GM slow to react to nasty ads
update General Motors did little in the way of damage control on Monday after a do-it-yourself ad campaign for a GM SUV was hijacked by critics of the company and thousands of negative ads flooded the...
Google's Got a New Related Links Feature
Thanks to Google Blogoscoped for this pointer to a new feature from Google: the ability to pull a related links list from Google into your pages along with pointers to relevant news, etc. Check it ou...
Would you join a company just cause they let you blog?
Every once in a while someone comes up to me in the hallways or in a cafeteria here and says "I joined Microsoft because of Channel 9 and your blog." — That really used to freak me out because I did...
New Job @ Metroblogging!
After an amazing two years of working on Technorati, I've decided to move on. Technorati has shone a bright light on just how powerful social media has become in the greater context of the web and ou...
A Pint of ALE - Ajax Linking and Embedding
Recently I had to write a document which required the inclusion of some images, a chart, and a few drawings in the text - something that modern word processors allow you to simply and readily do. In ...
The World According to Google
The little-start-up-that-could has transformed itself into the 800-pound gorilla of the Web, though it has had to deal with recent growing pains. But the Google sales and marketing team isn't ready t...
Q&A: Bringing the Benefits of Virtualization Technology to the Mainstream
Microsoft delivers Linux support and makes Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 available to customers at no charge as part of its ongoing effort to radically simplify IT management. — REDMOND, Wash., A...
Trust Me, I'm A Jedi Scientist — Those Aren't The Fraudulent Clicks You Were Looking For
Those Aren't The Fraudulent Clicks You Were Looking For — Nice catch by Threadwatch, Click fraud concerns bruise Google from Bloomberg, where Google CEO Eric Schmidt is quoted saying to trust him, as...
Boo Hoo Hoo for VCs and IPOs?
From the naked self-interest category comes a release from the National Venture Capital Association today, arguing that the paucity of venture-backed IPOs threatens to hurt the economy. It's true: On...
Newspapers see growing online audiences
CHICAGO — Newspapers' online audiences are growing rapidly, according to a new industry study, highlighting a key growth area that newspapers are seeking to exploit as print circulation continues to b...
Web Directories - Interview with Greg Hartnett
I recently got to know Greg Hartnett from the web directory: Best of the Web... or BOTW for short. BOTW is the internet's oldest web directory. Greg has been in the search industry since the beginni...
three new navigation systems from Magellan: 3000T, 3050T, and 6000T
Thales' navigation business, creators of the Hertz NeverLost and a leading global innovator of outdoor and vehicle navigation solutions, announced today three new portable vehicle navigation devices, ...
VON Canada - Day 1
It's been a full day at VON Canada here in Toronto, with the highlights for me being Alec Saunders's presentation (filling in admirably where Niklas Zennstrom was scheduled to speak), the Skype develo...
Memeorandum Does Baseball
Tracking Major League Baseball coverage this year will be a little bit easier than before - Gabe Rivera is launching a Memeorandum site called BallBug today. BallBug offers a news summary, updated ev...
What if Microsoft Bought Apple?
While neither Apple nor Microsoft is in critical shape, it does appear that both firms need each other right now — with an urgency that is unprecedented. It may be time to explore the notion that a l...