In Teens' Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year
Teen Web sensation MySpace became so big so fast, News Corp. spent $580 million last year to buy it. Then Google Inc. struck a $900 million deal, primarily to advertise with it. But now Jackie Birnb...
Cingular Treo 680: Pricing & Launch Date Leaks + Treo 750w Possibly Coming to Cingular Soon
I have to admit that at this particular moment I feel as if Santa had arrived early this year thanks to the latest leak of a Cingular "Government Sales Team" PowerPoint presentation for the …
Under Fire, Soldiers Kill Blogs
Some of the web's more popular "milblogs" — blogs maintained by present or former active duty military personnel — are going quiet following a renewed push by U.S. military officials to scan sites for...
Should Conferences Ban Blogging?
Dave Armano is watching an interesting thread started by Greg Verdino. Apparently blogging was banned at this week's Nielsen BuzzMetric client-only conference on consumer generated media. — Greg sa...
Froogle replacement discovered
Google announced in September they would have a new search tool to replace Froogle by the holiday shopping season. Unfortunately, searching for products on Google still shows results from Froogle, ca...
The Parallel Entrepreneur
You hear about serial entrepreneurs all the time, people who start company after company. We love to back people like that and have done that five times already in our current fund. — But what abou...
Warm Tea: The Bully boy-on-boy kiss goes mainstream
Reuters reported on Bully's boy-on-boy kissing, brilliantly dubbed "Warm Tea," by Sex in Video Games author Brenda Brathwaite. It's only a matter of time now before the Associated Press picks up the ...
PS3's SIXAXIS goes under the knife
When it comes to consumer electronics, there are basically two types of people in the world: those folks who'd rather remain blissfully ignorant about the inner-workings of their toys, and those who r...
Will Web 2.0 ultimately kill Windows?
In Part 2 of "My Dinner with Allchin" (OK, so it was just a cup of tea), Microsoft Platforms and Services Co-president Jim Allchin touched on a few subjects about which he doesn't often opine. — All...
3D Weather Data Visualization in Second Life
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with Aimee Weber Studio just unrolled a sneak preview of their educational project in Second Life (due to open in mid November). This appeti...
Yahoo's dilemma: Deal or no deal?
Overshadowed by Google, CEO Terry Semel needs to make a move. Now he's flirting with AOL, Fortune reports. — (Fortune) — Yahoo must have a new appreciation of how Burger King feels about McDonald's...
Why Are Ads So Hated?
Ash sent me a link to his theoretical valuation of Wikipedia and I forwarded it to Jason who then wrote this post suggesting that Wikipedia run one leaderboard per page and give all the money it gener...
The high priestess of internet friendship
In January 2003, Danah Boyd moved to San Francisco just as a new internet phenomenon was taking off: online social networking sites. They were virtual meeting places where people could log on to thei...
Pluck RSS reader going, going, gone?
It's a sad Friday morning for me. I logged in this morning, Starbucks in hand, signed on to Pluck, my trusty RSS reader for nearly two years now, and started reading my news feeds. Suddenly, I saw t...
Hearing things
Baltimore Sun: Public radio seeks recall of FM devices used in cars. Specifically, … And, … On the one hand, NPR has a case. I've noticed that my Sirius satellite radio puts out a signal strong enou...
Why Zuckerberg Won't Accept Just $1 Billion from Yahoo
Karel Baloun, Inside Facebook — Karel Baloun was an early engineer at Facebook, and authored a new book on the subject, Inside Facebook, providing an insider's opinion on Facebook's success and foun...
Google to partner with researchware firm comScore
The Washington Post has an article on how Google is expanding its Web reach to Madison Avenue. … The most interesting part of the article, at least to me, talks about Google's plans to team with the "...
Console Wars: A Look At the Financial Results
Earnings results have a way of shedding light on the reality of the video game console wars. They scrape away the rhetoric that tends to obscure the real picture on the ground. Sony, Nintendo and Mi...
Wikipedia leaves $100M on the table (or "PLEASE Jimbo, reconsider—media philanthropy could change the world!")
media philanthropy could change the world!") — Update: Story is now on digg. — While on the subject of media philanthropy.... I sat next to Jimbo at a Wikipedia dinner over the summer.
No Blog Zone?
Greg Verdino recently wrote: … Now after recently going to a Forrester conference where blogging was encouraged, this puzzles me. I'm assuming that they have a good reason, but as Greg states in his ...
The high priestess of internet friendship
In January 2003, Danah Boyd moved to San Francisco just as a new internet phenomenon was taking off: online social networking sites. They were virtual meeting places where people could log on to thei...
Bot nets likely behind jump in spam
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-10-27 — A significant rise in the global volume of spam in the past two months has security analysts worried that bot nets are increasingly being used by spammers to...
Email with a journalist...
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TomTom to track phones for real-time traffic info
Vodafone and route-planning specialist TomTom will next year deploy what they believe will be the world's first commercial traffic data system based on tracking thousands of mobile phones in real-time...
Red Hat won't cut prices because of Oracle: CEO
BOSTON (Reuters) - Linux software distributor Red Hat Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT - news) will not cut prices even though bigger rival Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq:ORCL - news) is launching similar services for half th...
Skype Mobile, Behind the Scenes
Last week when Skype announced that it had seen five million downloads for the Pocket PC platform, I was suitably impressed. Why? Because it showed that there is clearly a demand for a Skype-type so...