Posts Tagged with ‘cnet’

I can't decide whether I'm more tired of talking about Twitter 's ups and downs or the actual rollercoaster ride that is Twitter's service as of late.  Luckily, I'm not the only person who has to make that decision, and there are plenty of other bloggers willing to weigh in. 
For those who have been living under a social-media void rock, Twitter's service is fairly spotty.  On again, off again.  The Twitter team has gone about the outages in a [...]

I'm starting to think I may just want to skip right over the rest of 2008 and start fresh in 2009 when companies come to their senses. First HP decides to acquire support service dinosaur EDS, then Comcast snaps up Plaxo (all the better to throttle your bandwidth AND that of your social graph, my pretties!), and now CBS buys CNET.
I'm sure CNET is ecstatic about the news; several of their properties have been financially struggling now for what seems [...]

Odds are that any additional articles I write today will be site reviews, because today is my least favorite day of the year as a tech blogger. Beyond my usual schedule of getting Rick rolled at least once a day by someone, I am now stuck with sifting through my feeds trying to determine what's actual news and what's an April Fool's Day prank.
Of course, since this has become a tech blogosophere tradition, many blogs are determined to get out [...]

If you pay any attention at all to the tech blogosphere, you'll notice that there have been several recurrent themes lately. One is the concept of A-listers in any community. While Guy Kawasaki shares the CNET study which feels that information has more of a diamond shape than a pyramid, which information trickling down from the A-listers at the point, Alex Iskold over at ReadWriteWeb notes that the 80-20 rule is in play on Twitter, with 80% of the [...]

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 Robert Scoble, so Twitter lit up like a Christmas tree with the news that Revision3 was bought for $57 million. Tweets from early this morning (1 [...]

Add another Web 2.0 company to the dead pool; AllPeers has announced that their service shut down today, with the splash page now nothing more than a link to the blog as well as a “condolences” email link to the company email.
AllPeers was probably a bit before its time and way underpromoted aside from its initial entry. Designed as a browser plug-in, it allowed you to select folders that contained files that could be shared, specify who could access the [...]

Not everyone who has browsed a job board is actually unemployed. In fact, some people who peruse listings of available jobs online are quite intent with their current positions, but would just like to see what's available.
That is the theory behind itzbig's new job search tool, which allows working technology professionals to privately explore the other career opportunities that are available around them. Essentially designed as a sort of employment matchmaker, itzbig targets, as the company calls it, the “Quiet Working Professional, [...]

There’s still quite a bit of noise traveling to and fro on the Web about SoundExchange’s perceived 11th-hour “change of heart” last Thursday evening, concerning Webcasters and the company’s proposed royalty rate hike increase. The new numbers were to be put into effect today, though it would be tomorrow – Monday July 16th 2007 – that Webcasters both big and small and in between would begin to pay increased amounts plus fees established retroactively to 2006. The rates were to [...]

Judge Terence Evans of the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals took it upon himself this week to cite a YouTube video in an opinion written about a case involving a trademark dispute between companies. Over the “Stealth” label, apparently. I’m still not quite sure exactly what the argument was about.
The topic at hand isn’t what triggered my interest in the story. I neither watch nor follow nor take the slightest interest in the game of baseball. It’s the [...]