The Next Hot e-Reader: The iPhone
Yesterday at the urging of a friend, I ordered “Your Brain at Work” by David Rock on my iPod touch via the Amazon Kindle app. In doing so, I became one of many people who are helping the iPhone becom...
Hackintosh Netbook users take note: Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update kills support for Atom Processor
It's not out in the wild yet, but 10.6.2 has been confirmed to kill support for the Intel Atom processor, this is especially important for Hackintosh users who have hacked various Atom based netbooks ...
How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insider's Confession
Last night we wrote about the lead generation scams within social gaming networks. This is a guest post by Dennis Yu, the CEO of BlitzLocal, a privately held 50 person advertising agency in Denver, C...
Do-It-Yourself iPhone Apps
Services that do the coding for you make it easy for nontechies to create iPhone apps. Applications to the Apple App Store are exploding — Justin Sullivan/Getty Images — Tom Johnson is no enginee...
Bookmark sync and more speed in the latest beta release
Fresh from a Halloween weekend, we're excited to introduce a brand new beta for Google Chrome, which includes a few new treats and cool tricks for our users. — For those of you who use several compu...
DVR, Once TV's Mortal Foe, Helps Ratings
In what may seem a media business version of the Stockholm syndrome, television network executives have fallen in love with a former tormentor: the digital video recorder. — The reason is not simply...
Microsoft and OpenX forge Web ad deal
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Online advertising start-up OpenX and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) announced a partnership to promote each other's Internet technologies to their respective customers. The...
Motorola DROID headed to Germany as the Motorola MILESTONE
Let's be clear right off the bat: this is no rumor. The Motorola DROID is steaming towards a release on O2 Germany under the name MILESTONE. The news of this came from a German blog which leaked a p...
A Tweet Unleashes Vitriol on a User in Britain
LONDON — In the realm of Twitter insults, it was at the far end of mild. “Much as I admire and adore the chap, they are a bit ... boring,” a Twitter user called brumplum wrote Saturday, speaking of t...
The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)
I've been doing online communities for more than 20 years, starting in 1985 when a friend had a BBS. One thing I've noticed over and over again is that chat rooms and forums start out fun and then de...
Can Angel Investors Earn Heavenly Returns?
This may be the best time in years for an investor to become an angel. But that doesn't mean you should rush out to get yourself fitted for wings and a halo. — An angel investor is anyone who priva...
Preview Google's Search Results
Google added a new option to the web search toolbelt: page previews. If you click on “Show options” and select “Page previews” after performing a search, Google will show a longer snippet and a thumb...
WaveSandbox.com: Federate This
When we first unveiled Google Wave a few months ago, one of the fundamental concepts we discussed was the vision for wave as an open communications protocol. We are happy to announce that the develop...