Ajax homepages market review
Over the past year many new AJAX homepages, aka personalized start pages, have been introduced to the market. Microsoft and Google have offerings, as do a host of small startups. First I'll define w...
DoJ: Google Search Request Not a Privacy Threat
UPDATED: The Department of Justice (DoJ) has rejected Google's assertion that a government subpoena for search data threatens the privacy of Internet users. — "The government has not asked Google to...
Networks Grapple With YouTube
Balkanizing RSS and the risks to the information ecosystem
I've been following Dave Winer's various work for years now but none of it has been quite as interesting as watching the political imbroglios surrounding RSS 2.0. The RSS format itself is something t...
New Microsoft Maps Combine Photos, Directions
At noon PDT on Tuesday, Microsoft will unveil a preview version of its Windows Live Local Technology, which will allow users to view a "street-side" perspective of local neighborhoods. — Microsoft's...
Yahoo claims start-up stole trade secrets
Yahoo has filed a lawsuit against wireless content company MForma, charging the San Francisco-based company and a group of ex-Yahoo employees there with theft of trade secrets. — According to the la...
Just Like It Now Gets The Internet, News Corp. Now Gets Mobile, Too
A lot of people said that News Corporation's purchase of MySpace was a sign that the company now "gets" the internet — although that's far from certain. The company is today on the receiving end of a...
Details unfolding on Microsoft's 'Origami'
As rumors unfurl about a new gadget upcoming from Microsoft, the company's Origami Project is starting to take shape as a very small tablet computer, one perhaps affordable enough to appeal to mainstr...
Apple Developer Connection
The Ruby on Rails web application framework has built up a tremendous head of steam over the last year. Fueled by some significant benefits and an impressive portfolio of real-world applications alre...
And There Was Much Rejoicing: New FeedBurner Statistics
Our crack design team has emerged from their cave with a sweeping set of enhancements to our core statistics offering. There are some new concepts, more detailed visibilty into specific item statisti...
Microsoft Nears Xbox Equilibrium
PHOENIX — With Xbox 360s as scarce as truffles, Microsoft (MSFT:Nadsaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) CFO Christopher Liddell has good news for game fans — and the software giant's legions o...
Cable VoIP, Hotter Than Ever
What a whopper of a year for cable telephony! — Cablevision, the last MSO to report its fourth quarter earnings added 130,000 new VoIP customers, up just 7,000 from the previous quarter. The compan...
Click Fraud Gets Smarter
Internet ad-traffic scams could be ripping off as much as $1 billion annually. Are Web companies like Google doing enough to foil them? — Web consultant Greg Boser has an ingenious method for sendi...
New York, New York! (Danny wants better RSS in his SPOT watch)
I'm writing to you from a bus heading toward Manhattan. I love my Verizon card. It's like having wifi EVERYWHERE! — Anyway, I'm up for a midnight snack tonight. Anyone game? Call my cell phone a...
One percent for art: Napkin Math a.k.a. The Calculator in OneNote 2007
I like to love the software I use. I gather many of you do too. In the process of designing a new release of OneNote its important to keep this in mind, since it is easy to make a product that meets...
Sony Ericsson and Google bundle Blogger.com software on new phones
28 February 2006 - Sony Ericsson has signed a deal with Google that will mean owners of the Sony Ericsson mobile phones will be able to file to a personal blog on the move as soon as they turn on thei...