BBC strikes Google-YouTube deal
The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube, the web's most popular video sharing website, owned by Google. — Three YouTube channels - one for news and two for entertainment - will showcase short...
WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 i...
Good News, Bad News at GooTube
Lots of news today around YouTube's efforts to get big content providers under agreement to provide their stuff to YouTube. — First, the good news. The BBC has agreed to allow some of their content...
Are blogs a 'parasitic' medium?
Could the blogosphere survive without the reporting provided by newspapers and TV networks? Online pros tackle the question. — Over the past months, I've heard several journalists make the same com...
The "About 260" Problem: Google Site: Command Glitch
Dave Naylor noted yesterday that Search Engine Watch appears to have largely disappeared from Google, at least when performing a site: command search. Today, Marketing Pilgrim notes a weirdly similar...
Authors Find Their Voice, and Audience, in Podcasts
Scott Sigler writes science-fiction horror novels, the kind one fan called "steel-tipped boot on your throat, speed-metal fiction." Mr. Sigler has written four such books, though not many people have...
Microsoft wins in second Alcatel-Lucent patent suit
update A week after Microsoft was ordered to hand over $1.5 billion in an Alcatel-Lucent MP3 patent dispute, a federal judge has ruled that the Windows maker did not violate a patent at the heart of a...
Best Buy Confirms It Has Secret Website
Under pressure from state investigators, Best Buy is now confirming my reporting that its stores have a secret intranet site that has been used to block some consumers from getting cheaper prices adve...
Use your phone to find the nearest Starbucks
Jonesing for a Carmel Macchiato? Text your ZIP code to MYSBUX (697289) and in a minute you'll receive a reply listing three of the nearest Starbucks locations—complete with addresses and phone number...
Multicore move cuts Oracle database cost
In a move designed to counter Microsoft's growing database influence, Oracle has quietly cut software prices on some lower-end servers using multicore processors, CNET News.com has learned. — With t...
Local Search Update: Yelp up 91%, Insider Pages up 34% in Past Six Months
This week Insider Pages was acquired by the Citysearch division of IAC. Hitwise data shows that the market share of US visits to Insider Pages was up 34% in the past 6 months (August 2006 vs. Februar...
YouTube Videos Reveal Google Adsense Clicks Data
As you probably know, Google is testing a new Adsense Ad format that streams video directly from YouTube.com. The first such campaign is for GMail Theater Videos run by Google itself. — If Google i...
Reuters to start financial MySpace
Reuters is planning to launch its own version of MySpace this year - though its community website will not be aimed at teenagers. Instead, fund managers, traders and analysts are being targeted. — ...
Europe threatens new Microsoft fines
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union escalated its trans-Atlantic fight with Microsoft Corp. on Thursday, threatening new multimillion fines against the software maker over claims it is asking rival...
Making Windows Vista Sing: Robert Fripp and the Vista Melody
On May 4th, 2006, Steve Ball invited Robert Fripp back to the Microsoft campus for a second full day of work on Windows Vista following up on his first visit in the Fall of 2005. This time we get an ...
$11B IN LIQUID ASSETS AND GROWING
Google filed a K-1 this week (thanks Gary) and there were a few tidbits in there. If you're a Google geek, it's worth a read. — Google had more than 10,00 employees at the end of 2006, for example,...
Questioning Nintendo's Secondary Offering
The Good Doctor submits: On February 23, 2007 after the close of trading in Tokyo, the Nintendo Company (NTDOY.PK) announced that 1.987 million shares of its common stock held by Banks Shareholdings P...
Microsoft Windows Live VP to resign
Blake Irving, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Windows Live Platform group, is resigning his post, according to sources close to the company. — Irving, a 15-year Microsoft veteran, is in ch...
UPDATE 1-Take-Two agrees to "Grand Theft" settlement talks
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (TTWO.O: Quote, Profile , Research) has agreed to enter into settlement talks in a consumer lawsuit accusing it of selling "Grand Theft Auto" video games containing ...
Apple: Write down your passwords
Apple advises Mac users to write down their passwords, just in case they have forgotten them when they are needed. — On its Mac 101 Web site, Apple offers a document called "My Mac Cheat Sheet" (PDF...
Apple talks innovation, iPhone, 3G, Cingular
Apple COO Tim Cook was part of a analyst Q&A session in front a "standing room only" crowd at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium earlier this week. Cook talked about continued innovati...
Latest Leopard build from Apple suggests much work ahead
A new build of Apple's Leopard operating system released to developers this week introduces a handful of fresh features, but also carries with it a significant laundry list of impending issues that wi...
The transformation of a VC firm, Bay Partners
Bay Partners is the latest Silicon Valley venture firm to go through a major generational change — witnessing an influx of new faces, even as an older generation of partners exits for reasons apparent...
The Minutes of Our Lives
Small, Private Moments — Get Live Blog Treatment; — Notes from a Funeral — If you hate newsy holiday letters, brace yourself for the live blog. — People are increasingly documenting the most m...
The BBC Decides to YouTube
The BBC announced today that it has singed a deal with Google in regards to BBC video on YouTube. The agreement raises interesting strategic questions as it represents an important alternative approa...
Blockbuster close to acquiring Movielink?
Blockbuster is once again eyeing Movielink, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that the two companies are in advanced discussions over an acquisition. The asking price is supposedly less than $50...
Last desktop app standing: IM Client
Google Apps, Zoho Suite, Buzzword, and even Adobe PhotoShop - it seems nothing stands in the way of the web monster that is gobbling up desktop applications, chewing them up and spitting them out as a...
Google Censorship FAQ
Does Google censor search results? — Yes, they sometimes do, in different countries, like Germany, France or China. Sometimes, specific content is censored globally (including US results, e.g. in t...
Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the Web
I suppose this will be the one "technical" post about the whole Adobe Engage thing. — Background — For several years, I worked on Chandler, a cross platform desktop app which uses the open source ...
Google's Matt Cutts on Personalization and the Future of SEO
Last week I talked with Google's Marissa Mayer about the user side of personalization. This week I had the chance to sit down with Matt Cutts at the Googleplex and asked him what the impact of person...
Justice Department takes aim at image-sharing sites
The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illega...
Immersion and Sony Computer Entertainment Conclude Litigation and Enter Into Business Agreement
SAN JOSE, Calif. and FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Immersion Corporation, (Nasdaq: IMMR - News), a leading developer and licensor of touch feedback technology …
The Attention Economy: An Overview
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus — It is no secret that we live in an information overload age. The explosion of new types of information online is a double-edged sword. We bo...