Exclusive: MySpace News Launches Thursday
On Thursday morning MySpace will launch its much rumored news property at news.myspace.com. Expect the site to go live and a press release to be issued around 7 am EST. — The news property is built...
Your slice of the web
I'll probably visit more than 100 web pages today, and so will hundreds of millions of people. Printed and bound together, the web pages you'll visit in just one day are probably bigger than the book...
Back to basics
Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search & User Experience, and Jeff Bartelma, Product Manager, Google Product Search (the product formerly known as Froogle :) ) — Today, we're making some changes to how...
Petition Against Alexa's Statsaholic Lawsuit
To join this this petition, please scroll to the bottom and leave a comment expressing your support for Statsaholic. — Update: Commenters are proposing boycotts of Amazon coverage in the blogosphere...
Microsoft Announces Commitment to Promote Sustained Social and Economic Opportunity for the Next 5 Billion People
Company unveils affordable education suite for young people in developing nations and announces plans for 90 new Innovation Centers to promote local software ecosystems.
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
Select an image — Ubuntu is distributed on three types of images described below. — Desktop CD — The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option...
Found Footage: Apple TV Plugin Loader
AwkwardTV has just posted this video demonstrating a new Apple TV 'meta plug-in' that retrieves and installs other plug-ins from around the net. Developer Alan_Quartermain built this brilliant tool t...
EBay Profit Climbs 52 Percent
EBay posted better-than-expected profit in the first quarter as several of its newer businesses compensated for disappointing results in its mainstay auction service. — The faster-growing units incl...
Media mine Web searches for readers
If you Googled "Virginia Tech shooting" or "Virginia shooting" this week, the Internet search engine served up dozens of links to news about the university massacre. Yet some media outlets weren't ta...
Web 2.0 Expo: All Things Widgets
Yesterday afternoon the Web 2.0 Expo included two sessions on widgets. The first was a presentation by Dion Hinchcliffe, which provided an Overview of Badges and Widgets. Immediately following that ...
Fring is technically impressive, but I'm still wondering about its utility
I have mentioned Fring a few times before. The most recent post left it that I had not been able to complete the setup because I never received the SMS from Fring on my phone. — I sat down with Boa...
The Blog is the New Resume
Bokardoan Adam Darowski suggests that the blog is the new resume. I think he's absolutely right...whenever anyone wants to know anything about me I send them here. — This immediately brings several...
Zude May Be A Better Netvibes
Since the dawn of the Web, startups have promised users a quick and easy way to create a presence online. With the advent of "cross-domain drag and drop" technology from a new company called Zude, CE...
Welcome to Opensville, Population Zero
At conferences I'm often asked, "What is the state of open source?" I usually toss out some variation of my "Opensville" analogy. Today I thought I'd elaborate on the analogy in my first TalkBMC pos...
Interview: Will Friedwald, Owner Of The Worlds Largest iTunes Collection
Will Friedwald proclaims he has the world largest iTunes collection. An avid listener to Jazz music, and a writer for the New York Sun, Will spends his days in front of his Power Mac G5 running "The ...