Flickr has some catching up to do
Kristopher Tate walked Brian Oberkirch and me through a demo of his zooomr project at a meetro party last week (Kris, who's 17, works full time at meetro and zooomr is a side project). He launched zo...
Memo Outlines Microsoft's Plans
The Redmond giant details the progress of Windows Live — and points to a slew of new services on the way — Last November, Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates kicked off what he called the era of "L...
Distinguishing power from versatility
I think I've distilled what made my eyebrows go up at Goslings comments about PHP and Ruby. Aside from the fact that he confuses Ruby with Rails and uses the dismissive term "web pages" instead of "w...
Online buying frenzy as big business swoops on sites
CHRIS SHARKEY is 23. He has just got a cool $6 million plus, his share from the sale of a holiday house booking website, Stayz. — Four years ago, having just graduated from high school in Newcastle...
Crazy Egg is Crazy Delicious!
Wow! Just wow. Crazy Egg will absolutely blow you away. Remember when ajax started getting popular, and some advertisers were concerned that they wouldn't be able to track pageview stats anymore? ...
eBay's Affinity for Meetup.com
The online auctioneer has a lot in common with the virtual community site, so it took a nibble — The online auction colossus has caught a dose of community activism. On Mar. 9, eBay (EBAY) joined f...
DabbleDB: Online App Building For Everyone
Every so often I get asked 'what is the latest hot app' and after using DabbleDB I have a new answer to that question. DabbleDB is a platform that allows you to create applications online using a web...
Net neutrality - Circa 1996
The The Progress and Freedom Foundation, as Marty Kaplan calls it "a corporate-funded fake think tank" has come out against Net neutrality. They say "Net neutrality is, in fact, the theft of property...
CeBIT: Samsung Shows Flash-Disk-Based Laptop
Company continues to develop more stable solid-state disks. — HANOVER, GERMANY — Samsung Electronics has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk, a flash-memory-based replacement...
Sponsored by Sonos
You probably notice that Sonos is now sponsoring my "In Heavy Rotation" list on the left sidebar of this blog. This is the result of several things, first my decision to partner with FM Publishing wh...
Apple: 'Don't expect Mactels to run Vista'
"Windows is a legacy OS. We don't have legacy support" — Intel Macs are unlikely to be able to run Windows Vista, according to an Apple engineer speaking on Thursday. — One of the big obstacles i...
SAP's Jeff Nolan says his mission is to disrupt Oracle
[Part 2 of my meeting with Jeff Nolan, one of SAP's key strategists. He runs the Apollo Group, a strategy and communications organization within SAP that is sometimes referred to as the "Attack Oracl...
Blu-ray to Debut May 23
Simultaneous release of first Sony titles and Samsung player — March 6 - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) now says it will release its first Blu-ray high-definition discs on May 23 — the same...
Paid Search Spawns 'Drafting' and 'Hijacking' Strategies
Competitiveness in the emerging paid search landscape spawns controversial tactics such as the two practices loosely termed "hijacking" and "drafting" by some industry insiders. While some search eng...
Gauging Google's Gaffes
The settlement of a class action underscores concerns over how the search king is communicating about click fraud — and other pressing issues — Google (GOOG) boasts some of the Internet's hottest te...
As Local Paid Search Grows, Local Media to Battle Big Search Engines
Paid search advertising by local advertisers is poised to more than double this year to $987 million, and nearly double again in '07. That's according to the "2006 Local Search Advertising" report fr...
The A Team
Now that I've gotten that off my chest, a few words about the Attention Economy land grab this week (continuing thru next Wednesday at Esther's conference.) Thanks to Esther for pointing out that Mic...
Pretec expands i-Disk offerings
CeBIT is off and running with fascinating and scintillating new product announcements, and Pretec is no exception. The makers of i-Disk Tiny and i-Disk Diamond are taking the wraps off two exciting f...