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September 30, 2006
Dead 2.0, the critical Web 2.0 site written by an anonymous blogger went offline earlier this week after pulling a Lieberman. A Lieberman being a site that goes offline due to excessive bandwidth use, causing the host to suspend the...
Memo Details Hewlett-Packard Leak Hunt - The Smoking Gun "With the Hewlett-Packard scandal now triggering congressional hearings and criminal probes, it seems some of the computer giant's executives are hesitant to talk about the firm's extensive hunt for the...
Greenpeace is putting the pressure on consumer electronics companies to become more green by using less toxic chemicals in their product. One company they've chosen to single out in this campaign is Apple Computer who, according to Greenpeace, is very...
September 29, 2006
Real Estate Service To Index Property Listings By Green Features - Treehugger ?¢‚Ǩ?ìOregon?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS?¢‚Äû¬¢) Board of Directors recently agreed to expand its database by spring 2007 to include information on energy efficient and green home...
This was originally a response to an email question I received from a colleague about social bookmarking sites, but it turned into a blog post. While it covers social bookmarking in general, it focuses primarily on del.icio.us for examples: The...
Marshall Kirkpatrick has put together a breakdown of the features offered by eight SMS networking services. I think the key sentence in his post follows (emphasis mine): Techcrunch ?Ǭª A look at eight multi-person SMS services "Probably first popularized by...
September 28, 2006
A Peek Inside TechCrunch's 100k Subscriber Milestone: Burning Questions "For those participating in the "Guess How Many Jellybeans in Today's FeedCount Chicklet" contest, you may have noticed that TechCrunch recently surpassed the 100k subscriber mark. Given this major milestone,...
Ross Mayfield writes at WebProNews about maxing out his Gmail account and what a terrible mess he's in due to Gmail's limited tools for finding the huge file attachments that are clogging his inbox. Mayfield mentions that he'd much rather...
Frank Gruber, AOL's latest fresh, new, and exciting employee posted about the launch of AOL's new Pictures service: AOL Pictures Launches With New Features : Somewhat Frank AOL Pictures also offers an Ajax interface an has introduced tags, comments and...
September 27, 2006
Thank you to Rick Klau for writing a follow-up post about Bill Tancer's analyis of "homes for sale" searches and their correlation with actual home sales. A month ago, Tancer publised a post on his Hitwise blog describing a correlation...
Rock Paper Scissors World Championship Rocketboom covers the Rock, Paper, Scissors world championships in Toronto. (tags: rock paper scissors rockpaperscissors toronto) Laptop with GE employee data stolen - Security - MSNBC.com "An employee laptop containing the names and social...
Netlash offers some insight into the challenges faced by search engines, including Google, when it comes to providing country-specific search results. The graphic below demonstrates a substantial drop-off in traffic to a Dutch web site when it was moved to...
Gmail stopped responding after I sent a message to a colleague. Maybe I killed it?This isn't really newsworthy or interesting. I just thought I'd post this as an experiment to see how many other people are experiencing the same thing....
September 26, 2006
I have had a couple of people ask me which phone they should buy, the Treo 700p (Palm OS version) or Treo 700wx (Windows Mobile 5 version.) This is a tough question as both have their pros and cons. I have just finished my testing of the Treo 700wx so here's how I compare them:
Paul Scrivens beats down ten Web 2.0ish companies he feels have either failed to grow, failed to catch on at all, or have simply fallen on their face in his Top 10 Web 2.0 Losers list: Now many of these...
Smackfoo breaks down an Ebay bidding strategy based on auto-refreshing an auction during the final countdown to decide how much to bid and when: smackfoo ?¢‚Ǩ¬? chronology ?¢‚Ǩ¬? geek 101 - eBay sniping "Here?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s my pet hate. eBay sniping by...
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