Frequently asked questions
Background — Q. What is Adscape Media? — A. Adscape Media is a small in-game advertising company based in San Francisco California. Adscape Media offers dynamic delivery of advertising with plot ...
How to run Vista legally without activation ... for at least a year
Microsoft calls it a 'hack,' researcher, a 'documented feature' — Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end run around one of Microsoft Corp.'s key antipira...
Google should buy Intuit
Google has begun to nibble at the business market, introducing its $50-per-employee-per-month package of personal productivity applications, Google Apps, and buying up some little companies like JotSp...
Flickr targets Hong Kong market
Popular photo-sharing site Flickr has announced plans to launch a version in the Chinese language. — The move from Yahoo-owned Flickr is part of its attempts to localise and increase the accessibili...
Socializr, for planning events online
Socializr, a new San Francisco-based company that wants to help you plan events online, opens to the public today. — It is owned by Jonathan Abrams, the founder of the early social networking site, ...
A world in motion
Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience — Mark Twain said, "Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable." We're pretty sure Twain's definition of pliable is different ...
Microsoft tells MVPs "we're in it to win" — Really?
Really? — Look at my last post. Now read this one over on LiveSide. It's a short report that Microsoft executives are bragging to MVPs that "we're in it to win." — I don't think Microsoft is. Th...
DOUBLE STANDARDS: Viacom's own video pirates
Let me get this straight. Sumner Redstone's Viacom, outraged at video grabs of programs such as the Daily Show, orders Google to remove more than 100,000 clips from its Youtube video sharing site. A...
EXCLUSIVE: The rise and fall of David Hayden
So profound is the Valley's belief in redemption, that it's hard for anyone to accept that a career can lurch merely from failure to failure. Here's one such story: David Hayden, founder of Magellan ...
Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 - a May 2007 release?
As a followup to yesterday's post about the Mac OS X 10.4.9 update, we indicated that we would put forth our prediction of when Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard would likely be released by Apple. This post prov...
Top 11 Yahoo Mail Tips and Tricks
Yahoo's new version of web mail is, without a doubt, one of the coolest and most fluid Ajax applications we've seen to date. For the average user it offers every major feature that you can find in Ou...
EMERGING TECH TOOLKIT
Microsoft: OneCare should not have been rolled out — Microsoft has said that its OneCare security suite has "a problem" with the underlying antivirus code, and admitted that security is just "a litt...
Viacom lawyer: YouTube knows it violates copyrights
update WASHINGTON—There's no doubt that YouTube is committing copyright infringement, so the central question is who must police its content, an attorney for Viacom said Friday. — After "months and ...
Why a Strong Brand Is a Search Marketer's Best Asset
Travelocity: Nonbranded Keywords Only Convert 4% of Searchers — CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — For brand marketers using search, a brand name may be their best asset. That's the finding of a recent Traveloc...
Europe exec confirms Google Phone
The head of Google in Spain and Portugal has confirmed that Google is working on a mobile phone. "Some of the time the engineers are dedicated to developing a mobile phone," Isabel Aguilera is quoted...
Goodbye, Tello
Forget Web 2.0, and think VoIP when it comes to start-ups that are kicking the bucket. Tello, a San Mateo, Calif.-based start-up that launched with much fanfare back in January 2006, is no more, beco...
Why Cisco Bought WebEx
Connecting The Dots has a very interesting analysis of why Cisco bought WebEx. Steve Borsch makes very clear why this acquisition is a Web 2.0 platform play: … I totally agree with all of these point...
Friends Swap Twitters, and Frustration
New Real-Time Messaging Services Overwhelm — Some Users With Mundane Updates From Friends — Though she already has a blog, a podcast and a character in the virtual world of Second Life, Kera Richa...
Frequently asked questions
Background — Q. What is Adscape Media? — A. Adscape Media is a small in-game advertising company based in San Francisco California. Adscape Media offers dynamic delivery of advertising with plot ...
Get a more complete picture about how other sites link to you
For quite a while, you've been able to see a list of the most common words used in anchor text to your site. This information is useful, because it helps you know what others think your site is about...
Microsoft CEO meets with Stanford students
Microsoft, according to Stanford business school Dean Robert Joss, has reached a plateau. In January, it released new versions of its Windows Vista computer operating system and Office productivity s...
Summize: Enhancing Search With Heatmaps
We wrote about Abdur Chowdhury in our recent coverage of the Open Data 2007 Workshop. Until recently he was running AOL Search, but left to start a new venture. Abdur is an impressive thinker and ar...
Cingular, Qwest blocking 'Free' Calls
Looks like the empire is finding new ways to fight back — according to FreeConference.com, another rural-ISP free-calling operator, major carriers Cingular, Qwest and Sprint are actively blocking user...
Superdistribution
I remember the first time I heard this term, it was 1997 and someone was explaining a complicated digital rights management scheme to me. I invested in that complex digital rights management scheme a...
Top Celebrity List Launched at TeamSugar
The TeamSugar Top 100 Celebrities List: In some ways it's the equivalent of the Technorati Top 100 list for bloggers, although the participants are somewhat cooler. — Read their launch announcement ...
Toward a Better Digg
Digg revolutionized social news when it launched in 2004. Since then, it has become the undisputed champ of news link ranking sites. They just recently crossed the million mark. And their influence...
Adobe Remix on Photobucket
Adobe recently announced they are to bring out online versions of some of their desktop software suite, including Photoshop, within the next 6 months. The first place we can get a glimpse of these of...
Is It Illegal To Help Someone Watch TV Over Their Computer?
from the questions,-questions dept — This one is actually from a few weeks ago, but we were just informed of it by Ed. Apparently, there's a company that's trying to help people watch satellite TV o...