Posts Tagged with ‘news’

Today Me.dium is announcing full compatibility with IE-7. Me.dium has been available for Firefox and Flock since February and the Explorer version has been much anticipated. In addition, the developers have created a widget that applies Me.dium's “real time” window to blogs and other pages.
The new widget may well steal the news, as this tool extends [...]

Why is everybody ragging on Rocketboom?
Jason Calacanis, formerly of AOL, was heard talking down Rocketboom on a recent episode of the TWiT podcast due to its supposed lack of substance (while making sure to direct listeners time and again to keep an eye out for a daily video show currently being prepped [...]

We talked with Derek Peplau Senior Product Manager of WebEx on Thursday about their WebEx mail product launch. WebEx's WebOffice expands on-demand productivity even further with this addition of a fully integrated business class mail service. WebEx products and services are highly diverse and widely considered the premier online “go-to” online solution for small to medium sized [...]

News of online crime crosses my screen every day as I am sure it does yours. It seems everyone is touched by this most negative aspect of our Web culture. These events transgress not only our digital existence, but the much more vulnerable physical one as well. The most heinous of these crimes, at least [...]

My old favorite YouTube seems to be chugging along according to the news today. According to statistics from a Hitwise, Inc traffic data, from January to May the market share of visits to YouTube rose 70 percent even in light of the site's legal woes. The next closest site was News Corp's MySpace Video according [...]

Web radio stations all across the United States will be observing a "Day of Silence" today in protest of the U.S. government's intention to raise royalties to record companies and artists. The protest was organized by Kurt Hanson who publishes the Radio and Internet Newsletter. The participating stations want users to take note of what [...]

I got a little scoop today from our friends at Powerset Powerlabs. Since the news release of Powerlabs readers have expressed a rather insatiable desire to see something from inside the Powerset development. Today the Powerset blog has announced that their front end is being launched in Ruby - the object oriented programming language. We are very [...]

Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel announced he is stepping down and that Co-founder Jerry Yang will be assuming the every day duties of chief executive. Yahoo! has faced some tough times over the last couple of years and the company's investors have become increasingly restless as Yahoo!'s growth has continued to slow. Shares of Yahoo! have [...]

I was visiting the hakia blog today and found an interesting post by Melek Pulatkonak their COO. Recent privacy problems in the news and particularly Google's "issues" in this area have prompted much discussion. According to this blog article hakia has initiated a second "Search for Better Search" conversation with these critical and debated issues [...]