How Facebook is Killing Your Authenticity
We all know that the delineation between public and private was eroded by Facebook a long time ago. Over. Done. But now Facebook's sheer scale is pushing it in a new direction, one that encroaches ...
Prediction: Facebook is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups
Chris Dixon is causing (surprise surprise :) a bit of an uproar with his blog post “SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups.” Chris's post is overstated but what I agree with is tha...
Sprint announcing Nexus S 4G, EVO 3D, and EVO View tablet at CTIA?
The media — yours truly included — has been trying to figure out why Sprint has booked an insane two-and-a-half hour slot at CTIA later this month. That's not the kind of event you throw together jus...
Banned (in 2008) from Apple's App Store, iBoobs finds refuge in Android Market
Here we go, folks. Mystic Game Development made quite the name for itself with its iBoobs app for the iPhone, which got itself banned from Apple's App Store in late 2008. Now it's found refuge …
As telecom industry evolves, success of Netflix is its biggest threat
By any measure, Netflix is having a marquee year. — It has 20 million subscribers, way up from 12 million just a year ago. Its stock has tripled in that time. During periods of peak Internet use …
The Legal Magic Bullet That Protects Twitter And Yelp
Yelp and Twitter both get thousands of complaints a month, often asking for material to be taken down that is allegedly defamatory or otherwise illegal. They almost never comply. Speaking today at a...
Google Responds To Android Malware, Will Fix Infected Devices And ‘Remote Kill’ Malicious Apps
On March 1, news broke that dozens of malicious applications had made their way to Android Market, each infected with a rootkit that could grant hackers deep access to Android devices that installed t...
Microsoft's Nightmare: First They Came For The Tablets, Then The Netbooks....
The fact that ASUS is floating the idea again two years after abandoning …
Hyperlocal Heartbreak: Why Haven't Neighborhood News Technologies Worked Out?
Neighborhood news aggregator Outside.in has been acquired by AOL, according to multiple reports this morning. Apparently it's being bought for less than the big pile of money that high-profile invest...
New music industry plan: halt flow of money to pirate music sites
The international music trade group IFPI has found a way to shut down, it hopes, piratical iTunes-style websites operating in countries like Russia and the Ukraine—it wants to curtail their ability to...
Techdom's Talent Poaching Epidemic
As social networking and mobile computing grow, companies compete for top executives — Over the past seven months, executives at Zynga, the popular social gaming company, plotted how to recruit Neil...