Archive for November, 2008

Even Google makes mistakes from time to time and its own virtual reality Lively seems to be one of such mistakes. Today Google’s team working on Lively has admitted the mistake and announced the decision to shut Lively down explaining that the company needs to focus on its core lines of business – search, ads, [...]

As some of you may remember, over the weekend I published some of my thoughts about very visible increase in spam volumes that arrives in comments to blogs. I was not the only person noticing that and my idea was that spammers were trying to compensate for loss of email channel for spam after McColo [...]

Have you ever noticed that Twitter content is generally suitable for all audiences? For some reason everyone tries to stick to language that will not offend anyone and you will rarely see strong language used in tweets in public. And even when strong words are used, twitterers will often choose to mask them somehow not [...]

We have already heard voices in the blogosphere that media people (both bloggers and reporters from traditional media outlets) should be cautious about how we cover various economic events in these hard times as we are partly responsible for what our readers will think and how they will behave. And since it is hardly arguable [...]

It looks like Microsoft is ready to try and compete everywhere when it comes to software – same as Google now does everywhere online. Today’s announcement is the product code-named “Morro”, security software targeted at end users of Windows operating systems. The anti-malware product will be available as a free download for all users of [...]

Today Microsoft has announced price reduction for flash-based models of its music player and iPod competitor Zune. Of course it is quite understandable that everyone is looking for some ways to keep sales coming even when everything people think of is the financial crisis everywhere. To be specific, Zunes will now be sold for $99 [...]

Today at the Web2Asia conference in Guangzhou launch of a very promising new project is announced. The project is BloggerInsight and it is intended to facilitate entering Chinese market for international companies utilizing the power and intelligence Chinese bloggers possess. What is important, bloggers in the country are offered an interesting new opportunity to monetize [...]

As we now know, Jerry Yang is stepping down from his job as Yahoo CEO and the company has hired executive research firm Heidrick & Struggles to search for a replacement both internally and externally. One of the obvious candidates is Yahoo’s current president Sue Decker but sources told Kara Swisher Ms. Decker is not [...]

Facebook platform for third-party applications is rightfully considered to be the most open one for third-party developers to host their applications on platforms offered by the largest social networks. And it is no surprising as anyone could easily develop an application for just about anything based on Facebook API and see incredible viral growth for [...]