Archives
[2005-12-30] Pandora Gives Music Fans Hope
With all the bad news for music lovers being generated by Sony rootkits, RIAA file-sharing lawsuits, payola practices, and music industry pressure on iTunes pricing, Pandora.com stands out like a Little Walter harp solo in the dark.
[2005-12-29] Web Images, Sons, Nail Bank-Robbing Dad
An Illinois man will be sentenced for a string of bank robberies; the trail leading to his arrest went through the Internet and his sons.
[2005-12-28] Flickr Video: A Great Example of CGM
Jonathan Coulton‘s a funny guy. Some time ago, Neville and I played his song "Skullcrusher Mountain," a love song sung by a typical movie evil genius to the girl he's kidnapped.
[2005-12-23] Yahoo Encourages Cyber Giving
Network For Good and Yahoo have partnered on the Cyber Giving Week initiative, and provided a site with donation links, and resources and tools to help with learning about where to contribute and how it impacts taxes.
[2005-12-22] Wink At Powered People Search
Another day, another startup splashes online. All of the Silicon Valley insiders and the beautiful people on Memeorandum have been writing about Wink.com today, so we'll add our two cents from the heart of the Bluegrass as well.
[2005-12-21] Digg Makes The Mainstream Media
The website for a North Carolina TV station has added a page that shows the top stories promoted to the front page of Digg.com, but doesn't link to it from the station's home page.
[2005-12-21] Google Doodle 10 Is Upon Us
Google's at it again, with their multi-part epic of logo doodles, the Google Doodle, now in its tenth edition.
[2005-12-20] Test Drive an AJAX RSS Reader
Backbase has a whole bunch of AJAX web applications that you can test drive.
[2005-12-20] More Tweaks To Technorati
A smattering of new features and updates makes the blog search site an easier to use and understand service for its visitors.
[2005-12-19] The Web Master Has A Blog
Tim Berners-Lee, whose work at CERN led to the creation of the World Wide Web, has joined the blogosphere himself.
[2005-12-19] Ten More Wikipedia Hacks
About a month ago I blogged about my 10 favorite Wikipedia "hacks." (Some prefer I call these tips.)
[2005-12-16] Structured Blogging Concept Shot Down
The short time it took for the idea of structured blogging to be brought back to Earth makes the 18-month timeframe of Moore's Law look like a glacial epoch.
[2005-12-14] Washington Post, Blogger Cross Swords
Confusion and politics figure in the dust-up between the newspaper, its website, and bloggers who have blasted the paper's ombudsman and its political editor over their views on a column appearing on the Post's website.
[2005-12-14] Windows Live Too Local For Some
A member of MSN's Virtual Earth team was compelled to post a response to security concerns raised over the Windows Live Local "Locate Me" feature.
[2005-12-08] Yahoo Answers The Internet
Yahoo has taken the basic idea behind Usenet - posting a question and getting an answer from another user - and created a new website for users to ask those burning questions, like "How do I become a movie extra?"
[2005-12-08] PixPulse
Here's a new moblogging site I just spotted in my del.icio.us inbox.
[2005-12-07] Gawker Launches Blog for Disgruntled Customers
Look out retailers, Gawker Media has launched a new blog called...
[2005-12-07] Squidoo Opens Public Beta
Squidoo is now open to the public in an open beta program.
[2005-12-05] AOL Serving Lots Of MTV Video
A number of properties from MTV Networks will make appearances in AOL's video search engine and through SingingFish.com, whose technology powers AOL video search.
[2005-12-02] Halo Movie May Have A Director
The Xbox console's must-have game franchise was written into a movie script by Alex Garland, and Peter Jackson signed on to be an executive producer; the only person missing was the director, and we may know who that is now.