An interview with VC Paul Graham of YCombinator
Paul Graham believes we're not in a bubble, that startups shouldn't worry about their business models and the best companies are the ones with potential to kill old monopolies. Graham is a partner at...
Palm Treo 700wx for Sprint
When the Treo 700w on Verizon came out at the beginning of January 2006, it made quite a stir since it was the first Windows Mobile rather than Palm OS Treo. The Palm OS Treo line had nearly defined ...
The Last Stand of the 6-Percenters?
WHEN David and Annette Wolf decided that their family was outgrowing its Seattle area home, they also decided that they did not need much help finding a new one. — They combed Internet listings of h...
The New Tastemakers
SETH FORD-YOUNG is a professional bass player who performs up to five nights a week with local jazz and rock bands and occasionally lends his talents to recording sessions for artists like Tom Waits. ...
Yet Another Day and More Google Domain Names,
Garett has discovered some newly registered domains from guess who, Google. It's a busy time. More new domains here, here, and here. Garett's post and commentary (always insightful) is here. Googl...
Google to Give Data To Brazilian Court
Google Inc., which refused in the past year to hand over user search data to U.S. authorities fighting children's access to pornography, said yesterday that it was complying with a Brazilian court's o...
Bob Dylan and iTunes sell un-rippable music
If you buy the latest Bob Dylan album from the iTunes Music Store, be prepared to lose four of the tracks when you burn it to CD. Four of the tracks on "Modern Times," which is only sold as a whole a...
Mac BitTorrent Clients Reviewed
Mac OS X is heralded as the most appealing operating system on the market and one of the most capable as well thanks to its BSD (Unix) core. — Sadly, the number of user-friendly, appealing BitTorren...
The Buzz on Quieter Computers
Sometimes, it's the smallest noises that can be most annoying — like crickets chirping outside your bedroom window in the middle of the night. — Or those buzzing, roaring, humming and rattling noise...
Getting outside the frothy bubble
Thanks to Geek and Poke for the cartoon. — When I was eating sushi and chatting with Jeremy Wright, CEO of B5 Media, and Don MacAskill, CEO of SmugMug, Don, at one point, pointed out that SmugMug ha...
Evan Williams is my Tamagotchi
I have become a bit of a Web2.0 junkie. Why not? For product development and innovation, there haven't been so many new things happening since 1995. I mean big things, like, "Wow, you can animate a...
Apple settles iTunes software interface lawsuit
Apple Computer has settled a lawsuit filed by a Vermont-based business owner who claimed the iPod maker stole his software interface design and used it to create iTunes. — The terms of the deal, whi...
Google developing eavesdropping software
Audio 'fingerprint' for content relevant ads — By Faultline → More by this author — Comment The first thing that came out of our mouths when we heard that Google is working on a system that listen...
IFA 2006: USRobotics Skype DECT Phone
Yet another company is joining the race to get every home using Skype. This is USRobotics' Skype compatible USR9630 cordless phone. It has one obvious flaw already - other companies, such as Philips...
Alcatel Acquires 3G Assets from Nortel
Today Nortel announced it has shed its 3G UMTS radio access assets and sold them to Alcatel. On a conference call with financial analysts and the media, Nortel President and CEO Mike Zafirovski was q...
Google Image Labeler, the ESP Game, and Human-Computer Symbiosis
In comments on my previous entry, Stephen Rondeau pointed out that Google Image Labeler appears to be based on the ESP Game developed by Professor Luis von Ahn of CMU. An anonymous commenter pointed ...
The Mysterious Nintendo DS MP3 Player
Nintendo's set to release an official MP3 player for the Nintendo DS, making it not only a game machine and a web browser, but a music playing device too. The above picture was seen in a brocure from...