The blog editing system in action
At last week's Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference I was on a blogger panel where some members of the audience brought up ye olde “bloggers aren't as good as ‘real journalists’ because bloggers don't g...
Google Knol - Google's Latest Attack on Copyright
Knol Off to a Quick Start — One day after Knol publicly launched Wil Reynolds noticed that a Knol page was already ranking. Danny Sullivan did a further test showing that 33% of his test set of Kno...
FCC to Rule Comcast Can't Block Web Videos
Decision Could Set Precedent In Debate Over Internet Traffic — Washington — Federal regulators are set to announce this week that Comcast Corp. wrongly slowed some of its customers' Internet traffic...
Who Is Johng77536 And How Did He Game Twitter?
One of the reasons Twitter is such a useful platform for publishing is that it is largely spam free - you only received messages from people you choose to follow. So even though a large number of spa...
PR Rule #1: People who are telling the truth about themselves do not insist on being ‘off the record’
Best part of Joe Nocera's article from yesterday's New York Times ("Apple's Culture of Secrecy") was, of course, the quote from Steve Jobs, the one where Nocera picks up the phone …
Say So Long to an Old Companion: Cassette Tapes
There was a funeral the other day in the Midtown offices of Hachette, the book publisher, to mourn the passing of what it called a “dear friend.” Nobody had actually died, except for a piece of techn...
Russia, The Final Frontier For Data Centers?
Updated: To paraphrase (and mangle) StarTrek's famous tagline: Can Russia be the place where Internet companies boldly go looking for the final frontier of data centers? At least one blog thinks so, ...
NYT Review of...Me?
by sarah lacy. — That's right. Me personally. Not so much my book. (Also mentioned. Is my love. Of incomplete. Sentences.) — Apparently, the NYTBR circulates reviews of books to publishers b...
Leftover Ad Space? Exchanges Handle the Remnants
Joe Zawadzki's traders spend their days in front of two computer screens, feeding their systems with data and trying to perfect their trading algorithms. — But they are not analyzing stocks. They a...
Opinion: Microsoft must move fast to realize its online future
For the past few months, the question of what Steve Ballmer had up his sleeve has been bandied about quite a bit. Would he attempt to acquire every last part of Yahoo? Would he only acquire the comp...
Delicious 2.0 Imminent Again
Yahoo's inability to launch Delicious 2.0, which was feature complete and in private beta back in September 2007, has become a bit of a joke around Silicon Valley. — Last month we called on Yahoo to...
Looking for ‘Plan B’
One of the striking things to me about Internet entrepreneurs and VCs is that almost no one is seeking to create long-term value or build businesses that will be sustainable and be around in a decade....
Bad News For MySpace: Growth Curve Flattened. Good News For MySpace: It's A Real Business
Bad news for Rupert Murdoch: Goldman Sachs figures his Internet business is worth perhaps $3 billion — about half the value he was trying to get for it earlier this year.
Mixed Messages in The Blogging Landscape
There has been a lot of discussion recently about the changing face of the blogging landscape. On one hand many bloggers have turned to the likes of FriendFeed and Twitter to express themselves, inst...
An un-American feel aids expanding US Web firms
NEW YORK - AOL splashes images of Bollywood celebrities on its new home page for India. MySpace accepts sign-ups from mobile phones in Japan. Google departs from its customarily spartan home page an...
Rumored Apple tablet vs. traditional Tablet PC: How dual-sided screen panel approach could give Apple an edge
Imagine a laptop that can instantly turn into a touch-screen tablet—a super-sized iPod Touch when shut. — Might this be the mysterious Apple product transition? — Clues are out there.
Why Google Isn't Spending $200 Million On Digg
The price is wrong. — Digg is truly the most useless of the big Web 2.0 sites. It won't make you money and it can't make money. Its early investors and founder will make money, and if they pull of...
EZTV Trials TV-Torrent Streaming
Last week, we wrote about the new attempt to invigorate video distribution, by mixing torrents with streaming video. Our piece piqued the interest of the leading TV-torrent distribution group - EZTV ...
Dell issues fix for Nvidia graphics chip glitch
Dell has issued a fix for a well-publicized problem with Nvidia chips. — The company said Friday it has posted fixes for an Nvidia graphics chip glitch. Citing Nvidia information, Dell said the “af...