Archive for September, 2006

Lets All Build Wall Gardens

They (which includes everyone from Microsoft to Real to SanDisk) used to mock Apple for having a walled garden approach to digital music. iPod + iTunes + Apple DRM = Money. Well now they are building their own walls – Microsoft has Zune. Folks at San Disk… Read More »

Rojo, In a coma, not dead

Update: Chris Alden says the company is migrating servers and doing an upgrade which has taken a lot longer than it should. So its in a coma, not dead. Disregard what you read from this point forward. Less that a month after Six Apart acquired Rojo Networks,… Read More »

The Silent Microsoft Exodus?

A few months ago when Robert Scoble and Niall Kennedy left Microsoft, the blogosphere got twittery. There were arguments and counter arguments. Ironically there are more senior executives who have left in recent days, and haven’t sparked much discourse, even though their presence (or not)… Read More »

This past week we had a lot of polls online, and our readers participated wholeheartedly. I wanted to take a moment and say thank you to all of those who have participated, and bring you some highlights. Even though 35% found Zune’s features yummy, 53% are sticking… Read More »

Yahoo is in the process of setting up an in-house incubator in an attempt to hold onto its expensive talent, sources say. The project, called Brickhouse, will be led by Flickr founder Caterina Fake. Big companies are no longer the safe havens they were during the tech… Read More »

Wii Wide Web!

So this week’s huge news in the console wars comes once again from Nintendo, during yesterday’s press conference in New York: the Wii will let you browse the web. “You can download an Opera browser using Wii points and surf the web,” Nintendo’s Perrin… Read More »

What’s On Web Worker Daily?

Web Worker Daily is about to finish it second week, and here are some highlights from this week. 1. A Soloist’s Work Flow. 2. Can PSP be a portable productivity platform? 3. Going Mobile with a Mac? 4. Working Remotely over a Dial Up Connection? Read More »

More Must Reads

Is Steve Jobs the New Lord of the Rings?

The ability to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the same machine under one supra-operating system or “hypervisor”– all with touch-of-a-key flexibility — has long been the Holy Grail of the computer industry. Or, to put it in J.R.R. Tolkien’s terminology, “The Ring.” The next release… Read More »

Paris Hilton, Helio and MVNOs

CTIA, Los Angeles: Well CTIA, you really couldn’t resist that last day Paris Hilton cameo – she was on stage for about 3 seconds to support her latest music video on cell phones before a mobile social networking panel, and now wireless geeks at the… Read More »

Netvibes Five Million Users & Counting

The upside of conferences such as The Future of Web Apps confab (currently underway in San Francisco) is that you run into folks you never expect. Today, I ran into Tariq Krim, chief executive officer and founder of Paris-based Netvibes. While I have often Skyped him,… Read More »

Evan Williams: How Odeo Screwed Up

Public hindsight about startups’ missteps generally comes after a good amount of “traveling in Europe with my fiancée” or whatever it is that failed CEOs do. However, Evan Williams just gave a refreshing talk about the dangers of combining money and startups at the Future of… Read More »

Slim Picking For Gadget Lovers at CTIA

It’s the last day of the CTIA mobile convention and while the gadget announcements haven’t been exactly flowing out of the show, there’s been a few notable newly launched phones around the floor and more than enough gadget-related press releases shoved into reporters hands. What do… Read More »

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