Archive for May, 2007

Rather long time ago we used to visit numerous websites only to get some information. Later we had forums for discussions and special guest book sections to leave feedback to a particular site's owner. Now it is absolutely normal that we rarely visit website just to read something useful. To be more precise, when we [...]

One of my favorite Web 2.0 initiatives has been the "One Laptop per Child" project. News today that Intel has developed its own version of an inexpensive laptop galvanized my opinion that big business would kill "Flipper" for a tuna sandwich. Professor Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the OLPC initiative accused Intel of selling its own version in [...]

AlexaDex is a dangerously addictive virtual stock market trading game. Users are given 10,000 dex dollars to spend on shares as they please, then watch their stocks rise and fall and compete to roll out number one on the AlexaDex each quarter. You can view the top 25 investors, and those who have gained the most [...]

Say what one will about The Pirate Bay. There?s something to be said about the operation?s audacity in the face of massive opposition by regulatory (industry-backed, to boot) bodies like the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). Despite repeated demands to filter out the illegal from its [...]

Spring fever is out in full force in the Valley, and the contagion is cash. Lots of cash. The last few weeks were filled with news of buyouts followed by, oh yes, more buyouts. Google nabbed DoubleClick; MySpace purchased Photobucket; Microsoft bought…well, lots of companies, really, not the least of which was aQuantive, which was [...]

Don't you feel your browser has too many tabs opened to manage your email accounts, your calendar and contacts? And still, all those tabs make are not sufficient to perform all your planning and contacts management. If this is your case, you must be interested in trying out BlueTie – a hosted web-based email, calendar [...]

With the signal-to-noise ratio at an all-time high for user-created content, it becomes more and more difficult to get your voice out there. Impressions equal ad dollars for many sites, and it's a constant struggle to compete. As a result, people are looking for any way possible to get their message out there, and that [...]

WordPress is an impressive creation. Open source to the bone, the software is used by many people around the world and rarely ever gets a bad rap. But its blogging tools – at least those it hosts for users of WordPress.com, not WordPress.org – are not utilized as prevalently as one might assume (in the [...]

Microsoft has a lot of cash lying around. That’s pretty much common knowledge at present. It can’t just sit on that money, though. That wouldn’t be a smart thing to do. So it’s gotta move it somewhere. Where to? Well, let’s see. The company is #3 in the world of Web portals. The company probably [...]