Archive for February, 2008

Still not sure widgets are a must-have for any Internet company? AOL will announce today that they have acquired Goowy, a company that allows you to create your own widgets (a la Widgetbox) as well as the Goowy Webtop, a suite of online apps that was long ago surpassed by the yourminis platform. AOL has [...]

Remember Yahoo! Unlimited, the premium music service run by Yahoo? Neither did we. In light of the poor performance of the music service, the company's financial woes and the recent interest in the company, Yahoo! closed the service. The handful of subscribers remaining in the Yahoo! Unlimited pool will be transfered to Yahoo's new preferred [...]

Leave it to Google to post their response to Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo on Super Bowl Sunday; were they hoping that the mainstream press would let it go by or were they hoping to detract from even that holiest of American holidays? Posted today at 11:45 Google Time by David Drummond, Google Senior Vice [...]

New Jersey State Law requires coverage of mental illness only if it's biologically based. Once you get past that antiquated mentality that probably allows medical insurance companies to dodge coverage on a whim, you have to wonder how they would go about proving that a condition was biologically based. According to Horizon Blue Cross Blue [...]

Wi-Fi Rail, an internet access start up, has been testing their mobile WiFi service on the San Francisco subway system. They claim that their service will offer Internet access to people on the subway at speeds much faster than their own home broadband access. So far WiFi Rail has run their tests at various subway [...]

edgeio, which launched its classified ad platform a little under a year ago, has finally sold its assets, directing all inquiries to Looksmart and Vast. edgeio had secured $6.5 million (USD) in funding prior to its collapse, but when the money ran out in December, revenue wasn't sufficient to keep the company afloat, nor secure [...]

If some of the latest funding news is any indication, widgets are the newest must-have for every content-driven site as well as Web 2.0 apps. Widgetbox allows users to create their own widgets, which can then be used on blogs and other web pages for everything from highlighting the RSS feed of another blog to [...]

Google has announced the release of its Social Graph API to developers. The Social Graph API is a tool designed to help users find and add their social connections each time they sign on to a new network. It searches for data on your connections across the internet. The API should make it easier for [...]

In today's news was an article on sites that are cropping up all over the internet that promise to protect your reputation online. This started me thinking about online reputation and personal responsibility in the face of an ever shrinking online world. At what point does our personal responsibility for our own online reputation end? [...]