User-Generated Content Is Not A Panecea
The Infinite Monkey Theorem (which now has an official name, thanks to Wikipedia) states that given an infinite amount of time, a monkey banging on a typewriter will eventually produce the complete wo...
Facebook users vote for iLike, but what happened to Audio?
(Editor's note: We promised a 24-hour moratorium on Facebook coverage. That is now over.) — Here's the early winner of Facebook's open embrace of third-party applications, announced two days ago: i...
Assumption-driven Entrepreneurship: Your Hidden Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Thesis-driven investment is the process of making investments based on theories about the future. The basic process is as follows — Make a prediction about the future based on economic, legal, techn...
Cell phones Want to come in
SEATTLE — It's all too familiar: You enter a house, a concrete parking garage or an elevator and the cell phone call drops. — Even worse is the dead zone that's a permanent fixture on your living-ro...
Digital Domain: Apple's Lesson for Sony's Stores: Just Connect
RETAIL is supposed to be hard. Apple has made it seem ridiculously easy. And yet it must be harder than it appears, or why hasn't the Windows side of the personal computer business figured it out?
Screenshots of YouTube's New Player
YouTube tests a new version of its player that will improve the way you interact with videos and will create a cinematic experience. — The player will add a feature that was already available in Goo...
Multiple Police Raids Take Down BitTorrent Tracker
This week, police carried out co-ordinated raids targeting more than 10 locations in Germany following claims from the GVU (German Federation Against Copyright Theft) that movies and software were bei...
Reddit hacked
Update: Looks like the malicious code on the comments is now being replaced with "i am a terrible person". But it is still possible to submit malformed URLs, and it remains to be seen whether the exp...
Restrict Google Image Results to Faces, News
Google Image Search has a new feature that lets you restrict the results to some general categories. For the moment, the only categories that are available seem to be faces and news-related images, b...
Wallstrip: The Magic is in the Process
I have been cracking up reading the various theories as to why CBS supposedly bought Wallstrip. Explanations abound: it's Lindsay, right? It's all about the talent. Hey, it's hard to create a popul...
Intelliverb: Is It Intelligent Investing in Search?
Maryland based Intelliverb is a full content based search engine with a relevancy model driven by point of operation dependency. — The company founders have designed and implemented an algorithm cal...
How Much Is Your Soul Worth? PayPerPost Now Lets Bloggers Set The Price
PayPerPost, the controversial blogging service that lets advertisers purchase commentary on blogs, has released a new product called PayPerPost Direct. The new product is a widget that bloggers can a...
Digital Domain: Apple's Lesson for Sony's Stores: Just Connect
RETAIL is supposed to be hard. Apple has made it seem ridiculously easy. And yet it must be harder than it appears, or why hasn't the Windows side of the personal computer business figured it out?
Screenshots of YouTube's New Player
YouTube tests a new version of its player that will improve the way you interact with videos and will create a cinematic experience. — The player will add a feature that was already available in Goo...