A Blog Mogul Turns Bearish on Blogs
THE blogging bubble has been taking on serious air of late. Last week, PaidContent.org, a blog that covers digital media, held its first mixer. It was, by all reports, filled to the brim with money ...
Why No Lester Bangs of Gaming?
Why aren't there any famous critics of video games? — Chuck Klosterman wants to know. In a recent column for guy mag Esquire, he argues that games are the most important cultural medium of our time...
Yahoo China to Be Sued by Music Labels Including EMI (Update1)
July 3 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo China, the nation's second- largest search engine, will be sued by record labels for infringing copyright laws within ``a few weeks,'' according to a group representing comp...
Your exit interview of me
Thanks for asking great questions today. We had a great day here in the Scoble house. Had a nice goodbye party with tons of great people (we had just as many Google employees at the house today as a...
Internet Calling Pressures Bells to Lower Rates
Competition in the phone business, intensifying this year as Internet-based calling has taken root, has reached the point where many industry experts are anticipating an era of remarkably cheap and ev...
Google-Bashing
BusinessWeek takes a nice, healthy run at Google and its ability to come up with another smash-hit. In the story, "So Much Fanfare, So Few Hits", BusinessWeek pokes a big stick at Google's modus oper...
Google to stay focused on search
Online search is not a "solved problem", a senior executive for net giant Google has told BBC News. — "Our position is that search is a very hard problem. We have still a lot of work to do," said D...
Dreams of a Truly Mobile Web
Net Needs to Escape Its Computer Cage, — But Best of Luck Freeing It in the U.S. — It's a longstanding maxim of this column that the future generally doesn't arrive with a lot of flash and noise —...
Angel Kitty USB keyboard for the naughty geeky lover
After the USB powered shirt here is something naughty, a maid's costume with a functional USB keyboard wrapped around the chest region. The 85 key keyboard is bendable and made of silicon to give you...
Some countries already monitor text messages
As text messaging evolves into a popular method of global communication, some repressive governments are reading along, texting back and even editing messages — with the help of North American compani...
Focus on the users
I was a user, developer and web writer during the Browser Wars and the Java Wars, and I pleaded and begged Microsoft, Netscape and Sun to pay attention to the users, and not focus on each other. But ...
PalTalk to offer massive multiperson video chat for social networks
The video chat company PalTalk will go live on Monday with a new social networking service designed to be a proof of concept for the inclusion of video chat in social networks. PalTalk already has a ...
Sports Illustrated for Kids knows Wii release date
You find gaming information in the weirdest places. Reader Eryin was scanning through the latest issue of Sports Illustrated for Kids when he came upon an article on the PS3 and Wii. According to SI...