Why Twitter is underhyped and is probably worth five to 10 billion dollars
OK, this summer I've been to a lot of different places. London. New York. Boulder. Seattle. Hollywood. Los Angeles. Indianapolis. San Antonio. In each place it's become obvious how much Twitt...
A Hired Gun for Microsoft, in Dogged Pursuit of Google
REDMOND, Wash. — Qi Lu knows as well as anyone just how difficult it is to take on Google. — For nearly a decade, Mr. Lu played a leading role in building Yahoo's Internet search and advertising tec...
Apple kicks ZFS in the butt
It's official: ZFS - a kick-butt file systemis nowhere to be seen in the latest release of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard. Even though it appeared in 10.5 Server, and was expected to become the default file ...
SEC Investigating Apple Trading
Hey, have some investors been screwing around illegally with the shares of high-flying Apple, Inc., a superstar of the investment scene? — Apparently, the Securities & Exchange Commission is suspici...
Why Don't Teens Tweet? We Asked Over 10,000 of Them.
This guest post is written by Geoff Cook, cofounder and CEO of social networking site myYearbook. Everything about Twitter is looking up these days, except for a few pesky uptime issues of course. B...
Is ‘Friending’ in Your Future? Better Pay Your Taxes First
Tax deadbeats are finding someone actually reads their MySpace and Facebook postings: the taxman. — State revenue agents have begun nabbing scofflaws by mining information posted on social-networkin...
For Him, the Web Was No Safety Net
THERE was a time in the late 1990s when Josh Harris was a king of sorts. A Silicon Alley pioneer, he was flush with millions of dollars made from his first Internet company, and he was spending it wi...
To make smarter systems, it's all about the data
As this article by Alex Wright in the New York Times last week reminded me, when the mainstream press talks about artificial intelligence - machine learning, natural language processing, sentiment ana...
Crime expert backs calls for ‘licence to compute’
But education should take back seat to product safety. — Australia's leading criminologist thinks online scams have escalated to such a point that first-time users of computers should have to earn a...
The Newspaper Original Sin: Keeping online units tethered to the mother ship
Alan Mutter started it. He said the newspapers “Original Sin” was not charging for online content from the beginning. — He was wrong, of course — many newspapers tried and failed at paid content on...
Is Google Street View Joining the Augmented Reality Fray?
Google's Street View revolutionized desktop maps, and its coverage of cities around the world is still expanding. But compared to some upcoming augmented reality apps, Google almost feels like its la...