Missing the point about YouTube
Commentary: Pent up demand and ease of use add up to explosive growth — BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — YouTube, the privately-held video sharing website, now delivers an estimated 100 million vide...
Social Networks gaining on Top Portals
Membership at social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace is exploding. Everyone is doing it. Well... a lot of people are. In June, 2 out of every 3 people online visited a social networki...
Jobs talks up Apple cell phone
Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs has been boasting about his company's much-rumored iPod cell phone amongst inner circles, AppleInsider has been told. — The remarks are uncharacteristic of ...
CEA: RIAA refuses to cooperate, carries out "thinly veiled attack" on fair use
Consumer Electronics Association President and CEO Gary Shapiro is frustrated with the music industry. While the consumer electronics industry works to find a middle ground between the interests …
Twenty five years of the IBM PC
Computer firm IBM made technological history on 12 August 1981 with the announcement of a personal computer - the IBM 5150. — Costing $1,565, the 5150 had just 16K of memory - scarcely more than a c...
User-Generated Content Drives Half of U.S. Top 10 Fastest Growing Web Brands, According to Nielsen//NetRatings
MySpace Is Fastest Growing Among Top Web Brands, Google Maintains Double Digit Growth — NEW YORK, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT - News) …
CEA FORMS ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO EXPLORE GAMING EVENT OPTIONS
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®), the owner and producer of the International CES®, the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow, announced today that it is forming an advisory committ...
Texting study to catch criminals
The individual styles of hundreds of people's text messages will be analysed in a study that aims to help police with criminal investigations. — Researchers will scrutinise volunteers' SMS messages ...
Forums are broken: Introducing LibraryThing's new Talk feature
This post introduces the Talk feature. — Although still developing, we think Talk is our most significant addition since LibraryThing started mining for book recommendations and similar libraries.
Google promises all searches stay private
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a message for Google users: Your searches are safe. — AOL has been in hot water this week for inadvertently releasing customer searches for a research ...
Web 2.0 Around the World
In our current international edition, I got to put together a fun map of the best Web 2.0 sites from around the world. Here's a link the actual list and you can see the map in this digital version of...
whocalled.us
Here's another take on Suburban Mom Embraces the Surveillance Society. whocalled.us is a site where people can share comments about the identity of phone spammers. Get a call from an unrecognized num...
Elgg - social network software for education
Written by Steve O'Hear and edited by Richard MacManus. This is the second in a two-part series. — In part one of this series, e-learning 2. - how Web technologies are shaping education, I describe...
Go GigaOm Go
Had the good pleasure to hang out with lots of old friends and meet lots of new ones at last night's Om Malik GigaOm and Sharpcast launch party at Mighty in San Francisco. The photography was challen...
Top Web 2.0 Apps in Russia
Next in my series on top Web apps in international markets is Russia. To remind you of the previous countries profiled: Germany, Holland, Poland, Korea and United Kingdom. Other country profiles com...