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Google Accelerates Search

May 6, 2005

Google intro­duced a new tool called Web Accel­er­a­tor. While much will be made of the fears about the pri­vacy impli­ca­tions of that move, I per­son­ally believe that this move is one that is deeply rooted in the search mis­sion of the com­pany and will be seen as a gam­bit of the same size as the one taken by […]

Movie Distribution Revolution

May 2, 2005

Mark Cuban, who cre­ated Broadcast.com before sell­ing it to Yahoo, and Steven Sor­der­berg, who directed many box office win­ning pic­tures like “Ocean’s 11″ and “Traf­fic” have decided to part­ner up and rev­o­lu­tion­ize the movie indus­try by offer­ing “films that would debut simul­ta­né­ously in movie the­aters and on DVD, pay-per-view cable and satel­lite tele­vi­sion.” Fre­quent reader […]

Yahoo! 360 update: RSS copyright is a bug

March 30, 2005

In yesterday’s entry, I took Yahoo! to task for the fact that there was a Yahoo! copy­right notice against the RSS feeds for blogs gen­er­ated via 360. In a com­ment on the site, Mike La Rotonda, Sr. Prod­uct Man­ager for Yahoo! 360, said that it was a bug not a fea­ture. Glad to hear that it was only a bug and […]

Looking around Yahoo! 360

March 29, 2005

Like quite a few peo­ple, I got a chance to start play­ing with Yahoo 360° today (thanks Jeremy for the invi­ta­tion). Here’s a quick look at the ser­vice. Solid Inte­gra­tion The first thing that is appar­ent is that this is more than just a blog­ging pack­age or social net­work one. From the name to the way one’s web page is […]

RSS on Fire

September 29, 2004

There’s an old rule in jour­nal­ism that trends can be spot­ted when you hear/see the same item hap­pen­ing three times in a row over a short period. If that’s the case, the tri­fecta yes­ter­day was: Yahoo! announc­ing native sup­port for RSS and ATOM in the “my yahoo” page Blog­lines announc­ing a new set of ser­vices to ease the load […]

Google files S-1

April 29, 2004

Unless you’ve been liv­ing under a rock, you are prob­a­bly aware that Google was plan­ning to file for an IPO. Well, today they filed the S-1 form and made it offi­cial. Based on a cur­sory read­ing of the S-1, here are some inter­est­ing find­ings: The com­pany plans to raise 2.7 bil­lion dol­lars (yes, that’s bil­lion with a b) […]

2004 Predictions

January 2, 2004

With a new year start­ing, it’s time to jump back in the water and make a few pre­dic­tions as to what’s com­ing next. I sus­pect 2004 is going to be a big year in tech­nol­ogy and here are some pre­dic­tions for the com­ing year. Apple Apple will come out with a new lower-powered, lower-cost ver­sion of the iPod. The idea here […]

Google to IPO

October 24, 2003

From the Finan­cial Times comes the news that Google is con­sid­er­ing an IPO that could value the com­pany at any­where between 15 and 25 bil­lion US dol­lars. This is an inter­est­ing devel­op­ment con­sid­er­ing the fact that Sergey Brin has down­played rumors of such an IPO for months. First inklings of the poten­tial came in August […]

Incrementalism

July 29, 2003

News.com reports that Bill Gates believes the promises of the dot­com era will be ful­filled. I tend to agree with the con­cept on its face. Wit­ness, for exam­ple, the recent devel­op­ment in the online gro­cery busi­ness. While Web­Van blew up in a multi-billion-dollar dis­as­ter, the mar­ket is now grow­ing, with tra­di­tional gro­cery chains adding this new feature […]

Microsoft and AOL: Friends again

May 29, 2003

Microsoft and Amer­ica Online set­tled their browser law­suit, putting an end to spec­u­la­tions that AOL would dump IE from its lead­ing client. As part of the deal, AOL receives a seven year royalty-free license to include Inter­net Explorer and will get an early peek at any­thing new in Red­mond. Most inter­est­ing to me in the different […]