Chat + Email = Crazy Delicious
When we launched Google Talk, some people told us what a great idea it'd be to add chat to Gmail. True that. So a couple of us Google Talk engineers approached the Gmail team. They were excited abo...
Net Neutrality Not An Optional Feature of Internet
The Senate Commerce Committee is currently holding hearings on Net Neutrality. Webcast . The Bells are not be directly represented, cable companies views will be shared by Kyle McSlarrow, NCTA Presi...
Can You TiVo to See Just the Ads?
SCIENTISTS work hard to determine the radioactive half-life of elements. Now, Madison Avenue is busy figuring out the Web-active afterlife of the more than 50 commercials that appeared during Super B...
Riya's Amazing Face-Recognition Photo Search
DEMO is less than half over, so it's too early to talk about my own unofficial Best of Show award...but so far, I haven't seen anything that impressed me more than Riya. This photo sharing/search sit...
Microsoft Alums Create Flickr Competitor in the Photo Sharing Space
The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Microsoft alums picture photo sharing made easy The Seattle Business Times is reporting that a group of former high-ranking Microsoft executives have emerged ...
Slurping Up the Buzz at Demo
B2.0's Michael Copeland files the following report from Demo: — The bad skits, the technical flubs, the cool products and services, it's all here again at Demo 2006. For those who aren't familiar ...
CableCARD: a primer
Introduction — We know that you'd like nothing better than to get rid of that set-top box sitting on your DVD player. It's ugly, it's clunky, and it has its own remote. Extra cables snake about th...
Making your numbers
See the woman on your right? She's cheating. — When you use a Stairmaster, you can score higher numbers by using your arms for support. This technique allows you to work out at a higher number. —...
Is a blog without comments still a blog?
Blogger and Yahoo employee Russell Beattie has been taking a fair bit of flack for removing comments from his blog - and seems more than a little defensive about it, from what I can see. Fair enough....
STOP THE WIFI TAX RUMOR
Freaking trade press should know better, or at least learn to read more carefully. There is a steady drum beat of reports, starting I think with this one at RCR Wireless News that the President wants...
UPDATED: UDI MANBER TO LEAVE AMAZON'S A9 FOR GOOGLE
A reader tipped me to this over the weekend, but I could not confirm it till just this afternoon, and out of respect for the folks who worked with and for Udi, I decided not to post without confirmati...
Would Thomas Jefferson have Googled?
Google's Book Library Project would be applauded by at least one of America's founding fathers, the University of Michigan's president said Monday during her keynote at a national publishers meeting. ...
Feedster new paint smell, but missing second gear
Feedster is like that long lost cousin showing up at the party. Today, cousin Feedster showed up with a new paint job. Unfortunately the car seems to be missing the hubcaps, a bumper, a rearview mir...
Toshiba Announces New Line of Business Notebooks
Toshiba is set to tackle the mobile workforce by launching a set of new business notebooks. They will feature the highly anticipated Intel Core Duo and Core Solo processors, along with all the techno...
So, what if Oracle does buy JBoss?
I can comment on these rumors, because that's all they are to me: rumors. I have no inside knowledge on this. But there has been a growing cacophony of noise that JBoss is going to be acquired. Wha...
New Google Service to Blend the Gmail and Chat Features
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6 — Google, the search-engine giant, is expected on Tuesday to disclose that it will join its instant-messaging service with its popular Gmail program, the latest indication that t...
Verizon Executive Calls for End to Google's 'Free Lunch'
A Verizon Communications Inc. executive yesterday accused Google Inc. of freeloading for gaining access to people's homes using a network of lines and cables the phone company spent billions of dollar...
PayPal Turns On Red Alert for Incoming Google's "GBuy"
Much like Microsoft and Windows, Google's platform is the Web. Not that Google owns the Web, but it's presence cannot be denied nor defined.
Antisocial media
One day after Robert Scoble introduces us to a new comment repository service, Russell Beattie turns off his comments. Not only does he turn off comments, he deletes all of the contributions many peo...
DEATH OF THE BLOCKBUSTER, PART IV
[UPDATE: I've revised the bottom chart, where the scale went funky for some reason, and responded to all the comments with some additional data and clarification here.] — First, apologies for the ab...
New Feedster Site...New Features!
It has been a very interesting past couple of months. As a quick recap, just last month it was pontificated that Feedster was dead or at least on some serious form of life support. And regardless of...
Blueye music and mobile integration
It's not new, see our recent coverage of myTalker, but the idea of integrating your phone and music player to avoid missing a call is gaining popularity with manufacturers. The latest pitch is from M...
PanAmSat to Carry Ethnic Programming
PanAmSat Holding Corp. is starting a new business that will sell and distribute ethnic programming for television in the United States, a move that the company hopes will pave the way for other new in...
Murdoch's New Groove
A conversation with the News Corp. chairman, who's emerged as a leader in digital media after some smart bets. — Feb. 13, 2006 issue - Keith Rupert Murdoch may be 74 years old, but the way he sees i...
Microsoft alums picture photo sharing made easy
A group of former high-ranking Microsoft executives has emerged from retirement to start an ambitious company that aims to simplify the sharing of digital photos and other media over the Internet. — ...
WoW: Blizzard Gets Gay Rights Warning
On Friday we broke the news that Lambda Legal was getting involved in the whole gay rights in World of Warcraft issue. Today we learned that the legal firm has sent Blizzard an official letter questi...
AT&T/SBC PLAYS HARDBALL
All the recent talk about net neutrality and how the telcos are planning to leverage their pipes against the threats of Google et al reminded me of a story I heard recently about AT&T/SBC and our loca...
Without 'Net neutrality' will consumers pay twice?
The debate over whether broadband providers should be allowed to prioritize the traffic they carry and to charge companies to ship data via their networks is about to get its second airing in Washingt...
More stats and analysis of robots.txt files
Today, we released new features for Sitemaps. — robots.txt analysis — If the site has a robots.txt file, the new robots.txt tab provides Googlebot's view of that file, including when Googlebot las...