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Litl Introduces Its Web-Based Netbook

William M. Bulkeley — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:01:05 +0000

By William M. Bulkeley, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Is a computer with no disk drive and no applications software still a computer?

Litl LLC, a small Boston company, says its eponymous Litl device is the future of personal computing. Litl is a Web computer with a full keyboard and an operating system designed for people who use online software like Google Docs and store their photos on Flickr or Shutterfly.

On its screen, a viewer sees 12 business-card-sized Web pages. Clicking on the desired page expands it to full screen, and the user can read the page, buy shoes or build a spreadsheet. It doesn’t have icons, files or menus of its own.

The device can also be flipped up into an A-frame so the screen is visible to show photos, videos or text-news feeds that can be seen from across a room.

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FeedBurner May Not Be Hearing Your Pings

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:02:38 +0000

By Marshall Kirkpatrick, Blogger, ReadWriteWeb

Blogging is a fast medium–that’s one of its advantages over traditional media. There are bloggers who specialize in reporting fast about breaking news on a wide variety of topics. Most of those bloggers use Google’s RSS publishing technology FeedBurner as a middleman to deliver their posts to subscribers and capture analytics.

If FeedBurner decides to take its sweet time in delivering the news, that’s bad for bloggers. Unfortunately, that’s what’s happening right now. We’ve been seeing delays of up to 20 minutes between posting to our site and our posts appearing in our FeedBurner feeds. That’s a pretty serious problem and we’re not alone in experiencing it.

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Pandora Opens Up: Q&A With Tim Westergren

Jennifer Leggio — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:02:51 +0000

By Jennifer Leggio, Director of Strategic Communications, Fortinet

In August, Pandora founder Tim Westergren told the Washington Post that the future could be bleak for the Internet radio station due to high percentage of its revenue being forced to go to royalty fees. Now, one month later, Westergren is shooting down rumors and socialsphere speculation about why Pandora is facing potential extinction.

“One of the fallacies that is floating around is that Internet radio is poorly monetized–that is not true,” Westergren said. “We’re just being charged more than other forms of radio.”

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