iPhone 1.1.3 firmware feature gallery
Looks like the soon-to-be-released iPhone firmware 1.1.3 has quite a few surprises. We were able to get a look at it, and here is what we found: — That is all we have found for now. We also know t...
“What's your audience size?” is wrong question
I'm reading my feeds this morning and see a few people talking about audience size for videobloggers and other content people. Here's a sample: — Henry Blodget points out that Perez Hilton has a hu...
RIAA not suing over CD ripping, still kinda being jerks about it
Okay, so we've done some digging into the RIAA's lawsuit against Jeffery Howell, in which the industry is claiming that ripped MP3s are “unauthorized copies,” and it turns out that Jeffery isn't actua...
In the DVD War Over High Definition, Most Buyers Are Sitting It Out
What if nobody wins the high-definition DVD format wars? That increasingly looks to be the situation for the next-generation DVD technology, which is available to consumers in two incompatible format...
Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike
IT'S a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off. Why? Because the walls of the proverbial box in which we think are thic...
How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time
WERE Henry Ford brought back to life today, he would most likely be delighted by the Internet: the uninhibited way many people express themselves on the Web makes it easy to supervise the private live...
Online Video Auteurs: Keep Your Day Jobs, Part 2
Perez Hilton tells TVWeek his videos on Google's YouTube generated 25 million views over the past three months and netted him a whopping $5,000 in revenue. That's a 20-cent CPM. (It's an even lower ...
Girl Gets Bizarre Surprise Instead of iPod
A little girl thought she was getting an iPod for Christmas but ended up getting a rude surprise. She got the box but when she opened it up, she found a surprising switch: the iPod had been replaced ...
Email And Cellphone Contacts Are The Real Social Graph
Google has been quietly rolling out social features across all of its services based on Gmail contacts. While Google still has to overcome some of its social tone-deafness (e.g. automatically adding ...
Convincing the Military to Embrace Open Source
One common misconception about open source software is that it can be changed by anyone and is less secure; however, most open source is strictly governed. For example, the Apache Software Foundation...
Announcing Hoosgot: Resurrecting the Lazyweb
Today I'm unveiling a new service that I put together over the last 48 hours. It's called hoosgot.com. Hoosgot (pronounced “who's got...") is a simple way to ask who's got what you're looking for. ...
Microsoft takes Vista advertising to YouTube
If you've been wondering where all the advertising for Windows Vista has disappeared to, look no further YouTube. Starting from last week, Microsoft has begun uploading a series of original short vid...
Web Playgrounds of the Very Young
LOS ANGELES — Forget Second Life. The real virtual world gold rush centers on the grammar-school set. — Trying to duplicate the success of blockbuster Web sites like Club Penguin and Webkinz, child...
Google is God
For something I'm working on, I compiled a bunch of stats on Google (sorry, I didn't intend to blog it and so I didn't capture all the links, but I found the collection so compelling I thought I'd sha...
WhatsOpen shows you what nearby stores are open
WhatsOpen, a secretive local search company that has promised an easier way to find which stores are open near you, is now in public beta. Just type in the name of what you're looking for, and your l...
Holiday eCommerce Falls Short
U.S. eCommerce spending in November and December (through the 27th) was up 19% year over year, falling slightly short of Comscore's estimate of 20%. In its latest release, the rose-colored Comscore b...
VC's New Math: Does Less = More?
Thiel Seeks to Change Old Habits by Investing Small on Start-Ups — Three years ago, Peter Thiel, who runs a small venture-capital concern called Founders Fund, plowed $500,000 into a little-known so...
Will the RIAA die in '08?
even a 12-year-old girl in public housing? — The RIAA is NOT suing a music-lover who ripped from legally purchased CDs. Yep, this outfit is Scrooge Central, but the earlier reports were wrong …
Deconstructing Google: Chapter 4, After The Google Breakup
Previous chapters have covered how the growth of Google and fears of how it was reshaping the communication landscape led to the application of existing anti-trust laws along with new ones to force a ...
What are we doing when we Twitter?
I came across a post by J.P. Rangaswami, whose blog I quite like, and he was talking about Twitter and what he gets out of it. You can read the full post, but in essence he says that he gets somethin...
Microsoft Using YouTube To Promote Vista & Live, Leaves Comments Open
Microsoft has taken its marketing push for Windows Vista and Windows Live into enemy territory by offering demonstration videos on YouTube (example above). The new channel (link) was launched Decembe...