At a Certain Age, Simplicity Sells in High-Tech Gadgets
ALL right, everyone under the age of 40, go run around the block or something. This column is not for you. — It is for people like me, inching toward 50, who are, let us say, not technology-averse,...
Sorry, I'm Not Buying This New Touchy-Feely Approach To The Music Tax
Ethan Kaplan writes a beautiful tribute to the value of music, and how we as a society must come to terms with how we will value it as the business model around recorded music continues to disintegrat...
Fine, I'll Say It: Shyftr Crosses The Line
Well, I can already tell what the headlining post this weekend is going to be on Techmeme (or bitchmeme, a la MG), and its going to probably revolve around Shyftr, a relatively new service in the RSS ...
GroupTweet Enhances Twitter
One of the persistent complaints about Twitter is that it doesn't offer any sort of “group” functionality: messages from everyone you follow come in as a big heap, and anything you say goes to all of ...
‘Amazon Tax’ Lands in New York
Controversial new law shifts collection requirement to online retailers in a move that other states could follow, but legal uncertainties abound. — With the passage of the hotly debated state budget...
Plugin Functionality - In the browser or on the page?
I love firefox extensions and use a bunch of them. The plugin architecture has made the browser much more powerful. There are many things that you can do with a browser plugin, but the two most obvi...
Craigslist Competitor OLX Raises $13.5M
According to co-founder Fabrice Grinda, “OLX is probably the largest classified site no one has ever heard of.” And now it's also the most funded classified site no one has ever heard of, having secu...
Gridjit,A Social Portal for Twitter
I recently stumbled upon a great social portal called Gridjit that allows you to view your Tweets in a far different fashion. This is great for me as I don't always check Tweets like the rest of my s...
Meet Facebook's new number two
Sheryl Sandberg has held high-profile jobs at the World Bank, the Treasury Department and Google. Her latest challenge? Making Facebook as profitable as it is popular. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — This ...
Firefox Logo Spied In Deep Space
One of these is a photograph taken by the Hubble space telescope on December 17, 2002, featuring the variable star V838 Monocerotis. The other is the same photograph overlaid with a familiar logo. C...
iPhone to Support GPS, Stereo Bluetooth, Nike+, Battle Hackers
As the Second Coming of the JesusPhone looms over the horizon, the rumor pace starts to accelerate, with people digging in the dirt to try to get any clues about what's awaiting in this incarnation of...
Reports of Windows' demise are greatly exaggerated
I was planning to avoid posting about Gartner's “Windows will collapse under its own weight” presentation from earlier this week because I felt it was a bunch of hype that didn't provide any new insig...