The first 10 Navigators
The word is getting out about the first 10 Netscape Navigators (people who took "the offer" to become paid bookmarkers).
Valley Boys
Digg.com's Kevin Rose leads a new brat pack of young entrepreneurs — It was June 26, 4:45 a.m., and Digg founder Kevin Rose was slugging back tea and trying to keep his eyes open as he drove his Vol...
Feed Access Control Standard for RSS and ATOM
As we've seen more types of information get syndicated, and as feeds are becoming used for multiple purposes, we've been growing concerned about the lack of controls on the distribution of personal da...
Free AOL: Too little, too late?
Analysts debate whether giving away e-mail, other services will help the struggling Internet company. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — One of the worst kept secrets in the business world finally became o...
Publishers vs. the Censorbot
As Google becomes more crucial to the revenues of online news sites, its practice of withholding ads from edgy stories threatens Web journalism. — Google has entered that rarefied tier of corporatio...
Matt Cutts on Searching Homepages Only and More
Here's a partial transcript of Google employee Matt Cutt's latest video musings... edited for clarity. — Q: Is it possible to search for just homepages? I try doing -inurl:html, -inurl:htm, etc., b...
ORGANIZE PHOTOS BY 'WHERE' NOT 'WHEN' WITH GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR SONY DIGITAL CAMERAS
Sony Electronics today announced a GPS device that puts your pictures on the map. — Using time and location recordings from Sony's GPS-CS1 GPS device and the time stamp from a Sony digital still cam...
Entangling the Web
AFTER a decade of explosive growth, a revolutionary new technology transforms the American economy. It allows people to communicate and do business across great distances faster than ever before. Cr...
WWDC Keynote Info? XServe, Mac Pro, Displays?
MacRumors has obtained unconfirmed information that could shed light on what the community can expect next Monday during Steve Job's keynote. — Xserve — According to our source, Apple will be set ...
SL Business Mag Launches
The new business magazine for the virtual world of Second Life (which I blogged last week) published its first issue yesterday. Though the mag's Web site is a bit confusing to navigate and the publis...
What is Red Hat's achilles heel? No, it's not SuSE, Windows, or Solaris. Ubuntu anyone?
By way of Slashdot comes this interesting editorial at FreeSoftwareMagazine.com by Tony Mobily who makes a case for why Linux server success is connected to Linux desktop usage …
Google Picasa Now for Mac, Almost
Google released a web uploader for the Mac tonight. This is not a Mac version of Picasa desktop software, which is still only available only for Windows and Linux machines, but it does allow Web user...
Voice-over-GoogleFi
GoogleFi, Google's Mountain View network, may be good for data connections, but is it good enough for making voice calls? In order to find out answers, I headed down to Mountain View to conduct some ...
Hackers Clone E-Passports
LAS VEGAS — A German computer security consultant has shown that he can clone the electronic passports that the United States and other countries are beginning to distribute this year. — The controv...
meebo me
sandy posted this on August 2nd, 2006 in releases category — Since the launch of meebo, we've primarily focused on making the experience inside meebo.com a really great one. We've taken thousands o...
Google Breaks 60% - U.S. July Search Volume Numbers
In addition to market share of visits and page impressions, one of the statistics that Hitwise compiles is the volume of searches executed on the top search engines. Given our large sample, "top" is ...
Get The Snakes On A Bleeping Plane On A Bleeping Phone
The forthcoming movie Snakes on a Plane has become a minor piece of web folklore after its makers filmed five additional days of footage nearly six months after finishing principal photography — to in...
RealNetworks to distribute Google and Mozilla software
Developers of three popular software applications - RealPlayer, Firefox, and Google's Toolbar - have reached a multi-year agreement to distribute certain applications to users. — When users download...
Hijacking a Macbook in 60 Seconds or Less
UPDATE, 6:45 p.m. ET: Watch the video of the Ellch/Maynor presentation on a new method they discovered for remotely circumventing the security of an Apple Macbook computer to seize total control over ...
Rollyo Adds A Ton of Features
Rollyo, a San Francisco based startup that launched in September 2005, released a bevy of new features on their site tonight. I won't go into detail on all of them, but a complete list is available o...