Firefox 3 Release Candidate now available for download
Please note: The Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performanc...
Spielberg pops up on Seesmic
Seesmic, the video discussion site, has gone wild this morning as Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, George Lucas and more big names from Indiana Jones 4 join a Q&A session on the site. — It's a simpl...
The Computer Industry Comes With Built-In Term Limits
MATHEMATICIANS have long tried, and failed, to solve the Riemann Hypothesis, a stubbornly unyielding math problem. Good luck to whoever tries to figure it out. For the first correct proof, a $1 mill...
A business model for Twitter: Pay up
The Web spirit of “build an audience and figure out the business model later” is a great filter. It allows products and services into the wild without barriers or the need to sell advertisers on an u...
The “Atomization of Conversation”
Last week I was speaking with Lawrence Hooper of Loladex and he used a phrase that's been sticking in my head. When I asked him whether people would be willing to solicit their friends to make a loca...
As Long As We Are Rethinking Yahoo's Board
Carl Icahn has suggested a new slate of directors for Yahoo! as part of his proxy fight with the company. The International Herald Tribune has a list of the current ten directors and Icahn's proposed...
High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers
TOKYO — Japan is running out of engineers. — After years of fretting over coming shortages, the country is actually facing a dwindling number of young people entering engineering and technology-rela...
Steven Spielberg, Harisson Ford, George Lucas in Seesmic this morning
Pic by sizemore showing the impressive setup in Cannes with Seesmic on the computer, ready to receive the movie stars! — Guardian Journalist Jemima Kiss was one of the Seesmic community members who ...
Full-Screen Multitouch Mac OS X Is Here
It's not from Apple, but it gives a pretty good idea of what to expect from them—specially knowing that only one guy—Christian Moore—got this system running at full speed on a simple Intel-based MacBo...
Facebook exec: We're the Net's cable company
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—As you might expect from a vice president of product marketing, Facebook's Chamath Palihapitiya can deliver a convincing sales pitch. — His sell: Facebook is the next-generation ...
Love My Maps? Use its Line and Shape Editing in your API Apps!
When we launched the map editing tools in Google Maps, the reaction of developers was “This is cool, but how can I use it on my own site?” As someone who was originally drawn to Google in part becaus...
Offline Web Apps, Dumb Idea or Really Dumb Idea?
Lots of “Web 2.0” pundits like to argue that it is just a matter of time before Web applications make desktop applications obsolete and irrelevant. To many of these pundits the final frontier is the ...
Firefox 3 RC 1 full review
A year and a half after the last major Firefox release, Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is here with a very long list of new features and improvements. — For those who have been following Firefox 3 d...
11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation
Over five years ago I posted Tips for a Successful MSFT Presentation. Yesterday I watched the video of my Mix Presentation all the way through. It's always very painful to hear one's own voice but i...
MrBabyMan: Digg Users Revolt, Against the One Pure Man at the Top
Andrew Sorcini lives in Los Angeles, works as an animator for Disney and is the most powerful user that social news site Digg.com has ever seen. Known at Digg and elsewhere as MrBabyMan, Sorcini has ...