Vista hacked at Black Hat
update LAS VEGAS—While Microsoft talked up Windows Vista security at Black Hat, a researcher in another room demonstrated how to hack the operating system. — Joanna Rutkowska, a Polish researcher at...
FeedBurner Networks - The Venture Capital Network
FeedBurner is beta testing a new set of functionality - called "Networks" that is planned for a September launch. I'm coordinating one of the beta Networks - the Venture Capital Network. — A FeedBu...
Barging Into the Bloggers' Circle
Web Logs Are Fertile New Territory for Introducing Products, Welcome or Not — When Nokia Corp. released its camera smartphone last fall, the marketing campaign cut back on news releases and flashy a...
Archive for the 'Spoofs: Get a Mac' Category
We think this is the first spoof of its kind: an activist group turning the "Get a Mac" ad campagin against Apple to advocate for human rights. Will be interesting to see if these become more common ...
Hubpages Launches, Gets $2 m from Hummer Winblad
Berkeley based Hubpages, which we wrote about in February, launched today. CEO Paul Edmondson also tells me that he's raised a cool $2 million from Hummer Winblad, with Mitchell Kertzman taking a boa...
Firefox 2 Visual Refresh Progress
Last night I worked on getting the new theme changes hacked into my trunk build. After about an hour of failed attempts, I ended up having to pull a new tree to get the patch to grudgingly apply - on...
Calacanis vs. Benkler Round One
Halfway through Benkler's talk he threw a bomb at me calling my offer to pay bookmarkers crude—which I guess in some ways it was. Of course, the first person to create a market is often looked at as ...
Senate ratifies controversial cybercrime treaty
The first and only international treaty designed exclusively to combat computer crime won approval late Thursday from the U.S. Senate. — The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime "will enhance ...
Google: We won't sell music
Don't look for Google to get into digital music sales anytime soon. — The Internet search giant used a keynote slot at the annual NARM (National Association of Recording Merchandisers) conference to...
Notes From Jimmy Wales' Wikimania Talk
Jimmy Wales notes from the Wikimania conference: — Shows a Stephen Colbert clip: "Any website that has a longer entry on truthiness than Lutheranism has got its priorities straight." Colbert then l...
To WYSI or not to WYSI, that is the most important question facing the wikipedia.
The most important issue at Wikimania might not be around quality of documents, identity of editors, or even people getting paid for work they once did for free. — Nope.
Copyright tussles for Google
In the 1970s, an adult movie theater in Dallas claimed it had the right to show a pirated copy of "Behind the Green Door" because the movie was so lewd it could not legally be copyrighted. — The the...
Daily Key to Success
"What is the one thing you do daily which is the key to your success as an entrepreneur?" someone asked me. Well, in my case it is past tense and I both succeeded and failed in entrepreneurship as we...
Google Sitemaps Becomes Google Webmaster Central; Preferred Domain Tool Launched
Google Sitemaps has gained a new name along with new features. Google Webmaster Central is the new name of the former Google Sitemaps service, which now has evolved into a central place for Google …
More webmaster tools
With our latest release, we've done more than just change our name —we've listened to you and added some features and enhanced others as a result. — Telling us your preferred domain URL format — S...
China Blocks FeedBurner RSS Feeds
FeedBurner, which powers hundreds of thousands of blog, podcast and mainstream news feeds (including this one), is apparently being blocked by Chinese authorities. Here is a Yoda-esque loose English ...
Seven things you need to know about your next big startup idea
VC funding is not a liquidation event. When you're playing in an emerging market, the most you can do is speculate. VC rounds are hard numbers, but they're not market intelligence, unless you're pri...
Niche Job Boards Rising
Mike Arrington is slowly expanding his empire. He launched CrunchBoard, a job board fine tuned for his community of reader. My congratulations to Mike on making the move, and putting together a good...
Lenovo to preload SUSE on Thinkpad
It seems like the never-ending Linux desktop quest is finally getting a bit closer as SVN reports that Lenovo will preload Suse on the Thinkpad T60 (a nice machine. Technically I think HP was the fir...
Advantages of New Media
Here is some further perspective on AOL's plans: — Most traditional media companies generate multiple revenue streams to support their business models. For example - cable networks are paid a month...
Lack of Transparency in Pay-Per-Click Ads and TV Ads: A Tale of Two Ad Councils
What does it say about an advertising format when an industry "council" has to be formed in order to arbitrate the problem of advertisers not knowing whether they are getting what they paid for?
Google reveals payment deal with Associated Press
Google has agreed to pay the Associated Press for use of its news stories and pictures, according to a statement released by the two companies on Wednesday. — The deal settles a dispute between Goog...
New Protocol To Boost BitTorrent Speeds
BitTorrent, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer networking start-up is working with Cachelogic of Cambridge, UK on a new protocol called the "Cache Discovery Protocol" or CDP, which supposedly will act...
Cell phones banned in banks
Cell phones have been banned inside the five branches of the First National Bank in the Chicago area, to enhance security. — Even using a cell phone in the bank's lobby may result in the person bein...
Piracy is Progressive Taxation
In his entry The Fan Mail That An Author Wants To Get, Nat referenced my assertion that obscurity is a greater threat to authors than piracy. That was from a piece I wrote in 2002, entitled Piracy is...
Apple iPod integration coming to Ford, GM, Mazda
While factory integration for Apple's iPod was already a commodity found on some vehicles, it has remained noticeably absent from many of the dashes of America's most financially-unstable automakers. ...