Archive for January, 2008

I am probably the least qualified person to talk about personal productivity tools, because I find most of them difficult to use, annoying, and cumbersome. Of course, that also means I often miss deadlines, forget tasks, and lose my car keys, so it's fairly obvious that I'm exactly the type of person who NEEDS personal [...]

After purchasing Last.FM for a cool $280 Million USD last year, CBS kept its plans for the company close to the vest. The company held a press conference today to reveal the direction it was taking its acquisition. Some sites have speculated that the big secret was going to be video on demand, but that [...]

Not everyone who has browsed a job board is actually unemployed. In fact, some people who peruse listings of available jobs online are quite intent with their current positions, but would just like to see what's available. That is the theory behind itzbig's new job search tool, which allows working technology professionals to privately explore the [...]

Trailing behind it main rival WalMart and such online stores as Amazon, Target announced that it is finally going to offer digital music downloads. Even bargain basement retailer KMart had music downloads before Target jumped on board, though they lost their dedicated music site in their bankruptcy a few years ago. Target's digital music rollout [...]

Having been both a developer and a marketing wonk in former career incarnations, one of the most frustrating things about Web 2.0 applications for me is the frequent lack of a business model. New apps are launched every day with no plan in place for how to monetize them. You can talk about market position [...]

Anyone who has been keeping track of all the microblogging services now available to internet users (Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, Meemi, and the list goes on), probably knows that although having launched last June, Pownce has been in a beta stage for the past seven months, limiting the number of people who sign up only to [...]

The museum of modern betas (MOMB ) is one really cool place to get a "heads up" on upcoming startups and beta tests. I gathered a short list of new startups that might just add some fun and/or utility to your day. We review so many sites that are fantastic innovations and some that have [...]

Sometimes I'm a little slow at catching on with new things. It took an interesting new look to Ross Mayfield's blog to get me to notice Dandelife, but I may have gotten hooked on this whole lifecasting thing. I was fortunate enough to spend some time IMing with Dandelife CEO Kelly Abbott about his vision [...]

MySpace is about to gain back some of its cutting edge status by launching a separate venture that will act as a nurturing incubator for web start ups. Still in development under the guiding hands of MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe, the start up will offer a place for new web ventures to get their sea [...]