Where tech is more than just the breaking news
From the category archives:
Since its debut in 2004, del.icio.us has been the market standard for social bookmarks. Its reputation was further enhanced in late 2005 when it was acquired by Yahoo!. Social bookmarking was going places. It wasn’t that long ago that every second blog (particularly in the tech niches) had some type of del.icio.us widget in [...]
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I understand that content owners have licensing agreements around the world and feel that they can’t open up television programs globally to protect the financial investment of various regional licensees.
However, content owners, you need to understand that if you deny people a way to legally access your product simply on the basis of geographic location, [...]
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I’ve got a guest post up at sarahintampa.com (the blog of Grand Effect and ReadWriteWeb writer Sarah Perez) on the new Nine Inch Nails release The Slip and how Trent Reznor continues to lead the way in ‘music 2.0′.
Over the last few months, Sarah has quickly become one of my favourite tech blogger so of [...]
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Data portability is the idea that individuals have control over their data online and can determine how they and others can use that data (if at all). Some examples of what data portability could be include:
your profile ‘auto-filling’ when you join a new site
exporting details of your social network contacts to an [...]
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Radiohead has once again hit the headlines with an ‘innovative’ new media way of promoting the band and the music. They have broken down their latest single ‘Nude’ into 5 stems (vocal, guitar, bass, drums, the rest) and made each available to buy exclusively at the iTunes music store for fans to download, remix [...]
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Two issues dominated the tech blogosphere this week:
Jason Calacanis dared to suggest that people working for a startup might need a different work ethic to someone punching in 9-5; and
Business journalist Sarah Lacy apparently bombed an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, at the South by Southwest (SxSW) conference (remember when SxSW used to [...]
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Trent Reznor, the creative force behind Nine Inch Nails, has caused a stir with the release of the new NIN album ‘Ghosts I-IV‘. True to recent form (including berating record labels over pricing of NIN product and encouraging fans at a concert in Sydney to steal his music [language warning]), ‘Ghosts’ has been released online [...]
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I got carried away last night commenting on this Read/Write Web post about 6 new Adobe AIR apps. For anyone unfamiliar, AIR or Adobe Integrated Runtime (so that’s Adobe Adobe Integrated Runtime, really) is Adobe’s effort at bringing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) one step closer. RIA, for those increasingly unfamiliar with my jargonistic babblings, is [...]
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It’s interesting that for years there have been rumours that Microsoft and Yahoo were destined for some sort of arrangement, whether it be a formal partnership, merger or good ol’ fashioned buy out. The first link goes back to 2006 and I vaguely recall rumours in 2005, but my Google-fu is letting me down at [...]
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