YouTube eyes ad money with Paris Hilton channel
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - YouTube, the online sensation that facilitates the viewing of 100 million amateur videos a day, is introducing a couple of new ways for advertisers to tap into the W...
How Vista screws dual-booting nirvana
The other day I found myself staring out the window next to my desk. It was around 6.30 in the evening, and the lights had just gone on over Hyde Park. — The whole scene was one of winter serenity,...
Blogging for Dollars
It's not just a hobby — some small sites are making big money. Here's how to turn your passion into an online empire. — (Business 2.0) — Michael Arrington is a partying kind of guy. While showing ...
VCs see opportunity in blogosphere
Venture investors normally cite the strength of a company's management team as a key reason for investing in new technologies and ideas. But two new venture investments in widely read blogs have take...
Qwest calls for mandatory data retention laws
ASPEN, Colo.—Broadband company Qwest Communications International on Tuesday strongly endorsed federal legislation requiring Internet providers to keep records of their customers' behavior, a move tha...
Is your blog one in a million? If so VCs may want to talk to you
Paul Kedrosky nailed it! This is exactly the point I was trying to make about VC investment in individual blogs. See Dr. Kedrosky's comment in my previous post. Bloggers are like Open Source projec...
Microsoft invites Firefox development team to Redmond
Microsoft wants to help aid in the development of Firefox. It sounds pretty scary, doesn't it? If you're still here, let me tell you that it's not as bad as it seems. Sam Ramjii, Director of Micros...
What's new for your Blackberry
When I got my Blackberry, at first it was culture shock, I wanted my Plain Jane Nokia back, but after a while I got used to using it as a phone, then fell in love with it because it did email so well,...
Facebook adds blog-like notes feature
A week after winning applause across the blogosphere for taking the big step of opening up its API, social networking site Facebook today launched a new feature called notes - essentially a blogging t...
Hello hullo!
Over the last few weeks I've been playing with the beta of a promising new free service called hullo. Now you can try it too. — hullo bills itself as a personal call manager. The promise is that i...
Microsoft patch opens users to attack
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-08-22 — UPDATE: Microsoft continued to work on a fix on Tuesday for an exploitable flaw introduced by the company's latest security update to Internet Explorer. — ...
Google MP3 Player found in GMail
A new GMail feature lets you play MP3 files right inside the GMail interface without having to download the MP3 or open an external media player. — When you receive an audio file as an email attachm...
Spamigation: automated litigation
Brad Templeton has coined "Spamigation" for spam litigation, lawsuits that are automated by computers, noting that while suing people can be readily automated so that it's possible to sue millions, le...
Kevin Mitnick Web site hacked
Instead of the usual description of Kevin Mitnick, his consulting services and books, the famed hacker's Web site on Sunday displayed a vulgar message. — Online vandals, apparently operating from Pa...
Friendster: Poised for a Comeback
With $10 million in new funds and a second patent, the social networking pioneer has big plans for an improved site to rival MySpace — Comebacks can be hard to stage—though not impossible. Just ask...
Guba's On-Demand Experiment
Video sharing, downloading startup tests how to get people to buy movies and TV online. — In an effort to jump-start their video pay-per-download service, Guba said Monday it has slashed the prices ...
Nimbuzz Could Change the Face of Mobile Communications: a MobileCrunch Exclusive!
I've had the good fortune to have been given access to Nimbuzz for the last few weeks. My testing has convinced me that once widely deployed, this application has the potential to shake mobile commun...
Kids Say the Darndest Things in Their Blogs
Like many 21-year-olds, Jared Watts gripes in his blog. He rails against his boss, his job and the misery of dealing with customers at the Cingular Wireless store where he works. — "Enter Middle Ag...
Samsung launches disk-free Q1/Q30 portables
It's official — Samsung has gone off hard disk drives. Not only has the company announced two new portables that use solid state disk (SSD, aka flash) technology, but it recently told Crave that it'l...
Hear the Music, Avoid the Mosh Pit
Musician Suzanne Vega got her start in the New York folk scene, but now the 1980s star has found a following in cyberspace. — With the help of some programmers, Vega created a 3D animated image of h...
I know you are, but what am I Jeff ? Is this Journalism ?
I usually try to stay away from Blogwars. You know where one blog calls out another for any number of reasons, but primarily its to try to generate more interest and traffic to their blog. — I get ...
Software Notebook: Microsoft in buying mood
Spending spree takes aim at smaller companies — Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer was quick to reply when recently asked why the company wasn't pursuing acquisitions more aggressively. — "We...
Marketing Reality Check: Blogs, Pods, RSS
The Reach Most Marketers Crave Still Comes From TV, Print and Internet Ads — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Digital properties may be VC darlings, hot on Wall Street and coveted by advertisers. But try tel...
Should Apple Buy YouTube?
Mergers & Acquisitions, Apple Computer, YouTube — Like a video of exploding Coke and Mentos candies, YouTube just seems to demand attention. — And, in a different way, so does Paris Hilton. — So...
Cisco buys video-on-demand start-up
Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems is set to announce Tuesday that it will spend $92 million to buy a small software start-up called Arroyo Video Solutions to ready itself for the new age of on-...
Seattle internet startups ordered by traffic
About a week ago, John Cook at the Seattle PI posted a great list of Seattle area internet startups. — I thought it might be fun to see a version of this list ordered by web traffic. With much than...
FTC chief critiques Net neutrality
ASPEN, Colo.—The head of the Federal Trade Commission on Monday expressed sharp skepticism toward proposed laws that would levy extensive Net neutrality regulations on broadband providers. — Deborah...