2006, Brought to You by You
IMAGINE paying $580 million for an ever-expanding heap of personal ads, random photos, private blathering, demo recordings and camcorder video clips. That's what Rupert Murdoch did when his News Corp...
De-portalization and Internet revenues
This post is a little more philosophical than most that you will see here. It provides a little bit of background as to why edgeio is in the business of bringing together, organizing and distributing...
Can Personal Cellular Sites boost cell service?
By Allan Leinwand — Mobile operators are on the verge of asking you to help them solve one of their biggest problems - how to get more signal strength where you need or want it most. Their plan? A...
Virtual World Currency Deflates a Real One?
At a fundamental level, all money is virtual. (If it's no longer tied to a precious physical product like gold, that is- but then, what currency is, nowadays?) At root, its worth depends on the valu...
TV networks reportedly discussing YouTube rival
News Corp.'s Fox, Viacom, CBS and NBC Universal are in talks about creating a video Web site to compete with Google's YouTube, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. — While a deal is still far...
Simplicity
Donald Norman concludes that simplicity is overrated: "But when it came time for the journalists to review the simple products they had gathered together, they complained that they lacked what they co...
The Hat Trick That Didn't Happen
WITH the arrival of mittens and mufflers comes the inevitable onslaught of year-in-review columns. Certainly there have been plenty of media milestones this year — from the march of Google and the ex...
Fletcher Capstan Table: Dinner Party Transformer
This is the first time in my life that a table has invoked feelings of carnal attraction from deep within my loins. With a simple 30-degree rotation, the Fletcher Capstan Table expands by 73%, growin...