May 2007 Archives
digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Yahoo_s_New_Mission_It_s_About_the_People'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Google's mission statement has long been "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Last night,
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Amazon announced today that they will begin selling DRM-free MP3 music downloads from over 12,000 labels, the largest being EMI. EMI, of course, was the first major record label to
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We're midway through the week and this week's poll has thrown up some interesting results so far. We asked: among the big Internet companies/orgs, whose web app deployment platform do
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_s_Potential_Vulnerability_An_Open_Ad_Network'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Robert Scoble recently wrote an interesting post, about FOG - Fear of Google (an acronym coined by CEO of eMarketer
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http://netsearchengine.net announced today the launch of its new search engine. netsearchengine.net is a network of twenty vertical search engines - and users can suggest new sites or vote on
digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Are_Social_Bookmarking_Sites_Better_at_Search_than_Google'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; I have long thought that social bookmarking and ranking sites like del.icio.us, digg, and StumbleUpon could be used to enhance
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A new study from Forrester Research predicts that online video download services will see sales peak this year, as consumers move other sources of online video. Read/WriteWeb reported yesterday that
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digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Meebo_Rooms_Launched_like_a_very_very_rich_widget'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Tonight meebo is launching Meebo Rooms, a rich media chat room product that users can put on their blogs and
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digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/ChaCha_and_blinkx_Announce_Partnership'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Today, popular search engines ChaCha and blinkx announced an exciting new partnership, to add a video search feature to ChaCha's
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This week's poll is based on our current feature post, Understanding Apollo. In that post, I attempted to provide an overview of Apollo for non-developers. At the end, I looked
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