Technology

Former Podtech CEO John Furrier has entered the tech blogging space with a new site Silicon Angle. Writes Furrier: I’m launching this new blog siliconANGLE in the effort to create a different approach to blogging and collaboration. siliconANGLE.com is a blog that promotes quality content and quality people – “the Angle” on new and interesting […]

Valuing a blog isn’t always the easiest exercise (see our previous post here on valuations). Valuing blogs at the top of the market are harder again, because top brands don’t follow traditional multiples. Harder still: valuing the top 25 blogs without hard data like revenue and actual traffic for a list. 24/7 Wall Street though […]

Part of the fun of being a blogger who reads a lot of different blogs each and every day is that you get to watch events unfold that develop into a really good smackdown. Such was the case that started on Saturday with a post in the New York Times where Thomas Friedman offered up […]

Boat builders have centuries of design rules that they go by when they build new boats but what happens if someone decides to build a boat without paying any attention to those rules? Well if you are a well known Bay Area engineer by the name of Ugo Conti you design the Proteus, which takes […]

Don’t count on seeing the final Firefox 3.1 release any time in the immediate future. Mozilla now says a first quarter release of the product is unlikely–and that’s just one of several new details revealed in the past few days. Firefox 3.1: The Latest Mozilla delayed Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 a few weeks ago. Engineers […]

With the massive growth in Twitter over the last year, a backlash that wasn’t related to the now historical, and perhaps infamous inability to keep the service up was bound to happen. Andy Pemberton in The Times leads the charge, with an article that calls Twitter users narcissistic among other things. Some choice quotes: The […]

While this post technically will go under the Green Tech category here at The Inquisitr it equally could go under the Funny category because it really would be funny if not for the fact that it is stupid. According to the folks over at Treehugger there is an author over at The New American that […]

In a failure that would make a blue screen of death or Vista launch proud, Microsoft is asking former employees for severance payments back due to overpayment. A letter sent to some of the 1,400 employees laid off by Microsoft details “An inadvertent administrative error” resulting in overpayments. The company asks for the overpayment to […]

Gawker Media’s Nick Denton has shut Defamer as a standalone site. Defamer wasn’t named when Denton started making cuts to the network in November (we speculated it might be cut), but was said to be close to a sale late December when Consumerist changed hands. Denton said in a statement that Defamer would become the […]

I was asked by someone this week what my advice would be for verticals for new blogs. While I gave a few tips privately, I thought I’d share some verticals that are worth looking at, ones to watch, and ones to avoid if I was starting a new blog tomorrow or next week. This list […]

It’s a simple inescapable fact – news is free. It will happen at any time of the day and at any point in the world. It use to be that distance is what made it hard for people in one part of the world to know what was going on in another part. With the […]

Yes the weekends can get boring around the old tech blogosphere which is one of the reasons why starting Friday mornings the more experienced tech bloggers start hunting up something – anything – to get a good old fashioned bitchmeme going. After all what’s the point of just have the same old boring stuff to […]

US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank is preparing legislation that would repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, the US law that bans non-skill based internet gambling. The move follows reports that EU could file a World Trade Organization complaint over the law, which forbids European companies offering online gambling to […]

Paul Zolezzi, a 30 year old aspiring model with a heroin addiction hung himself in New York Friday, but only after leaving his last words on Facebook. Zolezzi left his suicide note via a status update on Facebook that read “born in San Francisco, became a shooting star over everywhere, and ended his life in […]

In an accident that can only be described as a freak occurrence a fourteen year old boy in china was killed when the chair he was sitting in exploded. The accused chair was one of those fancy types with a gas cylinder that is used to adjust the height of the chair up and down. […]

Note: Three days after the publication of this story, ShareThis informed us that its staff made an error in the data that it shared with us. While the January 2009 percentages were correct, ShareThis analysts seemingly misplaced a decimal point while calculating the change in usage in some of the services since August 2008. In […]

*If you believe everything you read Using Facebook is going to kill you. Twitter, too. Don’t say you haven’t been warned. A study from a British biology journal has seemingly spawned some pretty entertaining headlines, as the folks over at Techdirt discovered: “How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer,” for example, or “Online […]

One of the main things about Google AdSense ads is that the font has always been the same boring style with no way for us to change them. Well, no longer according to a post on the official Google AdSense blog. You can now choose between Arial, Times and Verdana fonts and while that sure […]

Chris Shipley, the extraordinarily hard working executive producer of the bi-annual DEMO conference is stepping down this year, and taking over is Matt Marshall, founder of VentureBeat. During Shipley’s reign at DEMO, the conference has served as an exception launch pad for tech startups and services, including well known names including Salesforce.com, TiVO, VMWare, WebEx, […]

I finally have had a chance to play around with Boxee and it sure seems to be a great way to watch video content on your television screen or computer monitor. The social aspect of it all; like most things social related these days could be a real winner for the service. On the whole […]

ShareThis has launched a beta version of its new enhanced social bookmarking widget. The updated widget is currently in limited distribution on sites such as AccessHollywood.com and Boston.com and will be available to all ShareThis users within the next few weeks. The revamped ShareThis widget offers a new tabless design, with all the links built […]

Just a side note – I have been a little lapse in my posting here today mainly because my body figured I’d been burning too many candles from to many ends and as a result I’ve been having to spend much of yesterday and the day before getting some rest. Having heart problems hasn’t helped […]

Users of the growingly popular Boxee media platform will no longer have access to Hulu, after the Fox/ NBC JV decided that letting people watch programs for free where they want wasn’t part of the game plan. Hulu didn’t elaborate on the reasons behind the move, saying only in a post that Our content providers […]

Outbrain has today launched its “Sponsored but Good” program, an advertising product that offers contextual links within its recommended reading unit. Outbrain is perhaps best known for offering post ratings, but along with ratings Outbrain also offered recommended links, either internally within a site (they power both blogs and traditional media sites), externally within a […]

Facebook has done a back flip of sorts, deciding to roll back recent changes to its TOS that caused widespread web outrage. As I noted on the subject February 16, the change that caused the outcry wasn’t that significant; the change only extended existing TOS rights over all content on Facebook to content from account […]

Miley Cyrus doesn’t care about her fans? If you were following the teen sensation on Twitter Monday you would have gotten that picture. “I’m not a fucking role model. I hate little kids, I only do Hannah Montanna for da $$$$$$$$$” and “Me and Mandy had sex n Hannah Montanna wigs,” were some of the […]

Business cards are a handy little item that have been a round for a very long time. They have been the basis of things like the Rolodex or over stuffed wallets. The problem is that at some point you need the contact information that is on one of those hundreds of business cards you have […]

I see that Facebook it taking a lot of well deserved flack over it’s recent changes to its Terms Of Service (TOS) to the point that baby faced Zuckerberg had to come down from his ivory tower and try to stem the flow of negative comments about the changes. I won’t bother going into all […]

College search portal CampusExplorer.com has snagged $2.25 million in fresh funding. The cash is expected to be used to expand the site’s services with new products and technology. The company claims an impressive 2500 percent growth in traffic from January ’08 to January ’09, accompanied by 10 consecutive months of revenue growth. CampusExplorer.com offers a […]

Liberty Media (LCAPA) is investing $530 million in Sirius XM Radio (SIRI), effectively keeping the satellite radio company from having to file for bankruptcy. Liberty Media made the announcement today. Liberty Media’s Sirius XM Investment Liberty Media will initially provide a $280 million loan to Sirius XM. Nearly two-thirds of that cash will be used […]

Blog network b5media is today beginning the largest restructure in its 4 year history, abandoning the wide blog model it was founded on in place of a series of content related uber blogs. b5media made steps in this direction last year, when it started to create portals for its groups of blogs, however today’s step […]

Changes to Facebook’s TOS have caused controversy online after rights to anything published on Facebook were extended to even where the profile was shut down. Mashable has details here, but I don’t find the change all that disturbing. What is disturbing is the terms of the TOS to begin with. It reads: You hereby grant […]

Police in Victoria, Australia are seeking legal advice on having blogs that have published the photograph of alleged Churchill bushfire arsonist Brendan Sokaluk censored or taken down. Pictures of Sokaluk, and is home address are subject to a court suppression order in Victoria. According to local media reports, Police are concerned that publication of the […]

Not happy with having us rolling on the floor laughing at cute kitty pictures which funny captions Ben Huh of I Can Has Cheezburger fame quietly bought up TwittyPic last week for a so far undisclosed sum. For those of you not in the Twitter know TwittyPic is an aggregator of all the popular pictures […]

There is no denying the fact that Facebook is hot stuff. Figures have it growing from 150 millions accounts to 175 million in just five weeks. The problem is that all those numbers cost money. Money that for now is only coming into the Facebook coffers – to any serious degree – from venture capital […]

Actress Jane Fonda is getting into the world of social media with a new blog and Twitter profile. Excited? Jane Fonda’s Blog Fonda’s blog, built within her JaneFonda.com site, will initially focus on her return to Broadway with her role in the play “33 Variations.” The site will offer pictures, videos, and Fonda’s insights into […]

Just now Adobe announced lots of mobile phone news. More on that in a second. But what wasn’t announced? No iPhone support for Flash yet. What else was announced? FlashPlayer 10 will ship on the Palm Pre. I was briefed on the rest of this stuff last week and they were holding out on this […]

Ashton Kutcher is far from a popular celebrity in the tabloids or the blogosphere. The toy boy of Demi Moore has come in for a lot of criticism, some of it deserved since he hooked up with Demi. And yet, Ashton Kutcher has embraced new media, from Twitter to Qik, and you can only say […]

Community Manager / Evangelist at Strands Drew Olanoff likes his tats, and he has one of the more impressive geek collections I’ve ever seen. But what if you could take Drew’s love of tats and raise money for charity? That’s exactly what Drew is doing, auctioning off naming rights for his next Tattoo. His next […]

Much has been made about how Twitter keeps getting money handed to it hand over fist even though it has no apparent business model that will let all those VC folks make their money back – let alone make Google like profits. There’s no denying that the little service that could fail at the drop […]

Running a blog can be highly rewarding, but not every blog is successful. You’ll read lots of great advice across the blogosphere (some of it here) about how to make your blog successful, but rarely do you read the bad news: that sometimes you’re best walking away, and starting again. While walking away may be […]

There seems to be an increasing number of reports that Twitter is playing around with how your Twitter page is updated. Both Kristen Nicole from The Social Times and the folks at WebDistortion are reporting that Twitter seems to be experimenting with using Ajax to refresh user pages. As well WebDistortion has a large screen […]

Primary among the guilty parties of this sickening trend is Chris Pirillo who under the guise of letting us all know what his thousands of Twitter sycophants feel about his every muttering is literally polluting the blogosphere with utter inanity. In the last 48 hours of posts from Chris we have had to deal with […]

We are pretty use to the crap that the RIAA and the MPAA like to spread around like fresh manure on a cow field but as of this week they have been joined by yet another trade organization that proves just how far out in left field they idiots are when it come to protecting […]

Malvertisements you ask, while shaking your head – what the hell are malvertisments? Well it appear that there are some unscrupulous folks out there where scum bucket malware distributors attempt to place malicious ads onto legitimate ad networks. This usually involves talking reputable sites into running what are usually flash ads that have had encrypted […]

Back in January we reported on rumors that Twitter had raised a new round of $25 million on a $250 million valuation. Let me say we were wrong. The round was $35 million. Recession? what recession? $35 million in the middle of the largest downturn since the great depression for a service that has never […]

The U.S. government has updated its list of “recommendations” for how online services should treat your privacy. The Federal Trade Commission’s revamped code (which is merely a suggestion that companies can choose to accept or ignore) now asks Web services to make a point of informing users up-front that their data could be collected during […]

Here I thought MC Hammer was limited to VH1 reality-style shows these days — but apparently, the 90s rapper-turned-preacher is a rising star of social media. Am I the only one who’s perplexed? First, Hammer popped up at this week’s Twitter-oriented “Shorty Awards,” and he didn’t go unnoticed, either. Listed as a “special appearance” and […]

The one thing that you’ve always been able to say about Apple is that the retail experience is one of the major cornerstones of its business and like everything else it does it very well. The word is that Microsoft; for whatever reasons, is headed down, once more, that retail store road. Unlike Apple though, […]

Apparently taking out the French Airforce was a step to far, with Microsoft today announcing a $250,000 reward for the folks behind the Conficker worm. The worm, which is said to have infected over 15 million Windows based computers worldwide, opens infected computers to multiple vulnerabilities, as well as disabling safety features. Microsoft said in […]