Category: Technology

  • Go away, Kool-Aid and Star Wars

    Everyone believes that one of the points of blogging and the internet in general is to connect with other people, right? That’s why we pay attention to things like LinkedIn connections, Technorati rankings, BlogPulse conversation trackers and other tools that…

  • Getting my interactive kettle online

    I had dinner last night with an old friend who’s in town for a few days on a business visit. Much of our conversation centered on social media, technology and the results of some of the developments we’re likely to…

  • Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 10-Mar-06

    Amazon Considering Downloads CEBIT: Origami Devices–Will Anyone Buy Them? Central Contact List Disabled for older Skype versions Forbes reports billionaire boom Google to pay $90m in ‘click fraud’ suit Handheld PC dominates Cebit start IBM Boosts Supercomputer Data Speed by…

  • Microsoft’s Apple-style word of mouth

    If you pay attention to what’s going on in the broad tech world (Tech Memeorandum is a great way to get the hum of some opinion), you can’t help but notice things like the growing buzz about Microsoft’s Origami during…

  • AJAX patent absurdity

    News that the US Patent Office has granted a patent to a software developer that gives him the rights to charge license fees for any application development that uses AJAX has not been well received by developers and others with…