June 2008
Another day, another billion-dollar Blizzard... →
Blizzard Entertainment had a lot of buzz about its newest game leading up to its European event at the Porte de Versailles event center in Paris. And fans weren’t disappointed with the …
Telstra readies Next G mobiles for barcode... →
Tomorrow Telstra will start pushing out a software update to half a million customers that will allow users to point their phones at a barcode and be directed to a relevant Web page.
If the culture is so good, why are the results so... →
Not inviting a kid to an 8 year old’s party... →
The Swedish Parliament has been asked to adjudicate in a case that had rocked Sweden (and I’m not exaggerating), an 8 year old not inviting two of his class mates to his birthday party.
The…
Replies Are Back, Improvements Continue →
We deployed a change on Saturday which brought the Replies feature back for Web and RSS. We use Replies as much as anyone else so we were not happy when we discovered that it was threatening…
Best of RWW: Making Facebook Useful →
The weekend is a good chance to play around with web apps and social networks. With that in mind, on a rainy Sunday I found myself checking out Sarah Perez’s classic post from May: How to Make…
L33t Reddit Gains Comments, Soars Past 3K... →
It’s been a while since I’ve updated on the l33t Tech Reddit - the custom Reddit myself and other including Jason Kaneshiro, Frederic Lardinois, Steven Hodson, Mark Hopkins and Louis…
Twitter or FriendFeed? There can be more than one. →
MG Siegler via VentureBeat shared by 5 people I awoke this morning with over 30 friend requests on FriendFeed sitting in my inbox. I’ve been using and raving about the …
FriendFeed: One Feature to The Tipping Point →
I used to be annoyed by people who commented on my Twitter messages (tweets) in FriendFeed, rather than replying directly to me in Twitter (the platform I was using). However with the…
Please Gabe don’t listen to Dave →
One has to wonder sometimes what exactly goes through the minds of some smart people. One minute they can be saying completely intelligible things that have us in awe of their lucid…
How Do I Add FriendFeed Comments to My Blog →
Hey, smarter people: how do I add a FriendFeed comments module under my blog comments? I want to see all these great comments. Just found these several days later:
Man, so many great…
Open Wireless and the Illusion of Security →
Bruce Schneier is something of a legend in the computer security community. He’s the author of the classic, oft-cited 1994 book Applied Cryptography, as well as several well-known cryptography…
Google Maps Street View “drive-bys” Microsoft and... →
A Google Maps Street View car was spotted on the Microsoft campus the other day, according to a post over on Gizmodo. Apparently the “GooCar”, as Gizmodo calls it, got a little too close…
FriendFeed vs. Twitter & Why Twitter Isn’t Going... →
I’ve been watching this whole Twitter meltdown thing and the reactions to it around the blogosphere. As well I’ve been reading much of what is being written about FriendFeed…
One of the worst communicators on the web →
The web these days is all about c o m m u n i c a t i o n; whether it be under fancy buzzwords like social media or social networking or the more old fashion form of things like web…
Take the pity out of aid →
A few years back, I travelled to Ethiopia. It was December 2000 and the chatty immigration official at Addis Ababa airport asked me what I knew about his country. “Ummm… Bob Geldof” I…
Twitter, Buy Summize Now and I'll Even Throw In... →
Replies are still down on Twitter. To me, this basically makes Twitter useless. It’s a communications tool that doesn’t allow you to communicate with anyone, only yell into the wind. …
What’s more irritating – a dead Twitter or whining... →
Okay I get it – really I do.
Twitter is a very popular web service right of the verge – or actually crossing into the mainstream and it is frustrating to watch as it implodes. I…
Regular Expressions: Now You Have Two Problems →
I love regular expressions. No, I’m not sure you understand: I really love regular expressions.
You may find it a little odd that a hack who grew up using a language with the ain’t keyword…
Using data to fight webspam →
Posted by Matt Cutts, Software Engineer This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. - E…
65-foot-high Lego Cathedrals Store 19 Billion... →
newVideoPlayer("/legocathedrals_gizmodo.flv", 520, 410,""); Without a doubt, the Lego brick storage buildings were the most impressive part of my visit to Lego. When I first saw their 20 metre…
New version of FolderShare for Windows available →
A new version of FolderShare for Windows (there’s a Mac client available too, but that apparently hasn’t been updated as of yet) is now available. From the FolderShare team blog: There’s a…
He/She/They: Grammar and Facebook. →
As Facebook grows in other languages, we are learning a lot about what the “Facebook Experience” is like for people around the world. One of the first challenges was getting words that are really…
Looks like Google and Facebook will be competing... →
FaceBook has been slowly updating the Mini-feed displayed on a user’s profile page to look more and more like a FriendFeed-esq lifestreaming application, by allowing you to include actions from…
eBay Backing Down On PayPal-Only Payments? →
After months of ridicule for one of the stupidest decisions in the history of the Internet, it appears that the online auction giant eBay may have come to its senses. Today they’ve sent…
xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel →
Poll: How do you use your news reader? →
How do you use your news reader? Do you leave it open all day? How much time do you spend reading news? http://forum.newsgator.com/Forum22-1.aspx
PlayStation Network Factoids (Now With Eco... →
Sony revealed some new numbers about their PlayStation Network today. There are 9.8 million registrants worldwide and they’ve downloaded 170 million files. All in all, PSN has distributed 86…
A Media Server from Google →
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System shared by 8 people A surprising Google Desktop gadget released by Google enables you to share your media across devices. “Google Media…
I hate Christian spam →
Over the last few weeks I’ve been caught up in some fairly stressful and public flames
around sending “Christian” spam mail.
I thought I would post the *definitive* article on the subject as…
A Practical Guide to Earning Six Figures: Changing... →
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How to have the freedom and flexibility to live the life you want.
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Don’t expect to see many PC games at upcoming E3... →
As the video game industry gears up for its annual E3 conference in July, the reality is setting in that the one-time entertainment extravaganza has become narrowly focused on console…
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lego →
You sent the questions and now here are the answers. Do you want to know how many bricks are produced per minute? How many bricks have been produced in history? What’s the best-selling set…
Can Powerset Save Microsoft Search? →
Having failed to acquire Yahoo, Microsoft has been busy spending money, with news that they’ve acquired natural language search company Powerset for $100 million.
Powerset sort-of…
Rumor: iPhone 3G to include MMS after all? →
One of the relatively few disappointments about the iPhone 3G unveiling at Apple’s WWDC event earlier this month was that there was no indication that the new phone would finally support…
Get Ready for Limitless Domain Names →
The Internet’s regulating organization has just approved a proposal to create an unlimited number of customized top-level domains. That means URLs will no longer be restricted to .com,…
Distributed stupidity →
Do you guys remember that whole Betamax vs VHS thing? Ok, how about the DVD+R vs DVD-R thing? or the HD-DVD vs Bluray thing? I certainly remember all these things, and I also remember thinking why…
Xobni, Xoopit, Gmail Labs: Inbox Addons Are... →
Earlier this year, we covered the launch of Xobni, an inbox add-on for Microsoft Outlook. This application is designed to tap into the hidden social network everyone uses: their inbox. More…
Yahoo Announces Realignment Plan →
Yahoo has announced a new organizational “realignment plan.”
As part of the plan, the company is creating a handful of new teams: an audience products division, responsible for product…
about:addons - AMO changes & reviews, Dangers of... →
In this issue…
Extend Firefox 3: There’s Still Time!
Status of AMO Editor Reviews
Dangers of Using eval() on Downloaded JavaScript
Add-on Statistics Since Firefox 3’s Release
AMO…
Twitter Is Not Just For Geeks and Definitely Not... →
The truth is, twitter is for geeks. Actually, it’s not even for geeks, it’s for uber-geeks. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I use twitter myself and have at times been called a…
FriendFeed, Meet Your Biggest Fan →
How does that saying go? Imitation is the greatest form of flattery? If that is true, then FriendFeed should feel very special, because the most popular social network on the planet is…
Why aren’t people concerned with missing cell... →
There is no denying that mobile phones are all the rage and there is increasing pressure to make it a primary computing platform. People see no problem with accessing and working with…
A Few Things For Thursday →
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Happy Thursday, friends. Here’s a few new (and short) things we wanted to point out.
For comments where a down arrow will not suffice, you can…
Search isn’t about buying stuff →
One of the bastions of the search slash advertising has been this idea that people just have to have advertising displayed to them based on what they are searching for. One of the biggest…
Column - Polygamy not in their welfare →
Rumor: Microsoft to Acquire Powerset for $100... →
Venturebeat reports that Microsoft might be close to acquiring the San Francisco based semantic search engine Powerset for about $100 Million. No announcement has been made yet by either…
ICANN Proposes Sweeping Changes to TLDs →
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is considering sweeping changes to the way top-level domains (TLDs) are assigned. Under…
Sony to start digitally distributing movies before... →
Apple made a big splash at MacWorld this year when it announced that all of the major Hollywood studios had signed up to release movies through its iTunes store. However, many of the studios…
PicLens: Now With Amazon Integration and YouTube... →
Cooliris’ PicLens is, without a doubt, one of the prettiest browser add-ons currently available. When we first reviewed it in February, Josh Catone called it ‘nifty’ and ‘gorgeous.’ Both of…