Another New World

The home page over at Bing.com – Microsoft’s newest generation of search – is a huge step forward from past offerings. The page is simple, inviting, and seems to have a better pulse of the current trends on the Web. It s...

Remember viral campaigns? A year or two ago, viral media - videos, sites, or entire campaigns that were so quirky or shocking that friends forwarded them through networks in a viral fashion - was the Holy Grail of the tech marketing world...

This is a story about connections. When iTunes first added podcast support way back in 2005, C.C. Chapman’s Accident Hash was one of the first shows I browsed. Each episode features a few songs; almost all of them are written and performed by independent musicians. ...

On every summer trip I take to Boston, I always try to make some time to walk around Quincy Market. On a clear day several street performers will be stationed at various spots around the historic market demonstrating a talent or performing some sort of act...

The greatest failure of technology is that it is often not used to its full potential.  And, as I tweeted a short while ago:   Every piece of political news that appears makes me a stronger believer of that statement. ...

Web service developers today have a relatively easy job to do if they so choose. Don’t want to spend a lot of time doing statistics for your site? Use Google Analytics. Need event listings or reviews? Pull them from an API. Storage space or bandwidth concerns? ...

As the major television news stations reported on the sudden death of one of modern times’ most respected journalists, similar coverage unfolded simultaneously online. The people participating in this new form of real-time reporting didn’t sit in anchor chairs in front of millions of viewers. To...

Flickr’s gunning for a place to dump everything you can take with your point and shoot camera.  You can now include videos of up to 90 seconds. I...

Adobe recently entered the world of online photo editing with their free Photoshop Express service.  Included: your own yourname.photoshop.com address. Link: Photoshop Express

Verizon and AT&T walked away with large winnings at the FCC’s wireless spectrum auction. In total Verizon spent $9.63 billion (including its winning $4.74 billion bid for the highly-contested C-block), and AT&T spent $6.64 billion. ...

Since I’ve made a few posts about new players in existing markets, I thought Steven Frank’s latest post fits in nicely.  Steven is one of the founders of Panic, a Mac software company that makes (among other things) Coda, an amazing Web development suite. My ...

Yahoo! is testing out Y! Live, their venture into the online video broadcast/lifecast/live show space.  Is anyone else having flashbacks to the mid- to late-’90s webcam communities? Link: Y! Live

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has a little more information about Yahoo’s Open Search – and a bet that this all will lead to quite a bit more organization online. Link: Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry

There’s been quite a bit of discussion over Apple’s decision to ban iPhone SDK applications from running in the background.  I found a link to a great argument by Hank Williams in favor of background processes on a post (”The Flip Side of the Multitasking Argument“) over at John Gruber’s Daring Fir...