An E-Book Reader That Just May Catch On
You've got to have a lot of nerve to introduce an electronic book reader in 2007. — Sure, the idea has appeal: an e-reader lets you carry hundreds of books, search or jump to any spot in the text an...
Giant Global Graph
Well, it has been a long time since the last blog. So many topics, so little time. Some talks, a couple of Design Issues articles, but no blog. To dissipate the worry of expectation of quality, I r...
The Secret Strategies Behind Many "Viral" Videos
This guest post was written by Dan Ackerman Greenberg, co-founder of viral video marketing company The Comotion Group and lead TA for the Stanford Facebook Class. Dan will graduate from the Stanford ...
The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software
The co-founder of Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service bought by Microsoft for $400 million a decade ago, is challenging the American software giant's core $20 billion (£9.7 billion) office desktop b...
YouTube, MySpace and California's D.M.V.
As YouTube videos go, Kyle's driving test has nothing on Gizmo, the toilet-flushing cat. — But the California Department of Motor Vehicles remains convinced that its 55 videos running on the Web sit...
Microsoft: XP contains random number generator bug
Microsoft admits recently discovered Windows 2000 flaw exists in XP too — Windows XP, Microsoft's most popular operating system, sports the same encryption flaws that Israeli researchers recently di...
Google Replaces Video Link with Products Link
Google on their global homepage replaced the top-left link to Google Video with a link to Google Product Search, the former Froogle. These navigational links are not consistent throughout Google's se...
Rumour: News Corp to buy LinkedIn
[Get the RSS feed or see the right for the newsletter. Digg this story. Got a story? Get in touch] — An unconfirmed rumour has reached me via a reliable source that LinkedIn is in talks with medi...
Thanksgiving 2007 from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Dogpile & The Search Industry
Today is one of my most favorite holidays, Thanksgiving! This will probably be our only post today, but I wanted to share the logos and search forum threads from around the search industry.
Thanksgiving Search Engine Logos & Off For The Day
Search Engine Land is taking the Thanksgiving holiday off, and best wishes to all those celebrating today. We'll be back with regular coverage tomorrow. Search engines are celebrating with special l...
Apple on track to sell 25 million iPods this quarter
After analyzing October sales data from market research firm NPD, investment bank Piper Jaffray said Wednesday it expects Apple will sell a record 25 million iPods during the three-month period ending...
One Laptop per Child Extends Give One Get One Program Through December 31
Giving Campaign off to Strong Start; People Want More Time to Participate — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing every child...
Six things to be thankful for in technology, 2007
Today is Thanksgiving in the US. Typically, that means gathering with friends and loved ones, eating prodigious amounts of turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing, and watching the Detroit Lions and Da...
Sony to introduce Playstation phone
20 Nov, 2007, 1645 hrs IST,Ritwik Donde, TNN — MUMBAI: Watch out Apple and Google, Sony may just surprise the world with a 'Playstation Phone'. The Japanese company is toying with the idea of devel...
Exercise for the Reader: Facebook Member Stats
[Update: before you get too far into these numbers, you might like to check out this updated post, which gives a more accurate breakdown of genders - the country totals remain the same] — Out of int...
Six Ideas That Will Change the World
They are making orange peel plastic and robots that can heal themselves. They are six researchers with six ideas that will one day change the world. — Breaking Down the Firewall — Internet censor...
Is the social graph Web 3.0?
Well, it looks like there'll be no escaping the "social graph" term. World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, in a blog post last evening, not only bestowed his blessing on the social graph but eleva...
Giving Thanks for...Facebook?
In this season of giving thanks, Netizens feel grateful for the sense of connectedness and reconnectedness brought by online social networks. The big news, after all, isn't that our Facebook profiles...
Microsoft's social network clocking the most downtime
Social networks are more popular than ever, and are flourishing in the Web 2.0 era. With their huge user numbers, it is very important for these websites to have a high availability. For the largest...