The Death Of “Web 2.0″
I'm not going to discuss the economic meltdown and its devastating effect on technology companies and internet startups in this post, but rather something that crossed my mind earlier this morning: “W...
Do We Need a New Internet?
Two decades ago a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student brought the Internet to its knees with a simple software program that skipped from computer to computer at blinding speed, thoroughly ...
Real Ultimate Programming Power
A common response to The Ferengi Programmer: … Absolutely. — But here's the paradox: the types of programmers who would most benefit from these guidelines, rules, principles, and checklists are the ...
A Successful Failure
FAIL WHALE — Yiying Lu, an artist and a designer in Sydney, Australia, has made a number of appealing illustrations, many featuring animals. But one image in her portfolio is far more likely to be ...
Apple sued over screen rendering technology in iPhone
Apple is facing another iPhone lawsuit, this time focusing on the screen rendering technology Apple uses in the iPhone and iPod touch. — In the suit, filed in the United States District Court for th...
How Google Decides to Pull the Plug
GOOGLE recently set the blogosphere abuzz by announcing that it was pulling the plug on several products. — The victims included Lively, a virtual world that was Google's answer to Second Life; Dodg...
WSJ Editor Claims Google Devalues Everything
This has been clueless newspaper guy month around here, and it's kept up with the appearance of Walter Isaacson (yet again), Mort Zuckerman (owner/publisher of both the NY Daily News and US News & Wor...
How To: Tether the iPhone or G1 To Your Laptop For Free 3G Broadband
If you read Gizmodo, the odds are good you're carrying one of these two pieces-they're among our favorite 3G smartphones right now. Today let's learn how to tether 'em up to your laptop.
Microsoft's Allen sells DreamWorks Animation stake
LOS ANGELES: Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen has sold off all of his remaining shares in DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., according to a securities filing Friday, ending his involvement in a compa...
Exclusive: Samsung OMNIA HD and BeatDJ
Hola! We have just arrived in Barcelona, Spain for the 2009's Mobile World Congress and before unpacking our luggage, we decided to share with you information about the surprise Samsung has for us al...
Twickie Lets You Post All Your Twitter Replies to Your Blog
Just a few years ago, one could safely assume the majority of blogging conversations took place on the blog itself. Today, the conversation has been fractured, not just in terms of having comments on...
Windows Mobile 6.5 feature tour sneaks onto YouTube
Well, what have we got here? Someone has upped nine breathtaking minutes of Windows Mobile 6.5 (build 21159.5.0.0, if you must know) running live on an HTC Touch HD. The action is pretty choppy — we...
MySpace Ad Revenues Closing In On AOL's
We just got off the phone with MySpace sales boss Jeff Berman, who also sent us this slide. Check it out; selling portal-like ads, MySpace revenues are quickly gaining on portals AOL and MSN. — Jef...
Google App Engine 1.1.9 boosts capacity and compatibility
Google App Engine released hosted platform version 1.1.9 earlier this week with big boosts in capacity and compatibility. The new App Engine supports standard HTTP libraries, larger files, triples th...
Breaking: Facebook Launching New Pages Product This Month
Until now Facebook's Pages product had not been affected by the profile redesign. Apparently that all is about to change. According to a few brand managers that I've spoken to, Facebook is working o...
The Venture Industry Needs to Slash Its Investments
Amid an IPO drought and the economic downturn, one investor believes that the venture industry should take the amount of money it puts into startups each year and slash it by nearly half, to between $...