Massive Destruction Of Shareholder Value, Employee Morale and Internet Balance Of Power
I don't believe that there is anything Yahoo could do at this point to further destroy their business that would surprise me. — At 1:35 pm EST yesterday we posted that we believed Yahoo would announ...
AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge Retort
I'm currently engaged in a legal disagreement with the Associated Press, which claims that Drudge Retort users linking to its stories are violating its copyright and committing “'hot news' misappropri...
Dell E and E Slim revealed, taking on Eee and Air in one fell swoop
We got a nice helping of slides dropped on our virtual doorstep this evening, fleshing out Dell's upcoming netbook — which they seem to be calling the “Dell E.” Um, Eeenteresting name choice, but tha...
MySpace to release major site redesign
Updated at 9:47 p.m. PDT with more details. — News Corp.'s MySpace is set to release a major redesign next week, company representatives said late Thursday evening. The site doesn't look that diffe...
Google Browser Sync Discontinued, No Firefox 3 Support
Reader hominid.todd says that a Google rep emailed him about the long-awaited status of the Browser Sync extension for Firefox 3. Turns out they're discontinuing development on it. Here's Google's r...
Facebook No Longer The Second Largest Social Network
It was sort of inevitable given Facebook's monster growth over the last few years, but April 2008 was the milestone: Facebook officially caught up to MySpace in terms of unique monthly worldwide visit...
Technorati Raises $7.5 Million, Crashes
Technorati, the once-promising, but has-been blog search engine, has raised $7.5 million of a $10 million Series D round, PE Hub reports, citing a regulatory filing. Returning to invest more: Draper ...
LinkedIn Could Replace Outlook and SalesForce
I have been a total skeptic on proprietary messaging within social networks. After all, who on earth would want a proprietary tool when e-mail reaches everybody? I love it, though, when circumstance...
Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast
SAN FRANCISCO — The onslaught of cellphone calls and e-mail and instant messages is fracturing attention spans and hurting productivity. It is a common complaint. But now the very companies that hel...
MeMobile, You Kaput
As widely predicted, Steve Jobs this week introduced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference the iPhone 3G that was first reported in this column late last year. The $199 price was a welcome surpr...
Google's $83 Million Escape Clause: SEC Filing Spells Out Details Of Yahoo-Google Deal
In a new filing with the SEC, Yahoo spells out the terms of the search-advertising agreement it announced yesterday with Google. Most of the filing fleshes out known details about the agreement.
Breaking news- eReader for the iPhone in the works
I read so many ebooks and I do it using the great reader application eReader. I have over 350 books in my eReader bookshelf and was happy to hear from the Fictionwise founder that they would continue...
Google Makes “Related Searches” Fresher
Google announced that the related search feature is now fresher then ever. What that means is when you search on certain queries, Google may show you a line just above the search results with related...
Speed Testing the Latest Web Browsers
Read the hype on every new web browser released or due out this year, and you'll see claims that every one of them is “faster” than all the others. You could compare super-specific tests and decipher...