The popular comic book and pop culture podcasters at iFanboy.com have gone from audio to video. The new show (with the familiar name) is available on the Revision3 network, known for other popular shows like Ctrl-Alt-Chicken and Diggnation. In Read More »
Essays
If you aim to build the next Flickr or YouTube or even Hype Machine, Amazon has you in its sights. Jeff Bezos wants to bring his success in the high-volume, low-margin business of bookselling to the world of web app startups. He’s … Read More »
As the Web continues to evolve, with thousands of new sites and blogs springing up every day, the mountain of information to claw through grows ever higher. More sites are bookmarked, and more RSS feeds are added. Inevitably, with this data glut comes new approaches to … Read More »
Sooner or later, even the most dedicated of web workers settles down a bit. When the caffeine buzz of working at the local cafe wears thin, it’s nice to have a home base where you can spread out, use a full-sized monitor, and maybe even raise … Read More »
Well, the time has come to announce the winners of the Community Contest! If your forum username is in this list, please use our contact form and let us know your top THREE prize choices in order of preference (here’s the list) if you’d … Read More »
I needed to get out of the house. And I needed to get some work done. A friend emailed and told me to come check out an open house for the Hat Factory, a Coworking community space in San Francisco’s semi-industrial Dogpatch … Read More »
In a bit of sensationalist journalism/blogism today, I see article titles like this: “Apple Stock Options Fallout Continues” What fallout? I don’t see Jobs getting into the Pope-mobile and heading to his plane to hide in Switzerland. I called my friends at Cupertino and lunch … Read More »
In this slow news week, a ripple is being felt in the blogosphere over Microsoft sending certain bloggers $2,000 Acer Ferrari laptops fully decked out with a copy of Windows Vista and Office 2007. Companies sending out review … Read More »
The 2007 predictions game has been underway for more than a month now, as bloggers turn prognosticators and read the coffee grounds at the bottom of their mugs. At Web Worker Daily, we’ve been imagining what might make 2007 really great for our work … Read More »
VeriSign, a company better known for its security and domain businesses, is launching a content delivery network called VeriSign Intelligent CDN. It’s new territory for VeriSign, but a logical extension of its $62 million purchase of Kontiki earlier this year. Prior to the acquisition, Kontiki … Read More »
Last week, search engine Mamma.com launched video search in partnership with Pixsy, a startup that’s cut many such white-label deals for its metadata-based image search. Mamma.com’s stock soared 45 percent in one day. It seemed that investors in the public markets wanted somewhere … Read More »
Every once and a while you do have to pack things up and head out of the home office to a far away destination. Whether it’s for vacation, road trip, business trip, or a day at the café. There are certain important things that you might … Read More »