Next up: Google Finance | # | Now that we have Google Talk, the whispering here in Silicon Valley is that Google hopes to launch Google Finance sometime in September...
Talk of the Internet | # | Voice is back but this time it's on the Internet. Just when the rise of email and text-messaging began eroding traditional phoning, voice communication is staging an online comeback -- in a variety of unlikely ways.
Google Wants to Be Your Best Friend On Your Computer | # | Google's two newest releases, Google Desktop and Google Talk, are bold, major steps for the company -- and useful programs that have great potential, Walt Mossberg writes.
August 24, 2005
Digg | # | Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.
Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet. | # | What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user’s precise location? The gatekeeper of the world’s information could become one of the globe’s biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers, basically supplanting telecoms in one fell swoop. Sounds crazy, but how might Google go about it?
Feedster Top 500 Weblogs | # | Each month, Feedster brings you a list of 500 of the most interesting and important blogs. Enjoy browsing to see what people are reading, to find feeds that will bring topics of interest to you on a regular basis, and to discover new voices in the Blogosphere.
August 09, 2005
How-to: Share your keyboard and mouse in realtime with Synergy | # | Comments (1) | Synergy is an open source and free software project that allows one to share a keyboard and mouse across multiple monitors on separate computers and even between different operating systems. You may be a prime candidate for Synergy’s superb um… synergy if you code multi-platform software, use more than one computer at home such as a laptop and a tower, or if your computers have different functions (media server, net machine, etc.)
Talk Digger | # | Talk Digger asks major search engines: Who links to a specific URL? The results will then be processed and displayed on Talk Digger.
All The News That Clicks | # | Newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines are scrambling to boost their Web presence.
July 31, 2005
Aprender a Perder | # | That's Learn to Lose for you gringos. :-) A good article, written in Spanish, on the importance of traders learning how to lose.
A Real Spam Assassin! | # | That's what I'm talking about! The Russians don't play. Death to all spammers
July 22, 2005
Secrets to Good Hard-Drive Hygiene | # | Backing up a hard drive can be a chore for those who store gigabytes of documents, photographs, videos and music on their home computers. A survey of products that can make the task easier.
Why Movie Theatre Revenues are Declining | # | Barry sums it up nicely. My theatre-going dropped drastically with the advent of DVDs, and especially NetFlix. IMHO, the DVD experience is far better than a theatre.
July 14, 2005
Feng Shui for Business Success | # | I really need to apply this to my desk and office. (I figured out the showering thing a few years ago.)
Finding a Blog in a Haystack | # | Traffic at blog search engines is soaring. When will Google and Yahoo! join the fray?
July 10, 2005
The Tech Buzz Game | # | The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends
As a player, your goal is to predict how popular various technologies will be in the future. Popularity or buzz is measured by Yahoo! Search frequency over time.
Predictions are made by buying virtual stock in the products or technologies you believe will succeed, and selling stock in the technologies you think will flop. In other words, you put your play money where your mouth is.
July 08, 2005
Jim Cramer, Excitable Boy | # | Comments (1) | Imagine John Madden on way too much coffee. Loud? Yeah. Funny? Mostly. Smart? Oh yeah. Tough? Absolutely. Thing is, Cramer's a handful on a good day. On a bad day ...
The Best Product Designs of 2005 | # | The winners of this year's Industrial Design Excellence Awards represent the best of the best, using design to reinvent old product categories, revive tired brands, and simplify complicated products
The Global Housing Boom | # | The worldwide rise in house prices is the biggest bubble in history. Prepare for the economic pain when it pops
June 17, 2005
Don't Click It | # | Navigate without using your mouse buttons. :-o
The Cool Hunter | # | The Cool Hunter brings today's most happening movements, styles and trends to readers across the globe covering genres such as fashion, music, urban living, designer and cultural trends.
