Jeeves Retires
After nearly a decade of service, Jeeves is retiring from his duties at the search engine, which will assume the long used but little promoted name "Ask." — Jeeves was the brainchild of venture capi...
Edgeio and the distributed world
I got a preview of Michael Arrington's Edgeio — the classified system for the distributed future — and I think it is more important than it looks. — Edgeio as it stands is pretty simple: You tag a p...
Flyspy Brings The New Web To Airline Ticketing
At the Mashup Camp pre-conference dinner tonight there were a number of demos, all of which were interesting. A non-public service that stood out was flyspy, a search engine for airline tickets that ...
Six Apart grabs $12 million more; cocktail circuit says bubble is growing
Six Apart, the creator of blogging products like Moveable Type and Typepad, has raised $12 million in a third round of venture capital, according to IDD Magazine. Intel is rumored to be in on the dea...
Nonconsensual 180 Installations Continue, Despite 180's "S3" Screen
On Friday morning (February 17), I received a nonconsensual installation of 180solutions Zango software through a security exploit. I was browsing an ordinary commercial web site, when I got a popup ...
Sony Cybershot cameras at PMA 2006
Sony Cybershot cameras at PMA 2006 : According to a publication on the Sony Centre website - www.sonycenter.lu - we may soon expect new Sony Cybershot digital cameras to be announced. PMA 2006 is get...
Microsoft free internet voice service challenges Vodafone
MICROSOFT has developed a Skype-style free internet voice service for mobile phones that City analysts believe could wipe billions off the market value of operators such as Vodafone. — The service i...
Google Trusted Tester program
While doing more research on the rumored "Google Calendar", I came across some mentions of a "Trusted Tester" program accessible through calendar.google.com/tester. Knowing a little bit about how Goo...
A Video Clip Goes Viral, and a TV Network Wants to Control It
When a video clip goes "viral," spreading across the Web at lightning speed, it can help rocket its creators to stardom. Alas, the clip can also generate work for corporate lawyers. — As anyone wit...
Busting the myths of Email outsourcing
When David Berlind suggested that 90 percent of businesses can't justify insourcing their Email and therefore should outsource their Email instead, it kicked of a firestorm of debate inside and outsid...
Here I Am Taking My Own Picture
MORGAN ADAMS, a recent college graduate, decided that her picture on her home page at MySpace.com had lingered a little too long, a full month. To snap a new one she called on the only photographer s...
Boycott Yahoo
On April 27, 2005, Shi Tao (a Chinese journalist) received a ten-year prison term for sending information about a Communist Party decision through his Yahoo email account to a website based in the Uni...
Area Code, Sweet Area Code
Washington is where you'll find them, but their hearts and their cellphones belong to distant area codes. From left, Punja Patel (714), Jay Heidbrink (617) and Michele Gordon (662). — WASHINGTON —...
Superneen world
Architect Andreas Angelidakis's work engages a 3-D Internet as well as physical spaces to raise questions about urbanism, communities and buildings. — A good example of how he blends digital and phy...
How an Oyster card could ruin your marriage
Lipstick on the collar may point to infidelity, but a check of your travel card can reveal where and when it happened — Oyster cards, the "smart" little blue thing in London commuters' wallets that ...
Reference Tool On Web Finds Fans, Censors
After Flowering as Forum, Wikipedia Is Blocked Again — BEIJING — When access to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, was disrupted across China last October, a lanky chemical eng...