TechCrunch leads Silicon Valley Web renaissance
I went to the TechCrunch event Friday night, celebrating the publication of Naked Conversations by Shel Israel and Robert Scoble. — Many friends, acquaintances and new faces (pictures here). The pa...
It's Official: Microsoft Reveals Vista Product Editions
Five months after I exclusively revealed the Windows Vista product editions, Microsoft has corroborated my report, officially revealing which Vista versions customers will be able to purchase later th...
The Click That Broke a Government's Grip
BEIJING — The top editors of the China Youth Daily were meeting in a conference room last August when their cell phones started buzzing quietly with text messages. One after another, they discreetly ...
More code foreshadowing perhaps?
While looking through the source code for Gmail last week, I found references to what is now known as "Gmail for your domain" — a service that will let domain owners use Google as a mail server, not j...
Blargon
Every walk of life and field of endeavor generates its own insiders' lingo. Those of us in the MSM — that's the superannuated, archaic mainstream media — have our own jargon, of which the first sente...
Blogs Will NOT Save Old Media
Michael Arrington declares that BlogBurst Can Save Big (print) Media. To suggest that the lack of blog content is all that ails Old Media is deeply naive. Old Media needs to follow bloggers into the...
How to Suck Up to a Blogger
Blogging has flipped traditional PR on its head. It used to be that ink begat buzz. Life was simple then: you sucked up to the Wall Street Journal, one of its reporters wrote about your product, and...
Attention Thieves
I've developed a new spray that detects bulls**t. I can't talk too much about the technology until the product launch, but I will demonstrate its usefullness by spraying it on this post by Sam Ruby: ...
From 'Starter' to 'Ultimate': Site shows six Vistas
Microsoft hasn't yet issued any official announcement detailing the different versions of Windows Vista to be offered, but several online sites are pointing today to a list of them on a help page unde...
BlogBurst Can Save Big (print) Media
Pluck demo'd a new product called BlogBurst at our party last night. The service is live but Pluck has not pushed it out for publicity yet. — BlogBurst is a service that takes topical content from ...
China's virtual cops pinpoint web dissent
With their big blue blinking eyes and their quirky personal websites, there is no denying the cuteness of the cartoon cops at the front line of China's battle for control of the internet. — But the ...
FM Blog Ad Network
I subscribe to more blogs than I should, but one I read with relative frequency is Fred Wilson's - A VC, Musings of a VC in NYC. I am not alone as he has more than 30,000 such people - an incredible ...
ChangeWave's Residential VoIP Research - Part 2
I recently posted some highlights from this study, and promised to return with Part 2. So, here we go... - Satisfaction with VoIP provider - the million dollar question, esp in light of Vonage's IPO...