Online Firms Boot Up for Political Campaigns
Howard Dean was dubbed the Internet candidate in the 2004 presidential race, but his efforts to campaign online seem primitive compared to the services companies are touting for next year's election. ...
Popularity Might Not Be Enough
LET'S say you wanted to build an advertising-supported online media business that took in $50 million a year in revenue. How many users would you have to attract to get there? — Probably too many f...
Ask A Ninja Special Delivery 13 "SXSW 10 Years"
The Ninja made a video for the SXSW Web Awards, enjoy. — Click below to Download this movie: iPod/Quicktime — If you like it, tell a friend! — You got questions, Ninja got answers. — Remember ...
Firefox Community Beta Program
During the run up to Firefox 2, we released beta builds and release candidates for wide testing and feedback as part of a community beta program. Anyone who downloaded and installed these pre-release...
NY Times on Twitter
Okay, I got the bugs worked out, and it seems to work, fingers crossed, praise Murhpy, I am not a lawyer and I don't work for the NY Times. — It's set to post one new story per minute, as long as th...
Yahoo Japan Launches Digg Clone : Minna No Topics
Yahoo Japan has launched their version of a social news sharing site with a Digg-esque feel; Minna No Topics (Everyone's Topics). — The service lets Yahoo Japan users submit different stories under ...
Honoring the Hard Working Blue Collar Bloggers
While a lot of people rant on about the A-List and Z-List of bloggers, Tony Hung of Deep Jive Interests offers "A List Types Refuse to Acknowledge Blogging's Blue Collar Class": … The article defends ...
Google's Blog Software Hijacked by Scammers
Google's blogger.com is being hijacked to spread malware through fake blogs, a security vendor warns. — John E. Dunn, Techworld — Google's blogger.com is being hijacked to spread malware through f...
Victims fight back against DMCA abuse
DMCA takedown notices: sure, they provide an easy way for companies or individuals to get copyrighted information pulled from sites like YouTube, but what happens when the process is abused? The DMCA...
Google Gooses Big Media
"Content is king." It's a phrase uttered repeatedly by media executives making the case that the movies, music, TV shows, books and journalism their companies produce are the core of their business. ...
Twittering Your Home
Interest in the messaging service Twitter is clearly on the rise (see this Wall Street Journal article if you're not already familiar with it), and while most people are figuring out how to use Twitte...
BACKFIRE: Ask stumped
Anyone would think the underground campaign against Google in the UK was gathering momentum. A messageboard. Posters on the tube. Placards on north London lampposts. Flyposters on Carnaby Street. ...
90% of my blogging is now on Twitter...
you'll get like 2-15 alerts on your phone/AIM a day with my links, thoughts, discussions, etc. — I'm thinking of doing a week of Twitter-only blogging.... so, join now!
Fox executive new TechCrunch CEO
Heather Harde, senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Fox Interactive Media is all set to join as the new chief executive officer at TechCrunch, an technology blog edited and published b...
Colorado Woman Sues To Hold Web Crawlers To Contracts
Web site owner Suzanne Shell's lawsuit against the Internet Archive poses a question: "Can software programs be held liable for their actions?" — Computers can enter into contracts on behalf of peop...
Does Voice Have a Place With Portals?
Does voice have a place with Web Portals or is Voice really an Internet play, not a portal play? — In the movie Jerry McGuire, the character played by Cuba Gooding, Jr. tells Jerry to "Show me The M...