LinkedIn Traffic Up, But Is It Enough?
The latest figures released by Hitwise indicate that traffic to LinkedIn is up 323% in the last year and 17% in the last week alone. It's a healthy rise, and something LinkedIn should be pleased with...
Mythbusting: Facebook's fake revenues
Facebook's fake revenues — Everyone's still talking about Henry Blodget's facile guess on his Internet Outsider blog that Microsoft might offer $6 billion for Facebook, the social network of the mom...
Virtual marketers have second thoughts about Second Life
Firms find that avatars created by participants in the online society aren't avid shoppers. — Second Life — a three-dimensional online society where publicity is cheap and the demographic is edgy an...
On the trail of Fake Steve Jobs
Everybody's favorite anonymous Mac commentator might be a little closer to becoming not-so-anonymous. If you checked out Fake Steve Jobs's site yesterday, you might have seen a short post about a mar...
Why Congress Needs a Version Control System
I've been thinking lately just how much software developers take the existence of version control for granted, and how, with the notable exception of wikipedia, web 2.0 applications don't offer much i...
Microsoft files patent for possible taskbar replacement
"A method for managing windows in a display" would sound particularly familiar to every Windows user as "that strip at the bottom of the screen with the Start button and clock" or perhaps the more for...
Robot Replay: Watch your users via Ajax
Robot Replay is a Rails application written by Nitobi that allows you to record how your users use your site, and play it back later. — You include a piece of JavaScript on your site, and then user ...
Shortsighted Greed
I recently had a conversation with two 'grand old men' of the VC community regarding an investment they had just completed. It was a small start up which had taken angel money to get going. The term...
On PHP
PHP.net has announced that they will stop development of PHP4 at the end of this year, and end security updates on 2008-08. (In 2007, their site still doesn't have obvious permalinks. They do have a...
Live P2P Television: Streaming Now
The demonstration of Microsoft's LiveStation last week shone the spotlight back on the live P2P television market. Whilst P2P on-demand video participants such as Joost and Bablegum gain the most att...
Brief: Microsoft forgets Mac users on Patch Tuesday
Amnesia strikes when it comes to three Mac Office 2004 bugs — For a few days this week, Microsoft Corp. temporarily had Mac amnesia as it omitted mention of the Mac edition of Office in a write-up t...
Fake Steve Jobs Unmasked?
The evidence is still circumstantial and we don't have a signed confession, but the net seems to be drawing closer and it may be just a matter of days or even hours. We'll get to the suspect's name i...
Vacationing in Facebook - Travel Maps and Many New Apps
It used to be that travel and vacations meant t-shirts and cheesy souvenirs. But with Facebook, you can tell your friends about your trip without all the ugly schwag. Currently, there are over 60 ap...
Noob and other words worth thinking about
[Editor's note: This is an opinion piece by Sharon Vosmek, CEO of Astia, a group committed to building women leaders in technology start-ups.] — On a recent Sunday, I was listening to my husband and...
The SunRocket Is Down For The Count
The Sun Rocket it seems, has hit the deck. We had reported earlier that things were getting pretty tenuous at the VoIP services company. The Vienna, VA.-based company stopped taking new orders recen...
What could you make from an iPhone?
Since the iPhone's June 29 launch, we've seen several teardown reports— some from professionals, some demonstrating more enthusiasm than skill, and some that are just awful (but funny). — What's ins...