GOOGLE PURCHASES ADDING "HIGH QUALITY" MERCHANTS
Another scoop from a quality tipster: Google sent out a notice to testers recently that they are holding a confidential beta of a system to make purchases from "high-quality merchants" using their Goo...
Squabble Over Name Ruffles a Web Utopia
Web 2.0, a term that has come to represent the latest incarnation of the Internet, a place where Web sites are more dynamic and interactive, has a certain Internet utopianism at its heart. But that i...
STICKY: Undiluted Platinum - World's First PSP Modchip - Install Pic & Features List!
Just a few short days ago, we broke the news to the world of a World's First PSP Modchip called Undiluted Platinum. Of course there were skeptics out there, but we are now delighted to share …
Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End
The World Wide Web is the most democratic mass medium there has ever been. Freedom of the press, as the saying goes, belongs only to those who own one. Radio and television are controlled by those r...
Software to Look for Experts Among Your Friends
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 27 — For anyone who has hesitated before making a purchase on a Web site, uncertain which brand is preferable, Tacit Software is preparing to introduce an online service that wi...
CNET's AllYouCanUpload Is Disruptive
CNET very quietly launched a simple new photo uploading site called AllYouCanUpload last week. At first glance it doesn't appear to be very special or disruptive. But it is. — By launching AllYouC...
Big Web Site Gives Lift to a Littler One
A reader who trolls around on The New York Observer Web site for a while may spot something unusual: a green-and-white box of headlines with links to news and opinion articles, all crowded under the t...
Threat to traditional broadcasters
GOOGLE is planning a new version of its search engine - designed for TV screens - that the company's co-founder and its chief executive believe will rival traditional broadcasting. — Chief executiv...
Online Memorials Bring Strangers and Friends Together in Community of Grief
Days after his wife's death from inflammatory breast cancer in 2004, Michael Bloomer set up a Web page memorial. An old co-worker from Florida signed Kim Bloomer's online guest book. So did a high s...
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Pin in the map
In the mapping simplicity stakes, there is a new player: Pin in the map, a Google Maps API-based web app announced with a press release by UK developers Eden Development. — Pin in the map is nothing...
Joystiq poll: Will the PS3 price affect your console combo?
Remember back in January when we asked you about your preferred console combo plan? We were operating under two assumptions then: that Nintendo's strategy involved being the second console of choice;...
GROUNDBREAKING MATERIAL: OLED illuminated surfaces
Imagine a house without a single light fixture - but instead walls, ceilings, furnishings, and accessories all sources of light. Thanks to research at Princeton University and the University of South...