Oct 31, 2006 | business, Internet
The landscape is changing for new and old players. It’s interesting to watch the ground shift and wonder where our world of information is going.MySpace and Facebook have reached plateaus. The Wall Street Journal reports that MySpace is facing a backlash from...
Oct 17, 2006 | games, Internet, web_services
Make no mistake: MySpace is old news, YouTube is beginning its slide out of the headlines, Yahoo is over the hill, Flickr never stood a chance. Second Life is the hot online destination, the next cultural obsession, soon to be a household name.Second Life is an online...
Sep 7, 2006 | business, Internet, software
If you’re an AOL subscriber, you must have a masochistic streak. Or perhaps a very long memory and nostalgia for the years when AOL software made things easier to do online, instead of the buggy, bloated, advertising-laden mess that it’s become. In a bold...
Aug 7, 2006 | Internet, web_services
Are you reading blogs? Are you contributing to one? Time to get busy, according to this report on the state of the blogosphere. Technorati is currently tracking 50 million weblogs. Since it began tracking three years ago, the number of weblogs has doubled every six...
Jul 2, 2006 | business, Internet
Net neutrality refers to a founding principle of the Internet, that the companies in the middle handling the movement of data would treat all packets equally. The telcos and cable companies see a revenue opportunity in charging premium rates for certain traffic, so...
May 6, 2006 | humor, Internet
A particularly thorough disclaimer for a rock climbing site inspired attorney David Canton to adapt it into a disclaimer for the Internet.WARNINGBusiness is unpredictable and unsafe. The Internet is dangerous. Many blogs have been written about these dangers, and...
