Sixth place in Beijing for twin ConnectU founders
The 2008 Olympics in Beijing are over for Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the founders of would-be Facebook rival ConnectU who earned spots on the U.S. rowing team. The identical twins ended up placing...
Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its ‘Last Stand’
Pandora, Other Webcasters Struggle Under High Song Fees — OAKLAND, Calif. — Pandora is one of the nation's most popular Web radio services, with about 1 million listeners daily. Its Music Genome Pr...
Why The MMORPG Subscription-Based Business Model Is Broken
Famed game developer and analyst Scott Jennings recently announced on his blog that he's quit online game publishing giant NCSoft to join John Galt Games. His new home is the small casual game startu...
Bolt Of Lightning Doesn't Fall Anywhere Near NBCOlympics.com
Michael Phelps who? In what is probably the greatest moment in this Olympics, Usain Bolt of Jamaica won gold 100m dash in 9.69 seconds, a new world record...and he didn't even have to try after the f...
Some SMS Perspective
On Wednesday, we announced that Twitter has suspended outgoing SMS to our UK number. The blue in the chart above illustrates the percent of outgoing SMS we stopped sending. 2% of our user base consum...
The Platform is the Message
For years people have been saying that they will watch things in HD, that they would never ordinarily watch. In the 12 years I have been involved in Internet Video in one form or another, I have yet ...
Now Playing on YouTube: Clips With Ads
After years of regarding pirated video on YouTube as a threat, some major media companies are having a change of heart, treating it instead as an advertising opportunity. — In the last few months, C...
The State of WordPress 2008: Awesome Growth
Today at WordCamp, a User and Developer 1-day conference for the WordPress blogging platform, Founder Matt Mullenweg announced impressive growth figures and reaffirmed Automattic's focus on fixing som...
Lenovo Unveils ThinkPad X301 With Centrino 2 and 128 GB SSD
Lenovo is following up on their solid X300 notebook with the Thinkpad X301, which will have the Centrino 2 chipset and the option for a 64 or 128 GB SSD. Set for official announcement next week, the ...
4 Great iPhone App Review Sites
The iTunes App Store is a bit of a big deal these days. Several new applications pop up in the iTunes store every day. With hundreds of apps to download from it can be time consuming to sort through...
Microsoft's OOXML Wins ISO Approval
Office 2007's XML-based document formats will soon be published as a formal ISO standard. Now what? — Recommends — It looks as if Microsoft's OOXML office document file format will be published a...