P2P is inefficient, unfair, and hogging our bandwidth, according to Lawrence Roberts, founder of Anagran and one of the chief architects of the foundations of the Internet. Roberts gave a talk at our Structure 08 conference Wednesday, and said that P2P sharing takes… Read More »
Archive for June 26, 2008
Brand display ads will be “the primary driver of monetization for video,” YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said tonight at an tech startup dinner in Palo Alto, but he went onto lay out an argument that there’s also a growing opportunity to make money from direct… Read More »
In 2005, Matt Harding had no idea that dancing silly on camera would help him become a corporate-sponsored world traveler. But when Stride Gum took notice of the first Where the Hell is Matt? short, they signed him up to continue jigging across… Read More »
Feds Say Automakers Gets No Extra Time in Cali Regs: The US District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled that automakers shouldn’t get an extension to comply with California’s emission standards. Assuming the EPA grants California it’s waiver, of course – Green Car… Read More »
If you’re involved with a blog or an online site and care about its design and interface, there are a number of free tools you can turn to for experimenting with various versions, until you arrive at a design you like. In this post, I’ll cover… Read More »
Yahoo and its destiny has become fodder for headlines and cheap shots. What hasn’t been discussed is the crumbling culture within the company, thanks to layers of management, and resultant state of masterful inactivity masked as consensus. The only organization more dysfunctional than Yahoo? The… Read More »
California introduced an ambitious energy road map today to achieve the state’s goal of cutting emissions by 28 percent. The policy mandates that a third of the state’s energy should come from renewable sources, and also boosts the efficiency of appliances, buildings and automobiles. Facilitating… Read More »
Iminlikewithyou, a New York-based dating game start-up has raised $1.5 million in Series B round of funding from Spark Capital, and a bunch of influential angels including Marc Andreessen. Baseline Ventures and Betaworks, also had previously invested in the company joined this round of capital.… Read More »
I just heard from the Opera folks who have finally said that the Opera Mobile 9.5 beta 1 will be available on July 15th. You can get full details from the Opera Mobile blog but from what I’ve seen I would jump on this… Read More »
Perhaps the easiest way to describe EveryScape‘s business plan is “Google Street View, only more so.” When you visit one of their sites, such as their Boston page, you can drive around and see the city in a 360-degree… Read More »
After today’s launch of Microsoft’s server virtualization hypervisor, Citrix, which bought virtualization company XenSource last year, may be asking itself some hard questions. Microsoft’s Hyper-V will compete directly with Citrix’s XenSource products for the data center as well as with products from VMware and startup
Now that Google Browser Sync has gone bye-bye for Firefox 3, the search for alternatives is on. Foxmarks has been nominated by many of you, and for good… Read More »
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