Skype Crisis: Where were the eBay Management?
It has been an interesting 30 hours for Skype, its community and its engineers. The outage that caused anxiety amongst millions who depend on Skype for communications exposed the fragility of our dig...
Rumor: Was the Gdrive Release Canceled?
Just in case you missed the latest rumors revolving around the YouTube video "Googley Blues": The video, apparently created and sung by a Google employee, was showing the Gdrive aka Platypus icon over...
BarcampBlock Shows the True Promise of Web 2.0
The second anniversary of Barcamp was nothing short of extraordinary. Dubbed BarCampBlock (aka Barcamp Block), the adhoc conference redefined unconferences, and with over 950 people registered and sp...
How would you change Windows Vista?
What do you get when you take a product used by hundreds of millions of people every day, add a few new features / polish up the interface, and then try to get everyone to shell out a grip of money fo...
Yogis Are Now Hi-Tech
Imagine a yoga mat you unfurl from a metal tube that's actually a stereo. It can take in memory cards or play content off an MP3 player. The real tech candy here is the mat which is made of an elect...
LinusTorvalds: I Have Never Really Talked To Microsoft!
The father of Linux has replied to the questions you always wanted to ask. — Swapnil Bhartiya, EFY News Network — Sunday, August 19, 2007: Did Microsoft's Men In Black ever met Linus Torvalds? B...
Loren Feldman, 1938 Media, and blip.tv
Yesterday, Loren Feldman, the author of a controversial video, decided to use blip as his host. A few hours later we received a letter warning us of potential damage to our brand. I responded that s...
Thirteen Blog Clichés
I started out in early 2004 as a blog skeptic. But over the last four years, I've become a born-again believer. In that time, I've written almost a thousand blog entries, and I've read thousands upo...
Gaming on Integrated Graphics: No Longer Crazy Talk
Intel has launched new drivers for its G965 integrated graphics chipset. But what does this mean? — Traditionally, integrated graphics have been the weaklings of the graphics world - sure there are...
The Worldwide Lexicon Project wants people to translate the web
We have a fairly long way to go before computers comprehend human language well enough to translate it elegantly, and until that day comes, the language barrier on the internet seems hard to breach.