Another New World

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...

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...

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...

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...

I’m really impressed with Microsoft’s Live Search Maps.  My favorite feature is the Bird’s Eye view of major cities; it still amazes me how much a small perceptual change from a pure aerial view can really enhance the view of a location’s surroundings. Link: Live Search M

A report on Marketplace this morning actually managed to anger me. The show featured a short conversation with Bill Werde of Billboard Magazine about the recent release of Ghosts by Nine Inch Nails. What Trent and NIN are doing is the future of music, and it’s definitely newsworthy...

In case you haven’t already read the article, WIRED’s Chris Anderson offers an in-depth explanation of the current state of freeness in the world and on the Web. Which is to say, the trend lines that determine the cost of doing business online all point the same way: to zero...

Today was a big day for search...

Yahoo announced the beta release of Fire Eagle, its new location tool for developers, at the ETech conference last week. Fire Eagle allows webmasters to use location information from visitors. Link: Lo! Fire Eagle has landed

After realizing just how cluttered profiles become after adding everything from vampires to Grey’s Anatomy quotes to your family tree back to the times when woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Facebook is asking for feedback on a new, tab-based interface for user profiles...

Venture capitalist and unlikely “One more thing” presenter John Doerr may have said it best during his part of the SDK announcement: “New platforms are very rare, but they can be transformational… in your pocket, you have something that’s broadband and connected all the time...

I spent a good portion of the afternoon on Thursday listening to two of the season’s biggest tech presentations: the introduction of the iPhone SDK by Steve Jobs and company and Guy Kawasaki’s interview of Steve Ballmer...

I spent a good portion of the afternoon on Thursday listening to two of the season’s biggest tech presentations: the introduction of the iPhone SDK by Steve Jobs and company and Guy Kawasaki’s interview of Steve Ballmer.  I noticed something interesting while listening: both companies realize...