Web users ‘getting more selfish’
Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. — The annual report into web habits by usability guru Jakob Nielsen shows people are becoming much less patient...
FriendFeed Still Has a Lot of Killing to Do
With Twitter down all the time, the super-early adopters are getting frustrated and looking to FriendFeed as their salvation. Duncan (over at Inquisitr now) argues that it is time for FriendFeed to k...
MicroHoo: corporate penis envy?
After reading endless pieces about Microsoft's obsession with search, I am forced to offer the following theory: penis envy (from Wikipedia): … Microsoft was once motivated by its own Big Hairy Audaci...
Reliving the clone wars
Psystar's efforts have rekindled Mac clone talk—but don't expect Apple to join in — In April 1995, while lunching with reporters at San Francisco's trendy LuLu restaurant, Power Computing CEO Steve ...
Facebook Platform, One Year Later
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the release of Facebook Platform. We figured it would be a fitting time to take a look at what the platform promised, what it's delivered, and where it's going...
Global Dreams for a Wireless Web
SITTING on the porch at Finca Torrenova, his 800-acre retreat on this Mediterranean island, Martin Varsavsky ticks off the credentials of the group of Internet entrepreneurs finishing lunch at a nearb...
Apple takes delivery of 188 mysterious ocean containers
Here's an intriguing report from ImportGenius, a search engine that gathers “competitive intelligence” by monitoring U.S. Customs records of ocean containers entering American ports. — Searching for...
Windows 7 to make appearance at D6 Conference
A very tired little birdie who flew all the way from Seattle to Australia has chirped to me Windows 7 will be publically disclosed for the first time at the D6: All Things Digital Conference hosted by...
Photoshop to get GPU and physics acceleration
Santa Clara (CA) - GPU acceleration is one of the most significant trends in today hardware industry, opening the doors to an entirely class of software running desktop. What will be possible is fasc...
This is why I love the tech industry...
Blu-ray Awaits Its Spoils
Blu-ray may have won the format war, but it hasn't won over many consumers. — Now was supposed to be the boom time for the young video technology, pitched as a high-definition replacement for the DV...
Blame FriendFeed
Robert Scoble. Blame FriendFeed. Steve Rubel. Blame FriendFeed. The Shel puppet. Blame FriendFeed. Dave Winer. Blame FriendFeed. Etc. — FriendFeed is a parasite service built on the back of ...
IT Wars
Last week's column on Gartner Inc. and the thin underbelly of IT was a hit, it seems, with very few readers rising to the defense of Gartner or the IT power structure in general. To be fair I probabl...
Can We Live In Public?
At the start of this decade, Josh Harris (always ahead of his time) created a experimental web video project called We Live In Public. — This Wired magazine piece from 2001 explains the whole story....
Hints of a Facebook Operating System In New Design
It's become a common trope to say that Facebook and Google are vying to become the operating system of the Internet. But there are some very clear hints of that in Facebook's upcoming new design, whi...