Fred / A VC:A Lost Decade - But Not For Everyone — One of the best posts I read this week was from Fortune’s Andy Serwer. In it, he noted: … I’ve been thinking about that since I read it midweek. A lost decade in which if you owned the Dow, you’d have lost [...]
An early cut at the best inventions. How good are they really? Have you heard of any of them?
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Most start-ups hope to hit the big time with a killer application or a deep-pocketed investor. But for one Silicon Valley company, it was a litter of wriggling, caramel-colored puppies that put it on the map.
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So, for awhile this evening, I couldn’t send text messages. I have Sprint, which I am generally happy enough with, but tonight, not so much.I thought it might just be me, but then I found out my little brother’s phone was infected as well. Curses!
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You do not need to be a celebrity to have embarrassing images of you flashed before the public.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers — Speculation was rampant the last few weeks that Google had to rely on a third party content delivery network to make the YouTube Live live concert stream properly at scale. Despite the fact that Google …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Facebook’s Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting — A group of Facebook engineers - Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der and Dan Weatherford - have created a small project called Palantir at a Facebook Hackathon event. The project is named after The palantír of Orthanc …
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In Silicon Valley, a big jump in the number of people looking for work sent the region’s jobless rate up to 6.9 percent in October, from 6.5 percent the month before.
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 2008) — Engineers and entrepreneurs are rushing to explore alternative sources of efficient and renewable energy in New Jersey and elsewhere in the country.
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:Live in Air: 10 Things You Need To Know About In Flight Wi-Fi — I’m live from Virgin America’s Beta run of their Wi-Fi service, over San Francisco, and there are a few things you should know about how its going to work when most airlines go live in 2009. And [...]
Rick Green / CT Confidential:Connecticut drops felony charges against Julie Amero, four years after her arrest — The unbelievable story of Julie Amero concluded quietly Friday afternoon at Superior Court in Norwich, with the state of Connecticut dropping four felony pornography charges.
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:The real story behind the Verizon BlackBerry Storm OS? — I want to preface this by saying that the following statements are my opinions and hypotheses, and have not be confirmed nor denied by any of sources of mine or official contacts at either corporation. It should serve [...]
A RETIRED geologist searching on Google Earth for a place to mine opals may have discovered something much bigger: a meteorite crater in outback NSW.
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Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:iPhone Firmware 2.2 Jailbroken! QuickPwn 2.2 Released! — Once again, anything Apple can make, the enterprising Dev Team can break: the brand-new firmware 2.2 has been jailbroken. QuickPwn should take care of everything, unless you’re one of those unfortunate owners of the second-generation iPod touch …
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A commitment to open government, a desire to save money and the challenge of intellectual exercise has led to a totally interactive Alachua County Growth Management Department Web site that is drawing national attention for its completeness and innovation.
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