My Our Maps
The My Maps feature of Google Maps lets people create maps to share their hobbies and expertise with the world. For example, a surfing enthusiast could map out their favorite surf spots or a surfing ...
Verizon Wireless To Introduce 'Any Apps, Any Device' Option For Customers In 2008
New Open Development Initiative Will Accelerate Innovation and Growth — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon Wireless today announced that it will provide customers the option to use, on its nationwide wirel...
Why Verizon Went Open & What It Means
The about-face taken by Verizon Wireless today when it said it will open up its network and platform is, at first blush, a good thing for consumers and developers. But I just got off the company's co...
Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data
Google Inc. wants to offer consumers a new way to store their files on its hard drives, in a strategy that could accelerate a shift to Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company's competit...
Cyber Monday into Resolution Tuesday
By now you have probably heard about the problems that many of our small business merchant customers experienced yesterday. Unfortunately, the system outage occurred at one of the worst possible time...
California powers the video game industry
Emmy Toyonaga of Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores works on a character for "MySims" — Is there something we don't do well in California? Wine, technology, entertainment, agriculture. Yeah, we got...
Update: Subverted search sites lead to massive malware attack in progress
Trojans, rootkits, password stealers hit users who click on a bad link after a search — A large-scale, coordinated campaign to steer users toward malware- spewing Web sites from Google and other Int...
Understanding Google
Any understanding of Google as a business has to begin, I'm convinced, in the idea of complementary goods. In The Google Enigma, an article in the new issue of Strategy & Business, I argue that the w...
Sony Attracts Dubai Cash
TOKYO — An investment company owned by Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, bought a stake in Sony Corp., in the latest sign of the growing appetite for overseas investments by Middle...
How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook
Columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid. — Facebook's "plat...
Brightcove Gives Up on Consumer Video
Brightcove has never really been more than a half-hearted consumer video play, opting instead to function as a content distribution network for a large number of high profile media partners. Today Br...
Screenshots And Details On Upcoming MySpace "News Feeds"
A Reuters article earlier today gave a few details on MySpace's upcoming "new feeds" product (which is what Facebook calls their similar product launched a year ago. We spoke to MySpace and got a muc...
Google's Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal
Creates renewable energy R&D group and supports breakthrough technologies — Mountain View, Calif. (November 27, 2007) - Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced a new strategic initiative to develop el...
Fine-Tuning Cable Audiences
Software Monitors — Favored Viewers, — Shifts Commercials — When real-estate company RE/MAX International advertises with local cable operators, it typically asks them to air its commercials dur...
Social Design Reading List
Just in time for the holidays, I'm releasing a much requested feature here at Bokardo: — Social Design Reading List — Over the past few months, lots of folks have asked me for a social design read...
Universal chief rues Apple's 'golden handcuffs'
We'd love to leave, but the money's too good — Watch online now - The findings of The Register's Virtualization Study — Universal Music Group boss Doug Morris, profiled in the current issue of WiR...
Online Video Ranking: MSN/Live Surge, Competitors Sink
This month's online video stack-up saw a major reshuffling with 3 of the Top 5 players trading places amid heavy shifts in traffic. YouTube continued to outperform the market, growing 1% in October t...
Apple acknowledges some MacBook hard drive problems
Apple is investigating whether or not faulty Seagate hard drives are to blame for data loss on some MacBooks. — Retrodata, a U.K. data recovery firm, reported earlier this year that certain 2.5-inch...
Politics 'stifling $100 laptop'
A lack of "big thinking" by politicians has stifled a scheme to distribute laptops to children in the developing world, a spokesman has said. — Walter Bender of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) said poli...
Hacker defaces temples to OS X
A self-described Apple user, presumably fed up with the smug superiority of "Mac," the hipster mascot featured in the ubiquitous "Get a Mac" commercials, is targeting OS X enthusiast sites with deface...
Ensure a Fast Internet Connection When You Need It [Feature]
Your internet connection is an indispensable part of your life, but between BitTorrent, Xbox Live, web browsing, and VoIP, sometimes there's not enough bandwidth to go around. But rather than running...
How to Structure Microsoft - Yahoo Deal (MSFT/YHOO)
After we noted that Microsoft (MSFT) might eventually have to buy Yahoo (YHOO)—and why such a transaction would make sense—some readers asked why we thought this would be a "disaster" for Yahoo. Here...
Widgets make a big splash on the Net
SAN FRANCISCO — For nearly a decade, GarageBand.com was the quintessential struggling Web company, barely hanging on as it burned through $17 million. — Until widgets. — Since it developed a widge...
Universal Music CEO Doug Morris Speaks, Recording Industry in Even Deeper S**t Than We Thought
In the December issue of Wired, Seth Mnookin sits down with Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris for a pretty excellent profile (which is, tragically, not yet online).
Matt Cutts Videos on Search Snippets
Matt Cutts did a video about search snippets during his recent visit to the Google Kirkland office. In it Matt takes a detailed look at how Google constructs a search snippet. Matt uses the example ...
Do Facebook users care about "privacy issues?" What about Doubleclick?
Political groups are successful through mastering a public debate no matter what ideology they espouse, and regardless of what the issues actually are. — MoveOn.org is a good example.
Google's Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal
Creates renewable energy R&D group and supports breakthrough technologies — Mountain View, Calif. (November 27, 2007) - Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced a new strategic initiative to develop el...
New Terrain Layer in Google Maps
There's a new tab in Google Maps: "terrain". The view combines street maps with visual information about terrains. Elevation data is not limited to geographic features like mountains, but it's also ...
IAC/InterActive Plans China Push
BEIJING — IAC/InterActiveCorp plans to spend $100 million on a new Internet business in China and will bring its search engine, Ask.com, to the fast-moving market as well. — The new company, which c...