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Smashwords: Vanity Publishing or Innovative Content Delivery?

Not too long ago, I posted about BookGlutton, a service which allowed for online collaborative reading. You could also upload your own work, but that wasn’t the main focus of the site. Smashwords, on the other hand, is a web site devoted … Read More »

In the current economic climate, many web workers are trying to increase revenues by expanding their service offerings. One popular way of doing that is to offer remote desktop technical support. There are many tools and services available that can get you connected remotely with users … Read More »

 
 

Qapacity: Find and Provide Services Through Networking

A little while ago, I reviewed the service offered by GigPark, which was essentially a referrals network to help people find and share service providers. Qapacity is a new tool that works along the same lines, although it goes about … Read More »

If you’re a web worker who appreciates some of the many good, free online video tutorials on applications and development tools relevant to your work, YouTube is definitely not the only place to turn. You can find a huge number of sophisticated, easy-to-digest video tutorials on … Read More »

Apple to Sell Subsidized Notebooks in the U.K.?

The recent rise in the popularity and availability of netbooks has led some wireless carriers to package the computers at significant discounts for customers who purchase subscriptions. According to a recent report by Lisa Thompson, a tech research analyst with firm JRPG, Apple may … Read More »

Last Gen MacBook Pros $700 Cheaper, MacBook for $849

Apple may not have broken the $900 mark with the new line of laptops they unveiled at Tuesday’s event, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a never-before-used Mac at that price. As long as you’re willing to bury your head in the sand and pretend … Read More »

Full Page Screenshots On a Mac

Taking screenshots on Windows used to a laborious process, consisting of performing a print screen then editing the result in Photoshop. Leopard (and indeed, earlier editions of OS X) goes a long way to simplifying the process with different key combinations to achieve different results. It … Read More »

Create Your Own Ringtones With YouTones iPhone Ringtone Creator

We’ve shown you ways to create ringtones for your iPhone using your Mac, but with the newly released YouTones ($4.99) application from FunMobility, you can now make them on your iPhone. YouTunes is already an established name in the ringtone industry, having previously … Read More »

blinkBox didn’t get very far up the wow-o-meter the first time we saw it. Using authorized clips of movies as web greeting cards? Whoo-hoo. But the greeting cards were actually a sort of Trojan horse for the company, blinkBox CEO Michael Comish told us … Read More »

It pays to have big media backers. Case in point: Hulu, which will not only be offering season premieres of hit TV shows from FOX and NBC, but will be debuting a number of shows online before they appear on television. Over the … Read More »

Viacom on Veoh Ruling: So What?

Media giant says Veoh’s recent legal victory shouldn’t impact Viacom v. YouTube. Read More »

How’s an avid online video watcher supposed to get the latest episodes without leaving the computer on all the time? A new chipset from Intel might solve this problem, and save some energy (I’m repping NewTeeVee sister site Earth2Tech here), by allowing media providers … Read More »

More Must Reads

Chinese P2P solutions provider Vatata, whose similarly named P2P streaming platform Vakaka we wrote about last year, has developed a set-top box solution to bring a Joost-like P2P TV experience to the living room. It provides access to both … Read More »

Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch became an Internet inspiration when he uploaded his Last Lecture to the Net in the fall of 2007 — an academic exercise (if you were going to give one last lecture, what would it be?) that in Pausch’s case was all … Read More »

Over the past few weeks, there have been a flurry of announcements from Microsoft, Netflix, TiVo, YouTube, Roku and others detailing how their devices can be used to play movies and other video-based content, delivered via the Internet, on the TV. Industry insiders are speculating that … Read More »

Listen here ( MP3, 84.7 MB, 74 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) This is the final episode of OnTheRun with Tablet PCs podcast … Read More »

Listen here ( MP3, 17.7 MB, 51 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) Marc Orchant and James Kendrickare back with … Read More »

Listen here ( MP3, 11.6 MB, 34 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) Marc Orchant and James Kendrickare back with … Read More »

Listen here ( MP3, 21.3 MB, 62 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) Marc Orchant and James Kendrickboth have recently … Read More »

Listen here ( MP3, 19.6 MB, 55 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) Marc Orchant and James Kendrick hit the … Read More »

Listen here ( MP3, 17.4 MB, 50 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) Marc Orchant and James Kendrick are back … Read More »

Listen here ( MP3, 17.2 MB, 50 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) Marc Orchant and James Kendrick are back … Read More »

Listen here ( MP3, 20.8 MB, 60 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) Marc Orchant and James Kendrick sit down (finally) for show #34 and have a chance to ruminate on finally meeting face to face at … Read More »

Listen here ( MP3, 17.2 MB, 50 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) Marc Orchant and James Kendrick sit down (finally) for show #33 and talk about the new Fujitsu P1610 mini-Tablet PC with the 8.9" touchscreen … Read More »

Montreal-based mobile messaging company OZ Communications says it launched a product today that will enable carriers and social networks to offer mobile social networks to cell phone subscribers. OZ customers include Cingular and T-Mobile. The company is also looking to add features … Read More »

Reuters reports Dick Parsons said today he expects Time Warner to participate in download-to-burn releases of movies on the same day as DVDs sometime in 2007. C’mon, the technology is ready… why not this holiday season? Read More »

It should hardly come as a surprise that we remain highly skeptical of the competitive voice service provider business, especially in light of recent shutdowns and overt reliance on discount pricing as a lure for the customers. It was the same skepticism with which we approached … Read More »

PortalPlayer, the San Jose, Calif.-based chip company that is in the process of being acquired by Nvidia, might be back in favor at Apple. A research report out of brokerage firm of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. speculates that PortalPlayer is going to be supplying an … Read More »

The aftershocks of the Peanut Butter Manifesto continue to be felt long after the explosions stopped. Earlier this week, The Street.com noted that Brad Garlinghouse, author of the PBM had worked at @Home, CMGI’s @ Ventures and at DialPad, three entities that met ignominious … Read More »

Anne Zelenka has penned a great essay on many things web workers can be thankful for this Thanksgiving. There is the whole notion about wearing slippers to work, or not worrying about how you look (aka savings on shaving supplies for me) and of course … Read More »

The 3G networks are going into service worldwide with a regularity, and now even newer telephony markets are getting into the act. According to RBC Capital Markets, there are 130 WCDMA networks (85 million subscribers) worldwide, of which 73 have been upgraded to HSDPA. In comparison, … Read More »

It was five years ago today when Yahoo signed a deal with SBC Communications, then the second largest phone company in the US. It was a sign of the times – a decidedly hip Yahoo was teaming up with the dowdy phone company, in a bid … Read More »

Wordpress has teamed up with RSS platform provider KnowNow in a deal that will help expand Wordpress into the enterprise, writes Automattic CEO Toni Schneider on his blog. It will be called the KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition (KWEE.) Disclosure: Toni is a general partner … Read More »

A couple weeks ago we told you about a pre-launch company called AGLOCO that seemed to be the rebirth of bubble fiasco AllAdvantage. Well, AGLOCO has gotten in touch with us to defend itself from affiliation with the pay-to-surf flame-out. The company admits the AGLOCO … Read More »

Update: Moved this post from the reporters’ log to the main feed because it was attracting a bit of attention. StudiVZ, the largest German university-oriented college network with 1 million members, is under fire for borrowing wholesale from Facebook, its site’s poor performance, … Read More »

Okay maybe legal P2P is not that easy. Bit Torrent P2P store has been delayed, according to some reports. Read More »

Okay this thing is taking a life of its own. I think this reflects the anger of consumers who are tired of name calling by music company CEOs. Check out this site, sign the petition. Read More »

Kevin mentioned Podlinez and the cool way you can listen to the latest episode of the MobileTechRoundup podcast on your cell phone and I tried it out and aside from the long distance call it’s really cool.  I visited Podlinez a few minutes ago and … Read More »

Listen here ( MP3, 15.3 MB, 44 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) Marc Orchant and James Kendrick sit down for show #32 and have a look at the official Office 2007 release, talk about the Blue … Read More »

Andrew Michael Baron backs out of Zune.net promotion. Why? “While I expect this will be a big traffic loss for us, at heart, I really love Apple and will stick by them in this competition..Also, with regards to the logo agreement, just by having the … Read More »

It has been nearly 24 hours since Widgets Live, a day long event devoted to widgets ended. The morning was spent at Web 2.0 event, and dealing with some server problems. It was nice to see that both attendees and sponsors enjoyed themselves and shared … Read More »

U.S.-based web 2.0 companies have raised $455.5 million in 79 deals so far this year, according to Dow Jones VentureOne figures posted today (can’t find the press release online yet). That’s out of $1.63 billion total invested in 198 consumer technology companies so far this … Read More »

Looks like our friends North of the border have HSDPA (3G). Rogers Wireless has turned on their speedy network, and we will hopefully get more details soon. Apparently it is available only on laptops and the handsets will take a little bit longer. Read More »

When we met with the Google Reader team before they relaunched their product, I asked them why they didn’t combine their RSS reader with Gmail. The product manager’s response was, ‘what about blogs that update all the time, wouldn’t that crowd your email inbox?’ It … Read More »

Web Worker Daily takes a first look at Scrybe, the  much talked about planner/calendar application. Read More »

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