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Archive for March 17th, 2008

FriendFeed Adds Search, And Suddenly Feels Like A Destination Site (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
FriendFeed Adds Search, And Suddenly Feels Like A Destination Site  —  FriendFeed, a service that aggregates social network information, just launched quite a nice little search feature.  Users can search by individual, friends, or all users, and specify the search only to specific services like Twitter or Delicious.

FriendFeed has search - I am extremely happy to announce that FriendFeed now has search. (Bret Taylor/FriendFeed Blog)

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Bret Taylor / FriendFeed Blog:
FriendFeed has search  —  I am extremely happy to announce that FriendFeed now has search.  There is now a search box on the top right of your FriendFeed home page.  You can search over all of your friends’ shared items, an individual person’s items, or search all of FriendFeed:

Recognize Internet addiction as a mental illness, MD urges (canada.com)

Monday, March 17th, 2008

canada.com:
Recognize Internet addiction as a mental illness, MD urges  —  Users experience cravings, withdrawal, psychiatrist says  —  Compulsive e-mailing and text messaging could soon become classified as an official brain illness.  —  An editorial in this month’s issue of the American Journal …

Is fragmentation bad? - Imagine that you’ve just finished watching … (Paul Buchheit)

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Paul Buchheit:
Is fragmentation bad?  —  Imagine that you’ve just finished watching a movie and are in the mood to talk about it.  How are you going to do that?  You could chat with random, semi-anonymous people in the movie theater lobby (assume you went to a theater).  You could find a community of people […]

Online Games by the Hundreds, With Tie-Ins (Brian Stelter/New York Times)

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Online Games by the Hundreds, With Tie-Ins  —  For some children, watching “Dora the Explorer” on television is becoming passé.  Now, they want to be Dora.  —  Tapping into this desire, media companies are increasingly entering the marketplace for online games — called casual games …

WordPerfect antitrust case greenlighted by the Supreme Court (Eric Bangeman/Ars Technica)

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
WordPerfect antitrust case greenlighted by the Supreme Court  —  Microsoft and Novell are partners now, but the companies used to be fierce competitors in the office software space.  We know how that war turned out: Word and Excel gradually squeezed WordPerfect and Quattro Pro out of the market …

Martian Headsets (Joel Spolsky/Joel on Software)

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Martian Headsets  —  You’re about to see the mother of all flamewars on internet groups where web developers hang out.  It’ll make the Battle of Stalingrad look like that time your sister-in-law stormed out of afternoon tea at your grandmother’s and wrapped the Mustang around a tree.

Online advertiser to settle spam charges for record $2.9 million (Anne Broache/CNET News.com)

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Online advertiser to settle spam charges for record $2.9 million  —  An online advertising company accused of luring customers with deceptive offers of “free” iPhones, laptop computers, plasma televisions, and other goods has agreed to pay a record $2.9 million fine as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade […]

Think Different: Maybe the Web’s Not a Place to Stick Your Ads (Matthew Creamer/AdAge)

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Matthew Creamer / AdAge:
Think Different: Maybe the Web’s Not a Place to Stick Your Ads  —  Matthew Creamer Asks Whether We’re All Missing the Point When It Comes to the Internet  —  “Steve Jobs hates the internet.”  So jokes a contact of mine whenever he laments what he regards as Apple’s relatively paltry investment […]

Eclipse Announces New Runtime Initiative around Equinox (Steve Eisenstadt/Eclipse.org)

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Steve Eisenstadt / Eclipse.org:
Eclipse Announces New Runtime Initiative around Equinox  —  EclipseCon 2008, SANTA CLARA, CA - March 17, 2008 - The Eclipse Foundation today announced a new initiative to develop and promote open source runtime technology based on Equinox, a lightweight OSGi compliant runtime.