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Archive for August 2007

Sonic.Net's SF ComMuniFi Plan

Update: Dane Jasper of Sonic.Net left a comment saying that this is their own initiative and the equipment is coming from Meraki. We’re doing this independently, using equipment from Meraki. Meraki and Google have an ad partnership, and any revenues that flow from that will … Read More »

VeriSign May Sell Some Operations

Memo to private equity investors: Get your checkbooks ready, for VeriSign (VRSN) might have some businesses to put on the block. VeriSign, the Mountain View, Calif.-based domain name registry manager, is in the middle of a major restructuring under the aegis of its new chief … Read More »

 
 

The GigaOM Show: The Web Analytics Discussion

The new episode of The GigaOM Show is up. In addition to our hitlines, we talk with executives from web analytics companies, Quantcast and Hitwise, and try to understand the complexities of web analytics and why it is hard to get a handle … Read More »

Levinsohn, Miller Ready To Buy

In what has to be the worst PR moves of all time, General Atlantic, a New York-based hedge fund, announced that it was backing a new buyout fund started by Jon Miller, former CEO of AOL and Ross Levinsohn, former President of Fox … Read More »

Setting Up a Home Wi-Fi Network for Under $200

If you have yet to set up a Wi-Fi network in your home, and you have multiple computers and printers around the house, there are few tech upgrades you can do that will give you more satisfaction. Putting one in is a good project for this … Read More »

GigaNET Headlines…Friday

Earth2Tech: Ways to reduce your green guilt as you travel this Labor Day Weekend. NewTeeVee: The best of the video picks form Burning Man — for those that couldn’t make to the playa this year. Found/Read: Seven hiring tips for startups. Web Worker Daily: How … Read More »

Apple and NBC are making competing immature proclamations — “no, I broke up with you!” — to let the world know that the network’s shows will no longer be for sale in iTunes. Silicon Alley Insider estimates the broken deal was worth about … Read More »

Breaking News: NBC Has Shot Itself in the Foot

NBC announced late Thursday afternoon that it will not be renewing its contract with Apple to sell NBC TV shows through iTunes. That is, unless NBC can convince Apple to enforce stricter DRM and allow NBC to charge even more for the TV shows that … Read More »

Friday Afternoon Vid-Biz Headlines

Thailand Opens Access to YouTube; Thailand says YouTube will block clips from playing within the country that the government says break local laws. Google “would not comment on whether it would also block culturally sensitive material that did not directly break laws.” (Financial Times) Online Video … Read More »

Labor Day Travel and Green Guilt

If you’re like me, planning on doing a good deal of traveling to get to your holiday revelries this Labor Day Weekend, then maybe you feel similar to how I felt this morning – full of major green guilt. So far I’ve already logged more than … Read More »

I’ve read through James’ opinion piece entitled "Vista will never run well on mobile devices" several times. I’ve also read the many comments that the post generated. While I agree with the observable facts, I’m actually finding that I have a completely different experience. How … Read More »

As droves of people descend upon the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for the 2007 Burning Man Project, life in San Francisco is a little quieter, a little lonelier, a little more, dare I say, normal. Sigh. I’m still hoping that NewTeeVee can … Read More »

More Must Reads

There is a game of corporate chicken going on. Hours after NBC decided that it was going to pull its shows from the iTunes store at the end of this year, Apple (AAPL) trumped them and will not sell shows from the upcoming TV … Read More »

Here at WWD, we’ve published almost innumerable tips on time management. We’re certainly not alone in this; there are many resources to help you make better use of your time, track your tasks more efficiently, clean up your inbox, and work at … Read More »

The Mighty Mouse. Loved and hated, this little gadget looks like nothing else around. (I, personally, am firmly in the love-it camp; I’ll say that right now.) But mice are a very idiosyncratic kind of thing; unlike any other peripheral, the mouse is the one that the … Read More »

There is a game of corporate chicken going on. Hours after NBC decided that it was going to pull its shows from the iTunes store at the end of this year, Apple (AAPL) trumped them and will not sell shows from the upcoming TV … Read More »

Back in March I sold my G5 tower in favor of the mobile life and have been using a 17″ MacBook Pro since then. There are a plethora of bags/totes/backpacks/etc for traveling with your laptop so there was a pretty big sea of things to chose from. … Read More »

If you’ve been scratching your head over oil companies’ green PR attempts, there’s a new goodie coming up: Chevron (CVX) is due to unveil its latest eco PR effort, and this time it amounts to an earth-friendly-version of SimCity. We were recently emailed a link … Read More »

Those boys at GottaBeMobile are planning a meetup in Colorado Springs on September 8 to get a chance to meet their readers.  They will have lots of Tablets and UMPCs to play with along with lots of swag so if you’re in the area drop by. … Read More »

According to the::unwired the HTC Shift is to be officially announced at GITEX in Dubai next week.  The Shift is the UMPC with multiple personalities possessing a slider keyboard and dual operating systems, although the inclusion of Windows Mobile 6 has not been confirmed … Read More »

While Google’s (GOOG) YouTube continues to gain market share and increase its lead in the Web video market, funding to its competitors continues to flow unabated. Yesterday, Dailymotion raised $34 million, following on the heels of Veoh ($26 million) and MetaCafe ($30 million.) These … Read More »

Ed Hardy recently got his hands, er fingers, on the Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard that we’ve been raving about for the past year or two. It worked like a … Read More »

Joost just released version 0.12.0 of its P2P TV client this week. The new releases offers end users a bunch of bug fixes, but developers get a special treat: Joost has opened up its API and now makes it possible to develop third-party … Read More »

In a Microsoft productivity survey done in the last couple of years, workers around the world said they only consider about two thirds of their working hours to be productive. If workers could cut those wasted hours, they’d work less and get the same amount … Read More »

In a development that could have serious implications for your future iPod, IBM (IBM) has announced a possible breakthrough in the ability to store large amounts of data in a minute amount of space. Scientists from IBM have shown that a single atom … Read More »

I mentioned in my first impressions of the HP 2710p that the lack of a jog dial like that on the tc1100 was a big … Read More »

Editor’s Note: Trevor is the editor of “Red Canary”:http://www.redcanary.ca/, a great online magazine/community just like Found|READ, but which is focused on “fast-growth Canadian companies,” rather than startups. Trevor’s July 2006 Red Canary post on “hiring tips for startups” is obviously very relevant to Found|READers, and … Read More »

NBC Universal is saying it won’t renew an agreement to sell its television shows on Apple’s iTunes, according to the New York Times. NBC is iTunes’ No. 1 supplier of digital video to Apple’s online store, with 40 percent of total downloads. The situation has a … Read More »

The funniest thing on YouTube right now isn’t the latest installment from Smosh, but the meta-ironic actions of a certain litigious content megalopoly in issuing takedown notices for content it doesn’t even have a clear claim to own. Christopher Knight produced some humorously … Read More »

Roxio released Popcorn 3 for Macintosh yesterday, which promises to shorten video conversion and DVD burn times as well as adding TiVo-to-DVD or TiVo-to-device support. New and enhanced features include automatic TiVoToGo, which starts encoding TV shows as soon as they are transferred to your shiny … Read More »

Found/Read: Why one software developer went to South America to incubate his startup. Web Worker Daily: Time-saving tips for working in Microsoft Word. NewTeeVee: Dailymotion raises $34 million in a second venture capital round — less than two weeks after competitor Metacafe secured $30 million. Read More »

VC $$$ for Cleantech: A report released today by research firm New Energy Finance notes that VC and private equity investment in the cleantech sector surged 67 percent in 2006 over the previous year. Yet clean energy VCs only invested 73 percent of … Read More »

Paris-based Dailymotion has raised $34 million in a second venture capital round, the company just told us, confirming a report by The Wall Street Journal’s online edition (behind paywall). The funding comes on the heels of close competitor Metacafe announcing it had secured … Read More »

If you live in Microsoft Word all day, as I do, then time-saving tips and tricks within the application can make a big difference for you. In this post, I’m collecting some Word tips that I think will be especially useful for bloggers, writers, editors and … Read More »

It’s draft night here in the development and just like last year, I’m armed with OneNote for my draft cheat sheets. This year, I’m using info from the same … Read More »

Joost just released version 0.12.0 of its P2P TV client this week. The new releases offers end users a bunch of bug fixes, but developers get a special treat: Joost has opened up its API and now makes it possible to develop third-party widgets … Read More »

Today Panic released Transmit version 3.6. It’s been over 18 months since 3.5 was released (though there have been multiple smaller version releases between then). The biggest new feature in 3.6 is the addition of Amazon S3 support which undoubtedly has been one of the … Read More »

Bob Russell at MobileRead shares an insightful post on "friction" in the eBook market. The premise actually comes from Michael Hyatt, a book publisher, as he discusses what "friction" is. You could equate the term to a barrier of mass adoption or unnecessary roadblocks towards … Read More »

For me, there’s nothing better for my productivity than working on my own. I like working around people, but I prefer when those people are strangers. As much as I enjoy my bi-monthly trips to my organization’s headquarters 200 miles away, I get the most done … Read More »

A parody rap video designed to shoot up the YouTube charts — and double as a class project — has landed two New Jersey brothers out of their jobs and facing a $1 million lawsuit. The brothers, both college students, worked part time at an … Read More »

Here’s a novel approach to online gaming: Instead of getting players to buy software or pay monthly subscription fees, make them pay for their ammo. That’s the idea behind Kwari, a UK-based first-person shooter coming to the PC later this year. The publisher, Kwari Ltd., also … Read More »

I mentioned Mailplane yesterday, the standalone GMail app that integrates with other Mac OS X apps, not to mention Growl notifications. As cr0ft rightly … Read More »

Dan Goldman from the Operawatch blog was kind enough to drop us a note: the second beta of Opera Mini 4 is now … Read More »

The Apple Blog wouldn’t exist in any form if we didn’t have all our fantastic readers. We’d now like to give back in a new way by giving away free stuff each month! We obviously can’t know about every single thing going on in the world of … Read More »

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