AOL Said, 'If You Leave Me I'll Do Something Crazy'
"YOU'RE going to listen to me." — This was the taunting command of an AOL customer service representative who sounded like a jailer twirling his keychain. The customer on the phone wanted to comple...
Repave Periodically
Bill de hÓra: I don't have time to change OSes — That's scary. When was the last time you installed any version of Windows? For me, it was April. — My biggest concern is an involuntary need to r...
Delete All Spam In Gmail
Gmail has a great spam filter, but the spam is hard to delete. And that's a problem if you get hundreds of spam messages everyday. Gmail is rolling out a new link called "Delete all spam messages no...
Where was Google?
Thinking back on the last two days of Gnomedex and I am wondering "where was Google?" I don't remember meeting a Google employee (I just looked through my stack of more than a hundred business cards ...
Seven bidders step up with wireless Net plan for valley
NETWORK TO COVER 1,500 SQUARE MILES FROM SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO THROUGH SANTA CRUZ — Seven bidders stepped up Friday with proposals for bringing affordable wireless Internet access to all 1,500 square ...
[Breaking News] 2.50/2.60 Downgrader - v5 Beta Released
Yes, you have read the title right - 2.50/2.60 Downgrader. Dark_Alex, along with Mathieulh and Yoshihiro from SonyXTeam, have released the first working 2.50/2.60 downgrader. Most credit goes to Dar...
How Failure Breeds Success
Everyone fears failure. But breakthroughs depend on it. The best companies embrace their mistakes and learn from them — Ever heard of Choglit? How about OK Soda or Surge? Long after "New Coke" b...
Internet and Land-Line Calls on One Phone
At one point, the biggest selling point in Internet phone services was price. — Companies such as Vonage Holdings Corp. and 8x8 Inc. enticed customers with calling plans that offered local and long-...
A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor
When Google was a graduate-school project being run from a Silicon Valley garage, its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, built their own computers out of cheap parts meant for personal computers. ...
Firefox in the next 6 months
I heard a few questions yesterday about the future of Firefox and its product goals, differentiating factors, and its positioning against Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser. I've been follow...
Some MacBooks have premature age spots
What began as a few isolated reports of mysterious stains appearing on the wrist rests of Apple Computer's MacBooks looks to be more widespread and the impetus for a growing Web community of displease...
Samsung's Yepp YP-T9 with Bluetooth hits FCC
Looks like Samsung has a new one in the works; their YP-T9 DAP just got its FCC approval and it's looking mighty nice. The Yepp player measures 0.43-inches thick, and weighs a mere 1.7 ounces, but Sa...
Accidental Tech Entrepreneurs Turn Their Hobbies Into Livelihoods
InformationWeek interviewed five accidental entrepreneurs, including the founders of del.icio.us and Digg and the author of the blog Dooce, to find out how they freed themselves from the paycheck-to-p...
Why I won't use PayPerPost (and if I do, I will disclose)
Last night I gave away a $1,200 Sonos music system in a random raffle at Gnomedex (hundreds of people witnessed that, and Richard MacManus was the winner). Why? Because I got it for free from the co...
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 may have memory handling advantages over Firefox
Redmond (WA) - Demonstrating that the entire world doesn't have to be delayed on account of Microsoft Office 2007, the company's Internet Explorer 7 team triumphantly plowed ahead with its Beta 3 rele...
Scoble, the Exit Interview
When Robert Scoble quit his job, the news about the man often referred to as "the face of Microsoft" spread through the blogosphere on a weekend, and it was the professional news organizations that we...
Suit over poor Google ranking may go forward
SAN JOSE, Calif.—A federal judge in California hinted that a parenting Web site that's suing Google over a poor ranking in the search giant's massive index would be able to proceed with its lawsuit. ...
My talk this morning
I'm going to try to explain how I think about communication, technology, creativity and making money. There are a couple of very very simple ideas that are behind everything I do, RSS, blogging, OPML...