may or may not be part of the "secret sauce" in Gabe's memeorandum.com, but I think Stowe Boyd is onto something. In a post about what makes blogs work — i.e.,...
New Microsoft Windows Tools in the Wings
SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft's "Sparkle" is set to get some new cousins. — Following up on its recent release of the first preview of Sparkle, its designer tool for creating applications for Windows Vist...