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16 Aug
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01 Dec
Um, sir, you’ll have to pay for that.
Last week brought the “announcements” that the Providence Journal thinking about possibly monetizing it’s content and that Twitter is probably going to offer a paid business account soonish that would offer analytics. A sign of the economic times or a factor of inevitability… In an interview Jonathan Fildes for BBC News, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone […] -
10 Nov
My Sunday Morning and the Boston Globe
Adam Here: On Sunday morning I woke up before the kids, grabbed my cup of coffee, sat at the kitchen table and read the Boston Globe section by section, folding and flipping while the tips of my fingers slowly turned gray… Wait wait wait, that isn’t exactly how it went. With mug in hand, I […] -
19 Aug
APPLE TRIES TO KILL STEVE JOBS STORY IN SUNDAY TIMES
“Apple hates personality stuff and press intrusion. ‘We want to discourage profiles’. Strong words from an Apple PR. Apparently Apple didn’t want the Sunday Times to publish the 4000 word plus profile for the fact that it may reveal more about jobs past, present, and future than the company is willing to disclose. I think […] -
12 Aug
Facebook – Short & Sweet
So Facebook has ‘accidentally’ disclosed that it has plans for a new site, dubbed Facebook lite. Unlike the current Facebook site, Facebook lite offers users a simplified, no-frills Facebook experience – eerily similar to Twitter, Facebooks biggest competitor. But Facebook claims that its new chip-off-the-old-block is merely the manifestation of a solution to many worldwide […] -
08 Aug
Wanted: New Internet Homepage
Wanted: New Internet Homepage For years my browser’s homepage has been http://www.boston.com/. Well not any more after reading this article The Boston Globe will soon begin charging for its website, publisher P. Steven Ainsley told the paper’s union bosses. What will I do? Where will I find my news? (insert sarcasm here) I used to get […] -
07 Aug
IE6 No More?
The campaign asks sites to include code that detects IE6 visitors and encourages them to upgrade to Firefox, IE8, or Google Chrome. On Tuesday the movement composed of around a dozen sites, today that number exceeds 70 participants. The sites jumping on board are by no means insignificant: they include established internet startups, consulting firms […] -
06 Aug
Google Buys Web Video Software Firm
Google, on Wednesday, anounced that it has agreed to buy On2 Technologies, which sells video compression software, in a stock deal valued at about $106 million. The per-share price was 57 percent above On2’s closing stock price on Tuesday, and On2’s shares soared on the news. Similar to Google’s 2006 acquisition of YouTube at a […] -
05 Aug
FledgeWing – the LinkedIn For College Students
No ambitious young person wants to wait until graduation to start working on projects, developing ideas, and building teams. As a case in point, consider how many success stories from the dotcom and Web 2.0 eras have begun with brilliant twenty-somethings dropping out of college to pursue their passions. Speaking directly to this concern (or […] -
29 Jul
If you can’t beat ’em, join your next biggest Compeditor, THEN beat ’em!
In an industry dominated by one company – Google, trying to take some of that market share from the heavy hitter is not always as easy as it may seem. After Microsoft’s failed attempt at buying Yahoo’s search engine for a reported 47.5 Billion dollars, the two have decided to create a partnership that will […]