December 2006 Archives
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. During DEMOfall 06, we wrote about about the Retrevo vertical search engine for electronics. Retrevo is one of the more advanced
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John Milan's latest article for Read/WriteWeb explores the evolving software environment, with particular focus on Microsoft and Google. The article gets us to thinking: is Google the latest manifestation
Recently I came across a new magazine that is delivered via the Web - and utilizes a lot of Web native functionality in the process. It's called Avantoure and the
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Via Geekzone comes news of a 3D shopping mall, called The Mall Plus, that has just been released in New Zealand. After seeing this, memories of the mid to late
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Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus. This is the first in a two-part series. Update: Part 2 is now available. The most insidious thing about global warming
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An interesting update to our post earlier this week about fake Social Network user profiles, created for marketing purposes. A Flickr forum thread states that the Red Passion user (the
Yahoo has announced an event around Predictive Markets, called confab.yahoo. It's described as an "open micro-conference series" and is being run by Yahoo!’s Technology Development Group. The reason it caught
Recent Google acquisition JotSpot found itself the subject of unwanted attention this week, when an early customer complained of being shut out after the Google deal. A blog post by
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Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. A few weeks ago we were briefed by the co-founder of vFlyer, Oliver Muoto, about the changes and new features in
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