Rumors: Apple working on iTunes controller for iPhone
An anonymous tipster tells TUAW that according to code found in the latest firmware release, Apple is working on a new iPhone application called iControl. Like Apple TV and other remote controllers, ...
Microsoft: Pondering the alternatives to Yahoo
Microsoft's Saturday “negotiate or else” deadline for Yahoo has passed with an eerie silence. Yahoo's board is reportedly meeting Sunday-you'd think the company would have met before the deadline, bu...
Twitter gets another round of funding
Tweet and ye shall have. — A source familiar with the negotiations tells me that Twitter signed a term sheet for “either $15 million or $20 million” last week. We're still trying to find out who is...
What CPM is your app making? Data from Facebook Developers
As Facebook application developers experiment with different ad networks for the Facebook Platform (like Social Media, Lookery, Buddy Media, Cubics, fbExchange, RockYou, Offerpal Media, Google AdSense...
Why Sharing is Great
So many people out there are so proprietary with their art and their photography. All of my photos on Flickr are Creative Commons licensed — non commercial. They can all be used by people for person...
Bloggers offer glimpse of uncensored Cuba
HAVANA - Only a month has passed since ordinary Cubans won the right to own computers, and the government still keeps a rigid grip on Internet access. — But that hasn't stopped thousands from findin...
Facebook Removes News Feed Preferences
Two weeks after it removed per-story (thumbs up/thumbs down) preferences from the News Feed, Facebook today further simplified the News Feed interface by removing moving the Preferences link to the bo...
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
(This is a lightly edited transcription of a speech I gave at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008.) — I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a ...
Interview with Donald Knuth
Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, the menace of reusable cod...
Filesharing Report Shows Explosive Growth for uTorrent
The data presented here are based on a sample of over a million PCs (Windows only), and were gathered by PC Pitstop. — A few months we already reported that uTorrent overtook Azureus' position as th...
Pivotal Canadian BitTorrent Showdown Looming
In October 2007, a small BitTorrent tracker called QuebecTorrent was pushed into the headlines, having been targeted by the Canadian music industry. It took threats from the CRIA to force Demonoid ov...
Twitter Twerp Scan - block Twitter spammers
Twitter users are increasingly starting to question whether the frequent number of Twitter accounts that are following them are actually people, or simply a form of Twitter spamming. The rule of thum...