Monday, August 24, 2009
How Tim O’Reilly Aims to Change Government
Some people go to Washington to try to make the government more honest; others try to make it smaller.
Friday, May 8, 2009
3 Reasons Why Twitter Will NOT Index the Links You Share (Updated)
Techmeme is on fire this morning with discussion of Rafe Needleman’s CNet post about Twitter’s supposed plans to index the content of links shared over the microblogging service.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Why Obama’s Flickr Photos Aren’t in the Public Domain
The White House is making unprecedented use of consumer web technologies but those technologies aren’t always well suited to fit the government’s needs.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Scientists Break Brain/Twitter Barrier
University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student Adam Wilson has successfully tested a “brain wave monitor” to the Twitter publishing interface, allowing him to compose a message merely by thinking and publish it to the arguably too-popular microblogging service.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Web 2.0 Expo: An “American Idol” for Start-Ups
During the “Launch Pad” session, five start-ups took a grilling from developers, journalists and venture capitalists, then faced a crowd vote at the Web 2.0 Expo’s version of “American Idol.”
As attendees texted their votes, moderator John Battelle, founder of Federated Media Publishing, jokingly asked: “Want to have a dance-off?”
None were necessary. The techies in attendance were starry-eyed for all things mobile, picking Nitobi’s PhoneGap, an open-source tool for building mobile apps, as the People’s Choice winner. Life-tracking site zeaLOG was a close second.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Word Cloud Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Lincoln’s
Barack Obama was just sworn in as President of the U.S. and though he stumbled in repeating his oath, the speech that followed was delivered flawlessly and was widely praised around the web. (Several readers have told us that it wasn’t Obama that stumbled, it was Justice Roberts.) There were quite a few concepts discussed that we suspect haven’t been a part of past inaugural speeches. What words were used most often?
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Updated: Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked
Days after a wave of phishing attacks fooled thousands of Twitter users, it appears that another security hole has been found by…someone. Obama’s account, unused since election day, sent out an affiliate link to a survey with a gas card prize, Fox News said that “Bill O’Reily is gay” (not that there’s anything wrong with that) and Britney Spears made a lewd post about her anatomy.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Google Blogsearch Relaunches as Techmeme Killer, Across 11 Categories
In its first major upgrade ever, Google Blogsearch just relaunched and looks radically different. Instead of the blank page look of Google.com, Blogsearch now looks like Google News (but uglier)–with the hottest topics from the blogosphere aggregated on the front page.
Monday, September 29, 2008
FeedBurner May Not Be Hearing Your Pings
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.
Friday, September 5, 2008
It’s Time for a New Terms of Service Regime
Yesterday’s flare-up about the Terms of Service for Google’s new browser Chrome, followed by the company’s rapid backtracking on the demands it was making of users, left many people wondering about Google ToS in general.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Do You Trust Google to Resist Data Mining Across Services?
Google’s breadth of services is truly awesome, and the amount of information the company touches concerning our lives and world can sometimes feel downright frightening. While almost no one takes the old phrase “Don’t Be Evil” seriously anymore–now that there are billions of dollars on the table and Chinese autocrats to satisfy–regular evaluations of Google’s ethical positions still seem advisable.
Friday, May 9, 2008
MySpace Partners With Yahoo, Twitter, eBay on Data “Availability”
In a surprise move just unveiled this morning, a handful of big players led by MySpace and Yahoo have announced that public profiles, photos, videos and friend networks will now be portable from one site to another. We’re immediately wondering why this was a partnership between a handful of big sites instead of a move to truly open the Web in general.
Friday, May 2, 2008
An Ode to RSS, on RSS Awareness Day
There are just a few hours left in what should be an international holiday–RSS Awareness Day. Thought up by the good folks at DailyBlogTips.com and unknown until this morning to even RSS forefather Dave Winer, RSS Awareness Day is a fantastic idea. May 1 is a lot of things already but what the heck, let’s pile another one on. We’d like to take a few minutes to reflect on the world-changing tool that RSS is, and consider how different our lives would be without it.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Facebook Security Lapse Leaves Private Photos Exposed
The Associated Press reported yesterday that it was able to use an undisclosed method to access private photos on Facebook, including some from Paris Hilton at the Emmys and others from Facebook founding CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vacation in November of 2005.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Productivity, How-to and Advice Sites: Making Linkbait Useful Again
In the early days of the Web, going online was heralded as a great way to connect with other people who have had experiences similar to your own. The Web was a place to get answers, advice and community no longer limited by the geographic location of the individuals you connected with.
While all of that remains true today, the ubiquity of the Internet, the ease of publishing and the rise of online advertising has lead to the emergence of new kinds of Web sites: productivity, how-to and advice/Q&A sites that broadcast, scale and monetize that kind of information.
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