Ask most people which search engine they use and they’ll say Google, but there are mountains of searchable information online that you can get to with alternative engines. In a previous post I rounded up 11 general alternative search engines for web workers. In this… Read More »
Archive for November 2007
WWF, the World Wildlife Fund, released a report this week claiming that one-fifth of all United Nations carbon credits are going to projects that might actually be increasing emissions. Through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a provision in the Kyoto Protocol that encourages developed nations… Read More »
Vimeo founder Jakob Lodwick, the founder and public face of the video-sharing site that emerged as part of IAC buying and financing Connected Ventures/CollegeHumor, has left the company entirely, he announced on his personal blog today. (Update: see below; he’s not the only Vimeo… Read More »
Veteran VC Ray Rothrock, of Venrock, said something refreshing to me yesterday: “Venture Capital is really all about pattern recognition. We look for patterns it the market, patterns in entrepreneurs, cultural patterns at the startups pitching us.” Rothrock’s pattern recognition thesis is important for… Read More »
Kalama, Wash. is just a speck off the I-5 between Portland and Seattle, but it’s turning into an early battleground over the viability of carbon capture and sequestration. The Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council this week rejected a proposal to build a $1.5 billion coal… Read More »
We’ve sung the praises of Notebook Hardware Control (NHC) for the information it provides on your mobile device but BattStat looks to be a comparable, free PC application. It… Read More »
Euan Semple writes at The Obvious that the Christmas season could be a good time to get your workplace to try out social software because of the surplus of time people have: One of the most common reasons given for not becoming engaged online is time.… Read More »
Now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s time to start speculating about what will be hot and what will be not in 2008. After all, 2007 was not the Year of the Widget, despite what Newsweek predicted. If anything, it was the Year of Facebook. But what… Read More »
AOL Video is going to drop its own for-pay download offerings in favor of Amazon Unbox, according to company officials. AOL will integrate links to Amazon Unbox, while content will be integrated throughout AOL Video and in relevant video search results across the site.… Read More »
Handango continues to offer Free App Friday and since today is… well, Friday… there’s something waiting for BlackBerry owners. Ascendo DataVault is the free software du jours, so head over… Read More »
AOL Video is going to drop its own for-pay download offerings in favor of Amazon Unbox, according to company officials. AOL will integrate links to Amazon Unbox, while content will be integrated throughout AOL Video and in relevant video search results across the site. The integration… Read More »
More good news on the Solid State Disk, or SSD front: Micron is joining this space with some products in production by the end of the year. Yup, a few short… Read More »
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