Hungry Media Companies Find a Meager Menu of Web Sites to Buy
Media companies are still hungry. Is there much left for them to consume that they'll find satisfying? — NBC Universal's $600 million acquisition of iVillage, an early Internet company catering to ...
MySpace Messenger on the Way
The cool kids are all talking about the impending release of MySpace Messenger (screenshots below). The story appeared on Digg yesterday, and the commenters are impatiently trying to make it to work....
Google lands on Mars
Tonight I noticed that mars.google.com now has a CNAME record that points to www.google.com. This usually means that something is about to happen with that subdomain — with the exception of calendar....
The noisy tragedy of the blog commons
Blogs are different than most other forms of media in one key respect: they stretch. — TV and radio confront the reality that there are only 24 hours in a day. They can't put on more content, becau...
Gosling Didn't Get The Memo
I've been blissfully neglecting this site for months with the assumption that a large part of our goal was completed. After watching good people like Martin LaMonica and Jon Udell balance out the mai...
Leadership in World of Warcraft
This ended up becoming a longer and more rambling post than I expected, but I'm going to post it anyway since I don't write enough these days... The other day, I was doing an interview for a manageme...
Online Auteurs Hardly Need to Be Famous
On his computer screen, Jake R. Sanowski scrutinizes a short video of a baby eating its first pickle. Next is a skit of a woman getting drunker over the course of a meal at which, it turns out, her d...
Why I will stop blogging
I can do it, folks, I have already, in some sense, stopped one of my rivers, and soon, probably before the end of 2006, I will put this site in mothballs, in archive mode, and go on to other things, M...
Blogging for Dollars Brings Unexpected Responsibilities
Reporter's Notebook: Professional bloggers Jason Kottke and Heather Armstrong took the stage at SXSW to discuss what happens when you start making a living from your hobby. — The story of blogging h...
Vista looks Glassy on my M205 Tablet PC
What can I say? I've been seduced by the "clear" side and I spent a few hours trying to get the new Vista build to run Glass on my Toshiba Portege M205 Tablet PC. Did it work? You betcha! Will it ...
Microsoft pauses work on Adobe rival
Microsoft has temporarily halted development work on some aspects of its upcoming professional graphics application as it tries to bring companion tools and its next-generation Windows Vista operating...
Alive and Well in Silicon Alley
THEY arrived in crisp button-downs and pleated Dockers, 150 or so, nearly all men in their 20's and 30's, few of whom would probably object to being called a nerd. — The event, the New York Tech Mee...
The Larry and Shelley Story
In few minutes or so, MusicIP, a company that we've invested in, takes the wraps of a ton of work at the SXSW show in Austin. I'm pleased that all the team's hard work will be paying off. I'll let t...
Media's Idea that Origami is Just a Small Tablet PC Misses Intel Role
Mr. Thurrott is almost right when he says the four-year secret origami project was small Tablet PCs discussed at WinHEC. However, Origami was an interim product of the Haiku project, expected post 20...
Behold the power of botnets
(Adam Piggott of Proactive Services originally found this mess, contacted Suzi Turner at SpywareWarrior who got him in touch with one of our spyware researchers, Adam Thomas.) — Discussions about b...
Knight Ridder Board Accepts McClatchy's Bid
The shift to Social Computing
There's been a lot of interest recently in the social aspects of Web 2.0 experiences because of their tendency to alter the communities that use them. As part of tracking this, I wrote recently about...