3ones
The Simplest Stable Structure
March 3, 2010
paidContent
Atex, which provides software systems to media firms, has purchased a majority stake in classifieds site Kaango, according to Classified Intelligence. Classified Intelligence says in a clients-...
If Im already fatigued by the extended PR volley between Disney and Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) over retransmission fees, just imagine how Cablevision subs counting on WABC for the Academy Awards S...
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has unveiled a new way to search on Android-powered phones: Gestures.
According to a post on the Google Mobile Blog, the experimental application is available on Android-p...
Like so many of its peers, The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) is trying to find the right notes to play in just the right order when it comes to getting paid for digital content. Unfortunately, Jo...
February 6, 2010
GigaOM
At our GigaOM company meeting, Simon Mackie, editor of WebWorkerDaily shared his views on why every weekend he publishes and shares a collection of articles & blog posts he had read over the week. Taking a cue from him and my friend Paul Kedro...
As you know, we have been following Mozillas Weave Sync project for a long time. Last week, Weave Sync add-on for Firefox was made available. Installable as an extension for Firefox, Weave is way to synchronize bookmarks, saved passwords, browsin...
July 16, 2009
Konigi -
July 1, 2009
Konigi -
May 10, 2009
TechCrunch
Google cant help itself. It just loves to brag about how green it is, even though its data centers use up a tremendous amount of energy. Still, on a per-search basis, it is less polluting than many alternatives - a fact it likes to remind us of, ...
The clocks ticking for Playboy, folks.
During an earnings call earlier today, Playboy Enterprises interim CEO Jerome Kern (who replaced Hugh Hefners daughter Christie after she stepped down last December) didnt really have any uplifting news to s...
In honor of the latest Star Trek release, MSN Video has rolled out a Klingon version of its Star Trek video page. Klingon, of course, is the tongue spoken by the race of the same name in the fictional Star Trek universe. For those of you who aren...
I love my iPhone, but Ive always harbored some contempt for its built-in Email application. Not because of the occasional message download issues and display quirks, but because the iPhones Email application has absolutely no search function at ...
Twitter is abuzz with angry complaints about FTD not delivering flowers to recipients on Mothers Day. Apparently a number of Moms didnt receive their FTD flowers even though the senders made the orders early in the week. Here are a few sample twe...
Amazon releasing a Kindle iPhone app shortly after the introduction of the Kindle 2 was a brilliant move. It seemed to show that the emphasis was on the platform, not just one device. And that it was interested in making its customers happy. Unfor...
Apple has a lot of silly reasons for rejecting iPhone apps, but Twitter seems to bring out some of the best of them. A few months ago, Apple rejected the popular iPhone app Tweetie because it featured curse words in the trending topics area somet...
We recently covered socialmedian, which late last year was acquired by European business social network XING, when they introduced a nifty application on the Facebook platform that allowed its users to share personalized news from across the web w...
The Obama Administrations new chief antitrust enforcer at the Department of Justice, Christine Varney, is making it very clear that she is going to be much more aggressive in bringing antitrust actions against large, American corporations. The B...
There are two interesting things about the new New York Times Reader application. First, the company has abandoned SilverLight for Adobe Air, thereby ensuring cross-platform compatibility without that nasty Microsoft aftertaste. Second, the appl...
Social interaction is one of the driving forces behind the web right now, with Twitter and Facebook both growing at phenomenal rates. But outside of social networks, advertisers have largely failed to get in on the action - on most web pages, ban...
The CDC's report on wireless substitution - aka canceling your land line for a cellphone - is out and we discover that one in five U.S. households have cut the cable, an increase of 2.7 percent over six months ago. Another tidbit: one in every sev...
Twitscoop, a real-time visualization tool that lets you see hot trends and buzz on Twitter, is getting a makeover and adding several useful features that may help you mine the thought stream. These features will officially roll out at 8 AM PST. T...
This last Friday, a few of the developers behind Microsoft Surface took some time out of their schedules to meet with us and talk about what's coming in their Surface Service Pack 1, due to be rolled out today. Now, it's called a service pack for ...
A couple lines of code. Thats all it takes for photographers and publishers with large inventories of images to start selling their work on their own websites, thanks to an ambitious fledgling company. Youd think that something so simple could be ...
In an age when anyone with a video-capable cell phone can have their own TV channel on the Web, it is still the celebrities and rock stars who are getting all the views (just as on Twitter they get the most followers). Kyte CEO Daniel Graf knows ...
Video search startup EveryZing just landed its biggest fish yet: NBC Universal. Boston-based EveryZing signed a master service agreement with NBC to provide video search and search-optimization technologies across all of its online properties, w...
As they mature, social networks are increasingly becoming viable systems for information management. Were seeing this with Facebook, and with FriendFeed and even to some extent with Twitter. The combination of social graph plus information is a po...
Way more countries have laws against holocaust denial (11 or so) than breast feeding (0), but guess which one is banned on Facebook? Thats right. Pictures of breast feeding babies are indecent, so theyre a no go. But Holocaust denial is totally c...
As readers know, I’m working on a new book about global entrepreneurship that is taking me around the world at the pace of roughly one country per month for the next year and a half. The plan is to focus on several contrasting hot spots for entrep...
The Lois Whitman how-not-to-do-PR saga continues. She was called out by us and others in December for verbally abusing bloggers and spamming Wall Street Journal and New York Times reporters.
Things quieted down when she issued an apology, saying ...
Today is Mothers Day; have you called your mother yet? Judging from popular topics on Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, etc, you have. So what else is there to do on this fine Sunday? Perhaps watch the latest Lonely Island spoof music video, Motherlo...