Archive for December, 2008

The expert in all things related to rich people Forbes has published a list of billionaires who are also bloggers. And while the title “The Billionaire Bloggers” may sound encouraging to some suggesting that these people made their huge money blogging, the truth is that the only thing the article proves is that you can [...]

For the last two days I’ve been trying to figure out what I myself was supposed to say about LeWeb conference in Paris watching many negative comments on blogs and on Twitter. I attended the event last year and enjoyed it pretty much (could enjoy it even more had it not been for the chilly [...]

Earlier today Google made public their usual year-end Zeitgeist 2008 which reveals the search terms that have been rising quickly in popularity during the year. And of course it was difficult not to notice (and not to focus on) one fact: rather surprising top position of Sarah Palin. Quite understandably, it could not leave the [...]

There’s an interesting Firefox addon I wanted to introduce to everyone today, it is called Feeds in a Box and is intended to help you easier consume all the content you happen to consume online – without interrupting your web browsing experience yet staying informed of everything that matters to you. The addon will bring [...]

Today marks an important day for the world wide web with Google finally deciding that international users of the internet are as important (well, almost as important) as US users so the statistics about what people in these countries are interested in may be as interesting as the same stats for the US users only. [...]

Of course there can be different approaches to determining best something in a group of similar items. So we can choose different criteria to determine which Facebook applications are the best: number of users, number of active users, users voting or whatever. But I think when an application’s developers are given a huge amount of [...]

Advertising is the primary revenue source for the majority of online publishers who don’t sell anything or charge a subscription. Analyst briefings and blog posts are predicting a gloomy ad market for the year ahead. What does this mean for publishers? What’s important is separating fact from hype, and sifting out the hidden opportunities. Unfortunately, [...]

Of course no one will argue that there are certain types of online content that are growing into a huge problem, especially with porn getting a prominent placement on multiple online properties. This problem is disturbing enough for various legal actions to be taken to protect internet users from being exposed to objectionable content but [...]

Today Gmail team has announced addition of yet another feature in Gmail Labs: it’s called Tasks and is intended to do exactly what the name suggests – manage your tasks as your To-Do list integrated right into your email. Of course you should not expect to find a full-featured solution as it is understandably limited [...]