Introducing ‘Sign-in with Twitter’, OAuth-Style “Connect”
Yesterday Twitter released ‘Sign-in with Twitter’, the ability to use Twitter as a delegated sign-in provider for third-party websites. The cool thing about this new feature, which is part of their O...
Venture Capital Down 50%. It's Not Just the Recession, Folks.
There's a huge difference between what venture capitalists say and what they do. For much of the last decade some of the same partners that keep saying Silicon Valley will never decline as the startu...
BT chief: People don't need fibre to the home
Ford not Ferrari for you — Digital Britain Summit BT chief executive Ian Livingstone defended his firm's limited plans for faster broadband today, arguing there is not enough demand for fibre to the...
Do not call him the Craigslist killer
Reporters looking into the case of a serial killer in the Northeast have hit upon what they consider a cool angle — he's the Craigslist killer. — As though the victims of the Green River killer shou...
The media's fake Twitter backlash begins
If you've been waiting for the inevitable Twitter backlash, the fun starts now. Sure, CNN ran an “is there a Twitter backlash?” story last month. But for those of us who work in the media, we knew t...
Palm's webOS lives up to hype, early developers say
Palm's new operating system is designed with the mobile Web in mind — Underneath the sleek exterior, the multi-touch display and the sliding keyboard of the upcoming Palm Pre smartphone is the real ...
Just How Important is the Valley? Let's Look at some Data.
[Edit: Added the raw data in a table at the end] — Some of the smartest startup brains I've ever met have said that if you want to be in the startup game, you MUST be in the Valley. There are plent...
Comic Sans Becomes Font of Ill Will
Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it. — Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comi...
Tech Industry Cheers as Obama Taps Aneesh Chopra for CTO
It may not be the Cabinet-level post that some were hoping for, but President Obama finally named the U.S.'s first chief technology officer on Saturday morning during his weekly radio and Internet add...
ISP Speeds Up Customers' BitTorrent Downloads
Over the past few years Internet service providers have been increasingly complaining about the massive load BitTorrent transfers place on their networks. They claim that this load can reduce the per...
MSDN and TechNet get Windows 7 RC? Public to wait till May 5 (Updated x2)
It looks like Microsoft is yet again revealing more than it wants to, according to a Microsoft Partner Program webpage. May 5 looks like the date that Windows 7 RC will be available publicly.