Microsoft is Dead
A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their f...
Zell Wants End to Web's Free Ride
It's time for newspapers to stop giving away their stories to popular search engines such as Google, according to Samuel Zell, the real estate magnate whose bid for Tribune Co. was accepted this week....
Vator TV - Bambi Quits MarketWatch, Perfects Marketing 2.0
Unintentionally, perhaps, but Bambi Francisco just perfected Web 2.0 marketing. The journalist from the Dow Jones-owned financial news site MarketWatch was the subject of articles this week in the WS...
I Canceled My Basecamp Account Today
In the past, I've been a fan of 37 Signals. I believe that they were ahead of their day in user interface design and simplicity. Their book, Getting Real, still has an impact in how I develop, desig...
YouTube Launches CitizenTube - Official Political Vlog
YouTube has formally announced a new, official channel of political videos called CitizenTube. Edited by Steve Grove, YouTube's Citizentube/YouTube News & Politics Editor, the channel appears intende...
Interview with Jaiku co-founder Jyri Engeström - Twitter Alternative
With the extreme popularity of Twitter, and the talk of how it should be acquired soon, it only makes sense that similar services emerge and gain traction as well. Jaiku is Twitter's most relevant ri...
Goodbye Twitter. Hello Jaiku.
When I talk about Twitter people think I'm crazy. Who would want to be bugged by hundreds of messages a day from your friends telling you what they're up to. Well, as it turns out, lots of us would....
The maximum mileage
Some hybrid car owners go to great measures to figure out ways of getting as much as possible out of a tank of gas — Toyota Motor Corp. says its Prius gasoline-electric hybrid car gets about 55 mile...
Windows XP still starring in HP ad
I was somewhat surprised to pop open yesterday's USA Today and see a nearly full page ad for an HP computer running Windows XP. The PC, a Compaq desktop, is aimed at businesses and is touted for havi...
Web Attack
Nastiness online can erupt and go global overnight, and "no comment" doesn't cut it anymore. Here's how to cope — Martin S. Sorrell, CEO of advertising agency WPP Group, sues two blogging ex-collea...
Inspectors: IRS lost 490 laptops, many with unencrypted data
Every large organization loses laptops, but when those laptops contain the personal tax information of millions of Americans, it's a big deal. Big enough that the Treasury Department's Inspector Gene...
LH Top 10: Greasemonkey user scripts
Sometimes web sites don't work or look the way you want them to - but if you're using the Firefox web browser with the Greasemonkey extension, you can do something about it. — What the heck is Greas...