Archive for February, 2008

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer must be jealous of the media attention received by the man filling his Attorney General shoes got this week with the passage this week of the pointless E-Stop legislation. That's the only explanation I can think of for his new plan to require companies to collect New York State sales [...]

CNN bought into the citizen journalism movement 18 months ago with iReport, but most user-created submissions have never made it to the site. Later this week, however, CNN will launch iReport.com, a site that will contain solely user-created content, from videos to photos to stories. Unlike the iReport feature, however, the content on iReport.com will [...]

It seems clear that the Yahoo board is delusional. There is just no other way to describe it aside from out-of-touch, clueless, or just plain crazy. They turned down the Microsoft offer. Fine, we get it. Big bad Microsoft would cramp your free-wheeling style that has had you, the first big search and portal online, [...]

I'm a big collector of THINGS: books, music, foreign currency, vintage fashion dolls, etc. A long while back I actually ran a collector site, and thought about building an app that people could use to track their collections and estimate a secondary market value for their items. Of course, I had kids instead, but was [...]

The sale of stolen historical items online has been a problem since sites like eBay began. eBay is not liable for stolen items being sold on its site, after all, how could they possibly have a way to find out what is legitimate and what is stolen? However, in a gesture of responsibility and goodwill, [...]

Holding out for more money, Yahoo's board of directors has officially rejected Microsoft's $44 Billion USD Bid for the struggling company. The board stated that the bid didn't put enough value on their company, in spite of its recent financial struggles. The rejection by the board comes shortly after their shareholders launched a lawsuit for [...]

OpenID technology is a viable way to make handling your online identities easier and more secure. It has been slowly gaining momentum, helped recently by beleaguered company Yahoo’s adoption of an OpenID style log in for its many web properties. OpenID got another boost recently when a slew of heavy hitters finally decided to jump [...]

Thursday night, the first face-to-face meeting was held at the RapLeaf offices in California or those involved in the Data Portability Group, including Chris Saad (Faraday Media), Daniela Barbosa (Dow Jones), J. Sullivan (Mozilla), Mike McKenna (Yahoo), Marc Canter, Tod Sampson (MyBlogLog), Steve Williams (Digg), Ben Metcalfe, David Recordon (Six Apart), Joseph Smarr (Plaxo), J. [...]

ZocDoc, a company that launched last September at TechCrunch40, is adding additional services to their site next week on February 14 with the addition of general practitioners to the site, which, up to now, has only serviced dentists in Manhattan. I had the opportunity to speak with ZocDoc CEO and Co-Founder Cyrus Massoumi about the [...]