Google Ramps Up Personalized Search
Google is stepping up the push into personalized search results. A new change announced today should cause many more people to take up the service. In turn, the growth of personalized search should ...
HELP FIND JIM GRAY
Computer science icon Jim Gray mysteriously disappeared after a solo trip with his sail boat outside San Francisco Bay. The coast guard has been searching for 4 days but has not been able to locate a...
Silicon Valley's High-Tech Hunt for Colleague
When James Gray failed to return home from a sailing trip on Sunday night, Silicon Valley's best and brightest went out to help find him. — After all, Dr. Gray, 63, a Microsoft researcher, is one of...
Shrinkwrap Licenses: An Epidemic Of Lawsuits Waiting To Happen
We mostly ignore the terms of shrinkwrap and clickwrap licenses, but pretty soon the lawyers are going to come sniffing around, says columnist Cory Doctorow. — Anybody who bothered to read a clickwr...
The Original 1983 Microsoft Mouse
Do you remember the year 1983, when Return of the Jedi was in theaters, The Police were still together, and Travis was still inside his parents' genitalia? Well Gearlog does, because they got their h...
Jack Thompson Faces Florida Supreme Court Disciplinary Hearing
GamePolitics has learned that controversial Miami attorney Jack Thompson faces a disciplinary hearing before a referee appointed by the Florida Supreme Court. — The pending judicial review follows a...
Not using all of that GigE pipe? Save some energy
IEEE's Energy Efficient Ethernet looks at ways to throttle down connection speeds to save power — The IEEE wants to make idle or underutilized Ethernet connections more energy efficient, which could...
AN INVENTIVE VIDEO JOURNEY TO WEB 2.0
What is web 2.0? Time Magazine recently tagged it "You 2.0" with its mirrored magazine cover naming "You" the person of the year. However, the question has been pondered and explained in a number of...
"PayPerSpeech" disclosure
UPDATE: A few things about this were misunderstood. More on those in a second. First, I just talked with John Furrier and we've decided not to accept the honorarium that PayPerPost offered to us for...
Wi-Fi tests set to start up
Trial networks in Palo Alto, San Carlos may be up by next week — An agreement setting up wireless testing areas in Palo Alto and San Carlos could be finished in less than a week, the co-chair of the...
What Works, and What Doesn't, in Online Marketing
What is the word from the trenches? — In an end-of-the-year survey, ad:tech and MarketingSherpa asked online marketers what marketing tactics worked for them in 2006 and what they expected to concen...
Edit your images online with Picnik
Edit your images online with Picnik, a shiny new Flash-based image editor. — There's quite a bit to Picnik, actually: you can do the basic resizes and tweaks that most other free image editors we've...
Share Your Video in Style - Brightcove Personal
This week we introduced some new capabilities on brightcove.com that we think you should take for spin. Dubbed 'Brightcove Personal', the features allow any end-user in the world to freely create the...
YouTube copyrights in Japan
The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors is kind of a little upset at YouTube for the amount of content that is available on Google's service that their members own copyrights for. Just last Decemb...
overdue new year's resolutions
We've been busy: since our announcement in september of our millionth signup, another half-million users have joined the fun. And because of this, we've been more quiet then I would like, and I want ...
An Update on the "Pigsteria" and the Mother's Milk Bank Fundraiser
Sow's it going, you might ask? (oh come, on you either laughed or rolled your eyes...) — (Just checking in? Catch up on my legal threat from the National Pork Board.) — It's been an interesting f...
Survey: Are domain registrars free-speech friendly?
Go Daddy's controversial decision last week to suspend the domain name of a popular computer security Web site did more than merely raise questions about the extent of free speech on today's Internet....