Reinventing HTML
Making standards is hard work. Its hard because it involves listening to other people and figuring out what they mean, which means figuring out where they are coming from, how they are using words, a...
Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems?
HOW THE BELL LOBBY HELPED MIDWIFE YOUTUBE. — When Google bought YouTube, the conventional wisdom—expressed in op-eds, newspaper articles, and scary editorial cartoons—was that they'd also bought the...
Rocketboom: Almost 10X Ze Frank's Downloads
Videoblogger Ze Frank is in what he calls a nerd fight with Rocketboom producer Andrew Baron. Frank says that Baron's numbers are inflated and make it difficult for he and other video bloggers to sel...
Trumba: Interconnnecting Online Events and Calendars
Last week I spoke to Jeremy Jaech, CEO and president of Trumba, whose team is building an innovative online event calendaring system aimed at enterprises. Jeremy Jaech was also the founder of both Vi...
Here It Is... Japan's Wii Kiosk
You can look, but not touch. The Japanese Wii kiosk has the console, Wii-mote and nunchaku under glass. A big white Wii-V plays those instructional ads into infinity. Hit the jump for more up close...
Microsoft Reports First Quarter Earnings
Microsoft delivers double digit revenue growth — Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss) — Microsoft Corp. today announced first quarter revenue of $10.81 billion for the period ended September 30,...
Playing a different game
Does Nintendo's radical new strategy represent the future of gaming? — IF TALK of synergistic processing elements, parallel floating-point shader pipelines, vector units and 1080p high-definition vi...
MySpace, ByeSpace?
Some Users Renounce Social Sites as Too Big — Social-networking Web sites like MySpace.com and Facebook.com have helped link millions of friends. But now they have a new enemy: 20-year-old Jenny Th...
Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Review
As of October 26, Ubuntu has released their latest Linux operating system, version 6.10 aka Edgy Eft, which can be downloaded here. Ubuntu has been the up and coming star company in the Linux O.S. sc...
Flaky?
From Michael Arrington's post on Digg acquisition rumors: … Michael is one of the best bloggers ever and I read Techcrunch every day. But I think he got this one wrong. Comscore is not "flaky". The...
Jason Calacanis just announced something
I'm not going to break this news, cause the company I work for, PodTech, is involved. But, at about 9:58 a.m. Pacific Time Jason Calacanis, senior Vice President at AOL and founder of Weblogsinc.com,...
Surveillance system spots violent behaviour
Smart surveillance systems capable of automatically detecting violent crimes could soon be available. — A computer vision system developed in the University of Texas in Austin, US, can already tell ...
'Tower of Babel' translator made
A "Tower of Babel" device that gives the illusion of being bilingual is being developed by US scientists. — Users simply have to silently mouth a word in their own language for it to be translated a...
Leak: Google to Re-Org IBM Style
Three of my most credible resources, including DM News's Giselle Abramovich, are indicating plans for a significant re-organization at Google (Nasdaq: GOOG). Secondly, Google is positioning to move o...
Long List of Link Searches
This is competitive intelligence - the kind that SEO firms shouldn't be sharing because it reveals a considerable portion of the value they (we) provides to clients. Thus, it's the perfect topic for ...
BMG Japan Catalog Now Available on the iTunes Store
Top J-Pop & International Artists Including Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Seamo, Sukima Switch & Suga Shikao Now on iTunes — BMG Japan and Apple® today announced the availability of top Jap...
Ray Ozzie's view of the Web Office
Prior to the Thirty Years of Public Key Cryptography event at the Computer History Museum, I caught up with Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie. Of course, I asked him what his thinking was ...
Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture (Part Five)
Today, I continue our serialization of the white paper written for the MacArthur Foundation. Today's excerpt outlines three more of the social skills and cultural competencies we think young people n...