Is it just a coincidence that Google scheduled its "Factory Tour" for press and analysts at the exact same time as Yahoo!'s shareholder meeting? Definitely a strategic PR move. I wonder if anyone will stop covering Yahoo! for the day to attend....
Today Jeff Hawkins signed my Treo 650 using a gold Pilot pen. I am thrilled with my new alpha geek bling bling.Technorati Tags: jeffhawkins, palm, treo...
NewsGator Technologies has purchased Bradbury Software in a cash and stock deal. Bradbury Software is develops FeedDemon, a feed aggregator, and TopStyle, a website editor, for the Windows operating system. Nick Bradbury lives in Franklin, Tennessee and is the sole developer and runs his entire business from the top floor of his house. Nick develops in Delphi. I used FeedDemon from its first beta until I moved to Mac last May. NewsGator develops free feed aggregators for Windows Media Center, and online as well as a paid aggregator for Microsoft Outlook. NewsGator is currently developing an enterprise server ("Dino") for...
I just upgraded my PowerBook to OS 10.4.1. Safari now supports the second Acid Test! Nevermind, I posted too quickly after I thought I had found the proper rendering. Sorry about that, nothing to see here.Technorati Tags: acid2, webstandards...
Jim Winstead just announced blo.gs has been sold to an undisclosed buyer and the site will change hands on or after June 13. The new owner will "continue providing the same features that exist now, and will be working on making blo.gs even better." Blo.gs is a pretty large ping beacon, second only to weblogs.com in its level of integration into all the different weblog tools available. My guess is a company wanting to move into the space purchased blo.gs for its ping beacon and its database of posts. There is a small chance the acquirer cares about the site's...
Dana Stevens, television critic for Slate, recently wrote about how television media chooses to cite blogs in their news coverage. I have yet to see the blog coverage on CNN or MSNBC, but it seems like they have the wrong approach to including this new medium. We witness cross-media citations all the time. News organizations care about who broke the news and who had the best commentary and the best sources are usually cited multiple times on big stories. Newspapers or radio stations often break stories and CNN reports on these breaking stories just as they would their own original...
Technorati has partnered with Salon.com to integrate weblog content and commentary in Salon.com's home page, the end of every article, and a roundup. Richard Ault took some good screenshots of the new features if you would like a small walk-through. I am really excited to see the writing of the masses combined with the edited writing of the few. Salon.com has been publishing original content online since 1995 and I have been reading the site intermittently since it started. Salon owns The WELL, the most famous online community. Salon chose to measure its hottest stories by the number of bloggers...
A year ago today Six Apart launched Movable Type 3.0 and introduced their new pricing structure and rebranded as a publishing platform. The announcement resulted in over 800 TrackBack links. Each Movable Type download had yielded $0.38 and the company decided it was time for a new pricing structure. Six Apart underestimated the community's reaction to the change. The commercial license pricing remains unchanged a year later while the personal licenses are a lot cheaper than originally announced. Six Apart has since introduced educational, non-profit, developer, and single author personal use licenses for their software....
Tim Draper broke into song during yesterday's speech at Stanford. I have never before seen a high-profile venture capitalist prance around on stage, play air guitar, and slap his ass, but luckily I had my camera ready to capture this unique moment. Tim Draper recently attended an event with a very unique auction prize: Scott Cargo of The Eagles would produce a song using your original lyrics. Tim won the auction and wrote "The Riskmaster." Draper Fisher Jurveston sent a CD of the recording to 5,000 business associations last December, and I happened to get a CD from Tim. The...
On Wednesday I attended a lecture by Tim Draper of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurveston at Stanford. Tim talked about new ideas that will change the world and solve common problems of humanity in the process The Draper Fisher Jurveston logo was designed to symbolize change. A globe is at the forefront, representing the referenced but uncharted world. The delta in the background symbolizes changing that world through new investments, ideas, and support. Tim likes to think in terms of "cyberspatial" competition. Given an environment of perfect information a new idea or breakthrough will spread throughout the world...
Niall Kennedy is a web technologist in San Francisco, California in the United States. I am very interested in the world of... MORE »