Is NHL putting YouTube Sharing on Ice?
Update: NHL tells us: "We're trying to determine why this happened...it wasn't at our request. We have a call into YouTube and should be able to tell you more later today." Also several of the NHL v...
Viacom to Sign Deal with Joost
Two weeks after Viacom ordered Google to take down more than 100,000 allegedly copyrighted videos from YouTube, the media giant is about to sign a content deal with Joost, the Wall Street Journal is r...
Buying a new PC? 'Windows Vista Capable' barely hits the mark
IBM'er says Vista's RAM sweet spot is 4GB — Configuring a PC around the minimum hardware requirements of an application or operating system is lot like agreeing to live in a basement apartment.
A ground-level view of the XM/Sirius merger in the sky
USA Today says Sirius and XM are going to merge. Mel Karmazin, possibly the wisest guy in commercial radio, will be the CEO. Gary Parsons, currrent CEO of XM, will be chairman. — There are a numbe...
Google co-founder: Science needs entrepreneurs
Scientists need more entrepreneurial drive and could benefit by doing more to promote solutions to big human problems, Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page told a meeting of academic researchers.
Looking for Odeo's new home
In the last few months, we here at Obvious have been increasingly focused on Twitter. As a result, our original product, Odeo, has not gotten the attention it deserves. — It does not cost us much t...
Weekend spamtacular — what the heck happened and how we're fixing it
what the heck happened and how we're fixing it — Oh. My. Gosh. This weekend sucked. No doubt about it. But we've beaten things back and we have a plan for making things better still. I'm going ...
FORWARD COMPATIBLE - 2004
Turn your Wifi Router into a modem. — Video: — Forward Compatible (FC) is a parasitic object meant to be attached to a Wi-Fi or fixed network router. The device monitors network traffic and when ...
The Battle for Mobile Search
When it comes to Internet search over mobile phones, upstarts have a decent chance against the likes of Google and Yahoo — When it comes to Web search engines, Google is the winner by a wide margin,...
Trulia API now open to the world!
As you know, Trulia started as one of the early real estate mash-ups on the Web 2.0 scene. We thought it was only right (and about time) that we gave a little back to the developer community by provi...
7 Ways to Optimize Your YouTube Tags
I can't get YouTube off my mind. With apologies to Gil Scott Heron, the revolution is being videoized. Contrary to popular opinion it just may be an ad revolution. H&R Block's recent promo for thei...
Mobile phone lifeline for world's poor
While consumers around the world demand sleek black and silver mobile phones, villagers in rural India buy brightly-coloured handsets in gold, reds and pinks. — Mobile phones are as much a fashion s...
From Clipouts to the Web, Coupons Transition Slowly
ONLINE coupons have always been a bargain-hunter's diversion, which may be precisely why the market has grown so slowly. Who wants to take time out of the day to track down sites that give away 50-ce...
Google class debuts at the UW
Students learn firm's approach to programming — At 26 and at the top of his game as one of Google's vaunted software engineers, Chistophe Bisciglia found himself bored and restless. Writing compute...
AdaptiveBlue gives you more options while you surf
AdaptiveBlue, a Livingston N.J. company, gives you a browser plug-in that allows you to research and organize more easily from sites within Firefox. — The company said it has raised an undisclosed a...
Procedure and Tests
Introduction — With the introduction of AirPort Extreme 802.11n base stations, Apple announced that the majority of its current machines are compatible with the draft of that standard via a drive up...
Seven steps to remarkable customer service
As a bootstrapped software company, Fog Creek couldn't afford to hire customer service people for the first couple of years, so Michael and I did it ourselves. The time we spent helping customers too...
Is 500 million Skype downloads a lot?
Congratulations, Skype! Skype users downloaded the world's leading VoIP program 500 million times today. The current rate is 640 thousand downloads a day, according to Skype data. Adrian Cockcroft ...