Kevin Fox / FriendFeed Blog:
Get a room! — It started when we wanted a better way to share feature ideas and product plans with each other here at FriendFeed, but not the rest of the world — a mini FriendFeed of our own. We could have set this up on its own machine in […]
Archive for May 22nd, 2008
Get a room! - It started when we wanted a better … (Kevin Fox/FriendFeed Blog)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Google Turns Page on White Spaces (Roy Mark/eWeek)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Roy Mark / eWeek:
Google Turns Page on White Spaces — A Google co-founder stumps Washington for use of unlicensed devices in TV interference buffer zones. — WASHINGTON—Google co-founder Larry Page marched into the political arena May 22 and urged lawmakers and the Federal Communications Commission …
Twittering About Architecture (Twitter Technology Blog)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Twitter Technology Blog:
Twittering About Architecture — Here at Twitter HQ, we’re not blind to the flurry of discussion over the past weeks about our architecture. For many of our technically-minded users, Twitter downtime is an opportunity to muse about what the source of our problems might be, and to propose creative solutions.
Yang Gets “Adult Supervision” at Microsoft Meetings (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yang Gets “Adult Supervision” at Microsoft Meetings — Several major investors in Yahoo-who have been, how shall BoomTown put this delicately, freaked out by the sudden departure of Microsoft from the deal two weeks ago-have blamed the passive-aggressive style of Yahoo …
Yahoo Director Ed Kozel Resigns; Board Shrinking From 10 to 9 (Joseph Weisenthal/paidContent.org)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Director Ed Kozel Resigns; Board Shrinking From 10 to 9 — In a just-filed 8-K Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) says its director Edward Kozel is resigning from the company’s board to (drumroll) “spend more time with family”, and that he would’ve done it earlier, but wanted to stay on to deal […]
Larry Page talks about Google’s vision of “wi-fi on steroids” (Richard Whitt/Google Public Policy Blog)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Richard Whitt / Google Public Policy Blog:
Larry Page talks about Google’s vision of “wi-fi on steroids” — “Wi-fi on steriods.” That’s one of the many potential uses for the wireless spectrum that is now lying unused between TV channels, our co-founder Larry Page told the New America Foundation here in DC this morning.
Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service (Ariel Waldman)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Ariel Waldman:
Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service — I started using Twitter in March 2007, just before their SXSW explosion. Not surprisingly, I instantly became addicted and since then have used the service for everything from personal to professional. — Overall, Twitter is a great platform …
Apple’s digital home, five years out (Dawn Kawamoto/CNET News.com)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Apple’s digital home, five years out — Five years from now, with Apple aiming to become the center of the digital home, users may expect to see a number of key products and services designed to connect PCs and digital content to HDTV stereo audiovisual networks, according to “The Future […]
ABC upgrades online video player (Andrew Wallenstein/Hollywood Reporter)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
ABC upgrades online video player — Full-screen, closed captioning among upcoming features — ABC.com is upgrading its full-episode broadband player with new features for the fall season. — Among the bells and whistles set for the broadcaster’s online destination are full-screen viewing …
iPhone line forms at Apple’s flagship for absolutely no reason (Joshua Topolsky/Engadget)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone line forms at Apple’s flagship for absolutely no reason — So word on the street (literally) is that a large number of people are queuing in line outside of Apple’s flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York City — keep in mind the Cube is open 24 hours a […]