TechCrunch Bashing Heats Up
The last two weeks has brough a fresh wave of TechCrunch hate. I've learned to avoid responding to this stuff in the past because it just draws more attention to it, but tonight a reporter from the S...
Scrybe Syncing Calendar Has Launched In Beta
Scrybe, the online/offline calendar and organizer with the awesome YouTube demo video we wrote about earlier this month, has launched into beta tonight. We've kicked the tires and can report that the...
Mobile Content Startups: Easy Money
Venture firms and investors seem to be pouring more and more money into startups that create or enable mobile content. In September over $150 million in venture funding was invested in companies in t...
It's the content, not the icons
What's with all the social bookmarking icons at the bottom of every single friggin' blog post out there? — Given the Ebola-like spread of these things they must be really effective, right? Not so m...
Viacom, YouTube Strive for Accord
NEW YORK After Viacom sent YouTube a letter last week asking the video-sharing site to remove some of its copyrighted content, the two companies appear to have reached an understanding. — The letter...
Charles River Ventures Goes For Angel Market
On Wednesday Charles River Ventures will announce a new project called "Quick Start" (link should be live in the next few hours) which is designed break away from traditional venture capital investing...
What's wrong with software patents?
I know that many people come to the FFII—as I did—because they feel a deep sense of injustice at how the smaller players in IT are consistently squashed by special interests and monopolists. But I'm ...
Facebook Logo Now Appearing Web-wide
Facebook is infiltrating sites across the web, decorating everyone from the Washington Post to the Onion to IMDB with its new little "f" logo. The social networking site over the last week has been i...
Add Search to Your Site with the Live Search Box
(And, yes, it supports Firefox too!) — Today, we're proud to announce the launch of the Live Search Box, to bring the power of search to your Web site or blog through a cool widget. Check it out: ...
IAC Reports Q3 Results
IAC (Nasdaq: IACI) released third quarter 2006 results today, reporting over $1.6 billion in revenue, an 11% rate of growth over the prior year, and $172 million of Operating Income Before Amortizatio...
Shocker: Radio Station That Gives Listeners What They Want Grows Its Audience
from the are-you-listening dept — The WSJ has an interesting story looking at the success a Los Angeles-based public radio station, KCRW, has had by embracing the internet and new media.
Computing, 2016: What Won't Be Possible?
Computer science is not only a comparatively young field, but also one that has had to prove it is really science. Skeptics in academia would often say that after Alan Turing described the concept of...
Elephants and Evolution - How the Landscape is Changing for Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe
Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus. John is Senior Software Architect and founder of TeamDirection. — The days of purely desktop-based applications are clearly numbered …
Last.fm Launches New Features - Including Flash Player, Events and Free MP3s
Last.fm, one of my favorite online music recommendation and listening services, today announced a website relaunch. The London-based company has added four new features: Events system (e.g. concerts)...
Full-featured wikiCalc beta release 0.96
I've just posted a new beta release of wikiCalc: Version 0.96. This is hopefully the last beta version before 1.0. It has all of the localization work (moving strings into a few easily customizable ...