Main
August 31, 2006
Wal-Mart, Apple spar for movie sales: MacNN "The report says that Apple will launch the 'iTunes Movie Store' as soon as mid-September along with a new iPod. Wal-Mart has reportedly become so concerned for its business that it has...
Technology Evangelist attended Minnesota Senator Mark Dayton's press conference today where he announced his support for the Internet Freedom Preservation Act (S.2917) introduced by Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND). If you find this video valuable please let...
August 30, 2006
Technorati Favorites Track your favorite blogs using Technorati's Favorites tool. It aggregates your latest posts, and helps Technorati determine which blogs people like the best. Don't forget to add Technology Evangelist to your favorites! (tags: blogs technorati bookmarks links)...
Imagine standing in the middle of a baseball stadium with "fewer than 19,000" fans and announcing to the crowd that every single person in the stadium's credit card data had been stolen. That's a bit different from how AT&T is...
August 29, 2006
This is the tenth in a 435-part series (give or take) on sources of syndicatable content for websites. Sites covered in this series offer tools to publish content from their site onto your own site. Revver Videos Revver is one...
1st Apple laptop fire reported in Japan; officials order investigation "Japanese authorities reported Tuesday the first case of an Apple laptop catching fire in Japan and ordered the U.S. company to investigate the trouble involving the faulty Sony batteries...
Flickr has added a drag and drop mapping feature to their popular photo sharing site, demonstrated below. Flickr's Organizr console - previously used primarily for batch editing photos - has a new mapping feature using Yahoo Maps. Yahoo is the...
An excerpt from Sen. Schumer's Aug 28th statement on net neutrality:Schumer Statement on Net Neutrality "The Internet has the power to enhance one of the most fundamental values of our democracy: freedom of speech. That's why I support the free...
SiliconBeat is reporting that Dash, makers of an Internet connected GPS system have raised $16 million in VC to bring their product to market. The concept of a Internet connected GPS system has intrigued me for some time now. Why...
August 28, 2006
VoIP, Finally On Your Palm (Treo): GigaOM "Hampton Software, a UK-based small software developer has released Articulation, a SIP client that allows you to well make SIP/VoIP calls from your Treo, as long as they are running Palm OS...
St. Paul Pioneer Press tech reporter, Julio Ojeda-Zapata, has blogged about about a problem with new Macs suddenly shutting down. He references an article in The Inquirer, that explains: "Apple message boards seem to be debating the cause of the...
Marketwatch is reporting that Google has landed an exclusive ad deal for Ebay's international properties. Yahoo will remain Ebay's ad network of choice for the US property: eBay, Google up on ad deal - MarketWatch Shares of the largest Internet...
August 27, 2006
Om Malik reports that 17 companies are currently building web based Office applications.
Finn takes gold at mobile phone throwing contest - Yahoo! News "This year's gold medal went to Finland's Lassi Etelatalo, who flung a scrapped Nokia unit a forceful 89.00 metres. "I prepared by javelin throwing, I haven't really practised...
August 26, 2006
USBDumper: Schneier on Security "USBDumper is a cute little utility that silently copies the contents of an inserted USB drive onto the PC. The idea is that you install this piece of software on your computer, or on a...
Ian Kallen has put together a great post offering an up to date look at the web spam ecosystem and the role Google plays and profits from this trash. The Google Web Spam Ecosystem - Ian Kallen's Weblog "Web spam...
Less than a month ago, I mentioned that Technorati had switched from Google Adwords to Yahoo Search Marketing as their ad server of choice on search results pages. At the time, the ads looked like this: And now they look...
August 25, 2006
It is our Baby's 5th birthday today and we have been struggling with what to get her. She already has a website (www.madelineroz.com) and e-mail (maddie@madelineroz.com). She has a cell phone, a princess throne lounge chair, a Louis Vuitton necklace (collar) and even a 27' boat. After searching the...
Here's an example of an online news site that doesn't quite get this whole web thing. The Web Host Internet Review is a daily news site covering the web hosting industry. Today, they picked up on a news story I wrote yesterday about Amazon.com's new EC2 transactional web hosting service, and cited Technology Evangelist in their article.
When are Web 2.0 companies going to start having theme songs like well established companies like Apple, Ernst & Young, and HP?ZDNet UK dug up a bunch of corporate theme songs back in 2002. A few have gone offline since...
AOL to offer movie downloads from four studios - Yahoo! News "AOL said films from Twentieth Century Fox, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group will be available for download on AOL Video for...
Jeff Utecht, a teacher and blogger at The Thinking Stick put together a video tutorial on how to use Flickr, then published it to YouTube: It provides step by step instructions on how to use Flickr, followed by tips on...
Is the real estate market starting to bounce back? That's one of predictions floated by Bill Tancer of HitWise.com based on the popularity of the search term "Homes for Sale" over the past year when compared to actual home sales data from the National Association of Realtors:
Seth Godin reflected on the difference between Yahoo and Google's homepages in 1999 and why it mattered during a Feb speach at the Googleplex: "What happened was geeks and nerds and early adopters and people like me: the ones who...
August 24, 2006
Maybe the reason for Amazon's downtime earlier this week wasn't the shoe sale but growing pains caused by the new services Amazon was working to get out the door. First, we saw their new aStore custom affiliate store wizard, and...
IPod Patent Dispute Settled "Apple Computer Inc. said yesterday that it would pay $100 million to Creative Technology Ltd. to settle a patent dispute between the bitter rivals in the booming digital music player business." (tags: ipod creative patents...
John Aravosis reminds us that AT&T may have been involved in a massive violation of their customer's privacy by turning over calling records to the US Government: AMERICAblog: AT&T sues cell phone records thieves And since AT&T is suddenly so...
Check out this headline:
HouseValues tops Zillow in Georgia comparison
Sounds like HouseValues must be better than Zillow, right?
Here is some background to that headline from John Cook's Venture Blog:
AT&T is going after the people who managed to gain access to customer phone records (emphasis mine): AT& T Sues, Alleging Fraudulent Access to Customer Accounts AT&T Corp. on Wednesday filed suit in federal court to unmask and halt the...
August 23, 2006
Amazon.com has launched a new custom store application (associates login required) that allows anyone to build a store with the inventory of their choice using Amazon's powerful retail platform.
It turns out that Google doesn't own the advertising rights to the entire social networking world: Microsoft and Facebook in Web ad deal Facebook and Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said the world's largest software maker will become the exclusive provider...
Jake Ludington offers an easy to follow tutorial on how to Sync your Google Calendar to your Treo Smartphone through Microsoft Outlook using RemoteCalendars:
How to Sync Google Calendar with Outlook and Smartphones Automatically
August 22, 2006
Curiosity got the best of me, leading to my perusal of the AOL Search Database. While there are plenty of interesting nuggets in there, I can't say that I was particularly shocked by this peak into the search behavior of my fellow web users. People are different. They have different tastes. Some even like watching cars make left turns for hours and hours.
Top Digital Cameras Used on Flickr "Top camera makes and models used to create photos uploaded to Flickr. The lists are generated automatically by periodically sampling the EXIF data from the stream of recent uploads." (tags: flickr cameras photography...
Amit Agarwal reports on Gmail's new MP3 Player feature that allows users to play MP3 attachments within Gmail rather than downloading them to play in a client application:Google MP3 Player found in GMail ?Ǭª Digital Inspiration A new GMail feature...
Richard Ekman has an editorial in today's Washington Post looking at what can be gained from fast and easy access to knowledge currently inaccessible to all but the most tenacious researchers. In my opinion, an ideal world is one in...
August 21, 2006
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch reported earlier today that Amazon.com was down. I noticed that too, but didn't consider it blog worthy. But someone reporting on Amazon.com suddenly is blog worthy:Techcrunch ?Ǭª Amazon Is Down "Reports are coming in that Amazon.com...
I think you're biggest opportunity comes from letting your offline fans know about your online / MySpace presence. Do you advertise your MySpace URL at concerts? On your CDs? On posters and fliers? Mention it during performances? If not, that's a great place to start.
USB-NailGunner, a forceful PC gadget to defend your computer: Blubbie.com "The nail gun is guided automatically and fires a round of 6 2" household nails when objects are within a 2 meter range. Hence the nickname iKill. Tests have...
August 20, 2006
Lee Odden provides an interesting look at the new online marketing strategy going by the name SMO or Social Media Optimization. How can businesses use new social sites like MySpace and YouTube to market their businesses? Online Marketing Blog ?Ǭª...
August 18, 2006
.Mac Needs to Be Radically Retooled: Apple Matters "When Steve showed that only 3% of people actively backup, I thought Apple is going to solve this! It hasn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t. So Apple you want to be bold, and make .Mac something...
Mike Sansone of ConverStations has published a list of his favorite "Tech Stuff" blogs, and Technology Evangelist made the list:ConverStations: Blue Ribbon Bloggers: Tech Stuff Honorable Mention: The Technology Evangelist, Shaun Orpen (who just moved from here), The Tlog.We're honored...
August 17, 2006
As soon as the Treo 700p came out - actually, even before it came out - I knew it would be my next phone after the 600 model I've used the couple years. While Treo's 650 model had a few key upgrades, including Bluetooth, it didn't add up to a must-have upgrade for me unlike my previously obvious upgrade from the Handspring Treo 300 to the 600.
Flat TV=More Nuclear Plants: Treehugger According to a recent article in The Observer, if half of British homes buy a plasma-screen TV, the country would need two more nuclear power stations to meet the extra energy demand. (tags: energy...
August 15, 2006
?Ǭª News Corp. to release TV/films for download (protected by MS-DRM) | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com "Personally, I think the very first question that should be asked whenever a movie or television studio releases its content for download,...
August 14, 2006
I got duped by a comment spammer!
It's pretty easy to catch comment spam when it comes from someone names Tramadol or other popular pharmaceutical products, but check out this comment contributed to a blog post about iPods (link removed):
The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time: PC World "The IBM PC is 25. And here are the top PCs ever, from machines you owned and loved to systems you've never heard of." (tags: History technology pc ibm apple...
August 13, 2006
Amazon Associates has a new search engine spider that checks from broken affiliate links to their site. They want to make sure you're properly pointing visitors to their site so they make money and you will to. As an added service, it also checks non-Amazon links on your site to see if they're working.
August 12, 2006
On August 12th 1981 IBM announced the IBM Personal Computer.
August 11, 2006
Saving iPods from the Landfill "iPods, although expensive, are treated as if disposable and some say Apple wants it that way. To their discredit, Apple offers no support to entrepreneurs like Matt, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. Thanks...
Steve Rubel posted about a recent story on Marketwatch that questions Google's future due to its lackluster performance in a few hot sectors, including blogging, social networking, and video sites.
August 10, 2006
Interview with Guy Kawasaki: Pronet Advertising "Hockey is a great sport because it combines the physicality of football, the team play of basketball, the poetry of ballet, the complexity of mathematics, and the aerobics of soccer. There is only...
I've written previously about the role link popularity plays in search engine rankings, and about the problems newspapers cause themselves when they bury archives behind passwords and/or paid sections. Here is another example of why this is a problem.
August 9, 2006
Yesterday, I discussed the issues Simon Delivers faces with the natural search results on this page. Today, let's take a look at the Sponsored Links coming from Google AdWords:
August 8, 2006
Me A time lapse photography video of a woman who's taken one photo a day of herself since November 1, 2001. via Digg.com (tags: timelapse photography video) The myth of the living-room PC. By Paul Boutin "My tech-savvy friends...
Interesting statement from Nicall Kennedy on his ~4 month stint at Microsoft:
I noticed that Technology Evangelist has picked up some new traffic from searches related to Simon Delivers, so I took a look at what was drawing them in. Here is a Google search result for the term [simon delivers groceries] where Technology Evangelist currently ranks as the 7th result and 5th site in the organic search results:
CNET recently published a list of best web sites for students that included social networking, sports, gaming, music, and gambling sites. Yes, that's correct. Apparently, the best sites for students are sites that have nothing to do with college and everything to do with entertainment.
August 7, 2006
It's really a shame that so much great content is so poorly accessible because it's buried in untranscribed podcasts today. For example, check out this comment from Om Malik explaining the value of universal wireless systems through a potential real-world example:
August 5, 2006
Lenovo to preload SUSE on Thinkpad | Open Sources | InfoWorld The reason why Lenovo/SLED 10 is interesting is because Novell took the time to make the included applications better. For example, the SLED version of OpenOffice.org has better...
Hugh Macloed cranks out edgy cartoon commentaries about the PR industry, blogging, businesses he's pimping, and sexual frustrations at GapingVoid.com many times a day.
August 4, 2006
Valley Boys: Digg.com's Kevin Rose leads a new brat pack of young entrepreneurs "[Digg ]is now the 24th-most popular Web site in the U.S., nipping at the The New York Times' (No. 19) and easily beating Fox News (No....
Ponder this for a second:
Local newspapers should stop ALL reporting for an entire week. Just run wire services for that week . . . and see if anyone notices.
August 3, 2006
Google, Yahoo, others team against click fraud | CNET News.com "The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the nonprofit Media Rating Council said they are teaming with Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask.com, LookSmart and others to form the Click Measurement Working...
Philipp Lenssen over at Google Blogscoped has transcribed some of Matt Cutt's recent video answers to common search engine optimization questions. Thanks for doing that, Phillipp. Here is one question and answer I found particularly interesting:
Top Blog Posts for June Palm and RIM to merge this Thursday? Palm Treo 700p Review: The Must-Have E-mail Phone Running Windows XP on a Macintosh for Business Cool Treo 700p Addons A Treo Trio: 600, 650 & 700p Top...
August 2, 2006
Motorola Listened, Made ?¢‚Ǩ?ìJust a Phone?¢‚Ǩ¬ù - PaulStamatiou.com "Just give us a simple phone that has a decent form factor, damn near stellar battery life, voice quality and reception. Motorola was the first major cellular phone manufacturer to answer...
This is the seventh in a 435-part series (give or take) on sources of syndicatable content for websites. Sites covered in this series offer tools to publish content from their site onto your own site.
Technorati has switched from using Google AdSense to Yahoo Search Marketing to monetize their search results. The Ebay.com ad below is served by Yahoo (formerly Overture):
Some creative video fun based on statements made by the guy overseeing regulation of "a series of tubes."...
August 1, 2006
MacMall gets one extremely happy customer "MacMall offered her one advantage from the get-go: The convenience of buying a Mac laptop bundled with a Windows license, that is, with a physical retail copy of the Microsoft operating system, as...
Amazon.com's latest product category - Grocery - is now officially live. I've had a chance to try the service over the past month or so and have a few thoughts about my experience so far.
|
