Is Twitter F'ed?
The question of business model timing seems to come up weekly with regards to some startup. As Twitter usage has grown, have they f'ed themselves out of a real, sustainable business model? And has P...
Netflix Partners With LG to Bring Movies Straight to TV
SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix, the DVD-by-mail company with more than seven million customers, has a new strategy that may one day make those red envelopes obsolete. — The company wants to strike deals wi...
Sears: Come see the softer side of spyware
Sears and Kmart are places you might go when you need a new air conditioner filter or a lawnmower; they're not generally thought of as havens for spyware. But that's what the two stores have become, ...
The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko
Rich Skrenta, who created the first computer virus (Elk Cloner), co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix, may have bitten off the biggest challenge of his career -...
Skype coming to Sony's PSP?
Guess what babies? All your wildest dreams are about to come true (provided they don't get too wild). That's right, according to new PR for Sony's upcoming CES showing, Skype is apparently coming to...
New Apple notebook spotted, we told you so
The above photo may be the work of a PS junkie or it may just be the real thing. In any case, the rumor mill is abuzz surrounding Macworld. This time around it's all coming back to the purported mul...
JPMorgan Predicts 2008 Will Be “Nothing But Net”
JPMorgan's Internet analyst Imran Khan and his team released a massive 312-page report this morning titled Nothing But Net that paints a bullish picture for the major Internet stocks (Google, Amazon, ...
Why Is Google Giving Its ‘Shared Stuff’ Feature No Love In Its Social Movement?
Back in September when Google quietly announced a new service called ‘Shared Stuff’ I hailed it as the first step towards a social Google - a potential stealth Del.icio.us-killer that could signal the...
Web-only album ‘mad’, says Yorke
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has said releasing latest album In Rainbows solely on the internet would have been “stark raving mad". — Yorke told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that 80% of people sti...
Jay-Z launching record label with Apple
This one's been floating around like a hot air balloon, but we've just about confirmed it. For those that don't know, Jay-Z left Def Jam as President last month, and everyone's been talking about whe...
Plaxo's For Sale
Plaxo, the Sequoia-backed start that transformed itself from a hated spam monster into a mild mannered and interesting business social network, has started a sale process according to a source. They'...
Facebook Ads Make You the Star — And You May Not Know It
And You May Not Know It — Have you used Facebook to give a shout-out to businesses you like? Best make sure your profile picture catches your best side, because you might be an unwitting star in tho...
LANCOR sues non-profit charity OLPC for $20 million
Lagos Analysis Corporation (LANCOR) is going forward with its patent infringement lawsuit against the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. LANCOR has obtained a temporary injunction against the distr...
Enterprise Customers to Wireless Carriers: Can You Hear Us Now?
Enterprise customers repeatedly ask why the carriers don't just offer packages of millions of voice minutes per month for a flat per-minute rate, or true “pay-as-you-go” plans without the gotcha of a ...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love the Blog: Goodbye Dead Trees!
As the new year begins, it's probably past time to assess what the jump from old media to new media has taught me. — I know what it sounds like-old lady print reporter starts a gen-you-wine blog and...
Apple daytrading: How to cash in on the Macworld keynote effect
The buzz among Apple (AAPL) traders today is a thought experiment that Matt Haughey worked up at A Whole Lotta Nothing. He writes … Haughey worked the numbers and the result is the chart above, which...
Who on Earth Would Want to Buy Yahoo?
While pundits yap away about how Yahoo is fresh acquisition meat, we find it hard to believe. The company is pretty pricey, with a market cap of roughly $33.5 billion, and the number of businesses th...
Twitter's Business Model
I woke up this morning and found a twitter message on my phone from chris herbert pointing me to this discussion of twitter's business model on techmeme — That's the tiny url that chris sent me. I ...
Amazon Gets Into MMO-Powered Crowdsourcing
Call it World of Worldcraft. Amazon's Questville, set for a late 2008 release, is a spinoff of the company's Askville, a user-driven crowdsourcing question-and-answer service on topics ranging from e...
Free WSJ.com Would Need 12x Traffic To Offset Loss; DJ Buy To Shave A Penny From NWS: Analyst
Turning WSJ.com into a free site would require a 12x increase in traffic growth to offset the lost revenue, according to a new report from Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang.
Patently busy: IBM filing 10 patents/day in technology
A recent article in Spectrum, the online magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), rated companies in nine categories (Aerospace and Defense, Computer Peripherals and S...
Are your SEO efforts working, or failing?
(For a quick summary of Search engine optimization, check out the Wikipedia entry) — SEO is a black art - with an emphasis on Art not Science — If you've ever wanted to increase website traffic, y...
Technologies on the rise in 2008
A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2007 from Facebook and the iPhone to the Nintendo Wii. — But what will be making the headlines over the next 12 months? — Here the BBC News websit...
Look back: Social Media moments & milestones to remember from 2007
There are dozens, maybe hundreds of lists of things that happened in tech in 2007—Tech Crunch has multiples, read/write web has some. My interest here isn't in replicating lists of product releases, ...
Rudd online porn-free plan questioned
A RUDD Government plan to censor internet pornography and violence could undermine another of its election promises - to speed up our internet access. — The Internet Industry Association has warned ...
Now You Can Graph Your Twitter Usage
Twitter has the potential of breaking into the mainstream this year. A lot of what's going on around Twitter is not dissimilar to the earlier days of blogging; we're seeing evangelists, some basic ma...
Washington Post Flubs Story On RIAA — RIAA Still Not Going After Personal Copies (Yet)
RIAA Still Not Going After Personal Copies (Yet) — from the who-needs-to-read-the-details? dept — Back at the beginning of December, we helped debunk a story making the rounds claiming that the RI...
First Hands On: Microsoft Office for Mac 2008
There's no better sign of Microsoft's increasing acceptance of the Mac population than the latest version of Office for Mac 2008, the first Office with native support for Intel-based Macs. Like its M...
Saudi blogger held incommunicado for past two and a half weeks
Reporters Without Borders condemns the detention of blogger Ahmad Fouad Al-Farhan since 10 December. His family does not know where he is being held or what he is charged with. He said on his blog a...
Cooking.com Takes Out A $7 Million Loan
Is it me, or are we seeing a lot more venture finance deals these days? Web 1.0 holdover Cooking.com is the latest to jump on this bandwagon. It just took out a $7 million loan from ORIX Venture Fin...
The 2008 Venture Capital Outlook
VCs want to ride the momentum from NetSuite's Dec. 20 IPO into the New Year and cash out of companies they've held in their portfolios for years — Things are finally looking up for venture capital i...
ModBook tablet Mac finally ships
Axiotron has announced that it is delivering the ModBook, its tablet Macintosh, almost a year after first unveiling the product at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, in January, 2007. The ModBook is pri...
Interview: Jay Adelson, chief executive of Digg
Media companies have to take a different approach to protecting their content against illegal copying, says the Web 2.0 guru — Media companies will have to abandon their efforts to prevent digital m...
7 SEO Techniques That Google Smashed in 2007
The SEO playbook changes fast. Really fast. Best practices shift on a monthly basis, and time-honoured methods can become obsolete and dangerous - literally overnight. — Reciprocal links. In May o...
IBM buys Israeli storage startup
San Francisco - IBM has bought XIV, an Israeli manufacturer of SAN (storage area network) equipment. XIV's main product is Nextra, a storage system based on a grid of standard hardware components. —...