This Used To Be My Playground
Maybe you've read some of the stories this past week about how FriendFeed's traffic is way down following their sale to Facebook. The stats don't look good, as the site's traffic may have plummeted a...
Wolfram Alpha Launches $50 iPhone App
On Thursday WolframAlpha launched its developer API, which should allow large and small developers (as well as businesses and educational institutions) to harness the power of the computational knowl...
NSFW: Why Seth MacFarlane's Microsoft Guy is the end of television, and the world
“I won't be happy til the whole world hates me.” Not my words, for once, but those of Seth MacFarlane on stage last year at Carnegie Hall. The audience laughed, as well they might ("he was on the In...
Facebook and Twitter Founders Join Net-Neutrality Wars
Fed up with a barrage of letters that arrived at the FCC last week from net-neutrality opponents (or lawmakers urging a cautious approach toward the new rules), a coalition of Internet companies are u...
Coming Soon: a Mozilla App for the iPhone
Earlier today when I interviewed Mozilla CEO John Lilly onstage at the Play conference, an annual confab organized by the students of Haas School of Business at the University of Berkeley, he hinted t...
Google Expands “Going Google” Ad Campaign Worldwide
Google continues to hit milestones with Google Apps - 2 million businesses and 20 million users in over 100 countries and 40 languages (up from 1.75 million businesses in June). And they aren't slowi...
Facebook 1.7 Now Available for Download!
* Update: Facebook 1.7 is now live on the App World client as well! There were some rumors floating around the forums that Facebook 1.7 would make its debut today, and it looks like they panned out t...
When 2+2 Equals a Privacy Question
TIME to revisit the always compelling — and often disconcerting — debate over digital privacy. So, what might your movie picks and your medical records have in common? — How about a potentially fal...