Thursday, November 19, 2009
Library in a Pocket
With Amazon’s Kindle, readers can squeeze hundreds of books into a device that is smaller than most hardcovers.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Virtual Goods Start Bringing Real Paydays
Silicon Valley may have discovered the perfect business: charging real money for products that do not exist.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Breakfast Can Wait. The Day’s First Stop Is Online.
Karl and Dorsey Gude of East Lansing, Mich., can remember simpler mornings, not too long ago. They sat together and chatted as they ate breakfast. They read the newspaper and competed only with the television for the attention of their two teenage sons.
Monday, July 27, 2009
The Music Streams That Soothe an Industry
Like many teenagers, Josh Wilson, the 13-year-old son of the New York venture capitalist Fred Wilson, has on occasion visited the Internet’s peer-to-peer file-sharing services to download music and television shows.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Artists Find Backers as Labels Wane
There was a time when most aspiring musicians had the same dream: to sign a deal with a major record label. Now, with the structure of the music business shifting radically, some industry iconoclasts are sidestepping the music giants and inventing new ways for artists to make and market their music–without ever signing a traditional recording contract.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
From the Twittersphere: Trophies for the Best Tweets
Hollywood has the Oscars. Broadway has the Tonys. Now Twitter has the…Shorty Awards? The awards, announced last week by the Brooklyn Internet company Sawhorse Media, aim to honor the best Twitterers of 2008 in categories like humor, news and food.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Amid the Gloom, an E-Commerce War
When the e-commerce giant eBay emerged from the last recession seven years ago with an aura of invincibility, its chief executive, Meg Whitman, boasted that “eBay is to some extent recession-proof.”
As the online auctioneer’s revenues and stock price kept climbing, one of its primary rivals, Amazon.com, just limped along. How times have changed.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Battle Over Stolen Goods Sold Online Goes to Washington
Does the freedom of selling on the Web lure otherwise law-abiding citizens into an addictive world of organized Internet crime?
Friday, July 11, 2008
The “Fake” Steve Jobs Is Giving Up Parody Blog
The once-mysterious blogger known as “Fake Steve Jobs” is turning off his iPhone for good.
Daniel Lyons, the former Forbes magazine journalist who wrote the blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs for the last two years, is moving on with his professional life and creative pursuits.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Celebrity Music Throwdown Part 2: Will Smith and PluggedIn
A new Internet music company is looking to displace YouTube, MySpace and MTV.com as the hub for music videos on the Internet. PluggedIn, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based start-up launching today, is backed by Overbrook Entertainment, the production and management company co-founded a decade ago by Will Smith.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Economy Has Become a Drag on Silicon Valley
Housing prices in Silicon Valley remain defiantly high. New BMWs and Saabs cruise Highway 101. But for the first time there are signs that the current economic downturn is taking its toll on the country’s cradle of technology and innovation. Job growth has slowed, start-up companies are hiring and spending more cautiously, and early-stage investors who nurture the start-ups with money and expertise are growing more frugal.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Online Chat, as Inspired by Real Chat
Compared with other forms of human interaction, online social networking is really not all that social. Meebo, founded by Elaine Wherry, Sandy Jen and Seth Sternberg, offers chat rooms to be embedded in Web pages. People visit each other’s MySpace pages and Facebook profiles at various hours of the day, posting messages and sending e-mail back and forth across the digital void. It’s like an endless party where everybody shows up at a different time and slaps a yellow Post-it note on the refrigerator. Now a new wave of Silicon Valley companies is bringing live socializing back into a medium that has, in the parlance of the technologists, grown overly asynchronous.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Comcast: We Need to Play Internet Traffic Cop
Comcast, the second largest Internet service provider in the country, is making the controversial and aggressive case that Internet service providers should be allowed to serve as traffic cops on the Internet. In an 80-page filing with the Federal Communications Commission yesterday, the company says it has a right to clamp down on the use of peer-to-peer file-sharing programs on its network to preserve the smooth flow of bits to and from all its customers. The filing was in response to an FCC complaint from network neutrality groups in November after the Associated Press revealed that Comcast was stopping some customers from using BitTorrent, a file-sharing program often used to swap copyrighted copies of songs and movies over the Internet.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Slashdot Founder Questions Crowd’s Wisdom
One of the oldest rivals to the community news site Digg is pointing to recent unrest at the site as evidence that the social news model is flawed.
Last week, frequent users of Digg protested changes in its algorithms that were designed to emphasize broader voting in determining which stories make it to Digg’s well-trafficked main page. Meanwhile, to Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco, founder of the pioneering technology news site Slashdot, the chickens were coming home to roost.
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