Beneath the Metadata
Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy — Associate Professor / Information Resources Specialist — Montana State University <elainep@montana.edu> — Background — People have been trying to ...
176 Newspapers to Form a Partnership With Yahoo
John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times, left; George Frey for The New York Times — Terry S. Semel, left, chief of Yahoo, which is trying to regain its luster. Dean Singleton, the chief of Medi...
Yes, there is an Office 2007 'kill switch'
Buried in a Knowledge Base article that Microsoft published to the Web on November 14 are details of Microsoft's plans to combat Office 2007 piracy via new Office Genuine Advantage lockdowns. — When...
Lyrics Celebrating Bank Merger Impress Only Copyright Lawyer
A video of two Bank of America employees singing a version of U2's "One" to commemorate their company's acquisition of MBNA recently made the rounds of the blogs, prompting amusement and some ridicule...
Wiimote strap breaks, controller destroys TV
So there's this dude who was playing Wii Sports bowling, as his story goes, and his pal rolls a Lebowski and the next thing you know the strap breaks from the force of the swing; his slippery hands le...
A Weekend Full of Quality Time With PlayStation 3
Howard Stringer, you have a problem. Your company's new video game system just isn't that great. — Ever since Mr. Stringer took the helm last year at Sony, the struggling if still formidable electr...
Microsoft Windows Comes Of Age - Happy 21st Birthday!
Believe it or not Windows is 21 years old on Monday. When it was launched in 1985 the PC market was barely out of it's infancy, and whatever you may think of Microsoft it is amazing what they Bill Ga...
Simplicity and power
When we launched Google Page Creator on Labs earlier this year, we had one overriding goal: take making a website — traditionally a complex process involving HTML, CSS, FTP, and $$$ — and make it drop...
Netscape: the Calacanis effect
Jason Calacanis said, last week, that he was leaving AOL because Jonathan Miller, AOL's ousted CEO, was one of the only business mentors he'd ever had. Loyal, touching, but maybe also rather opportun...
AGLOCO launches — will pay you to surf the Web
will pay you to surf the Web — AGLOCO is a controversial new Stanford-based start-up that wants to pay you to surf the Web, in return for access to your online surfing information. It launches tonig...
FIM Sells Non My-Space Intermix Assets, Technology To Former CEO Rosenblatt's Demand Media
You're reading it here first ... Richard Rosentblatt, who engineered the attention-getting sale of Intermix and its chief asset MySpace.com, has acquired assets of Intermix Network LLC from Fox Inter...
'Worm' attacks Second Life world
Virtual world Second Life had to close its doors for a short time on Sunday after a worm attack called grey goo. — The self-replicating worm planted spinning gold rings around the virtual world, whi...
'Tis the season to send spam
In addition to plenty of turkey, a record amount of spam will be served up this holiday season. — Mass e-mailers traditionally bump up their activity as the year winds down. But this year, the amou...
The Significance of Threadless.com
One of the recurring themes on the O'Reilly Radar is that of "news from the future," the idea that, as William Gibson put it, "The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet." We look for ...
World premiere: Webshots video
Roll out the red carpet because video on Webshots has arrived! Now you can upload and share videos and photos in the same album, keeping all your memories in one place. — Before you get started, ch...
The race to create a 'smart' Google
Everything you buy online says a little bit about you. And if all those bits get put into one big trove of data about you and your tastes? Marketer's heaven. Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien reports. — ...
Lyrics Celebrating Bank Merger Impress Only Copyright Lawyer
A video of two Bank of America employees singing a version of U2's "One" to commemorate their company's acquisition of MBNA recently made the rounds of the blogs, prompting amusement and some ridicule...
Open Letter to the Community from Novell
On November 2, Novell and Microsoft announced a significant, multi-part agreement to work together to improve the interoperability between Linux and Windows and for Microsoft to redistribute more than...
Study: iPod video yet to play big
Nielsen Media Research has begun gathering its first data on the audience for Apple's iPod, calling into question the popularity of its video offering. — Owners of Apple's ubiquitous portable media ...
BlueOrganizer 3.0: Instant Vertical Search and Tagging
In the crowded space of social bookmarking, Adaptive Blue's BlueOrganizer is one of the most innovative services online. That innovation is continuing with today's release of version 3.0 of the produ...
Nintendo's Wii launch party (Universal Citywalk, LA)
We attended (and holy schnikes, are we tired of "Wii! jokes) the launch of the Nintendo Wii at the Universal Citywalk EB Games store in Los Angeles last night, and lived to tell about it. — When we ...
Bad Practices Continue at Zango, Notwithstanding Proposed FTC Settlement and Zango's Claims
Earlier this month, the FTC announced the proposed settlement of its investigation into Zango, makers of advertising software widely installed onto users' computers without their consent or without …
Cellphone as Tracker: X Marks Your Doubts
THE diminutive cellphone is turning out to be the most clever of devices. As it connects to more networks, stores more kinds of data, delivers more kinds of entertainment — wherever we happen to be —...
The Kid With All the News About the TV News
TOWSON, Md. — When people in the television news business want to find out what's going on in their industry, they turn to a blog called TVNewser. But while the executives obsessively checking TVNews...