Joie De Vivre: The Europeans Are Out To Lunch
I write this from a hotel room at Newark airport in New Jersey. I'm half way home from a wonderful week in Paris at the Le Web conference where I mingled with 1,700 or so attendees. My mood: jetlagg...
MIT students build mobile applications in 13 weeks
MIT professor Hal Abelson started today's final presentation for the school's “Building Mobile Applications” class by saying, “A course like this couldn't have existed ten years ago... maybe not even ...
Ex-Yahoos Weigh in on Their Choices for New Yahoo CEO
With so many more ex-Yahoos out there now that the most recent layoffs have taken place, BoomTown put out feelers to a range of them to ask whom they would like to run the company they no longer work ...
Google exec Marissa Mayer engaged
It's Silicon Valley's fairytale romance: Girly-girl nerd worth hundreds of millions meets fellow with a job who looks good in a tux. And now Marissa Mayer and Zack Bogue are getting married, a tipste...
Fast PDF viewing right in your browser
When I get sent a PDF, sometimes I just want to view it — I don't always need to download and save it right then. So starting today, you'll see a new “View” link next to PDF attachments you get in Gm...
Should Michael Arrington Be Invited Back At LeWeb Next Year?
I have received many emails and comments from European friends asking me why I invite Michael Arrington with so much stage presence and such a behavior. They blame Michael for behaving the way he did...
YQL - converting the web to JSON with mock SQL
I like getting data from the web and I love JSON - as it is easy to use. The issue is that not many things on the web come as JSON from the get-go. Hence we need converters. You can use cURL and be...
Tech Ticker
Google won an appeals court ruling against a closely held Kentucky company that sought to shut down Google Notebook while a patent-infringement suit was pending. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fed...
New Nokia patent introduces an interesting new form factor
The odds of us ever seeing this exact form factor in a Nokia handset aren't great but a recently filed patent illustrates an interesting new take on the candy bar form. When closed and viewed head on...
Google Testing Enhanced Listings, “Pagelinks” & Auto-Spelling Correction
Google is testing a number of changes to its search results, including a way for select publishers to enhance their page descriptions, a way for searchers to jump to sub-sections of a web page and aut...
Estonia to vote by mobile phone in 2011
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Parliament has approved a law making Estonia the first country to allow voting by mobile phone. — Lawmakers approved a measure Thursday allowing citizens to vote by mobile ph...