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What's Your Favorite Web App, Nisha Chittal?

I met Nisha Chittal, Associate Editor at CitizenJanePolitics.com, at the SXSW panel “Are Women Taken More Seriously On the Web?” Chittal is also an online producer, editorial board member and political columnist at UniversityChic.com and an intern at ReadWriteWeb. Nisha gives … Read More »

Two Sites to Ease Your Travel Headaches

AltSearchEngines has a couple of posts up that should be of interest to web workers who frequently travel. SeatGuru, a great site for planning out which airplane seat to sit in and which amenities your seat will provide, has been steadily adding site … Read More »

 
 

7 Tips for Efficient Meetings

As web workers, we probably have to endure meetings less often than our cube-dwelling counterparts. When you do hold a meeting with a client or with your teammates, either face-to-face or as a teleconference, you want to make it as effective as possible so you get … Read More »

The Language of the Web Worker

In a recent Daily Beast post, Tina Brown talks about how everyone she knows is “hustling for gigs.” As I was reading the article, I noticed a few interesting things about the language in the post – mainly all of the words with “gig” in … Read More »

Shuffling the Deck at WWD

WebWorkerDaily began in September 2006 as GigaOM founder Om Malik was building his new company from a table at Starbucks. Now, just about everyone who earns income is a “web worker” at least for some part of their day. To keep up with this ever-changing working world, and … Read More »

FireWire-to-USB: MacBook Redeemer?

Apple’s decision to axe FireWire from the MacBook line is not sitting well with many users, to say the least. For high-quality audio and video transfers, FireWire is the standard for professionals and hobbyists alike. Though USB is technically capable of faster transfer speeds … Read More »

Stuff iTunes With Videos Using VideoDrive

Are you a video junkie who loves nothing more than stuffing iTunes with videos to watch in Front Row, Apple TV, or on your iPod? If you find yourself spending more time than you should fussing with conversion and the such, VideoDrive can get those … Read More »

I consumed last night’s debate in a truly multimedia fashion, starting with the radio on my drive home, watching it on TV when I arrived, and then following different Twitter and blog feeds as the debate was still going. Earlier this week we pointed to all … Read More »

NBC.com Serves 29 Million Full-Episode Streams in Sept.; network says it got 25 million uniques, and 28.8 million short-form content streams were served. (TV By The Numbers) Powering a bunch of those views was Saturday Night Live, as a new study shows more than half … Read More »

HealthiNation Raises $7.5 Million; online video network gets second round led by Intel Capital and existing investor MK Capital. (paidContent) Joost Picks Up Wizzard Media Content; catalog of video content from the podcasting network including Tiki Bar TV headed to the P2P online TV service. (Read More »

Video analytics firm Visible Measures has long said it has some impressive big-name customers, but it’s never been allowed to talk about them publicly. That’s changing today with MTV Networks announcing it’s chosen Visible Measures to analyze the performance of all the network’s online … Read More »

Every time it seems like Obama Girl is done, Barely Political finds a new way to capitalize on her brand. And their newest short, a collaboration with third-party Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, actually gives the character a fresh spin — not to mention allowing Amber … Read More »

More Must Reads

I’m in New York, where this morning I was covering the crammed T-Mobile G1 launch event for GigaOM. The G1 is the first phone that will have Google’s open Android operating system. On the floor, I had a chance to ask Desmond Smith, a senior … Read More »

For the first time ever, “The Godfather” trilogy will be available as a digital download, starting Sept. 23. Read More »

A tipster this weekend told us about an upcoming streaming video web site by The Pirate Bay called The Pirate City. The site was apparently launched last week to commemorate the 30th birthday of one of the Pirate Bay’s admins, but … Read More »

Hollywood Interactive Gets $5 Million; company receives Series A led by BlueRun Ventures, and secures Joan and Melissa Rivers for red-carpet coverage. (Variety) Online Video CPMs Higher Than Display Ads; new poll from Bain and Co. shows the average CPM for video ad was $43, while … Read More »

Written by Liane Cassavoy I completely understand the desire to link your computer to your HDTV. But my enthusiasm for the concept has waned a bit more with each media extender — devices that allow you to view content from your PC on your TV — … Read More »

Launching today, MTV’s Backchannel is a very cool-looking social game synergizing a very silly product— specifically, the network’s “reality” show The Hills. As the title suggests, Backchannel’s a chat interface that runs live online while a Hills episode airs on TV; players quickly post … Read More »

This week’s ABC interview with Sarah Palin has been big news, and of course, excitement is high over whether or not Tina Fey will return to SNL Saturday night to fulfill her destiny by sending up the candidate. The online video reaction to all … Read More »

Filmmaker Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club) will debut his new film The Princess of Nebraska for free on YouTube on Oct. 17th, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film will appear in YouTube’s Screening Room, the section of the site devoted to independent … Read More »

Movie rental chain Blockbuster has taken a lot of heat this year. Netflix dominates the rent-by-mail space (when its shipping centers aren’t down), and Blockbuster’s bid to buy Circuit City was derided by just about everyone. So what’s the company doing to prep for … Read More »

Travis Kalanick who sold his P2P company to Akamai in April 2007 for $18.7 million will leave at the end of this month. Read More »

The first quarter of 2007 has been good for DSL, thanks to higher than expected growth in China and other Asian economies, according to Dittberner Associates. China contributed more than a third of the total 12 million new DSL connections in the first quarter, which … Read More »

Is Amp’d Mobile gearing up for a change of the guard? Valleywag prints a rumor that the CEO and founder of the high-spending youth-oriented MVNO, Peter Adderton, has left the company. We heard this rumor a few weeks ago and asked Amp’d's PR team directly … Read More »

John McFarlane, is chief executive and founder of the consumer electronics company, Sonos Inc. Contrary to most of his peers, McFarlane believes that his company, and the entire digital music industry, stands to benefit from the DRM free music movement. Apple and Amazon were the among … Read More »

If you’re tired of the old cliché that information is power, here’s a new one: Disinformation is every bit as powerful. That much we know from the mischievous email that was apparently sent out to Apple employees and that – naturally – quickly found its way … Read More »

Passion Spotting: Hiring is one of the most difficult, and most important, things founders do. We all have our methods for finding great employeers, but passion is what counts for me when searching for talent. Tips for plucking the right talent out of … Read More »

CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS FOR ENTERING! Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us, happy 3rd birthday jkOnTheRunnnnnnn, happy birthday to us. Can you believe it?  Three years ago today jkOnTheRun was born, with us never anticipating how far it would come in such a short … Read More »

Back in the day when ESPN launched Sports Center, it put an end to the value proposition of the sports page — wire-service box scores and game recaps. The highlights game was over, for both newspapers and the three-minute sports-guy recap at the end … Read More »

A few weeks after Google made an astonishing $3.1 billion bid for DoubleClick, The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo will acquire the remaining 80% of New York-based Right Media, an online ad-exchange company, backed by Redpoint Ventures, for about $680 million. Yahoo … Read More »

You either love it or you hate it. The New Yahoo Mail that is. Check out this interesting story and interesting observations about what went wrong (and right) from a User Experience standpoint with the new Yahoo Mail. Read More »

Richard Bloor of Symbian One on the recently concluded S60 Summit in Madrid: Blogging, like reality TV and soap operas, is essentially about living vicariously. The closest an outside observer could get to that, for the S60 Summit, was on flickr where ohl@work and Read More »

When we looked at the back page of Friday’s Marketplace section of the Wall Street Journal, it looked like the delivery person had perhaps taken offense with the Vonage ad campaign about its patent case with Verizon, with what looked like some black-pen editing, the … Read More »

When do you know it is time to whack an idea that is not working? Entrepreneur’s Dilemma! My latest on Found+READ Read More »

The sweet irony – cable modem shipments are hitting a new record – and one of the early cable modem pioneers is being sold like a purple velvet jacket from the 1960s only Austin Powers would love. Motorola, it seems has won the bid for … Read More »

WebWorkerDaily: Yes, You can make Outlook, GMail Like WebWorkerDaily: Busyness vs. Burst FoundRead: Vesting Hacks I and II FoundRead: How Loomia got its mojo back NewTeeVee: 7-minute Sopranos – the Inside Job NewTeeVee: Ten Joost Channels worth watching Read More »

At the dawn of the broadband era, peer-to-peer technology became closely associated with music file sharing, thanks to programs like Napster and Kazaa. Later, the emergence of protocols such as BitTorrent linked P2P to movie and television downloads. P2P became a red flag for MPAA, … Read More »

It’s the season to rumble! Microsoft has just launched beta of a new media technology called Silverlight that essentially is going to compete with Adobe’s Flash technology. Adobe, meanwhile has introduced Adobe Media Player, a standalone media player that can be perceived … Read More »

Cisco and Intelsat are working together to put routers in to orbit, as part of Internet Routing In Space (IRIS) project. The idea is that the U.S. military could use internet protocol for their voice, video and data needs. “IRIS is to the future of satellite-based … Read More »

A friend of ours pointed out that his local cable provider, Cablevision, called and offered telephony and broadband service for $14.95 a month for each of those services. Cablevision lists the two services at $29.95 a month each on their website. This aggressive marketing could be … Read More »

Updated: Akamai has just announced that it is buying Red Swoosh, a peer-to-peer based service for about $15 18.7 million in stock. That’s not that much for a start-up that counts some heavy weights as its customers. The rumors of this deal had been floating … Read More »

After spending more than a few minutes sampling CBS’s free live Internet streaming of video from both the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament and the Masters golf tourney, it’s clear that more live sports coverage will be a popular staple of web TV going forward. With any luck, … Read More »

VoIP-based callback startup Jajah has been promoting its growing list of compatible mobile devices lately — the LG Prada, and promises of the iPhone, as soon as its available. Many devices with an Internet connection and a browser shouldn’t have too much trouble … Read More »

Updated: Yesterday, I wrote about the Vonage-VoIP Inc., deal that seemed to be perfect for Vonage to get out from under Verizon’s thumb of death. A few publications and some Wall Street firms had pointed out that VoIP Inc., had some patents and cited a … Read More »

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