Oracle snags open-source database company
Oracle said on Tuesday that it acquired open-source database company Sleepycat Software for an undisclosed sum. — The database giant said Sleepycat's open-source Berkeley DB database will complement...
Here comes Measure Map
My first post to my blog was a little paragraph about my obsession with cycling, and I remember feeling a little ... let down. Sure, it was remarkably easy. Write. Click a button. Reload. Cool! ...
MovieBeam offers first HDTV online movie rentals
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A video on demand movie service spun out of Walt Disney Co. is introducing on Tuesday the first U.S. home delivery service for high-definition films, backed by top Hol...
Tips for joining the A list
I keep getting asked "how do I get more traffic?" Or, "how do I get TechCrunch to notice my blog?" — Quick: go to Technorati and do the brrreeeport search. Now, which headline and opening text gra...
Technorati now has Authority
Assigning some sort of quality to real time search is necessary. Tracking incoming links to a particular post doesn't work because, well, since this stuff is real time there is no time to track links...
Blogs to Riches
To analyze the disparities in the blogosphere, Shirky took a sample of 433 blogs. Then he counted an interesting metric: the number of links that pointed toward each site ("inbound" links, as they're...
State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 2: Beyond Search
In Part 1 of the State of the Blogosphere report, I covered the overall growth of the blogosphere. Today I'm going to cover the growth of the blogosphere as media, and discuss some of the emerging tr...
Google Windows apps coming to Linux
Google and CodeWeavers Inc. are working together to bring Google's popular Windows Picasa photo editing and sharing program to Linux. The program is now in a limited beta test. If this program is su...
The Inside Story on Company Blogs
Corporate America may fear critical comments in public blogs, but it isn't ignoring the medium's potential for improving internal communication — The numbers are downright puny. According to The Fo...
AdSense beta testing third party tracking in image ads
Selected members have begun to receive an email from Google about the new third party tracking AdSense beta they will begin testing. This is a true beta (there were some publishers questioning if it ...
WHAT OFFICE LIVE IS NOT
Last night, Microsoft lifted the NDA for Office Live, so I am rapidly blogging a day sooner than expected. Office Live goes live—at least in limited beta—tomorrow. — So there is to confusion about ...
Windows Defender antispyware beta 2 released
Microsoft Antispyware officially becomes Windows Defender with the release of beta 2, and you can download it here. — More later after I have a chance to play with it, but Neowin has this to say: … ...
Graded Browser Support
In the first 10 years of professional web development, back in the early '90s, browser support was binary: Do you — or don't you — support a given browser? When the answer was "No", user access to th...
Seeking new horizons
I am leaving Technorati to pursue new opportunities. I submitted my resignation letter this morning and I will be a free agent on March 1. I joined Technorati in February 2005 excited about changing...
Google's ad sales tested in court
Another lawsuit is poised to challenge Google's lucrative advertising-based business model by arguing it encourages unlawful use of trademarks as keywords. — The parent company of a payday loan prov...
Juicy new google feature
Maybe you've seen it, I hadn't. This is a new feature inside of Google AdWords. Do a search, in this case for the Artisan Hotel, and a string of ads pop up. But one ad has a green phone. — Click ...
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Exploiting MSN's Incentivized Search
I woke up this morning to a cancelled class and an interesting TW post on Microsoft's incentivized search. I had a little downtime so I thought I would try to crack the system. Thing is, I did. — ...
Apple Begins Shipping MacBook Pro
MacBook Pro Features Faster Intel Core Duo Processors Up to 2.16 GHz — CUPERTINO, California—February 14, 2006—Apple® this week will begin shipping the new 15-inch MacBook™ Pro notebook computer fea...
The brrreeeport report
OK, it's been a little more than two hours since I asked people to put "brrreeeport" on their blogs to "mess with the man" and build a new kind of directory. So, in that time I went out for sushi wit...