Archive for April, 2006

By Robert Young As the debate and discussions reached a boiling point last week about the strategic implications surrounding the major TV networks and their bold moves to embrace the web, the big question that popped into my head was… where does this leave Google, Yahoo!, and… Read More »

Jeff Pulver and Tom Evslin are working hard on petitioning FCC about things that need to be done right in case of a disaster, mostly for a VoIP perspective. They have been asking others to spread the work. Actually, when reading through the documents to better understand… Read More »

Origami, the ultra mobile PC is going to change the world – or so claimed the breathless press releases, and spokespeople from Microsoft and Intel. The videos showed how seamlessly it would fit into our daily lives. Reality turned out to be something else. At a… Read More »

D-Link, which makes network equipment for the home and other sundry stuff has been blamed by some for choking the Internet Time Servers by hitting them so often that the whole time thing is running late. D-Link apparently had been hitting the time servers hard since… Read More »

Google CEO Eric Schmidt chats with PBS’ Charlie Rose and talked about the company. Just one bit which stands out…. The primary business of the company is search and ads. We decided to spend 70% of our total resources of search and ads, 20% of projects near… Read More »

One observation about this whole Web 2.0 thing – all the smart entrepreneurs are incredibly young. I just thought it would be fun to give them a little bit of a history lesson and introduce them to names, ideas, and things from the recent past –… Read More »

Every so often, you run into some entrepreneur and that one thing he (its mostly he) who laments about: lack of available domain names. Which means people use dyslexic spellings of popular words, or even translate words from other languages and then Valleywag gets a chance… Read More »

Automattic VC Cash

Matt Mullenweg’s little company. Automattic, has raised a small round of funding. Matt explained on his blog why he raised the capital, but did not reveal the names of the investors. Today those details are coming out. The investors include Polaris Ventures, Blacksmith Capital and Doug… Read More »

Portland Goes MetroFi

Just when you thought Earthlink-Google combo was going to take over all city WiFi projects, MetroFi, pulls one out of the hat. The company has been selected by the City of Portland, for building and operating a citywide Wi-Fi network. As part of the deal, the… Read More »

Google Calendar Almost There

Someone who has been spoiled by 30Boxes and Zimbra’s calendaring application, Google Calendar looks pretty mundane. But main stream users looking for a simple web-based calendar that is easy to use, will Google Calendar, (announced earlier today,) capable of doing a good job. Unlike previous Google releases,… Read More »

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