Google Calendar Sync
I've suffered major headaches trying to sync all my calendars. I used the Microsoft Outlook calendar on my desktop computer at home, but since I wanted to be able to access my schedule from anywhere,...
First Look: Internet Explorer 8
Surprise! IE8 beta is going to be available for download starting today at 12:00 PST. Matthew Lapsen from the IE team gave me a spur of the moment demo for you all showing us some of the core featur...
Allegations swirl around Wikipedia's Wales
Jimmy Wales, the Internet whiz famous for creating the online, user-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia, is facing allegations on two fronts that he abused the trust of the community he helped build. — Fo...
Microsoft Mix Keynote One, Live From Las Vegas
11:56: That's a rap. the rumors were wrong, yet still some very impressive demonstrations and info provided. To be fair I'm not sure it needed 2 1/2 hours, but still, some interesting tech. — 11:54...
Adobe's Flash Player Not Suited For IPhone, Apple CEO Says
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)- Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE) popular media player for cellphones simply isn't good enough for Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Tuesday in the...
3. 2. 1. Contact. The API has landed
Have you ever been on a web-site that asked you for your Google username and password so that it can import your Gmail contact list? Did you think twice before giving out that information, hoping the...
Ziff Davis Planning To File For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
Ziff Davis, the troubled trade media company which sold off its enterprise division last year, is now close to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern...
Google Analytics Data Sharing
Site stats program Google Analytics offers a new opt-in data sharing setting. Log-in and you'll see a message dialog, and somewhere below it a link reading “Edit Account and Data Sharing Settings”. ...
Yahoo's “Twitter For Location” Goes Into Private Beta With Near Zero Functionality
I have big hopes for Yahoo's new FireEagle platform announced in November 2007. They first described it to me as a Twitter for location. And it does stream your location information in a similar way...
Web 2.0 VC to start-ups: Your income is “noise”
Maybe two years ago, I hosted a panel discussion on the emerging Web 2.0 economy, and I asked my panelists if we were in a bubble. Because it's clear to me that we are. Not that it's a bad thing, mi...
Gates dethroned as world's richest man
You knew this was going to happen eventually—Bill Gates prepares to step away from full-time work at Microsoft and suddenly he is on the slippery slope to the poor house. — Well, maybe not the poor ...
Search within a site: A tale of teleportation
Have you ever forgotten the exact address of a site that you wanted to visit? Not a problem - just type the name of the site into the Google search box and hopefully it appears at the top of the sear...
Blogonomics: Exit Through Acquisition
Breakingviews, one of the least web-savvy websites in the world, ran a column by Jeff Segal on Monday about blog valuations. And given that breakingviews tries to disable copying and for all intents ...
Oops! Google Forgot To Renew Their SSL Certificate
Everyone is noticing that when they go to their Google Account through AdWords, AdSense, Analytics, or any Google page that requires SSL, they are being prompted with a security warning. Typically, n...
Yahoo Searches for Options
Yahoo and Time Warner stepped up talks on creating an alternative to Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. A possible deal would fold AOL into Yahoo.
Obit: A West Coast Digerati Deadpools Ask.com
Goodbye, Ask.com. You caught my eye back in 1997 as an unusual meta search engine that asked questions to get answers. By 1998, I counted you alongside Google and Direct Hit as shining examples of w...
Facebook asks labels about music service
By Joshua Chaffin in New York and Kevin Allison in San Francisco — Facebook is approaching big record companies about creating a music service on the social networking site, according to several peo...
CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA!
In November 2007 I called these three CAPTCHA implementations “unbreakable”: — 2008 is shaping up to be a very bad year indeed for CAPTCHAs: — Jan 17: InformationWeek reports Yahoo CAPTCHA broken ...
New Video Overtakes “Evolution of Dance” for #1 Spot on YouTube
Yesterday, YouTube refreshed their leaderboards and a strange new video became the Most Viewed Video of All-Time, topping the world-famous Evolution of Dance video. With 89 million views, the new win...
AOL Gets It Right With Open AIM 2.0 - Embraces Meebo and eBuddy
AOL is pushing their two year old OpenAim initiative much further this morning with OpenAIM 2.0. — There are three key changes of note. First they are now embracing services that they previously tr...
Web Takedown Notices: Punish the Monkey
Oh, the cyclical ironies of the Internet. The attention gained by trying to force a Web site to take down content or shut down sparks others to post that content elsewhere. — Here is one letter tha...
Indefinite Hiatus
I've been writing a personal weblog for almost seven years. It's weird to go back and read some of the posts in my old kuro5hin diary such as my early postings about interning at Microsoft and see ho...
Memory trick breaks PC encryption
Encrypted information held on a laptop is more vulnerable than previously thought, US research has shown. — Scientists have shown that it is possible to recover the key that unscrambles data from a ...