Xfire founder and noted professional gamer Dennis Fong will be unveiling his new community gaming site and management tool, Raptr, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today. I was lucky enough to get a sneak peak at the web site.
There’s a massive web ecology built around games and gaming, much of it geared [...]
Web 2.0 darling Twitter has long struggled with stability, a problem which came to a head when millions of users were faced with an error screen that lasted late into the morning today as the startup moved its system off Joyent’s hardware starting at 10 pm yesterday evening, in a migration effort that lasted until [...]
As Congress resumes the debate on wiretapping legislation, People for the American Way and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have put together Stop the Spying, a site aimed at drawing attention to legislation that would grant immunity to the telecoms for complying with illegal, warrantless wiretapping of American citizens.
The world will get a chuckle out of Google’s April Fools prank, “TiSP.” But unless you’ve been following their plans with Earthlink to develop a citywide wifi program pretty closely, you might have missed the element of mockery.
You see, a competing plan proposed by San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano proposed building out a municipally [...]
If you like local politics, bureacracy and a drawn-out waiting game — tune into San Francisco’s ongoing Wi-Fi plans. I did yesterday, and spent three hours sitting through the city’s Budget and Finance Committee meeting, watching community advocates fight and supervisors play politics. One things for sure, the plans are as on-hold as ever, despite [...]
I’ve been itching to put together a bunch of mashups, but there’s only so many lazyweb requests you’re allowed to make if you can’t grok AJAX. Yahoo’s just-launched Pipes promises to blur the lines between nerds and geeks — offering the powers of developer nerds to content geeks, and vice versa. Tim O’Reilly is [...]
It’s always fun to take a look at the stats at the end of a calendar year. For instance, it turns out approximately 86% of GigaOm readers visited using cable, DSL or corporate broadband connections, with only 7% using dial-up and 7% unknown. With an audience so thoroughly saturated with broadband access, it’s [...]
By Jackson West
Robert Yeager of Atlanta-based Cooqy feels there are problems with eBay’s feedback system. “eBay users have two personas — one as a Buyer, one as a Seller. eBay’s feedback forces a singular system for two competing interests. As a Buyer, I have to be worried about a seller retaliating against my feedback. [...]
