Monitor110: A Post Mortem
Turning Failure into Learning — Writing a post mortem is hard, particularly when the result is failure: a failed deal; a failed investment; a failed concept. That said, without a post mortem, witho...
The 20-year-old at heart of web's most anarchic and influential site
Time magazine calls it the wellspring of net culture and its online pranks are world-famous. David Smith reports on the man who began the chaotic but powerful 4chan website from home — It seemed an...
To Save Gas, Shoppers Stay Home and Click
To go shopping these days, more Americans are trading in their car keys for a keyboard. — Online shopping is gaining at a time when simply filling up a gas tank to head to the mall can seem like a s...
Serious YouTube test of copyright law
A woman who posted a home video on YouTube of her 13-month-old son dancing to Prince's “Let's Go Crazy” squared off Friday against entertainment giant Universal Music Corp. in a federal court case tha...
There's Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones
I was walking by the lengthy iPhone line outside the Apple Store in Soho on Sunday when I heard someone call out: “Turn in your old iPhone and get the new one free!” — I turned around and saw a bear...
Microsoft Winning Digital Living Room War on Paper, but Failing to Lock It Up in Practice
Few people wrote as bullishly as I did this past week about Netflix partnering with Microsoft to bring its “Watch Instantly” service to the Xbox 360. I think it could be a game changer and makes Micr...
New updates to Google.com for the iPhone
Unless you're living on a deserted island — and maybe even if you are — you know about Apple's 3G iPhone and App Store launch last week. Hopefully you know about the Google Mobile App that we launche...
Pressflip Is A Belly Flop
Pressflip is a new blog search engine (it's actually a relaunch of a site called Persai, which launched earlier this year). The idea is you do a search, train the engine by telling it which results a...
With Exits Barred, VCs Keep Investments Flat
If you believe the venture capitalists on Friday's conference call about the latest MoneyTree Survey results, which covers venture investing in the second quarter, now is the best time to contact them...
Google's Services Converge in the New iGoogle
Is this Google Reader? It's actually an iGoogle feed in canvas view, which happens to borrow Google Reader's interface. If you click on the drop-down, you can access all your Google Reader subscript...
Facebook sues ‘knock-off’ German site
Facebook on Friday filed a copyright lawsuit against a German company that it has accused of running a “knock-off” of the social networking website. — In a complaint filed in a California court, Fac...