Tech Now Has Its Own RIAA. Meesa Scared!

Today marks the launch of The Internet Association , a laudable effort from a number of prominent Internet technology companies to address our industry’s...

Jeff Bezos, Ray Ozzie and Pierre Omidyar on Workspace

Continuing from yesterday’s look at the soundtrack to the creation of Lotus Notes, we can look more at the physical space where it was created. For contrast,...

Kindle Wonder

A few brief thoughts upon the announcement of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader: Given that even my most skeptical friends have literally been desperate for ebooks...

100 Perfect Pixels: Amazon's Gold Box

This is the second post in a series where I’m pointing out some nice little touches that take up less than a 100×100 pixel square on a screen. Today’s is the...

Would You Like Some Links?

I enjoy links myself, so I thought you might want some too. Here, then: Graphs as art : Werner Vogels picks up the site graph meme with some nice visualizations...

Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack": Pop for indie rock MP3 blogs

Four years is a long time in pop music, but that’s how long it’s been since Justin Timberlake’s “Like I Love You” heralded his launch as a solo singer and led...

Crashing in the Pacific

Needless to say, after watching the first season of Lost as well as all the episodes of the season thus far, we’ve become fans of the series. I’m not a huge...

Everyone Must Have Tags!

Looks like Amazon’s in the midst of a rollout of tags on product pages . It’s not the first dabbling Amazon’s done in the technology, of course, since they were...

Spare Some Change for the Times?

So, the New York Times announced that they’re moving some content behind a paywall , and of course the chorus of “oh noes!” overshadowed any other messages they...

Make Money Fast

I guess ad space on blogs is worth something. Remember back when Google wouldn’t let bloggers run AdSense on their sites? Now they’re spamming people to...

housekeeping notes

Steven’s lament is particularly timely for me… If you’ve been waiting on an email from me at any time since Friday night, my apologies, as I’ve been having...

Return of the Dot-Coms

It’s been a few years since I had a dot-com that I really, really liked. Sure, we’ve had Amazon and Google looking out for us these past few years, but it was...