Thoughts on the Social Graph
I've been thinking a lot about the social graph for awhile now: aggregating the graph, decentralization, social network portability, etc. — If you've seen me at any conference recently, I probably t...
Second lawsuit filed over iPhone battery replacement
Suit questions whether Apple kept battery information from early buyers to boost sales — A second class-action lawsuit argues that Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. failed to tell early buyers of the iPhone ...
RIAA gets some class
The RIAA has been slapped by a class action lawsuit, filed by Tanya Anderson, a single mom from Oregon who claims the organization's goons impersonated her 10-year-old daughter's grandmother over the ...
XSS Hole In Google Apps Is "Expected Behavior"
You know, just when I think I'm being a super nice guy, and I go out of my way to go through responsible disclosure, I am slapped in the face with the exact reason why I don't think responsible disclo...
It's not journalism
Google's latest effort highlights the difference between what it does and what newspapers and magazines do. — Many publishers consider the Internet, and Google in particular, a greater threat to the...
First quad-core laptop hits U.S.
Nevermind there's little to no software that can take advantage of four processing cores, Xtreme Notebooks has released the first quad-core laptop in the U.S. With no mobile quad-core parts in existen...
Five Quick Suggestions to Improve Twitter
After the positive feedback on the previous Five Quick Suggestions for TechMeme and PodTech, today we take a look at Twitter. So without further ado, here are my "Five Quick Suggestions for Improving...
OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience
A while back I tried signing up for an OpenID, an "open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity." The basic idea is that, instead of needing to choose a user name and passwor...
Lawsuit Challenges Google's Keyword Ads
Google and other search engines have been on the receiving end of a dozen or so lawsuits challenging a common practice in search advertising: the use of someone's trademark, say Mercedes Benz, to show...
Where we are at 1100 GMT
As Europe has woken up to a new day and Asia is entering the evening hours, here's the latest on the sign-on problem. — We're on the road to recovery. Skype is stabilizing, but this process may con...
Compact disc hits 25th birthday
Exactly 25 years ago the world's first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany, sparking a global music revolution. — More than 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide since then ...
American Airlines Sues Google Over Keyword Ads
American Airlines v. Google, 4:07-cv-00487 (N.D. Tex. complaint filed Aug. 16, 2007) [Warning: 4.4MB file] … Well, this is interesting. It's not unusual for a trademark owner to sue Google for keywor...
Lyrics sites out of tune with copyrights
news analysis How does that song go? We've all used the Internet to search for the lyrics to songs whose tune we know but words we just can't muster. — Often the Web sites we end up on have misspel...
Sun set on server business?
In all the hullaballoo over Sun's agreement to support Solaris 10 on IBM hardware I have yet to read one obvious fact. — This is part of Sun's exit strategy from the server business. — (The pictur...
The Mix Tape USB Drive remembers your roots
Sure, the compact disc may have just celebrated 25 years in the biz, but nothing says quasi-old school like a double-sided cassette tape. Granted, it's a bit harder to effectively distribute mix tape...
SF Chronicle's Stages Of Google Grief Lead To Suggestion For Google To Just Buy Newspapers
First off, before someone brings it up in the comments, I'll point out that the following post refers to the views of various columnists at the SF Chronicle, rather than any sort of discussion among …
Apple Takes a Step Back With iMovie '08
Last week, Apple released a new version of its iLife suite—its $80 package containing iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb and GarageBand. The suite also comes preinstalled on every new Mac. — The enhancements in ...
Now, the Clicking Is to Watch the Ads, Not Skip Them
FOR generations, advertising interrupted the entertainment that Americans wanted to read, hear or watch. Now, in a turnabout, advertising is increasingly being presented as entertainment — and surpri...
Sourcefire Acquires ClamAV Open Source Network Anti-Virus Project
Acquisition Expands Company's Open Source Portfolio and Commercial — Open source innovator and SNORT (R) creator, Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE), today announced that it has acquired ClamAV(TM), a l...
BLOGGING ISN'T DEAD, IT'S JUST A SUBSET OF SOMETHING MUCH LARGER AND MORE IMPORTANT
It seems that my last post, "Why We're All Blogging Less", got a lot of pickup in the blogosphere. Some people inferred that I was down on blogging, or that I thought blogging was dead, or even that ...