Archive for February 2008
The New York Times got all excited about Texas wind power this weekend. The piece stood in stark contrast to a Wall Street Journal article last year that noted some of the contentious issues and rampant speculation surrounding the building of 20-story … Read More »
Like it or not, social networking is upending everything we know about communication, marketing and business models. On March 3rd and 4th, developers and marketers will gather in San Diego for Graphing Social Patterns West, a conference devoted to understanding how these changes … Read More »
Windows SideShow is the technology that allows OEMs to create devices that interact with Windows Vista machines and add functionality like remote control capability. The original concept was demonstrated by some OEMs as plug-in devices that can be used with or without the Windows PC. A … Read More »
I just spent another 20 minutes on the phone with Fujitsu to try and determine if they even know where my P1620 is. The answer in a nutshell- they think they know. They think it’s still in Japan in the factory and they are being told … Read More »
After an extensive beta period, Adobe’s AIR rich internet application application framework is shipping as version 1.0. You can download a copy here. Of course, Adobe isn’t the only player in the market trying to blur the lines between … Read More »
My name is James and I am a gadgetaholic. There I feel better having said that but I doubt there is anyone who would doubt this for a moment. How big of a gadgetaholic? Here is a list of gadgets I have used over just the … Read More »
We’ve all been tempted to do it. Here’s the familiar situation: having a few spare minutes, you open up your laptop to do some work, then you’d like to get online. So you look at the list of available Wi-Fi hotspots and you see an open … Read More »
So I’m sitting in SBUX and here’s what I can see being used:
15" MacBook Pro (with iPhone & Mighty Mouse)
17" HP notebook
15" Dell notebook
Almost every time I come to a coffee shop I see at least one 17" laptop. What’s up … Read More »
Fred Wilson recently pointed me to David Hyman’s manifesto on how the music labels can save themselves. And although I’m not sure that it will fully replace the foregone revenues from a decline in physical CD sales, it does make a lot of sense.
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It was one of the better jokes Jon Stewart told at the Academy Awards last night (though playing Wii tennis live at the Kodak Theater was probably my favorite). Holding an Apple iPhone, he told the audience he was watching David Lean’s ode to … Read More »
More Must Reads
By Josh Pigford
Feb. 25, 2008, 12:37pm PT
By Om Malik
Feb. 25, 2008, 12:27pm PT
The $99 unlimited calling plans might be great for some of us who yak-a-lot or even small businesses, but the Telecom Expense Management Association (TEMIA) thinks that these new unlimited flat-rate cellular plans are a bad idea for large corporations because a “well managed … Read More »
If plants were voting for President this year, I think the folks at Botinicalls would win by a landslide. At their site, they show a fun little project … Read More »
By Carleen Hawn
Feb. 25, 2008, 12:19pm PT
We often link to Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, and today WK offers a handy kit of of essays that address a number of nagging founder-issues including: ownership and change of control; resource management and getting to profitability; common legal sand traps.
The package is called … Read More »
By Craig Rubens
Feb. 25, 2008, 11:59am PT
DivX announced today that it’s shutting down Stage6 at the end of this month, putting an end to the video-sharing site’s short, expensive and litigious life.
Stage6 was supposed to be a higher-quality YouTube, and while the site had decent traffic, it never caught fire. … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Feb. 25, 2008, 11:00am PT
There are plenty of job sites out there for freelancers who want to sell their time and skills in the global marketplace. Many of these – such as Elance or RentACoder – operate primarily as simple marketplaces, putting together buyers and sellers, transferring jobs … Read More »
Want to carry half a Terabyte of data in your computer? Fujitsu is delivering just that come May, with their new 500 Gigabyte drive designed for notebooks. The MHZ2 BT is a … Read More »
By Judi Sohn
Feb. 25, 2008, 10:00am PT
Two web worker favorites are introducing new features today.
LinkedIn Mobile
Recognizing that the business world has gone mobile in a big way, LinkedIn users can now quickly access their network updates, profile, and search for other members by visiting m.linkedin.com on any mobile browser. Of … Read More »
Hollywood Props Up DVD Biz; studios try to stave off a declining market by adding interactive features and including digital copy downloads on the shiny discs. (The New York Times)
Kimberly-Clarke Reducing TV Spend This Year; company will allocate only 46 percent of its marketing budget … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 25, 2008, 9:00am PT
New York-based startup Outbrain has raised $5 million in a Series A funding from Gemini Israel Funds, Lightsteed Venture Partners and Glen Rock Israel. The company, headed by Yaron Galai, co-founder of Quigo (sold to AOL), provides ratings and recommendations for web content — including … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 25, 2008, 8:35am PT
If you’re wondering where the cleantech hot spots are around the globe, then we have the ultimate map for you: Earth2Tech’s 101 cleantech startups, where you can see how cleantech companies are sprouting up all over the place. Continue reading on Earth2Tech.
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ABC and its local affiliates are partnering with Cox Communications to provide an on-demand video service that lets you watch shows like Lost anytime you like. But according to The New York Times, you won’t be able to skip over the commercials.
The move is an … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Feb. 25, 2008, 8:00am PT
We’re fans of services that leverage data that you’ve already collected; re-entering things is not only inelegant, it’s time-wasting. If you’re a del.icio.us user (and most web workers seem to be), you can get double use out of some of your … Read More »
By Alexis Madrigal
Feb. 25, 2008, 7:45am PT
Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic conducted the first flight of a commercial aircraft with some jet biofuel in the 747′s tank. You can basically call it ‘J05′ as the biofuel represented a mere 5 percent of the total fuel mix — three of the plane’s four … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 25, 2008, 7:09am PT
By Jason Harris
Feb. 25, 2008, 7:00am PT
It’s time once again to welcome the week with a handy tip to save a few precious minutes. Today we’ll be checking out a handy way to print and share your Google Calendar.
Printing your GCal
Chances are if you are a user of Google Calendar, … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 25, 2008, 6:59am PT
Megamillion-dollar rounds of funding for ad networks show that investors, despite the likelihood of a recession, continue to be dazzled by the glamor of online advertising. Glam raised $85 million (giving it a valuation of $500 million) and London-based Adconion raised $80 million. Their mega-valuations … Read More »
By Bob Walsh
Feb. 25, 2008, 6:00am PT
Part 2 of WWD’s 3 part interview with GTD Author David Allen. In this conversation, WWD writer Bob Walsh and Allen talk about web working and GTD, and Allen’s plans for a web application.
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Tiny Pictures, a mobile media company whose product is called Radar, has raised $7.2 million in Series B funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and including Mohr Davidow Ventures. The three-year-old company is focused on the consumer market, with a free service that enables … Read More »
By Carleen Hawn
Feb. 25, 2008, 1:30am PT
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
– John Milton Cage, Jr., artist, composer, music-lover, and innovator (1912-1992).
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By Om Malik
Feb. 25, 2008, 12:00am PT
For what seems to be an eternity, we have been promised seamless connectivity, high-speed connections that appear auto-magically out of thin air, giving us access to the wonders of the web — and of course, our data, including the unending stream of emails. Today, we have … Read More »
Coming on the heels of a full week of hand-wringing over who Lorne Michaels would pick to play Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live (and the debate was not just confined to the web –– I overheard two hipsters arguing about candidates for … Read More »
By Craig Rubens
Feb. 25, 2008, 12:00am PT
If you’re wondering where the cleantech hot spots are around the globe, then we have the ultimate map for you: Earth2Tech’s 101 Cleantech Startups, where you can see how cleantech companies are sprouting up all over the place.
The different sectors — like solar, energy storage, biofuels … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 24, 2008, 11:18pm PT
eBay sellers decided to boycott eBay listings in order to protest the recent changes in the feedback policy and fee-hikes. The listings dropped 13% or 13 million items in a week, reports USA Today, citing third party sources. eBay denies that there has been … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 24, 2008, 10:30pm PT
The idea of the semantic web is both compelling and scary. And although the web will continue to become more useful over time, it won’t ever replace the benefits of human interactions.
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YouTube was inaccessible for more than an hour around the world today when the Pakistani government blocked the site within the country due to it hosting anti-Islamic content. According to multiple accounts, the problem seems to have originated by an apparent mistake by Pakistan Telecom, which … Read More »
We’ve made note of StyleTap before; it’s the Palm emulator that lets you run thousands Palm OS applications on Windows Mobile devices. Two days ago, Read More »
It’s a gorgeous day to work out in the back yard.
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By Om Malik
Feb. 24, 2008, 9:33am PT
Are uou overworked? Are you feeling tense and stressed out? Then you need to read The Web Worker Daily interview with Getting Things Done author David Allen. A lot of it actually resonates with me and I kind of agree with Allen when he points … Read More »
By Bob Walsh
Feb. 24, 2008, 6:00am PT
For many web workers, a big stress reduction tool has been David Allen’s “Getting Things Done.” It’s a bit of a cult/religious movement for some, with good reason for its promise of relieving the mind by removing the data and details that bog it down. Earlier … Read More »
I don’t know what Steve Bryant was talking about, the Burp Castle was an awesome place to have a New York Meetup. Lots of video folk trudged out to the East Village to drink some really tasty beer and get “shhhh!’d” by the (fantastic) bartender … Read More »
