Archive for February, 2008

Still half out of it recovering from the flu, I caught a few blips crossing my Twitter stream about Jaiku being down. I yawned, assumed some server farm somewhere tanked, and haphazardly clicked a link to check it out. Yep, Jaiku is down. Only, it's not. The site is up, which means something is working [...]

FriendFeed seems to be the aggregator on everyone's Facebook profile these days. Made up entirely of ex-Googlers, it seems to have taken off, at least as my updates seem to keep telling me. Linking up feeds from 28 supported services (including the usual StumbleUpons, Twitters, YouTubes, and Flickrs), FriendFeed allows you to keep up with [...]

Revolution Money Exchange is trying to place itself as a viable alternative to money processing companies like PayPal and OboPay. One immediate advantage stands out right form the start – no fees if both parties are Money Exchange members. I can see that being a huge selling point in trying to woo business away from [...]

In a move that pundits say is preparing their organization to absorb Yahoo in the event of a successful hostile takeover, Microsoft has been playing musical executives. From the outside looking in, the moves seem to make little sense at first. Then it becomes apparent that Microsoft is strengthening its online executive base and positioning [...]

Watching the Yahoo layoffs on Tuesday as news of who was out hit Twitter and blogs was depressing, to say the least. But the biggest surprise, at least for me, was what appeared to be a decimation of Brickhouse, with Bradley Horowitz, head of Yahoo's Advanced Technology Division leaving for Google, and Salim Ismail, head [...]

Gamers have been waiting for more than two years for Spore, the release from Sims creator Will Wright that has been rumored to be vaporware. With a final release date given as September 7, 2008, the wait finally has an end date. But what does Spore have to do with Web 2.0? Spore will be [...]

The Yahoo shareholders aren't the only voices weighing in on the Yahoo boards rejection of Microsoft's hostile takeover bid. Microsoft has replied publicly now as well. The computer giant said it will push forward with its offer, however; it does not say whether it will increase its bid or not. From Microsoft representatives: “We are [...]

I wrote about Yahoo shareholders filing suit recently, calling Yahoo on the carpet for rejecting another bid from Microsoft a year before the recent $44 Billion offer. In response to Yahoo's board rejecting this current bid of $44 Billion, Yahoo shareholders have filed another suit. This lawsuit is the second one alleging Yahoo's board is [...]

TypeRoom, not what I had envisioned when I first heard the name. I, for reasons unknown even to myself had psychologically supposed it to be just another program to type text documents such as ThinkFree.  Founded by Reilly Sweetland, TypeRoom turns out to be a remote content management system that focuses on simple, scalable and [...]