It's time to open up networking, again
Last week I had a meeting with a serial entrepreneur who's working on a new company whose product is a calendar for social networks, or a social network of calendars, depending on which thread you pic...
How do I know this person? Through the Web!
Like other social applications, Facebook wants to know how you're connected to people. So it asks: "How do you know this person?" and presents these choices: — The choice I usually want — "Through ...
The Age Question (final post)
So yesterday I pissed off Dave Winer, Scott Karp, Steven Hodson, and a host of others who have weighed in heavily in the comments. — I guess I knew it was gonna happen because I was uneasy about wri...
YouTube Mobile Launched - Here's The Scoop
YouTube launched the mobile version of their site today. Here are all the details. — The first thing I saw as I navigated to the site using my BlackBerry 8700g was the following informational warni...
The Very Organized Hit Job On LifeLock
Last month I received an anonymous email from a tipster warning me that there was "a scandal about to pop" about an Arizona credit protection startup called LifeLock. The email made a number of serio...
Time for Wi-Fi to sink or sync
Is Philadelphia about to become a wireless heaven, filled with laptop-wielding residents connecting to the Internet on the cheap from home or around town? — Or is the dream announced almost three ye...
Covering All the Online Bases
The digital business of Major League Baseball started out as a mess. Now it has $400 million in revenue and may revolutionize the economics of the sport. — It's the final inning and the marlins, wh...
Warnings of 'internet overload'
As the flood of data across the internet continues to increase, there are those that say sometime soon it is going to collapse under its own weight. But that is what they said last year. — Back in ...
Dude, would you like a Nokia with that Dell?
Dell now sells unlocked Nokia devices, not the crappy low end stuff either. A quick search yields the following: — Nokia N80: $447.78 — Nokia E61i: $423.77 — NokiaN95: $736.53 — Nokia E61: $383.4...
Dell's 23 Confessions
Now's not the time to mince words, so let me just say it... we blew it. — I'm referring to a recent blog post from an ex-Dell kiosk employee that received more attention after the Consumerist blogge...
The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer
It was an hour before midnight, three hours into the night shift with nine more to go. At his workstation in a small, fluorescent-lighted office space in Nanjing, China, Li Qiwen sat shirtless and ch...
Another 10 web operating systems reviewed
Several months have passed since I wrote my original review of 10 WebOS-type applications. Although Google hasn't really made an (expected) move in this field yet, the topic still spurs a lot of inte...