PlayStation 3 costs $800, sez Merrill Lynch mob
If there are some people out there rightnow who are in the know when it comes to what the hell is going on — we mean really going on — with Sony,it's those investment firms. But even barring their re...
DMCA axes sites discussing Mac OS for PCs
The chatter at the OSx86 Project was stifled Friday …
RSS Means Never Being Board
John Palfrey: … Dave Winer: … As a member of the RSS Advisory Board for the past 21 months and the current chair, I am surprised to learn that the organization doesn't exist. — I joined the board at...
Web 2.0 in the Enterprise - Blogging the TIE Event
The Web 2.0 in the Enterprise panel discussion hosted by TIE was exciting. In fact it wasn't really a panel discussion, rather a most interactive group event. Jeff Clavier as moderator with Charlene...
Software pioneer Bricklin tackles wikis
update If ever someone was going to merge two technologies as disparate as wikis and spreadsheets, VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin might well be the person for the job. — In 1979, Bricklin released Vi...
Here Comes a Google for Coders
For most people, open source is a synonym for free software. But for programmers, open source is about sharing code, building on the work of others and not having to reinvent the wheel — at least, th...
Thank You For Coming to TechCrunch 5
The Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party is now officially over (except for Stowe Boyd and Jason Roberts who are passed out on my couches). The pictures are here and here (tag: "techcrunch5″). — Th...
BenQ-Siemens Pandora (EF51)
I had a chance to grab a sneak peek into the upcoming line of phones from BenQ-Siemens. Codenamed Pandora (in Asia), this phone is a prototype version of the new company's music phone. I'm quite ple...
Pragmatics
Someone recently asked me about how to handle an internal product debate around REST vs. SOAP. — In hopes I never have to address this debate again, here's a record of what I told them. — The foll...
Freedom to Connect
David Isenberg's name pops up occasionally here on WorldChanging, and for good reason. He's one of the more forward-thinking telecom specialists around, and his work on whether to embed "intelligence...
Response to the DoJ motion
In August, Google was served with a subpoena from the U. S. Department of Justice demanding disclosure of two full months' worth of search queries that Google received from its users, as well as all t...