UK ISPs switch on mass Wikipedia censorship
The following notice has appeared on Wikipedia today when many UK users attempt to edit content: — “Wikipedia has been added to a Internet Watch Foundation UK website blacklist, and your Internet se...
The End Of Venture Capital As We Know It?
Last week, something turned. We found out that not only are we in a recession, but it started a year ago. Tech layoffs went into overdrive (12,000 at AT&T, 600 at Adobe, 130 at Real Networks), bring...
Technology start-ups to be given £1bn fund
The government plans to launch a £1bn emergency venture capital fund in a bid to throw a lifeline to technology start-up firms. — The fund has won the backing of the new science and innovation minis...
Interview With Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Products, Funding, Competition
I recently had a chance to sit down and have a one-on-one chat with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. There was lots to talk about, and he answered questions about, among other things, Facebook products,...
Walmart.com offers “thousands” of Wiis from Monday
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii has emerged as one of the few hot products this holiday season, and Wal-Mart Stores Inc will offer “tens of thousands” of the hard-to-get video game consoles...
Youtube's Desperation
Youtube has been messing with the magic quite a bit lately. Wide screen, high quality and the drive me crazy pre rolls to subscribe among many others. (BTW, watching the subscribe button scurrying a...
Online video sites HD quality comparison
After a lot of wait and speculation, since I had asked the Youtube founders back in January when Youtube would be in HD (through Robert Scoble fortunately reading my questions through his live Qik bro...
Survival is Competitive Differentiation
We've read a few articles lately claiming that survival is not a strategy. The arguments in Anand Rajaraman's article on GigaOM last month are sound, and if we understand them correctly include not p...