Journalist becomes the story at Mark Zuckerberg SXSWi keynote
AUSTIN, Texas—Ugh. Talk about losing an audience. — During Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's keynote address Sunday here at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), on-stage interviewer Sarah Lacy out-...
Paul McCartney Signs $400 Million iTunes Deal For The Beatles Catalog
Finally! Paul McCartney has signed a $400 million deal, which will see the Beatles catalog make its way to iTunes, at long last. — Though McCartney will probably make off with the lion's share of t...
A Couple of My Rules for Startups
My buddy Jason had a GREAT post about rules for startups. Read it, love it learn it. — Of course, anyone who has started a company has their own rules and guidelines, so I thought i would add to th...
G-Archiver Scam?
Coding Horror reports that Gmail backup software G-Archiver emails the user name and password of users to the apparent creator, John Terry. Dustin Brooks, who reverse-engineered the software and foun...
Gone, Without a Trace
There will be a lot of desperate searches for lost MacBook Airs. And can you really blame a guy for losing something called Air? … When something is thin enough to fit into an envelope, light enough ...
SXSWi: Obey the power of the flash-mob party
AUSTIN, Texas—"Dude, this sucks." — You could hear a whole lot of people saying that on Saturday night as the first real evening of South by Southwest Interactive Festival's after-parties kicked int...
They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.
ONE year after the birth of Windows Vista, why do so many Windows XP users still decline to “upgrade”? — Microsoft says high prices have been the deterrent. Last month, the company trimmed prices o...
The Brit dishing the dirt on America
Gawker's Nick Denton tells Jay Rayner how he became the king of gossip — The king of the gossip blogs is holding out on me. — ‘Where did you get the video?’ — ‘It had been hanging around for a w...
Anonymize BitTorrent Transfers with BTGuard
BTGuard is an easy to use proxy service that adds an extra layer of privacy to your BitTorrent transfers. The service is designed for BitTorrent users who don't want their ISPs or any third party to ...
Every Piece of Startup Advice is a Lie (including mine)
Well, not all of it. That title was blatant click-bait. You're here and I've won. Nyah! — I've long been passionate about reading and digesting every tidbit of information about what it takes to ...
Lessig Questions Pirate Party's Existence
At a preview of his new ‘Change Congress’ project, the Stanford professor took a swipe at the Pirate Party of the United States. Whilst expressing skepticism about it's utility, his main criticism se...