Retweeting, or copying and posting another person’s tweet on Twitter, has become so popular that the San Francisco-based micro-messaging startup plans to incorporate a formal retweet feature on its site and API, co-founder Biz Stone wrote in a blog post last week. Because the update… Read More »
Archive for August 2009
Well, Tiger Woods didn’t walk away with a win from the 2009 PGA Championship (that honor went to Y.E. Yang), but it was a record-setting weekend for PGA.com and Turner Sports, which served up 3.4 million video streams over the course of the 4-day event.… Read More »
At first peek, web app Teambox looks like another collaboration tool: it’s a Basecamp rival that facilitates collaboration and notifies team members of additions and changes to your projects. Both come with a simple, user-friendly interface. But Teambox has one bonus; it lets… Read More »
Microsoft and Nokia created some excitement last week with the unveiling of an alliance that will see Redmond put Office Mobile on the Nokia eSeries phone line, as well as on additional, future devices. While both companies have been feeling the heat from Google with… Read More »
If you leave a comment or review on Hulu, your full name as you entered it during the site’s registration process will now appear instead of your username. Hulu, which updated the legalese on its privacy and terms of use pages a… Read More »
The Internet has changed a lot of things over the last decade or two — including how we search for jobs. Sure, the basics are the same: Find an opening and apply for it. But the web has permanently altered the employment process. And with more… Read More »
Recently, Nancy Nally suggested that the newer members of the WWD team should share the gear that they take with them when they’re out on the road. I carry my gear in a Timbuk2 Laptop Messenger Bag.… Read More »
T. Boone Pickens, former oil baron turned wind and natural gas advocate, and “Mouth of the South” Ted Turner, media mogul and environmentalist, have a few obvious things in common: a heck-of-a-lot-of-money, a dose of Southern charm and worldly ambition. But recently, the two have… Read More »
When it comes to broadband, we in the U.S. want more, more, more. But when it comes to wireless, we’re limited by the amount of spectrum available to us. The spectrum is a measure of dedicated (in the case of licensed spectrum) or undedicated (in… Read More »
Missteps in GM’s 230 Campaign: General Motors’ buzzy 230 MPG marketing campaign for the Chevy Volt “was flawed because it was ill-timed, targeted a group that is not likely to be the core Volt buyer and — most of all — didn’t offer enough clues to… Read More »
My mobile device of choice is the iPhone 3G. I’m still very much in love with it almost a year after I first got it. For a web worker, it’s an amazing productivity-boosting tool that gives me the ability to stay connected, and even do useful… Read More »
The proliferation of handheld GPS units has resulted in a geocaching craze. If you’re not familiar with the sport, here’s the scoop. People venture out with GPS devices and look for containers hidden in the great outdoors by other geocachers. Once found, you jot your… Read More »
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