I came across this note that the fairly famous spat between Apple Gossip site Think Secret and Apple Inc. has been settled: > “We understand that Nick Ciarelli, the journalist who ran Think Secret, is “very satisfied” with the settlement. While it is sad that Think Secret will be closing its doors, since it was a valuable news source, Ciarelli is now free to move on to other things…[snip…]” fromElectronic Frontier Foundation It’s too bad. Think Secret was a valuable resource. I wonder where Nick will turn up next.
In the context of the current Wall Street excitement, I received a letter of assurance from a mutual fund manager saying, among other things: > “Dear Investors, * While the recent downdraft in worldwide equity markets may be unsettling, there is a great deal in our investments to engender optim...
Chris Herot writes about a new product called RulesBase: Check out this post from Christopher Herot’s Weblog: > “I had a visit yesterday from Steven Ginzberg and Jack Schatz of [Gray Box Software](http://ww...
Take a look at SiloBreaker (don’t ask me why it’s called that; is it supposed to break down silos?) Try typing something into the search box, say “Pakistan”. You will see that it identifies it as a country (it would also identify companies, people, and who knows what else.) Right off that’s interesting, right? Scroll down and in the right margin you see boxes with some rather unique perspectives: maps, article volumes, concept network, hotspots, trends, quotes, and lots of semi structured analysis. It’s a hard site to describe but looks like a unique and useful research tool.
I just looked through my friend list and I see some people who’s name I recognize but don’t know exactly the context where I knew them from, and then there are mysteriously who I really don’t think I’ve ever known, so I can’t remember how they got there. I was discussing with some people at the party how we are going to soon have a new word to distinguish a ‘real’ friend from a ‘facebook’ (or other social network) friend, as well as a term to distinguish a ‘real’ social network from one on the computer. See one of my favorite new terms, Retronym).
You can read all about the potential acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft, here for example, where Marc Andreessen writes: > “I think that a Microsoft/Yahoo merger would have practically no impact on any high-quality Silicon Valley startup.” (from [Silicon Valley after a Microsoft/Yahoo merger](http://...
Huh? Don’t know who Mr. Spock is? Don’t know about the Vulcan greeting? Please! How dare you to be reading this blog! Anyway for the other 99.999% of you, here’s Mr. Spock’s great revelation!
I was going to wait until I had read each of these great articles that all won the “Sidney Awards” but this post was getting stale. And then [part two of the Sidney awards](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/opini...
This is really cool! Check out this post from Autoblog: > Filed under: Safety, TechTwo things plague GPS users: being forced to deal with dubious direction vocalizations and the amount of time spent looking ...
http://farm.sproutbuilder.com/2341/load/5QDs6GRmAGexSWMQ.swf Ok, you can tell I like this new gadget builder, SproutBuilder. I’ve never had a simple way to create small (or big for that matter) Flash animations. Yes, I know it makes me regress to stupid jokes form my youth, but what the heck. Of interest is that it took me about 5 minutes to make this flash animation while I was watching the Dems debate. Pretty cool.
Sites that have to support a huge amount of traffic tend to want to be static html. No matter how fast PHP or perl is, in the end, static pages win. So tools pop up to allow you to generate a templated site, but generate it into static html to kind of have your cake and eat it too. [Webgen](http://w...
Ok, you can tell I like this new gadget builder, 
The widget to the left was cre...