A Bubble Watcher Watches Google
COULD Web 2.0 be fast becoming Bubble 2.0? It's hard to say, mainly because of the lack of a yardstick to measure the value of most Internet companies. — Compared with the late-'90s technology boom...
Open-Source Spying
When Matthew Burton arrived at the Defense Intelligence Agency in January 2003, he was excited about getting to his computer. Burton, who was then 22, had long been interested in international relati...
The Economics of Disaggregation
Peter Brantley pointed on a private email list to "a nice article in slate on the disaggregation of content in newspapers, with several nice insights, including a remark on the lack of novelty of some...
Yahoo Gets Trashed By Users
Yahoo took a beating by users angry over the new Yahoo TV product in the comments to their own blog post announcing it. Even a former head of Yahoo Entertainment, Erik Schwartz, chimed in with his ow...
The Second Annual Life On The Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards
In preparing for The Second Annual Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards, I realized that it would be tough to write anything better about my motivation for creating them than I did in year one. What I wrote ...
A new wide-angle lens for video surveillance
If you're a photographer, chances are high that you bought one day a wide-angle lens, commonly called a 'fisheye' lens. And if you're like me, you might have used it to take a dozen of pictures befor...
The semantics web
A few days ago, Kathy Sierra wrote about the usefulness of jargon, in a post titled "Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword." She pointed out that jargon - good jargon - forms a kind of shorthand for specia...
With Photoshop CS3 just months away, new details emerge
More than one year after Think Secret first reported details of Adobe Photoshop CS3, sources recently disclosed that as development enters its final months features have remained true to what Adobe or...
Myspace Phish Attack Leads Users to Zango Content
A while ago on the Spywareguide Blog, I covered a technique being used in Peer to Peer land involving URLs being embedded in Quicktime movies, which would then pop open a website. This has now been t...
LG debuts "ebook" concept laptop with OLED screen, liquid fuel
As much as we like to write about the play-by-play of gadgetry innovation, it's a sad truth that some devices, like laptops, really haven't changed much since their debut in the 1980s. LCDs, a mainst...
Video Visionaries Meld Traditional TV and the Web
Is TV moving onto the Internet or is the Internet moving onto TV? As the lines between the two begin to blur, it's getting harder to tell. — Fans of Comedy Central's "South Park," for example, can ...
Yo Shawn and Joi! STOP THE MADNESS!
Everytime I hear about another social network being created - I cringe. — Yet another $500k wasted and money poured down the drain. Not because the network is a bad idea, but becauase all this mone...
Pixelotto: From The Creator Of The Million Dollar Homepage
Bookmark This: CyberMark - del.icio.us - Furl - reddit - StumbleUpon - Yahoo — The creator of the Million Dollar Homepage is at it again with a whole new venture. Previously Alex Tew sold 1 pixel f...
Bad News for Old News
by Susan Stellin, December 2006 issue And Seven More Things to Look Forward to in 2007 — With so much doom and gloom in the media business — at least in the print media business — you'd think it wou...
Headline Animator Overhaul, Part I
Historians believe that our Headline Animator service was the last known use of brushed metal backgrounds in a public web service. For a couple years now, FeedBurner publishers have courageously plac...