Denton to pay bloggers based on traffic
Gawker Media dark overlord Nick Denton (pictured) has launched a new pay system for all Gawker Media blogs, after testing it at four of his leading sites. Denton's goal is to discourage “self indulge...
Not a Rumor, the LG Rumor has Issues
Sprint has halted shipping new LG LX260 Rumor units to stores. The LG Rumor has a known issue where certain sets of key presses during startup can trigger a complete erasure of the phone's firmware. ...
Google Artificially Promotes Recent Web Pages
Google paid a big price when it started to index pages faster and show them in the search results minutes after they're published. The problem is that you can't rank a page that has just been created...
Saudis Confirm Detention of Blogger
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — An outspoken Saudi blogger is being held for “purposes of interrogation,” the Saudi Interior Ministry confirmed Tuesday. — Gen. Mansour al-Turki, an Interior Ministry spokesma...
Rails Is A Ghetto
I've more or less kept my mouth shut about some of the dumb and plain evil stuff that goes on in the Rails community. As things would happen though I'd take notes, collect logs, and started writing t...
Eavesdropping on Bluetooth headsets
Here's a short video in which Joshua Wright demonstrates how a Bluetooth headset can be hijacked, allowing audio to be captured or sent to the device: … All that is necessary is knowing the device add...
Ten things that will change your future
So Google and Wikipedia took you by surprise? Nick Galvin looks into his crystal ball and explains what you need to know to survive the next decade. — Think back to the days before the network we c...
Survey: Mac OS hit record 7.3% share in December; iPhone up 33%
Reflecting strong holiday sales of both MacBooks and iPhones, Apple's (AAPL) market share grew sharply in December, as measured by a Net Applications survey released today. — The Mac hit a record 7....
Predictions 2008
Has it been a whole year? I posted my predictions for 2007 on Jan 1, 2007, and here it is, the first day of 2008, and here we go again. This year I am going to organize my predictions by companies (...
Public Domain Day 2008
Welcome to 2008, and let's welcome into the Public Domain thousands, indeed millions, of creative works from the collective cultural past of our little planet and its many countries. Yes, it's Januar...
Mac OS X market share sets new record at the end of 2007
With the end of 2007, Apple celebrates two years of the Intel Mac, and what a two years it has been. Web metrics firm Net Applications has just released numbers for December. For those who care, the...
Apple Sub Notebook Hints: External Optical Drive, MultiTouch Trackpad?
MacRumors has heard reliable confirmation about some features in upcoming Apple notebook due at Macworld San Francisco 2008. — A Mac sub-notebook is indeed expected to be coming at the Macworld and,...
It's a security issue, folks
In 1980, I signed a deal with a company to market a product I was developing. The contract required me to turn over the source code, which I did. One day I went to a meeting at the office of the com...
5 Packs to Transform Windows to other OS
It's a new year, why not give your years old XP operating system a new look? If you're bored of having to look at the same kind of icons and eyecandy everytime, you can download and install these fre...
Scoble's Link Blog Delivers An Influential 1 Percent
I covered most of my near year-end statistical data on Christmas Day, when I said a lot of my visitors in 2007 were not only coming from Google, but looking for information on Google. But there are s...
2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without
This will be the third annual post on “Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without." The first post, for 2006, is here. The 2007 post, written a year ago, is here. — This is a list of the products I...
Predictions for 2008?
Engadgetdamus bids you greetings. With MMVII in the can, we can only direct our ponderations to what fantastical gadgets and events await in the new year. We beseech you, foretell the year's events ...
The State of Innovation in India
10 years ago, in 1997, I wrote an article called Playing Against 5 Aces for a technology magazine in India called Dataquest. The article looked at how the deck was stacked in favor of American techno...
Will Windows Vista Succeed In 2008? Don't Count On It
Conventional wisdom seems to be that existing Microsoft customers won't leapfrog Windows Vista and wait for “Windows Seven,” currently expected in 2010. There's a feeling of inevitability about the t...
A Complete List of the Many Forms of Web Marketing for 2008
This is an updated revision of the 2007 version, which was one of the top viewed posts for the entire year. I've added quite a few new forms as they've emerged or come to maturity over this last year...
Google's Secret Weapon
While it soft pedals direct competition with Microsoft, the search giant quietly keeps working on open source projects designed to undermine its archrival. — What is the greatest threat to Microsoft...