Windows Vista the last of its kind
Vista will be the last version of Windows that exists in its current, monolithic form, according to Gartner. — Instead, the research firm predicts, Microsoft will be forced to migrate Windows to a m...
Yahoo Blog Search - Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated
It looks like Yahoo might have killed blog search. — Yet if you do a search it returns results from blogs: — Isn't Lifehacker a blog? I think its even a blog by Scoble's definition! Scoble blog ...
U. of California Will Provide Up to 3,000 Books a Day to Google for Scanning, Contract States
A mere two months after the University of California begins its book-digitization project with Google, the university may provide the search company with a whopping 3,000 books a day for scanning.
Learning to Love a Cable Guy
When workers from AT&T and Verizon visit homes to install their new television services, they come with blue hospital booties that they slip over their shoes before going inside. — The sight of burl...
No Suit Required
Terry McBride has a maverick approach to music management: Take care of the fans and the bands, and the business will take care of itself. — Terry McBride has an idea. Another idea. A good - no, a...
An Eye for Cool, and Cash
In the Hunt to Fill 'Social News' Web Sites, Contributors Now Compete — Corey Spring has a college student's dream job: He gets paid to surf the Internet. — Every morning, the 22-year-old Ohio Sta...
Call Me Converted
For the past three years I have been blogging actively but not using a feedreader actively. Sure I've used plenty of feedreaders. I've basically tried them all. I've been regularly subscribing to f...
Deletionists, Networkists and Blog Sourcing
The argument over whether to keep the Enterprise 2.0 article in Wikipedia continues, in this incredibly rich discussion page. Bear with me here, as the innards of Wikipedia may not be clear cut enoug...
Lexus Self Parking Car Video and Review
Lexus invited Gizmodo along for a ride in the new LS 460 L super rich guy sedan. The thing is packed to the gills with tech. In fact, I'd call it the most geeked-out car evar, next to the Tesla. — ...
PlayStation 3 tackles world ills
The spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by scientists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer's. — Sony has teamed up with US biologists who alre...
Mark Pincus Rejoins His Tribe
Mark Pincus, founder of the struggling San Francisco-based social network Tribe, has reprised the role of CEO. He posted a message on the site earlier today: "hey, this is an informal announcement th...
[foocamp06] First life in Second Life
Julian Bleeker is interested in how first life and second life (with SecondLife.com as a good example) overlap. — E.g., he designed a game in which players got a word square (jumbled letters that co...
We love you, webmasters
We always aim to offer our users relevant and helpful results, and webmasters provide the great content that we point to. Unfortunately — though we've had the pleasure of chatting with many of you in...
Verizon gaffe lets customer details slip
Verizon Wireless this week accidentally distributed a file with limited details on more than 5,000 customers outside the company, potentially giving identity thieves a toehold. — The Microsoft Excel...
MICROSOFT CAVES ON RIBBON COMPLAINTS
In what is a bit of an unfortunate decision, Microsoft has announced it is modifying the way the Ribbon in Office 2007 performs, giving into complaints from users that the Ribbon was taking up too muc...
A magazine for friends.
click for the larger version — MySpace weighs up spin-off magazine — Mark Sweney — Friday August 25, 2006 — News Corporation is considering a spin-off print magazine for fans of its social net...