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No one can escape Google's roving eyes — not even the Twitterati! Pierre Omidyar, Ryan Block, John Byrne, and others used Twitter to rid themselves of whatever scraps of private dignity...
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newVideoPlayer("/mary.flv", 506, 423,"");Mary Rambin, colon cleanse enthusiast and until this week, one third of dating columnist Julia Allison's egoblogging startup, would like to shoot one of this...
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The integration of shopping and social networking features is not a new phenomenon. eBay launched eBay Neighborhoods a few years ago, Hearst acquired social shopping service Kaboodle, and there's Jellyfish, which was bought by Microsoft. Retailers themselves have half-heartedly embraced social networking as a marketing tool, adding branded Facebook pages, creating profiles on social networks and posting ads.
Interactive online retail marketing agency Fluid Inc. hopes to take this one step...
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Forget the pundits. If you want to know the real odds of something happening or not, follow the money. And at least one online bookie is saying that it's more than 50% likely that someone will acquire Twitter this year.
Panama based BetOnline is letting people place bets on whether or not Twitter is acquired in 2009. They're paying even money on a Google acquisition, the most likely suitor. Facebook pays 5 to 1, Microsoft pays 10 to 1 and Yahoo pays 20 to 1. If anyone else buys them it pays 5...
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How do engineers decide which jobs to take in Silicon Valley? It's a complex algorithm involving money, friends, hype, and free food. Nowhere in the equation: slick videos. That's why Facebook's...
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Ever wonder how much computer-book publisher Tim O'Reilly gets to flap his mouth at conferences about how everything should be free? His flack revealed it to the world last night via Twitter (of...
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This Tesla-related story is now bordering on the absurd. In November the New York Times trashed Tesla in a much criticized article by Randall Stross (now retitled and rewritten, trying to get a copy of the original). In ?Only the Rich Can Afford It. Should Taxpayers Back It?? Stross attacks Tesla for requesting government loans along with the rest of the car industry, saying ?Can you conceive any way that federal dollars could be put at greater risk ? and for no equity in return, keep in mind ?...
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The DiggBar, Digg's browser-based toolbar for digging and sharing content, has seen a tidal wave of controversy since its release last week. The problem for many site publishers is that it frames content within the DiggBar itself, meaning that users aren't actually on your site, but are looking at a frame of your site while staying on Digg's servers. And the DiggBar also acts as a URL shortener, but does so using a 200 redirect rather than the preferred 301 permanent redirect that other...
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While I had sworn off spending willy-nilly on new gizmos in 2009, it looks like the $99-dollar PogoPlug is going to test my self-control. Why? It turns any USB-enabled drive into a personal storage locker accessible over the Internet. The little device hooks up to a local storage device via USB and can be connected [...]
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As super-fast, Long Term Evolution wireless networks are deployed, some are questioning whether carriers even need 4G femtocells to boost coverage in the home. A post this week over at Unstrung adds fuel to the debate by pointing out that with femtocells, bandwidth speeds are only as fast as their slowest link, which means [...]
