Technology Timeline

19Dec

$400K for a watch .. WTF!

I realize that watch collectors are a breed unto themselves. Who else do you ...

Has hard work gone the way of the Dodo bird?

When I was growing up hard work was the accepted norm. From the age of ...

Bush Shoe Throwing Game Site Sold For $7,818

Remember the site we highlighted yesterday offering an interactive game of ...

Meebo Unveils Support For MySpace and Facebook IM

Meebo is on quite a roll this year. The messaging service announced a deal ...

Scribd Snags Bebo Exec, Fresh Funding

Scribd, the online document sharing service, has secured new funding and a ...

Socialmedian acquired by Xing

Social sharing service Socialmedian has been acquired by European business ...

18Dec

Christmas Gift: Speed Cheetah Red Light Camera Detector

Radar detection units have evolved from their early days as huge car mounted ...

12seconds gets an iPhone app, opens to public

Short video service 12seconds has launched a video slideshow iPhone app that ...

WordPress 2.7 breaks category feeds (and apologies if you got the wrong content)

The Inquisitr is now running WordPress 2.7, the “Coltrane” ...

How many ways can I tell you this is a f#@*ing bad idea

I am a strong proponent for bloggers trying to monetize their work. There is ...

New York City Gets a Google Earth Makeover

Google Earth has given New York City a major makeover, and the difference is ...

17Dec

PartyGaming Head Guilty of allowing Americans to Gamble

Anurag Dikshit, the founder of the online gaming site PartyGaming has ...

$800,000 for financial Twitter Mashup StockTwits

StockTwits, a service that indexes stock and financial related messages from ...

Michael Arrington: Evil Genius

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington writes today that he’s tired of ...

Where to Find the IE Patch (KB960714)

Microsoft has officially released the Internet Explorer patch to fix the ...

New Yorker’s to be left bleeding by nickel & dime tax plan

Sure it’s hard to close a $15.4 billion budget gap but New York ...

Limited Offer: Free Live Streaming Video API For Your Web Site

Interactive video streaming site Stickam is now offering an API ...

Social Bookmark Site Tagged Set For Expansion

Tagged, a multimedia-oriented social bookmark site, has secured $5 million ...

Yahoo: We’ll Only Keep Your Data For 3 Months

Yahoo is cutting back the amount of time it hangs onto your data and hoping ...

16Dec

Are bloggers & social networks killing the big shows?

I’ve noticed a trend lately (actually I noticed it back when I worked at ...

Facebook launches Facebook Connect Plugin Directory

The war between Google and Facebook over social connections continues with a ...

Twingly: Nice Try, shame about the results

Swedish blog search engine Twingly has decidedto take on Technorati with its ...

Why “Social” Works

In the past few years, we have seen the explosion of “social”. ...

Open Web Awards Winners Announced

The winners of the 2nd Annual Open Web Awards have been announced. We were ...

Canada increases its ‘you are a digital criminal’ tax

Here in Canada we have the pleasure of paying some of the highest prices for ...

Is Amazon U.K. a Modern-Day Sweatshop?

Have you seen the new claims against Amazon’s U.K. division? A report ...

15Dec

Not a joke: National Lampoon Execs charged over stock scam

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing, and US Justice ...

Foremski gets it right – Foremski gets it wrong

Hand wringing is almost becoming a watchable sport when it comes to the nose ...

The 20 Most Trusted Companies For Privacy

The Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe have released their annual list of the most ...

Are Paid Posts now acceptable on blogs? (poll)

Izea (formerly PayPerPost) has launched yet another social shopping ...

Twitter Adds Google Friend Connect Integration

Twitter has gotten on-board with Google Friend Connect, the Web-wide sign-on ...

Mahalo Answers: a Yahoo Answers slayer?

Jason Calacanis’ people powered search come uber blog Mahalo has ...

14Dec

Lessig starting to kiss some powerful butts

The Internet is screwed. Net Neutrality could very well be another idealized ...

The Arbitrage Conspiracy: best thing since sliced bread?

Have you heard about “The Arbitrage Conspiracy” yet? If you ...

Paid Posts: Why they’re not that bad, but why you shouldn’t do them

A lifetime ago, well a blog writing gig ago I gained a reputation as the guy ...

Social media dickwads on the hunt

While much of the tech blogosphere was pre-occupied with some faux bitchmeme ...

More Hypocrisy from Mullenweg and WordPress with new themes jihad

WordPress has removed over 200 themes from the WordPress theme directory for ...

13Dec

Conservative sites call for Onion boycott over offensive veteran video

Conservative bloggers are calling for a boycott of satirical newspaper The ...

No surprise: Sony’s Home 3D world already turning to sex

Sony launched its long awaited (and delayed) Home 3D virtual world for the ...

Condé Nast shuts 3 blogs: failed astroturfing attempt?

Condé Nast is closing three blogs you’ve probably never heard of: ...

Get that domain for free

‘Tis the season of jolly old men and the spirit of giving. While the jolly ...

12Dec

50 of the oldest domains on the web

Ever wondered just how old some of the domain on the web are? No .. well too ...

Could Google be the N.Y. Times salvation?

Now before you get all in an uproar this is pure and unadulterated rumour ...

Brown going green in Portland

Word has it that UPS is gearing up for a switch to a new mode of ...

YouTube Offers Souped-Up Video Holiday Cards

YouTube’s bringing back its holiday video card feature with new bells ...

Watch what you’re hitting with that flyswatter [Video]

Pretty soon you may have to be very careful about trying to kill that flying ...

2008′s Best Viral Videos and Worst Tech Embarrassments

It’s that time when we start looking back at the good, the bad, and ...

11Dec

Google opens up Adsense for Domains: now more people can typosquat and make money!

Google Adsense for Domains, Google’s dormant domain ad service has ...

CBS to Live Stream College Basketball Online

CBS will stream select games from the 2008-09 SEC College Basketball live on ...

Tumblr takes $4.5 million. Recession? What Recession!

Blogging service Tumblr has raised 4.5 million Series B in a round led by ...