Archive for March, 2008

Everyone is all excited about the new Yahoo offering called Yahoo Buzz. ReadWriteWeb has talked about how they love it not once, but twice. TechCrunch seems pretty happy as well, and Duncan Riley spent most of the weekend Tweeting about the number of comments he was receiving on his article that made the site. ReadWriteWeb [...]

It seems every week there is a new country blocking YouTube. When Pakistan did, it took out most of the world's access to the site, but now it's China's turn. In addition to YouTube, most news sites are being censored with a keyword block. Any page that contains words such as “Tibet” or “Dalai Lama” [...]

Is it the end of old media as we know it?* R.E.M. has a new album dropping 1 April, but for those of us already using iLike with iTunes or our Facebook or MySpace accounts, we are in luck; 11 tracks from the album will be available for streaming and sharing a week from today [...]

The first step to ending the snarling face off was taken when Microsoft and Yahoo executives finally met in person to discuss the hostile takeover bid Microsoft made for the struggling internet company. Hopefully, talks between the two diverse companies will go well, turning a hostile takeover into something more akin to a merger or [...]

Tired of the news you are finding on Digg and Slashdot? Convinced that you are smarter than the combined user base of those two and Fark? Numbrosia thinks they have the solution: merit-based news submissions. With Numbrosia, gone are the “everyone votes” models of Digg and Fark, as well as the editorial control of Slashdot. [...]

It seems to be FaceBook's plan to continue expanding as the primary destination for social networking needs. That being the case, they've been missing a few key components that their competitors, like MySpace, already offer. One of these has been a viable instant messaging service. Recent rumors have surfaced that FaceBook has been working on [...]

It's Saturday night, and like any tech geek, I'm online, reading news and following the Twitter stream when I see a Tweet that CNET has bought Revision3. Now, this rumor was first floated back in December 2007 when CNET added Revision3 content, and has popped up since then occasionally in blogs. The source, however, was [...]

Okay, I'll admit it. I love Skitch. And I've been hoping they would do something new that would give me even the tiniest excuse to write about them. Of course, I had to read all about it on the Twitter blog, because they didn't send anything out to their users, but I can only assume [...]

If you are anything like me, RSS feeds are a constant part of your daily life. I use them for a variety of things from finding news for work to tracking my own and others' writing online. I even have my daily agenda and television shows in RSS feeds to remind me of various tasks [...]