Twine: a social network with brains
Radar Networks has been flying under the radar for a few years now, but on Friday the startup's mastermind, Nova Spivack, unveils its first product, a brainy social network called Twine. Twine is a d...
Exits: A shaken Sue Decker shakes up Yahoo marketing
Looks like Yahoo marketing head Cammie Dunaway's departure caught Sunnyvale offguard — much like sales chief Wenda Harris Millard's. Yahoo president Sue Decker's followup email, sent out after Dunawa...
Comcast blocks some Internet traffic
Tests confirm data discrimination by number 2 U.S. service provider — NEW YORK - Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online,...
Media Executives Arrested in Phoenix
Two executives from Village Voice Media — a company that owns a number of alternative weeklies including The Village Voice, The LA Weekly and The Phoenix Times — were arrested Thursday night in Phoeni...
Google News goes social
Whether it is from our homepage, one of our RSS feeds, or on a mobile device, Google News seeks to connect people with the news that matters to them — wherever they may be. As part of that goal we ar...
Marketing Chief Leaving Yahoo
Chief Marketing Officer and head of its Customer Experience Division Cammie Dunaway will be leaving Yahoo Nov. 2. — Yahoo officials confirmed the departure to me and said Dunaway (pictured here) was...
AT&T unsure about bidding in 700MHz auction
AT&T hasn't decided whether it will bid for the highly desirable 700MHz band because it doesn't know if it can build a profitable business, given the open-access rules set for the wireless spectrum by...
Firefox Release Notes
Firefox 2 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Firefox web browser from Mozilla. — These Release Notes cover what's new, download and installation instructions, known issues and frequ...
EA wants 'open gaming platform'
Games are exploiting the increasing power of games consoles — Rival gaming systems should make way for a single open platform, a senior executive at Electronic Arts has said. — Gerhard Florin said...
Estimates: Radiohead Made $6-$10 Million on Initial Album Sales
Thom Yorke's representative told me that the band have "decided not to give out any figures" for sales of Radiohead's In Rainbows album, but that isn't stopping people from making their best guesses b...
Microsoft's "Me Too" Strategy: Can the Tortoise Beat the Hare?
Microsoft has lifted the lid this week on a number of products that compete to various degrees with popular Google services. While Google fans and blogosphere cynics have derided the Microsoft offers...
Flickr To Add Online Photo Editing Tools Via Picnik
Fotoflexer may be my personal favorite among the many online photo editing tools, but Flickr has chosen Seattle-based Picnik (profile) to handle the long requested photo editing feature for Flickr use...
Patriots get StubHub users' names
Seeking to enforce their policy prohibiting ticket resales, the New England Patriots have obtained the names of 13,000 people who sold or bought the team's tickets using the online site StubHub Inc. ...
Saying No
That's what I do all day. Every day. Dozens of times a day. I try to reply to every email from every entrepreneur who sends us an investment opportunity. I don't achieve that goal and sometimes I ...
What do 16,000 people 'do' at Google?
I'm beginning to think that besides search advertising, hiring is the thing Google does best. — On Thursday, the company reported gains of 50 percent or so in quarterly profit and revenue from a yea...
NASA Bans IE?
I heard that NASA is telling employees and contractors not to use IE due to malware affecting Internet Explorer and Real Player. … I haven't heard anything about attacks through realplayer and IE, muc...
Ballmer: I will buy 20 web companies a year
Steve Ballmer has told an audience of foaming Silicon Valley start-up types exactly what they want to hear: he will buy 20 web companies a year for the next five years. — The Microsoft boss made the...
Sleazy Linkers Lose An Ally
Seems as if there's a bit of a groundswell building against internal links, which I got all upset about a few months ago. (internal linking is where you place a link on a word like, say, Google, but ...
Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App?
Tomorrow Radar Networks is announcing a new Semantic Web application called Twine. Founder Nova Spivack showed me a demo today of the new app, which he described as a "knowledge networking" applicati...
First Glance: The Nokia N810 Linux Internet Tablet Doesn't Make Sense
I had an opportunity to play with the new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet for about five minutes last night, and came away confused. It seems pretty darn expensive for a machine with limited usefulness.
A mighty torrent of news!
Doc: "A year from now every newspaper will have a newsriver." — I think so too because: 1. The idea is so compelling and 2. It's so easy to implement. — Thanks so much to Doc Searls for writing ...
Wi-fi security system is 'broken'
More holes have been picked in the security measure designed to protect the privacy and data of wi-fi users. — The latest attack lets criminals defeat firewalls and spy on where someone goes and wha...
Analyst: Social networking faces uncertain future
Social-networking sites will enlist 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep attracting new users until at least 2009, according to an analyst report. But investors are still w...
Sun starts bidding adieu to mobile-specific Java
SAN FRANCISCO—One area where Sun Microsystems' Java caught on was in mobile phones, but a leader of the project is working to eventually replace the mobile-specific version of the software. — Java S...
Microsoft: Online Ads Will Move Away From Search
Well, what do you do when you're the small kid on a basketball team? Walk away from the game, I guess. That's my thought after reading a Bloomberg piece this afternoon quoting Microsoft (MSFT) execu...
Flock 1.0 Beta Released: Surprisingly Very Good
Flock 1.0 beta has been released for public download and is available here (at the time of writing it's not shown on the front page). — The new version of Flock, the first full release was first dem...
StubHub Loses in Court, Moral Ambiguity Abounds
The now-EBay property StubHub has lost a battle in court and handing over the names of 13,000 of its users to the New England Patriots American football team. The suit was filed last November - two m...
Flickr Launches New Geotagging and Places Pages
When I heard that Flickr was making announcements this evening, I assumed it was the long awaited integration of video into the service. That isn't happening (it will soon, though), but they are maki...
Will Google Crush The iPhone?
Take one look at the smart-phone market, and it's easy to see a murderer's row. Apple sold one million iPhones in less than three months this summer. Palm is rejuvenating its lineup with the cheap, ...
Google Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Executives — Eric E. Schmidt - Chairman of the Executive Committee, Chief Executive Officer, Director — George Reyes - Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President — Lawrence Page - President ...
Google Under Fire Over a Controversial Site
Racist Speech, Porn — Stir Battle in Brazil; — A 'Pandora's Box' — SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Google Inc. makes billions marrying advertising to the Web. Just yesterday, it reported yet another surge ...
Strange Bedfellows
I have been asleep, apparently, at the big switch. This is according to former Harvard Business Review editor (and technology pundit in his own right) Nicholas Carr, who said as much this week in his...
Brit spies use video game job ads
LONDON, England (AP) — GCHQ, the surveillance arm of British intelligence, said Thursday it hopes to attract computer-savvy young recruits by embedding job ads within video games such as "Tom Clancy's...