Archive for May, 2006

Mac(mini) Daddy’s Zing Thing

Om Malik, Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 11:00 PM PT Comments (9)

Don’t get mad, just get even. That certainly holds true for Tim Bucher, the former senior vice president of engineering for Apple Computer, who claimed he was wrongfully dismissed by the iconic computer maker.
The man who had helped craft the Mac Mini and oversaw the iPod product divisions has resurfaced with his new company, [...]

SixApart Comet Is Now Vox

Om Malik, Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 9:05 PM PT Comments (9)

Six Apart, the San Francisco-start-up behind Moveable Type and TypePad blogging platforms is adding a third one to the mix - Vox.
Up until recently, Vox was known by its code-name, Comet. It is a platform designed to maintain total control over the content published by the bloggers. SixApart has invited a few folks to take [...]

Vonage IPO and Very Angry Customers

Om Malik, Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 12:40 PM PT Comments (29)

The Vonage IPO and post IPO saga is getting stranger by the day - in a way that could get them a direct nomination for Business 2.0’s Dumbest 101 Things list that comes out at the end of the calendar year. On paper it seemed like such a good idea - customers, the biggest evangelists [...]

Internet Ads - Good For Google, Yahoo

Om Malik, Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 7:22 AM PT Comments (1)

Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) say that Internet advertising revenues hit a new record - $3.9 billion - in the first quarter of 2006. That’s a 38% jump from the first quarter of 2005, and 6% jump from the fourth quarter of 2005. You betcha, Eyeballs are back. But you knew that already, didn’t [...]

Personal P2P Getting Hot

Om Malik, Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 6:00 AM PT Comments (19)

First there was Grouper, and then came services like Hamachi. Both have been successful, but a new breed of personal peer to peer file sharing start-ups are coming to market with their solutions, and a renewed focus on ease of use. I wrote about three of those start-ups - Pando, Perenety and Wired Reach - [...]

Internet2 To Get GigaFast

Om Malik, Monday, May 29, 2006 at 11:30 PM PT Comments (20)

Internet2, a network primarily used by academic and research institutions is plenty fast when it comes to speed. It currently runs at about 10 gigabits per second. But that might seem downright glacial when the network operators are done with an upgrade. Plans are afoot to use 80 channels to pump 10 gigabits per second [...]

Social Networks are the New Media

Robert Young, Monday, May 29, 2006 at 10:00 PM PT Comments (37)

By Robert Young
No one can argue that MySpace has been the “it girl” for the past year. And the fact that she belongs to Rupert Murdoch only seems to have heightened the envy, and gotten everyone’s knickers in a twist. As a result, it seems that nearly every media company and venture capital [...]

Will Doug Bowman Make Google Beautiful?

Om Malik, Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 9:44 AM PT Comments (20)

Good news folks… Enough for me to get out of bed, put my back at risk and write a blog post - Doug Bowman, uber designer has joined Google which means, a likely end to the mishmash, drab and boring user interfaces from Google. Yeah!
On a more serious tip, with the acquisition of Measure Map, [...]

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