Jumping the snark
Ryan King, one of the organizers of BarCamp, has posted MashupCamp jumped the shark — a slam on David Berlind and Mashup Camp that I can't let slide. — Ryan: … Ryan then proceeds to knock David for ...
BlackBerry maker, NTP ink $612 million settlement
Research in Motion averts shutdown of wireless e-mail service, announces fourth-quarter warning. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said Friday it agreed to pay $612.5 m...
Hey Neighbor, Stop Piggybacking on My Wireless
For a while, the wireless Internet connection Christine and Randy Brodeur installed last year seemed perfect. They were able to sit in their sunny Los Angeles backyard working on their laptop compute...
Dogster or Newsvine in the Fox Interactive house?
Still speculating on who Fox Interactive has acquired, but won't reveal for a few weeks, Jeff Nolan is betting on Dogster, but also thinks that Tagged, Skobee or Meetro could be the target. Newsvine ...
The Normalization of Blogging
Robert and I were the wrap-up speakers yesterday at the New Communications Forum. We did pretty well, but one point I tried to make had not fully formed in my head and I didn't articulate it as well ...
New radio Broadcast Flag legislation seeks to control innovation, eliminate fair use
The radio broadcast flag is gaining momentum. House Representative Mike Ferguson (R-N.J.) is introducing legislation that would establish a broadcast flag for audio and also change the way in which t...
Google GDrive is not a rumor
An interesting article by Greg Lindon points to some slide comments from Google's Analyst Day Power Point presentation last week. The presentation was removed from Google's website but the text is st...
Take My Music, Please
Just like its competitors, Tower Records is having a hard time selling music at its stores. Unlike its competitors, Tower has a novel response: It's going to give its music away on the Internet. — ...
Suddenly, an Industry Is All Ears
AUSTIN, Tex., March 3 — Brendan McGahan, 26, rips off his headset and darts from his cubicle looking for a supervisor. "I'm getting close to an escalation," he says over the drone of other cubicle dw...
ASP.Net on a Roll
With all of the buzz about Ruby on Rails and AJAX, not a lot of people have noticed that Microsoft is making another really good run at the web development space. Based on book sales data, it looks l...
SES NYC Crazy Pictures - SESNYC2006
Sunday Night: — Kim Krause of Cre8pc and Cre8asite forums — Rand Fishkin (SEO Moz) — DaveN & Matt Cutts...Darth Vadar and Obi-Wan? — Monday Morning — Barry Diller of IAC and Danny — Me and...
Origami expectations .., and "What's already out there?"
I'm not gonna do any speculation in this post about Origami. I do feel the need to warn you though - don't get confused until you know the facts. If people are convinced that Origmai is an "UltraMob...
Mobile Industry Doesn't Get Consumers
Imagine a conversation between a person who only knows Norwegian and other who is fluent only in Swahili. Well, that precisely the relationship between mobile industry and its executives and the cons...
Text messaging remains top service for mobile phone users: IDC
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Text messaging remains the most popular service for mobile phone users in the Asia Pacific despite offers for fancier applications such as email and gaming, an industry research grou...
PhillyFi details beamed into the ether
Remember the PhillyFi project that EarthLink was workingon? The one in progress for a while now, intended to blanket the City ofBrotherly Love in 802.11? Well, Philly's officially disclosing some de...