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Following The Twitter Hack Trail To DigitalGangster

One thing that didn't make a lot of sense about the 33 celebrity Twitter accounts hacked this morning - the messages left on the various accounts weren't consistent and were clearly written by differe...
Full Stream Ahead: RipCode Raises $12.5 Million For Video Transcoding

RipCode, a company that offers online video streaming and transcoding services, has closed a $12.5 million funding round led by Granite Ventures with participation from existing investors Hunt Venture...
Shapeways: first online market for 3D fabrication models

You hear about 3D printing here and there, but for the most part it's a bit irrelevant to the average person because fabrication is messy, difficult, and prohibitively expensive. Even dedicated DIYers...
Point, Veoh. Court Upholds DMCA Protections In Suit Brought Against It By UMG.

For those Web companies that comply by it, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is turning out to be their best friend. Last week, Universal Music Group (UMG) was denied a summary judgment by a Los A...
Picasa Finally Hits The Mac, Squares Off With iPhoto

Picasa, the popular free photo management software made by Google, has finally made its way to the Mac. The application has long been noticeably absent on the Macintosh - especially given the fact th...

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Will 4G Networks Get Sidetracked by Patent Problems?

As the world moves to fourth generation wireless networks, lawyers for chip firms, handset makers and other technology firms are moving into their bargaining positions on patents related to the techno...
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Today at NewTeeVee Live, We Debate the Future of Internet Video

Some two years ago, it started to become clear: The web was going to change the way we consume video. So in December 2006, in order to closely track and monitor the growth of online video, we launched...
NTT DoCoMo Moves Into India, Buys a Piece of Tata

[qi:076] Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo said today that it has acquired 26 percent of Tata Teleservices for $2.7 billion, which is actually higher than the valuation of the largest CDMA carrier in...
My.Gov: How Obama Can Use the Net to Improve Government

President-elect Obama promised during his campaign to create a "Google for government." Now that he's on his way to the White House, let's imagine what this might look like, and how such a tool could...

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iTunes Rumored to be Dropping DRM; Jacking Up Pop Music Prices

On the eve of Macworld, one hot rumor making the rounds is that Apple is set to announce a deal with three of the major record labels to make all tracks on iTunes DRM-free. In exchange, the service w...
Picasa for Mac; Better Than iPhoto?

Google’s blog is announcing the release of Picasa for Mac at MacWorld. Even though they’ve previously released a Picasa Web Albums uploader and iPhone plug-in, the full-featured free softw...
7 Secrets to Getting Your Next Job Using Social Media

Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. Between current economic conditions and the technological...
Reading Trails: A Visual Way to Find New Books to Read

As an aficionado of great literature - I was an English major in college - I’m always on the look out for a great read. My current strategy for discovering novels and novelties is to park myself...
NYC Job Seekers: Mashable New Year Networking, January 15th

Mashable’s New Year Networking event takes place on January 15th: come join, mingle and possibly find a job! As part of the event, we are offering two free tickets and a free Mashable Job Board...

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Report: Former eBay Head Whitman Finally Ready For California Gubernatorial Bid

Meg Whitman, who announced her retirement as eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) CEO last January, is considering a run for California governor, the WSJ reported, citing an unidentified source. Whitman, whose name ofte...
Social Media Roundup: LinkedIn; Nick's UPick; Broadway Interactive

—Tanking job market a boon for LinkedIn: While LinkedIn laid off some 10 percent of its staff in November, the financial crisis hasn't been all bad for the business-focused social network, USA Today...
Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Bill O'Reilly Have One Thing In Common: They Were Hacked On Twitter

Who would have guessed that in the New Year, Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, would be for the most part stable, but fall victim to hackers and phishing schemes? Well, it's true, and it wi...
JP Morgan Sees Long-Term Dominance For Performance-based Ads; Online Video Loses Luster

It's not surprising that during a downturn, the clear metrics and ROI offered by performance based ads are looking more attractive. But in his wide-ranging '09 outlook, JP Morgan analyst Imran Khan ex...
Visual Search Startup Superfish Gets $5.3 Million Second Round

Superfish, a startup focused on visual search, has raised $5.3 million in a second round of funding, peHUB says, citing a regulatory filing. DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures (the Israeli partner of U.S. inv...

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Is Facebook the Most Popular Social Bookmarking Service on the Web?

ShareThis reports that it is now. How do website readers prefer to share stories they find with friends? According to the company behind the widely used sharing widget ShareThis, after emailing a...
Forget Push Email, Here Comes Push Facebook For Your Mobile

From a company called Blue Whale Systems Ltd., makers of a free mobile push application called BlueWhaleMail, there now comes a new push application: Facebook. Via the BlueWhaleMail app, you can be no...
The App Store: Soon To Be A Billion Dollar Marketplace?

Anyone who has the iPhone or iPod Touch can tell you that one of the best things about owning the device is the ability to add apps from iTunes App Store. Although many of the apps that we talk about...
Imeem Taking Off - Before MySpace Music Has Even Launched

Music-based social networking site Imeem is getting a lot of the right kind of press currently, based on strong traffic growth and key deals with record labels. We last wrote about Imeem in March, whe...
last100's Smartphone Parade: One Size Doesn't Fit All

At last100 [a ReadWriteWeb Network blog], we love the iPhone as much as anyone. Yet we remain convinced that for all of Apple's innovation - especially on the mobile browsing front and major improveme...

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How Steve Jobs Turned CNBC Into Apple Touts

newVideoPlayer("CNBC_iPhone_gawker.flv", 506, 400,""); First clip: A CNBC reporter dishes outsidery snark about Apple's supposedly botched iPhone launch. Second clip: CNBC's Silicon Valley bureau...
Meg Whitman Now More Retired from eBay Than Ever

The famously frumpy former CEO of eBay, Meg Whitman, is veering closer to entering California's governor 2010 race, quitting the boards of Procter & Gamble, eBay, and Dreamworks Animation SKG....
CNBC Asks If Steve Jobs Has PMS

newVideoPlayer("/DennisKnealePMS.flv", 506, 423,""); Having softpedaled rumors of Steve Jobs's failing health, CNBC is falling over itself to catch up to the story — with embarrassing results...
Why Facebook Won't Bring Peace to the Middle East

Facebook, which claims its goal is to let users share their lives. has been accused of censoring posts about the fighting in Gaza. So much for Mark Zuckerberg's dreams of breaking down global...
Twitter Hacking Epidemic Claims Britney Spears, Barack Obama

Whats going on with Twitter? First Fox News gets hacked, then Britney Spears. Is no one safe from this epidemic? Well, yes, in fact — everyone who doesn't click on crazy emails that claim to...

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Betas of the Year 2008

Nr. 1: goosh - the unofficial Google shell Nr. 2: 280 Slides - Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. Nr. 3: Google Insights for Search...
Gameular

Gameular Gameular is a video-based game review community. Blog...
twitlonger

twitlonger Twitlonger is a way to let you post to Twitter when 140 characters just isn’t enough. (for more Twitter tools check out the Twitter 100)...
Mednar

Mednar a one-stop federated search engine designed for professional medical researchers...
Snapact

Snapact a solution designed to simplify and enhance your photo viewing and photo sharing experience. Blog...

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ESPN, Others Dump Another $80 Million Into The Active Network

Want to see a startup that's raised $275 million? Check out San Diego-based The Active Network, which just pulled down a $80 millon Series F--yes, F--led by ESPN (DIS) and joined by Canaan Partners, N...
TiVo Q2: Revenue Light, Beats EPS Estimates On Lower Costs

TiVo (TIVO) turned in Q2 revenue slightly under Wall Street estimates, but it beat EPS estimates by a wide margin due to "better than expected hardware margins and lower than anticipated operating exp...
Apple's iPhone Getting More Popular With Enterprise Buyers, Says Study (AAPL, RIMM)

Encouraging news for Apple: Its iPhone appears to be making inroads with some enterprise buyers. ChangeWave's August survey of almost 2,000 people "involved with I.T. spending in their organization" s...
The New York Times Wants Your Comments! But Not All Of Them

Like just about every other Web publisher, the New York Times has figured out that encouraging commenting on its stories is one of the best things it can do.* And like just about every other Web publi...
Slate's Business Spinoff, "The Big Money," Has A Launch Date

OK, it's the week before Labor Day, so since a reader asked, we checked in with editor Jim Ledbetter and Washington Post Interactive (WPO) to find out when we're going to see Slate's business spinoff,...

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Android netbook port leaves some pondering Google OS

Will Google aim its OS sights at the PC market? A recent port of Android to a common netbook suggests that Google Linux could become a reality.Read More...
$1.5 billion Microsoft Vista-Capable booty hardly ill-gotten

New information from an economist's deposition suggests that Microsoft made around $1.5 billion from the Vista Capable program, but shoving that number around without some perspective as a garnish cha...
What piracy? Movie biz sees record box office in 2008

Domestic film box offices broke multiple records this year, grossing an estimated $9.78 billion. Thanks to both major and not-so-major releases this year, films from studios like Warner Bros, Paramoun...
Norwegian podcast puts entire Beatles catalog online—legally

This may be a case of unintended consequences. The NRK, Norway's national broadcasting service has scored permission from the country's music rights holders to release podcasts of any programs that it...
Last call for tech policy "Who's Who" nominations!

It's the last week for nominations to our first-ever "Who's Who: People to Watch in Tech Policy" list.Read More...

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Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns

The comments on my initial post on this topic went right at the VC's compensation - management fees and carry - and their impact on returns. So at Ken Berger's suggestion, I will change my planned pos...
Venture Fund Economics

When I write about venture fund returns, there are always comments and questions that lead me to believe that the economics of a venture fund are not well understood. And since most of the readers and...
The Lazy and Smarter Web

If you spend a lot of time reading web/tech blogs, you'll be familiar with the concept of the "lazy web". The idea is instead of doing a lot of work researching/googling, you just ping/spam your socia...
Corporate Venture Capital

The news this morning is that Google is seriously considering entering the venture capital business. They bring a lot to the table for sure. But as Jessica Vascellaro points out in here WSJ piece (whi...
Smart Move

My friend Eric is in town and we are going to see some live music tonight. After spending some time on Hype Machine this morning, I decided we'd go see Tilly and the Wall at Bowery Ballroom. When I we...

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Flickr Gallery Plus Tweaks Flickr for Better Galleries [Featured Download]

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Flickr Gallery Plus Firefox extension or Greasemonkey script make browsing galleries faster and easier in Flickr. Once installed and set up, Flickr Gallery Plus.
Picasa for Mac Beta Released, First Look [Featured Mac Download]

Google has officially released their popular photo management application Picasa for Macs, after years of offering Picasa as a free Windows download. It's an exciting announcement for anyone who's...
Ask MetaFilter Roundup [Hive Mind]

Are there any free services where I can store my passwords online? Is this a good idea?Any suggestions for a cheaper alternative to my current internet provider?Is there a program that will display...
Craigsphone Brings a Better Craigslist to Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download]

iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application Craigsphone puts the popular online classifieds site Craigslist on your iPhone, complete with click-to-call, history, and mobile posting. At first blush it...
Tabhunter Adds Faster Tab Switching to Firefox [Featured Firefox Extension]

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Tabhunter Firefox extension adds quick keyboard-based tab switching to Firefox—sort of like Launchy for Firefox tabs. Just invoke Tabhunter, start typing,..

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Sources: Apple to expand DRM-free music, new pricing (Greg Sandoval/CNET News)

Greg Sandoval / CNET News: Sources: Apple to expand DRM-free music, new pricing — Apple has cut deals that will finally enable iTunes to offer songs free of copy protection software...
Time Spent Watching Video Jumps 40% in One Year (Liz Gannes/NewTeeVee)

Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee: Time Spent Watching Video Jumps 40% in One Year — One way to think about online video is to consider how big a chunk it takes out of our daily lives. Th...
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Adobe AIR Team Blog: The Adobe® AIR™ runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems. The...
After an Agonizing Wait, Picasa for Mac Finally Arrives (Michael Calore/Epicenter)

Michael Calore / Epicenter: After an Agonizing Wait, Picasa for Mac Finally Arrives — Mac users, you can stop holding your breath. Google announced Monday that Picasa for the M...
Macworld.ars: Company may have spilled Mac mini beans (Updated) (Chris Foresman/Infinite Loop)

Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop: Macworld.ars: Company may have spilled Mac mini beans (Updated) — A press release from SeeFile software indicates that Apple will in fact release a ne...

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Update: Twitter blames celebrity hack on 'individual'

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez wasn't really high on crack this morning, and the reason his Twitter feed said so wasn't the phishing scam that's been going around--it was a lone hacker, the microblogging ser...
China Launches Crackdown on Internet Pornography

China launched a major crackdown on Internet pornography Monday targeting popular online portals and major search engines such as Google.
Campaign to Stop File-Sharers Being “Guilty Upon Accusation”

Next month, New Zealand is scheduled to implement Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. The controversial act provides ‘Guilt Upon Accusation’, which means that if a file-sharer is simply acc...
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

It couldn't be simpler!
Google to Release Picasa Beta for Mac

Google plans to release on Monday a beta version of Picasa for Mac OS X, helping Apple fans catch up to Windows and Linux users already employing the free tool for editing, cataloging, and uploading p...

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Webmonkey Turns Another Page

We don’t have to tell you there’s some sort of economic troubles affecting our industry. We at Webmonkey knew it was only a matter of time before it would affect monkey_bites. Unfortunatel...
Fedora 10 Arrives with Better Audio, GNOME Updates and a new IM Client

The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora 10, the next generation of Fedora Linux. Fedora 10 brings many of the same improvements we saw in the latest version of Ubuntu — a better n...
Google Maps Redesign Puts ‘Street View’ Front and Center

Google has revamped its popular Maps tool with a new interface that puts the emphasis on its Street View tool. A new set of controls — looking very much like those you’ll find in Google E...
Mozilla Mulls Adding a Third Beta to Firefox 3.1 Schedule

The second Firefox 3.1 beta release is past due, but already Mozilla says that working out the remaining kinks in the next revision of Firefox will likely require a third beta before the final release...
Processing Hits 1.0: Create Stunning Animations the Easy Way

Lookout Flash, the increasingly popular Processing language, which was designed in part to turn visual artists into programmers, has announced its long-awaited 1.0 release. Processing has long been a...

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Skype 2.8 for Mac coming Tuesday, with screen sharing and WiFi connector

Skype 2.8 for Mac will ship on Tuesday, with new features including screen sharing and an integrated WiFi hotspot connector. Available only for Mac OS X at first, the new version will add screen-shar...
How to downsize your social network portfolio

I'm as guilty as the next person for having a social network portfolio that's too big. Aside from my Twitter account, I belong to Plurk and Identi.ca, and although I use Facebook most often, I still...
Update: Twitter blames celebrity hack on 'individual'

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez wasn't really high on crack this morning, and the reason his Twitter feed said so wasn't the phishing scam that's been going around--it was a lone hacker, the microblogging ser...
Site Launcher turns bookmarks into shortcuts

Firefox extension Site Launcher lets you replace your bookmarks toolbar with an overlay window of links that can be pulled up at any time using a simple keyboard shortcut. You pick which sites you wan...
Xobni raises cash from Cisco

Outlook plug-in maker Xobni has raised a $7 million series B round of funding led by Cisco. Previous investors from the series A funding (about $4.1 million) also participated in this round. Xobni i...

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Basics: Play Flute, Name a Tune (or Make a Call)

Downloadable applications available for new cellphones can be fun, quirky and even useful.
Q & A: Test Memory for Errors

Ever since I increased the amount of memory inside the box, my Windows Vista PC has been crashing. Is there a way to tell if the new RAM chips are causing the problem as opposed to a virus?
Q & A: No Spelling Help From iPhone

Is there a way to turn off the iPhone’s automatic spelling correction? It gets in the way when typing.
Q & A: Tip of the Week: Seeing Less of Your Friends on Facebook

Facebook allows its members to tinker with amount of status updates they see from a particular pal in their News Feed.
State of the Art: Envelope, Please. It’s a Pogie.

The fourth annual Pogie Awards give a tip of the hat to the best consumer tech ideas of 2008.

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Bits Upgrade Means No Commenting Until Mid-Afternoon

The Bits blog is going through a software upgrade. No new posts or reader comments will be published until mid-afternoon, when we expect the upgrade to be complete.
Will Google's Chrome Help or Hurt Advertisers?

Google's new Chrome browser could present benefits--and obstacles--to online advertisers.
An Alternative to the Glut of Opinions Online

Russell Fine, co-founder of Opposing Views, a site where experts debate issues, aims to provide an alternative to the glut of opinions on the Web.
Sony Ups the Ante on L.C.D. TVs

Sony is announcing a new L.C.D. television that is ultra-thin and does a much better job of handling fast-moving images.
Forget Apple - Let's Speculate About the Microsoft Zune

With Apple expected to unveil new versions of its iPod music player next week, what's new with Microsoft's Zune player? And do customers really care?

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Yahoo Has Good Timing on Trust: New Policy on Data Retention

Given the comments happening down below on whether you all trust Google, Yahoo seems to be pretty nimble with this announcement: Today, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO - News) announced a new global data ret...
Twitter Has a Bad Hair Moment

Yep, that's what it looks like right now. Those of you who have never seen Twitter, ignore this....
Google Loses Trust - Do YOU Trust Google?

I'd like to know: Do YOU trust Google? Let me know in the comments below. Regardless, it's clear that citizens are realizing that Google has a lot of power. The worm inexorably turns. Hence, this was...
Blah Blah Armageddon Blah Blah Google Lowering Estimates Blah Blah Blah Target 600?!!!

No, really. Check it out from Weisel (pdf download): Estimate Changes: Since the end of 3Q the currency picture has added to an already volatile consumer situation. Specifically indexing 3Q at 100, 4Q...
Well, This Will Be Worth Watching: Google and Net Neutrality

Recall my interview with Vint Cerf, the guru who Google hired to champion net neutrality, among other things? Where he said this: Here’s what (folks like Whitacre) are saying: “Well, we built this...

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Steve Jobs speaks out about his health

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GRE Scores By Discipline

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Xobni Closes $7 Million Series B Financing

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Zed Shaw - The ACL is Dead - CUSEC 2008

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The best paper airplane in the world

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The future of Blu-Ray? Watch porn

On the heels of the annual Consumer Electronics Show, the New York Times had a good read this morning about the fuzzy future of Blu-Ray. It kind of made me chuckle because The Times, much like most ma...
Philip Schiller’s Macworld keynote detail just got easier

When it comes to Macworld keynotes it is the best and worst of times for Apple marketing guru Philip Schiller, the stand-in for Steve Jobs on Tuesday. Here’s the breakdown: Worst of times: Schil...
Apple’s Jobs being treated for ‘hormone imbalance’; Will remain at helm

Updated: Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Monday in an open letter that he is being treated for a hormone imbalance that is causing his weight loss. In his letter, Jobs clarified his health issue following y...
Love or hate this post? Sound off for the eavesdroppers

It seems that those comments you leave on blogs like this one may, in fact, be reaching the intended parties - the companies behind the products, services and technologies that you love or hate. Just...
Lenovo shows off 16-inch thin laptop; Launches all-in-one PC, dual-screen mobile workstation

Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show this week, Lenovo unveiled new consumer laptops and a debuted a dual-screen mobile workstation. Lenovo, which began to target consumers a year ago, on Monday an...

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Video: The “gridlock economy”

I don’t like to delve too deeply into economic theory and that sort of thing on this blog — I leave that to my friend Paul Kedrosky and his gang — but this video, which Paul wrote a...
Twitter: A micro-financing vehicle?

Jason Goldberg, founder of aggregation service Socialmedian — and the controversial former CEO of Jobster — set off a bit of a hand grenade via Twitter today, when he posted a message sayi...
Video: the Tiger Woods “Jesus” shot

I have to agree with Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion, whose post I came across on Twitter: this video by Electronic Arts and Tiger Woods — a response to a YouTube video posted by a fan of the EA...
Google knows what bloggers want

Boy, does Google know the way to a blogger’s heart or what? According to the Wall Street Journal, the company is setting up an 8,000 square-foot blogging playground at the Democratic National Conven...
Muxtape: What’s our lawyer’s number again?

Update: It doesn’t sound like Muxtape is coming back anytime soon, judging by the statement that Portfolio magazine got from the RIAA (hat tip to MG Siegler at VentureBeat for the link), which s...

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Upcoming Interviews: You Have Questions? We Will Get Answers!

Just a quick update for some upcoming happenings around these parts. Tomorrow morning I will be interviewing David Cohen from TechStars. Later in the week I will sit down with Darren Herman of the new...
Fox News, CNN Rick Sanchez and Brit Brit Apparently Fall For Twitter Phishing Scam

We reported this past weekend about the Twitter phishing scam that was hitting the circuit hard. This morning we received reports via Tamar Weinberg and Ron Hekier on Twitter of what appears to be a...
Eye-Fi Launches iPhone Application

Wireless digital memory card maker Eye-Fi has announced the launch of an iPhone application today. The application will be officially launched during Macworld this week. Eye-Fi notes regarding the iPh...
Change.org Launches 7 Additional Cause Blogs

We covered the relaunch of Change.org back in October including their video demo. Founder Josh Levy noted that he believes there is power in the blog and has basically shifted Change.org into a varie...
The Semi-Human Techmeme: A Month Later

A month ago Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera announced that he hired an editor, Megan McCarthy, to help create a more "edited" Techmeme. Gabe noted in his announcement, "an additional human...

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Google Launches AdSense for Feeds

I noticed a new option in my AdSense account: AdSense for feeds, a program that displays contextual and placement-targeted ads in FeedBurner feeds. FeedBurner announced in May that AdSense for Feeds w...
Google Search Results Show Metadata for Scientific Papers

Google started to integrate in the search results information about the scientific papers included in Google Scholar. Below the snippet, Google lists the authors, the number of citations and links to...
Plot Feeds in Google Finance

Google Finance has a very cool new feature that lets you plot the items from a feed on a stock chart. For example, you may want to find more information about Google's stock and see how it correlates...
Photo Albums in Google Docs

Google Docs will expand beyond documents. After adding support for storing PDFs, Google Docs will provide ways to create photo albums. It's not very clear if you'll be able to access the photos stored...
Easier Way to Create Forms in Google Docs

You can now create forms directly from the New menu of Google Docs homepage.After selecting the Form option, Google opens a wizard that lets you add questions, email or embed the form.The form saves a...

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Nasdaq Plunges 199 or 9 Percent; Among Worst Days Ever [Voices]

The Nadsaq Composite today plunged 199.61, or 9.14 percent, to 1983.73, as investors fled equities amid a growing sense of crisis in the financial sector. Stocks started off sharply lower this morning...
The Wii Version Will Come With a WiiBong and WiiSyringe [Digital Daily]

Oh, look: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has “reignited” the violent videogame debate. What a surprise. Last time GTA and its publisher Rockstar Games sparked this kind of outrage it was for “...
Yusuf Mehdi Gets a Big New Job at MSN–But Still No Digital Head in Sight [BoomTown]

Longtime Microsoft exec Yusuf Mehdi is taking over a big part of Microsoft's online services portfolio--including marketing, business development and product management for MSN and the search properti...
Xohm: No Long-Term Commitments Besides Baltimore Residency [Digital Daily]

Among the announcements forgotten for a moment amid the shrieks of agony and general keening on Wall Street today, one from Sprint Nextel announcing a single-market launch of Xohm, its new WiMax wirel...
Black Monday [Digital Daily]

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Jive finishes up my enterprise disruption week

This week I’ve touched base with Panorama Software, socialtext, and now with Jive Software. Jive continued the trend I discussed a couple of days ago about enterprise disruption. You are meeting...
Twitter War

Israel and Gaza are going at it on Twitter (and in real life, as reported over on news site Memeorandum). Shel Israel reports. Tagged: gaza, Israel, Twitter ...
Ballmer’s big moment

Steve Jobs won’t be center stage this week. Chuq von Rospach, who used to work at Apple, wraps up what that means from an inside-the-Apple sphere. But there’s another first coming up nex...
JPG’s dead. Why your advertising-funded business could be next…

JPG Magazine is dead. That’s a bummer because, as TechCrunch wrote this morning, it was a radical idea in publishing: one that used crowd-sourced data to serve the magazine’s readers. Ther...
It’s a new year, have you backed up?

We discuss backing up here. Have you backed up your data lately? Tagged: backup, hard drives, services, storage ...

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I'm in heaven

The Internet has many wonderful applications, but I doubt if people think of it as a romance platform, but it is. Case in point. I was looking for some music to play for my friends on Twitter the oth...
Rethinking authentication

First a caveat, this is going to be a technical post, so if you're not interested in techie stuff, you can skip it. However, I'm going to try to make it understandable to smart users who are willing t...
Why our customers are smart

I often tell stories about companies who treat their customers or developers as if they were idiots. But that's not to say my own company, the one I started, didn't do this too -- it did. It's human n...
RSS as the foundation for realtime

Steve Gillmor has been on a campaign to get Feedburner to wake up and make his Feedburner feed more responsive. I support him in this. Now that Feedburner is pwned by Google, there's something kind of...
Twitter in 140 characters

Jay Rosen asked: "Write a 140 character post that explains what you find Twitter useful for." DW: "Twitter is my shared notepad. If I want to remember something and I don't mind if everyone else knows...

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While We’re Talking Contact Management…

I mentioned a while ago that I was still carrying around an address book in my purse, and begged for suggestions for managing my contacts because things were getting totally out of hand. It’s be...
Parallels Desktop 4 vs. VMware Fusion 2: The Web Worker Angle

Any freelancer who does computer-related work, whether on or offline, probably understands the value of being able to work in multiple operating systems. That goes double for web workers, who need to...
The Art of Meeting Multitasking

As an IT teleworker for a large company over the past 10 years, I’ve spent my share of time on conference calls. The other day, in fact, I set a personal record with 11.5 hours of them in a sin...
Mobile Smartphone Conferencing Picks Up Momentum

Is mobile online conferencing on smartphones poised to become a killer app? There are some efforts to make it so, even though some may question whether the size of the displays on phones and other iss...
Calliflower: A Complete Conference Calling Service

Six years ago, when I wanted to make a conference call involving five participants, Bell Canada wanted to charge me $0.55 per minute per participant, resulting in a $165 cost for a one hour call. All...

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NuConomy: Next-gen web analytics

Filed under: Developer, Web services, web 2.0 Web analytics is an increasingly important metric for web publishers. It used to just be about tracking how many visitors you get and how many pages they...
Microsoft unveils Windows 7, releases early developer preview

Filed under: OS Updates, Windows, Microsoft Microsoft is officially introducing Windows 7 today at the Professional Developers Conference. The company will also be making an early build of the next ge...
Microsoft to launch web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Filed under: Office, Web services, Microsoft, web 2.0, Web It looks like Microsoft is finally prepared to launch its answer to Google Docs, Zoho Office, and ThinkFree Office. About a year after launch...
Walmart MP3 store adds 74 cent tracks, Mac, Linux support

Filed under: Audio, Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Web I love a good price war. And it looks like Walmart is challenging Amazon and Apple to one by offering select MP3 downloads from Walmart's o...
World Map geography tester

Filed under: Fun, Kids, Time-Wasters, Education I'm not entirely sure if I should call this a time waster or an educational tool. I guess it can be both. If you're stuck in 9th grade geography (or kno...

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Analysts: EDF Ventures’ deal terms aren’t that harsh

In the wake of EDF Ventures‘ subpoena demanding information about one of its critics on controversial VC-rating site TheFunded, more scathing commentary about the Ann Arbor, Michigan firm has co...
Facebook adds more social features to ads

Facebook is rolling out a way to comment on ads that appear within the site, according to an interview with Tim Kendall, Facebook’s director of monetization, by Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang...
ESPN and MLB team up for a digital double play

Baseball, while still America’s past time, is no longer it’s most popular sport. (That would be NFL football.) So it makes sense that the keepers of the game attempt to branch out as fully...
In Russia, iPhone buys you (soon)

Apple is continuing its push for global expansion of the iPhone. The latest country that will be getting the device looks to be Russia. Apple has agreed to a deal with Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), accord...
India’s VC investment sees second-highest quarter on record

Venture capital investment in India grew impressively during the second quarter of 2008. Between April and June, VCs invested a total of $238 million in 17 deals, up 120 percent from the $108 million...

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What Could Save The Yellow Pages? 10 Ideas

It’s something of a “perfect storm” for the embattled yellow pages companies right now. Not only has the usage of print yellow pages books declined in recent years, but they’re...
Will Google Book Search Help Or Hurt Libraries And Book Sales?

The NY Times runs a longish article about Google Book Search, its outlook and some fears surrounding its further development. Book Search was freed from legal entanglements when Google settled a class...
Choose Your CMS With Care

The best time to start working on SEO is before you start building your site. It goes back to that old saying: “If you don’t have time to do it right, will you have the time to do it over...
Marissa Mayer Denies Rumor She’s Leaving Google, Comments On Search Being “90% Done”

In some ways the “future of search” is a tired topic that has already seen hundreds (maybe thousands) of speculative articles. But it’s also a topic of critical importance for search...
Google & Baidu Fail China’s Pornography Test, May Lead To Penalties

The Associated Press reports China has begun the process to “purify the Internet’s cultural environment and protect the healthy development of minors.” This has resulted in the Chin...

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Skype 2.8 for Mac coming Tuesday, with screen sharing and WiFi connector

Mac users get the good stuff first.
New HP ultraportable first to use AMD Neo chip

Hewlett-Packard is launching an ultraportable notebook using AMD's new Neo silicon.
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone announced

Sling Media declares a deadline for its upcoming SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone, and reveals a new trick in the app's retinue.
Meg Whitman, governor of California? Maybe

Speculation about the former eBay chief executive running for California governor is growing, with the latest hint being that she has resigned from four corporate boards.
Online video viewing jumps 34 percent

U.S. Internet users watched 12.7 billion online videos in November, an increase of 34 percent versus a year ago, according to ComScore data.

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