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- Dear Yahoo: You’re Fired
- As expected, Carl Icahn presented an alternate slate of directors for the upcoming Yahoo shareholder meeting. The letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock says it all:
- The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces
- Web 2.0 has brought many wonderful innovations and ideas to the Internet.We can no longer imagine the web without a social dimension, and we can no longer imaginean online world that is read-only - it is now
- 02138 Gets Bought; Humiliating Zuckerberg Pays Off
- The last time we talked about Harvard alumn magazine 02138, it was in connection with the ConnectU - Facebook lawsuit. Now the magazine that made their bones off the private details of Mark Zuckerberg, according to the Boston Globe, 02138
- Facebook’s New Sugar Mama: Virgin Mobile
- Leave it to Virgin Mobile to come up with some crazy marketing schemes that usually work. Some of you may remember the Sugar Mama program that launched back in 2006, that lets you earn minutes for your monthly wireless bill
- Adobe Releases Flash 10 Beta
- Adobe announced today the release of the Flash Player 10 beta, previously code named Astro, on the Adobe Labs site. The beta is available for download immediately at the Astro web page and adds
- Kontera Offers an Annoying and Profitable WordPress Plugin
- Kontera is a company that offers in-text and side-text marketing opportunities for those brands that are hoping to become a part of the discussions occurring on social media sites. They do this through a number of advertising methods, but most
- Haste is a form of violence.
- I’m an extremely fast paced person and I’m learning to calm down and chill out. In a book I picked up recently this sentence is repeated in every chapter: “Haste is a form of violence.”Those six words have slapped me
- The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect
- Facebook is all about openness and data portability, as long as that doesn’t involve openness or portability of data, it seems. Today they wrote a long 7 paragraph blog post to get a single point across: Facebook has banned Google’s
- Dude, William Shatner Totally Loves TechCrunch
- Autograph sports and celebrity memorabilia is a $1 billion/year business in the U.S. alone. The problem is, up to 90% of it is counterfeit.Enter Los Angeles based LiveAutographs, a site that sells celebrity autographs that are guaranteed to be authentic
- Twitter, Tina Fey, and the Future of Micro-Blogging
- This guest post was contributed by Bernard Moon, who authors the blog Silicon Moon.When the sitcom “30 Rock” began its run, some of my friends weren’t wild about Tina Fey, the show’s star and creator, saying she should “stay in
- Google Maps lets loose a Flash-y API
- Google has released a Google Maps application program interface (API) for Flash, so that developers can use the mapping software in their Flash applications.Weve designed it so that Flash graphics can be used for each tile layer, marker and info
- Why CBS Bought CNET, And Not The Other Way Around
- 1999: CNET is a $12 billion companyJanuary 2000: CNET Aquires MySimon for $700 millionOctober 2000: CNET Acquires Ziff Davis (ZDNet) for $1.6 billion (after the March 2000 stock crash)July 2004: CNET Acquires Webshots for $70 millionOctober 2004: CNET Sells Webshots
- Breaking: CBS to Acquire CNET for $1.8 Billion
- Just hitting the wires -- CBS to acquire CNET for $1.8 billion. Heres the release:CBS to Become a Top Ten U.S. Internet Company with Unparalleled Content and Reach, Boasting Approximately 200 Million Monthly Unique Users Worldwide CNET Networks CNET, ZDNet,
- CBS To Acquire CNET For $1.8 Billion
- “The core businesses of CNET Networks and CBS Interactive represent near perfect category symmetry in premium online content,” Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive. And that symmetry is apparently worth about $1.8 billion, which is what CBS just agreed to pay
- Poll: Will You Still Use Plaxo?
- Since we reported yesterday that cable and Internet provider Comcast had acquired social address book Plaxo for an estimated $150 million, weve been fielding a lot of comments and emails -- most of them
- CNET CEO: “This Is An Exciting Day For Us”
- CNET CEO Neil Ashe, who has been accused of “presiding over massive value destruction” will go down in history as the guy that was forced to sell CNET out to an old media dinosaur. But at least he’s given CNET’s
- Animoto: When Using Amazon Web Services Gets You Funding
- Animoto, web app for creating videos out of photos and music has received funding from Amazon. The amount of money invested was not disclosed. The service uses Amazon Web Services (S3 in particular) to scale its application which quickly gained
- Why Buying CNet Makes Sense for CBS
- Well JANA Partners may not have been happy with the direction being taken over at CNet Networks, but CBS has given the company its $1.8 billion stamp of approval. Taken at face value, it might seem like a crazy deal,
- Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web
- Gen Y is taking over. The generation of young adults thats compromised of the children of Boomers, Generation Jones, and even some Gen Xers, is the biggest generation since the Baby Boomers and three times the size of
- Print 2.0 Experiment Brijit Goes Belly Up
- In a tragic and surprising turn of events, Brijit, one of the most interesting startups on the web, has announced that the company has run out of money and will cease operations until more funding is found. Brijit
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- Five Tools Everyone Working Online Should Have
- The number of people whose work is touched by the internet these days is hard to imagine. Many of us have been working full-time online for a while, but for the vast majority of people online today
- The 5 Stages of a Consumer Web Startup
- In my years covering technology, I’ve gotten more than my fair share of pitches related to the latest consumer Internet startup. Thanks to this I’ve been able to witness what amounts to be a near-familiar life cycle for these companies.
- Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday
- Don’t they say good things come in threes? Well, regardless, we’ve heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull
- 11 Biz Dev 1.0 Tips
- ReadWriteWebs Alex Iskold recently described modern Biz Dev 2.0 techniques that do not involve knocking on doors and talking to people. The Internet is great at automating routine transactions and more software is being
- Sneak Peak At Android Apps Out of MIT
- A class at MIT built some mobile apps for Google’s Android operating system and presented them today. CrunchGear’s own superblogger Doug Aamoth reports on the seven apps—loco, Flare, GeoLife, Re:public, Locale, Kei, and snap—that he saw. Below is a slightly
- Share Your Links With Mento; We’ve Got 500 Invites
- The tagging and link-sharing market has no shortage of competition, but that doesn’t seem to be deterring many developers. Mento, which has just launched in an invite-only beta, is the latest to arrive on the scene, sporting a very well
- Xobni: Our Path from ‘Wrong Product’ to Killer App
- Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a three-part series authored by Xobni’s VP of engineering, Gabor Cselle. Read a longer version (co-written with Marie C. Baca ) on Cselle’s blog starting Monday. I run product development at Xobni,
- Facebook Borrows $100 Million to Buy Servers
- Facebook is about to spend big on upgrading its infrastructure. According to Business Week, the social network has closed a deal to take a $100 million loan (“venture lending”), all of which will be spent on new servers. Facebook gives
- Friendfeed's Business Model Will Look Like Google's
- I love Friendfeed. However, I am far more enthusiastic about the platforms robust RSS and search capabilities than its current value proposition as a universal social aggregator. I find it generates too much noise at times, but when you tap
- What's the Future Like for a "Renaissance Man" in a Connected World?
- Anyone who knows me well would never call me a Renaissance Man, which from here on in I will call a Polymath to keep this post gender-neutral. A Polymath is a person with encyclopedic,
- Facebook Raises Another $100 Million
- Facebook is raising $100 million in debt, reports VentureBeat and Business Week. bringing their total capital raised to nearly half a billion dollars.This most recent round will be used to scale the service via another 50,000 or so servers. Facebook
- No More iPhones at Apple Store - 3G Imminent?
- The Apple online store has stopped selling iPhones completely, stating they are currently unavailable. What does it mean? In some way I’m inclined to say “not much.” Apple rarely telegraphs its moves this far in advance. However, since O2 in
- Is Pownce Developing An MP3 Player?
- Daniel Burka, co-founder and head designer for Pownce, has generated some buzz by posting a screenshot teaser of an upcoming release (shown above).From what we can see in the shot - a search box, an upload link, and parts of
- Yahoo’s Answer to Google’s Universal Search is Glue (Coming Soon to America)
- Sometimes the only way to get new products out the door at a big company like Yahoo is to launch it far away from HQ. That’s what happened with Yahoo Glue, a new way to present search results more visually
- Let's Discuss Disqus
- We initially reviewed comment replacement system Disqus when it launched last October. Disqus is basically a "smarter" way to handle comments on a blog, microblog or traditional Web site. Intense Debate offers
- Top 10 Social Networking Sites for Women
- Honoring mother’s day, we thought it would be nice to do another round up. This time, we have some of the most popular social networking sites for women. This is not a definitive list, but rather our choice of what’s
- 20+ Tools For The Best Mother’s Day Ever
- Mother’s Day, that one day each year we set aside to thank our mothers for all they do for us. It isn’t always easy to think of what you can do to honor her in an appropriate way, so we’ve
- The Stats Explain Why We Don't Read Banner Ads (And What We Can Do)
- Jakob Nielsen recently published two interesting research statistics that help explain why display ads dont work.First, Jakob says we read a very small amount of the text on most pages. Apparently
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- Innovation requires a fascination with wonder “Whenever we initiate change, even a positive one, we activate fear in our emotional brain. If the fear is big enough, the fight-or-flight response will go off and we’ll run from what we’re trying
- Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce
- Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years.
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- Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications
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- Five Tools Everyone Working Online Should Have
- The number of people whose work is touched by the internet these days is hard to imagine. Many of us have been working full-time online for a while, but for the vast majority of people online today
- Google I/O Coming Soon, Free Passes Now
- Hardly a week goes by these days without an API or other developer-related announcement from Google. And given that they now have over 35 different APIs as well as whole platforms like Android, Google will be
- Start a business, not a startup
- Startups can bring new ideas to market. They can give people a chance to change the world on their own terms. They can create something where nothing existed before. There is no doubt that they are exciting things to be
- Even if Twitter Just a Geek Haven, It's Still Very Influential
- Theres been an interesting discussion over the last few days about Twitters reach. WSJ reporter Kara Swisher surveyed her dinner party and found out that no one there uses the micro-blogging site. Meanwhile Gina Trapani on Lifehacker is running a
- A peek at In/Out, an internal app at 37signals
- For about the last year we’ve been using an internal app we developed called In/Out. This tool grew out of our need to keep track of what people are doing right now, plus the last few things people have completed.We
- Episode 43 - Creating Passionate Users
- Josh and Adam sat down with Kathy Sierra to talk about creating passionate users, building web apps, and tasty planner.This edition of The Web 2.0 Show is brought to you by the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, with special
- Worst Secret Keeper Ever
- My passwords are so confidential I’m going to write them down on this notepad that says TOP SECRET PASSWORDS. I mean it – these passwords need to be kept SECURE and PRIVATE, so I’m going to WRITE THEM DOWN and
- The Power of Niche Social Network Sites
- Just ran across an interesting site the other day: Ravelry.com. Ravelry is an online “knit and crochet community”. A site for knitters? What will they think of next…a site for dog owners? The reason why these sites seem so alien
- 25 Finance APIs
- Among the 25 finance-related APIs now listed on ProgrammableWeb, there are services from old and new companies, and large and small companies. For example, the venerable Dun and Bradstreet offers the Dun and Bradstreet Credit Check
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- Three Emerging Digital Careers to Watch
- About a month ago, I wrote about three career tracks that wont exist in a few years - at least as I see it. Now lets take a look at three emerging digital jobs that will become increasingly important in
- Map your mind 2.0
- At the Web 2.0 Expo I was pushed hard to cover the new Web-based mind mapping tool, Spinscape. The pitch I got was half demo, half introduction to the topic. Im a big fan of outliner apps (I miss Grandview
- Twitter API Goes Geo
- Thanks to some new API updates, one can now update the Location field in a Twitter users profile using the Twitter API.
- A minimalist, natural approach to kitchens from Hansen Living
- We’ll be posting something about design for the home (or architecture) every day this week.Hansen Living offers a minimalist, natural approach to kitchens that’s worth a look. Apartment Therapy took a luck at the company’s interesting approach: 1. They get
- Two Worth Watching: Boston Web Studio and Social Media for Social Change Blog
- A bit of local news to share with you:Boston Web Studio: Marc Amos, whom I met through local meetups, has taken the plunge and is now an independent web designer/developer specializing in creating attractive, modern, accessible web sites that appeal
- The Decline and Fall of Tech on Digg
- If youre a fan of digg, youve probably been noticing that tech stories are becoming less and less a feature of the social news site. The reason? Digg is attempting to attract a large mainstream user base.
- Email From Steve Ballmer To All Microsoft Employees
- The following email was sent to all Microsoft employees from CEO Steve Ballmer at 5:17 pm PDT (see Breaking: Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal):From: Steve Ballmer Date: May 3, 2008 5:17:30 PM PDTTo: “Microsoft - All Employees
- Real People Don't Have Time for Social Media
- Lets be honest here: were all a bunch of social media addicts. Were junkies. Whether its a new Twitter app, a new Facebook feature, or a new social anything service, were all over it. But we may not
- Google’s REST API for Search
- In the beginning, there was the Google (SOAP) Search API. In December 2006, Google no longer issued any new keys for this API. Those with keys already could still use the API, but it was effectively