Putting TechCrunch UK On Hold
TechCrunch UK, just a few months old, has been tremendously successful in creating a community for local UK & Ireland Entrepreneurs. However, today I put the blog on hold and terminated our relations...
SECOND LIFE: The avatar has no clothes
CLAY SHIRKY — I got a pre-launch demo of Second Life, straight from Mitch Kapor and the Second Life team, several years ago at PC Forum, so I'm well aware of Mitch's bullishness on the subject. Mitch...
Yahoo! and comScore Networks Study
"Brand Advocates" Are Loyal and Engaged Consumers That Are Word of Mouth Powerhouses - Especially Online — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 13, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) …
Google's reign of terror over Valley workforce coming to end?
For two years, Google has brutalized its competition and other start-ups by grabbing the best talent with two sexy pieces of bait: the stock option, and its fun brand. — However, the first piece of ...
Skype's Free Phone Call Plan Will Soon Have Annual Fee
Skype, the Internet calling service owned by eBay, said Tuesday that as of Jan. 1 it would begin charging $30 a year for unlimited calls to landline and mobile phones within the United States and Cana...
Apple denies download sales fall
Apple has denied a report which claims US sales at its iTunes Music Store fell by 65% in the first half of 2006. — Research group Forrester said it was too soon to say whether its findings showed th...
Second Life: What are the real numbers?
Second Life is heading towards two million users. Except it isn't, really. We all know how this game works, and has since the earliest days of the web: — Member of the Business Press: "How many us...
Yahoo Dethroned By MySpace
Fox Interactive Media, largely thanks to MySpace, has edged into No. 1 for Internet page views. — Yahoo is getting good at being No. 2. News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media has now edged the search g...
Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta to drop this friday
Exclusive: Adobe Systems Inc. on friday will make available for download an early public beta of its next-generation graphics editor, Photoshop CS3, but will otherwise abstain from delivering pre-rele...
Sprint Powers Up Faster Mobile Broadband Network in 10 More Markets, Upgraded Coverage Reaches 60 Million People
Users in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Detroit, Denver, Baltimore, Providence and New Jersey now have the power of significantly faster upload speeds …
The Iniquities of the Selfish
On Monday, MacHeist1 released the software bundle at the heart of their promotion, under the guise of "The Week of the Independent Mac Developer": … First, there's something silly about calling these ...
A first look at Firefox 3.0
Mozilla has officially released the first public alpha build of Firefox 3.0. Codenamed Gran Paradiso, Firefox 3 includes the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine which leverages the open-source Cairo rende...
Craig and Wall Street — universes apart
universes apart — It was a few days ago now, but the New York Times' DealBook blog had a great little item about Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster meeting with Wall Street types at the UBS global media c...
Nifty Toolbar upgrades for Firefox
Ever since the latest version of the Google Toolbar for IE came out, Firefox users have been asking when they'll see the same new features in their favorite browser. Well, we've been hard at work on ...
YouTube.tv, anyone?
Will the rise of online video spark a new interest in ".tv" domains? Ex-MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt thinks so. You'll remember that Rosenblatt's current venture is Demand Media, a company th...