As some of you might have noticed already, updates here have been a bit sparse lately. There is a good reason for that. After a whirlwind of activity last week, I started posting on ReadWriteWeb today and officially joined the most dangerous profession of all.
This will keep me busy and off the streets for a [...]
Google has decided to jump into the Web Traffic comparison business by releasing a new layer to Google Trends names Google Trends for Websites.
Very few people these days take the data from publicly available website traffic comparison tools like Alexa and Compete too seriously. At best, both can be used to analyze trends, as their [...]
According to a bunch of so called experts interviewed by ABC News, using a GPS will make you dumb and will herald the end of human communication (or at least our ability to ask for and give directions):
“There is a social function of being lost,” Slavin said. “And that social function of being lost [...]
Social news site Reddit, which on many fronts competes directly with Digg, has opened up the source code of its service and licensed it under the Common Public Attribution License. The license stipulates that any changes to the code must be made public if they are used on a public site and that any [...]
Update: I contacted Robert Cox and he says the MBA has about 1000 members, including people like Glenn Reynolds, John Amato, Liza Sabater, James Joyner, Oliver Willis and many others.
During the whole ruckus around the confrontation between the AP and the Drudge Retort, I constantly see references to the Media Bloggers Association. Apparently, [...]
(Hat tip to Louis Gray for bringing this service to my attention)
After a long phase of private alpha testing, Edwin Khodabakchian today released an open beta of Feedly, a “more social and magazine-like start page for Firefox 3.” It’s release is, it would seem, timed perfectly in synch with the release of the final [...]
This week’s Elite Tech News Podcast featured Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, Art Lindsey, Steven Hodson and myself along with Jason Kaneshiro and MG Siegler manning the chat room (though MG made a brief appearance to talk about the WWDC in the middle of the show).
With only a small crew on board this week, this episode [...]
Fred Wilson started a discussion about blog comments today. Here is the final paragraph of his post which pretty much sums up his thoughts:
What’s the difference between a great comment and a great blog post? Nothing. What’s the difference between a great commenter and a great blogger? Nothing. At least in theory. It’s time for [...]
Technorati, the has-been blog search engine founded in 2002, just got another round of financing through Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mobius Venture Capital, and FG Incubation. With the $7.5 million they got this time, they have now received a total of $29.1 million.
The real question I have about this is: why? As Duncan Riley points out [...]
The last few days have seen the release of major milestone for all the major browsers but Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Firefox 3 is now at RC3, which should be the last testing version before its release. Apple’s first built of Safari 4 was just released to developers (but you can find it easily all over [...]
I between Steven Hodson’s post from this morning about (barley) eing able to pay his bills to stay online and my own thoughts (and the subsequent discussion about them) yesterday about whether a solo blogger can make a living out of doing this in the tech blogosphere, I started thinking about how privileged most of [...]
Sometimes I like to take a step (or two) back from it all and go over my old posts and try to see what the general trends are that I’ve been writing about lately. I know we do a lot of navael gazing in the tech blogosphere and maybe more so than in other blogging [...]
Today’s iPhone rumor of the day… hey… wait… I thought we were done with rumors after Monday’s keynote…
[Update: turns out this was a rumor indeed and completely false – however, the point here is that the missing communication from both companies is encouraging these negative rumors]
Well – today’s iPhone rumor, according to this post, [...]
Great post by Steve Spalding about specialization and the Internet today:
The old adage goes that a Jack of all trades is a master of none. This is mostly true, but it’s equally important to note that if you plan on being a Jack of one trade, you better know for a fact that your trade [...]
