Six Apart Sells LiveJournal To Russia's SUP
Six Apart has sold its hosting blogging platform LiveJournal, which it acquired in January 2005, to Moscow-headquarted SUP (pronounced "soup"), the company said this evening. Terms of the deal were n...
Game giants in $18bn merger
The companies behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft are merging in a deal which could shake up the global video games industry. — Activision and Blizzard have said they will form "the world's mo...
Vivendi to Acquire Control of Activision
In a deal that creates the biggest independent video game publisher in the world, Vivendi announced Sunday it plans to acquire a controlling stake in Activision. — Under the arrangement, the compani...
Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine
Facebook has stirred up a great deal of controversy and now harsh criticism with its Beacon advertising program. Three weeks after launching Beacon Facebook, the company did a 180-degree turn to make...
Getting rid of the non-compete clause everywhere
I have always been against the non-compete clause for employees. — Conventional wisdom says we need them to protect employers and companies. But in California they are demmed illegal and against pu...
Gritty AMD's chips are still down
Dubai: When Abu Dhabi investment company Mubadala announced that it had purchased an equity stake in Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for $622 million, it looked like silicon and oil really could mix. —...
Organic transistor improves with age
Ageing may be as important to electronics as it is to good wine. A plastic transistor doubles its performance if simply left to sit at room temperature for a week. — Cheap to mould, pentacene trans...
BLOGGING IS DEAD? ACCORDING TO WHOM?
As a blogger, the last three years have been interesting ones, to say the least. — 2005 was the year blogs came of age. For a lot of people around me at the time, the key moment was when Businesswe...
Mini MOB retro mobile for those who miss the pioneering early days of mobile telecommunication
Mobile phones are now officially old enough for ironic retro models to start appearing. — Like this thing - the Mini MOB. Packing your usual basic phone features into a businessman's phone case fro...
Some important news from Wikipedia to understand clearly
As you'll see in this video, there has been important progress in making Wikipedia compatible with the world of Creative Commons licensed work. But we should be very precise about this extremely good...
Selling links that pass PageRank
I've talked quite a lot before about buying or selling links that pass PageRank. Today I wanted to walk through a concrete example of paid posts and show why the major search engines don't want to be...
How Oregon is Fighting RIAA - State attorney general questions RIAA's tactics
Oregon s State Attorney General has been actively involved in fighting the tactics of RIAA in its litigation against students at the University of Oregon. The belief is that the RIAA s tactics for ga...
Who clicks on ads? And what might this mean?
Advertising is the bread and butter of the web, yet most of my friends claim that they never click on ads, typically using a peacock tone that signals their pride in being ad-averse. The geekier amon...
Social Networks Study Released - MySpace & Facebook Are Different After All!
faberNovel Consulting has released a research paper on social networks. The paper is an excellent theoretical overview of social networks and the trends in this important market.
BugLabs.net's really cool reconfigurable gadget in depth
Wow. Wow. Wow. — If you like playing with electronics you'll WANT one of these. — Introducing BugLabs.net's BUG. Here's BugLabs' founder/CEO Peter Semmelhack and marketing guy Jeremy Toeman sho...