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- Microsoft throws down the gauntlet in business intelligence — Tech News and Analysis
Phillips said the business intelligence market is presently in its third wave. The first wave was technical and database-centric. The second wave was about self service, defined…
- Amazon Web Services tops list of most reliable public clouds — Tech News and Analysis
Filtering worldwide downtime over the past year, the Amazon S3 storage service, for example, registered 23 outages for a total of 2.69 hours of downtime, while EC2 compute logged…
- We did our best, but we were powerless to reinvent journalism — it was a digital riptide! — Tech News and Analysis
I think we should blame them a little, and here’s why: because there were senior people in the industry who saw the disruption coming — saw it clearly, appreciated the…
- This is what happens when Facebook controls the signal, and it defines you as noise Tech News and Analysis
- Were witnessing the rise of the graph in big data
Graph databases and graph-processing applications have been popping up all over the place lately, and now theyre starting to go commercial. On Tuesday, popular open source project…
- Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository, and so can you
The Wikimedia Foundations first major new project in 7 years is now feeding the biggest project in that stable, Wikipedia itself. But anyone can take structured data from…
- Uber, Data Darwinism and the future of work
Uber, a San Francisco-based personal transportation oriented startup, is facing a backlash from a few of its drivers. But the confrontation is less about Uber and more about the…
- Survey: Percentage of users saying they opt out of targeted ads has nearly doubled
Last year, the firm found that 27 percent of U.S. adults over the age of 18 indicated that they will opt out of online behavioral advertising to manage privacy. This year, that…
- Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it
Regardless of the conclusion of this article the links to various papers and projects are very worthwhile. Its therefore far from controversial to say that Hadoop is firmly…
- Facebook giveth, Facebook taketh: A curious case of video apps
Something didnt add up and it wasnt till you see Socialcams popular and trending videos pages that you understand the full picture. These pages are full of videos of crazy Fox…
- Journalism: Dying by a thousand cuts, or being reinvented?
- How and why you should do data journalism
- Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA — Tech News and Analysis
On Thursday, I interviewed Tim O’Reilly about why he believes SOPA is wrong and what the tech industry can do to stop it. His concerns fell into five main categories:
- Don Norman: Google Doesn’t Get People, It Sells Them
“They say their goal is to gather all the knowledge in the world in one place, but really their goal is to gather all of the people in the world and sell them.”
- The Privacy Startups: Creating A Company In Four Hours
Disconnect is a startup that lets users shut off the tracking features of web sites without logging them out of the web services they want to use. But Brian Kennish, the former…
- Al Franken Introduces First Location Privacy Bill In Senate
More good work from Al Franken!
- New Daily Deals Study Finds Red Flags For The Industry
Most businesses dont feel any loyalty toward a particular daily deal site, and over the next few years, the report concludes, daily deal sites will likely have to settle for lower…
- Disqus Raises $10 Million For Its Commenting System
- How Facebook Can Beat Groupon: By Making Deals Social
- The Email Game Wants to Make Achieving Inbox Zero Fun
Lame that these only work with GMail. Where is generic IMAP support. :-(
- WSJ Launching Single-Issue Downloads For iPad
Looking to get more subscribers for its iPad app, The Wall Street Journal will start selling single-issue digital versions of its morning paper for $1.99 in the within the…
- Forbes Promotes CTO Michael Smith As Digital Head
Its a good day to name a chief digital officer. Hours after Gannett (NYSE: GCI) named David Payne as its new CDO, Forbes Media says it promoting Michael Smith from chief…
- What Makes a Hit (Consumer) Internet Service: Tech News and Analysis «
- HuffPo's Coleman: 'We'll Double Revenues Again This Year'
As it looks to repeat its ad sales successes from 2010, The Huffington Post is adding a dozen ad sales people to its roster. In an interview with paidContent, Greg Coleman,…
- Gantt, PERT, or Task Calendar: Which Scheduling Model is Best for Your Project?
With a new year comes new projects, and with new projects comes plans to execute them. These plans may work — or not. The key is to find the right model, or combination of models,…
- Mozilla CEO: 'Do Not Track' Option Will Be In Firefox 4
- Like It or Not, WikiLeaks is a Media Entity: Tech News «
- Lonely Planet's Digital Director Brough Leaving
Lonely Planets Melbourne-based digital director Kelly Brough is leaving after about 18 months in the role. Her exit was announced to staff Tuesday, but theres no word of a…
- ProPublica Takes Press+ Out For A Spin
ProPublica is going public today as the latest customer of Press+, the payment platform from Journalism Online.The investigative nonprofit is the most high-profile addition so far…
- Like Democracy, the Web Needs to be Defended, Its Creator Says
The web has worked its way into most of our lives to such an extent that it’s easy to take it for granted, and to forget what an incredible resource it is, or the powerful things…
- Jume: Getting Things Done With Your Friends
- Facebook Buys File Sharing Service Drop.io
Facebook has made a small acquisition, buying up drop.io, a service that lets users upload files online and then share them. Drop.io says Facebook has bought most of its…
- The 'Dancing Baby' Lawsuit Will Shape Future of Fair Use
Universal, which administers the copyrights to Princes songs, claims that the dancing baby video violated copyright law because of the Prince background music. Lenz, after…
- Knight Promises To Cover Journalism Online Costs For Some News Orgs
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has funded any number of experiments to create sustainable journalism, investing millions of dollars in startups, academics and more.…
- Gordon McLeod Resigns As President, WSJ Digital
Gordon McLeod is leaving Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) effective October 1. The president of the Wall Street Journal Digital network announced his resignation in an internal memo this…
- Ebyline Wants to Create an iTunes for Journalism
There are plenty of startups that want to revolutionize the media business or transform the journalism profession. Ebyline an angel-financed startup founded by two former Los…
- Facebook Brings 'Liked' News Stories To Search Results
Facebook has set itself up as a huge source of visits to news sites and it now seems intent on establishing itself as a place where people more easily find stories that friends…
- WWD Screencast: Automated Screenshots With Fake
Yesterday I wrote a post about Fake, a nicely-designed Mac browser automation tool. I noted that it was very easy to use, even for non-developers, so to show just how simple it is…
- Twilio Launches Roll-Your-Own Google Voice
- 25 Safari Extensions You Can Install Now
Apple’s new Safari 5 brings support for browser extensions, which the company plans to showcase on its own gallery in a few months. In the meantime, we’ve compiled a list of some…
- Google Maps Adds Biking Directions
Did you know that Google Maps’ most-requested feature addition is biking directions, in large part due to a vocal 50,000-signature-strong group of “Bike There” petitioners? I…
- My Twitter Quantity Experiment
I follow some very successful Twitter users and noticed they tweeted a lot, which inspired me to try the experiment I’ll outline in this post. For several weeks, I tweeted the…
- The Future of Blogging
A recent Pew survey revealed that the popularity of blogging among teens and young adults has declined dramatically from 28 percent to 14 percent from 2006 to 2009. While this…
- Google Purchase Shuts Down reMail
A while back I reviewed an iPhone app called reMail that I really liked. It allowed users to search their email archives very comprehensively. Apparently Google was impressed with…
- App Developers Not Happy With Android
IMPORTANT POINTSThe design of the Android Marketplace makes it difficult for apps to be noticed. The number of app downloads is small. Developers are worried about the…
- Should Page Speed Influence Google PageRank?
Matt Cutts, a software engineer and an eloquent corporate spokesman for Google, spoke at PubCon earlier this month and later gave a video interview to Web Pro News, in which he…
- Dow Jones Sells Stake In Stoxx For $309 Million
Dow Jones has unloaded its stake in European index provider Stoxx—in what is likely the first of several divestitures for the company under owner News Corp (NYSE: NWS). Dow Jones…
- Twitt: A New Twitter Client For the Mac
I’m very happy in my choice of Twitter clients at the moment. Tweetie is my weapon of choice for the Mac desktop, and it has served faithfully since its release. Doesn’t hurt that…
- Dow Jones Reaches Out To McKinsey—Company Says It's Building, Not Cutting
Dow Jones is the latest media company to call on consultancy McKinsey & Co. for help, Forbes reports. The News Corp (NYSE: NWS). unit appears to be following in the footsteps of…
- Is Twitter Replacing the RSS Reader?
Last Friday, I was attending Portland’s weekly Beer and Blog event, and I stumbled across what later turned out to be an interesting trend. I had two separate, unrelated…
- Google Buys reCAPTCHA To Aid Book Digitization
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has purchased reCAPTCHA, a company that creates automated messagesor captchasthat users type to prove that they are not bots. Financial terms were not…
- Finally, Facebook 3.0 for the iPhone Is Here
The Facebook 3.0 iPhone application is finally available for download in the iTunes store. Though the app was submitted to Apple on Aug. 16, its release has been widely…
- Coworking News: Hacker Dojo Opens Its Doors
Hacker Dojo, a new coworking venture located in Mountain View, Calif., opened for business yesterday. Its location is good news for web workers from the Bay Area looking for a…
- On Mobiles, There’s No Stopping Webkit
There are a lot of brave souls out there making mobile browsers, hoping to gain traction with the phone makers. But most of them are fighting a losing battle, for the mobile…
- Twitter To Charge For Premium Accounts Later This Year
About Twitters plans to bring in $140 million in revenue next year ... some of it will come from charging users for premium accounts. The accounts will include detailed analytics…
- Lifetime's Digital Strategy For Project Runway Includes Streaming On Demand For First Time
A first for Project Runway as it (finally) starts a new life with season six on Lifetime Thursday night: full episodes of the show will stream on demand at MyLifetime.com after…
- Twitter Used to Control Botnet
Twitter might be revolutionizing social communication, but it’s also providing a handy way for hackers and virus makers to issue commands once their creations are out in the wild.…
- Why Diversification Results In Mediocrity
- King of Pop Proves to be King of Traffic: MJ’s Online Memorial Pushes Internet’s Limits
Michael Jackson’s memorial held today at the Staples Center in Los Angeles turned out to be one of the biggest online events ever, according to various reports. Akamai says th...
- Researcher-Entrepreneur JV CircLabs To Offer Publishers New Ad-Targeting Service
Can a new tech service that packages online news with social media features and a multi-tiered payment system (including subscriptions and micro-payments) save journalism?
- Say Hello To HelloTxt As Status Update Service Space Heats Up
Written by Eric Berlin. Just as services designed to help social media enthusiasts manage multiple online profiles are becoming increasingly popular, services designed to manage…
- Amazon Acquires Popular iPhone E-Reader App Stanza
A small but potentially mighty acquisition by Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), which has picked up e-reader start-up Lexcycle and its popular iPhone application Stanza. No financial details…
- Star Tribune To Give Some 'Deeper' Stories To Print Subscribers Exclusively
More online newspapers are certainly talking about building up the pay-wall around their web content these days, but next week, the Twin Cities' StarTribune.com will begin what…
- Fine-tune Your RSS Subscriptions
According to a survey in 2005, only 12% of internet users know what RSS feeds are. Despite these low numbers, most of the netizens I know seem to be active subscribers. While RSS…
- Gmail Remote Signout
Yesterday Google introduced a remote signout feature for Gmail, providing a capability that sets an inportant precendent for web-based applications and indeed web workers. Most…
- Murdoch: Digital Could Make Up 75 Percent Of Dow Jones Revs
Dow Jones gets about half of its revenues from its digital operations right now, and within a few short years, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). CEO Rupert Murdoch expects his subsidiary to…
- First Look: TimesPeople Adds Social Layer To NYTimes.com
I've spent some time off and on today with the latest tool from NYTimes.com: TimesPeople, a Firefox add-on that functions as a combo recommendation engine and low-frills social…
- LinkedIn Raised Its Big Round; $53 Million From Bain and Others; $1 Billion Valuation
LinkedIn has closed its big round, which it had been working on for a while now in the midst of fielding some acquisition offers from strategics: it has received $53 million in…
- Flickr Founders Leave Yahoo
Flickr, one of the few acquisitions that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has not messed up, at least on the product side, is now seeing the two co-founders leave: the husband-and-wife team of…
- Oow, Eew, OuchYahoo
- Paul Steiger's ProPublica Opens For (Non-Profit) Business
While his former colleagues at the Wall Street Journal deal with the reverb from News Corp's (NYSE: NWS) acquisition of Dow Jones, long-time WSJ managing editor Paul Steiger has…
- Why Amazon Went Down, and Why It Matters
Amazon.coms U.S. retail site became unavailable around 10:25 AM PST, and now appears to be back up. Amazons not naming names all that director of strategic communications Craig…
- Driving While TXTin (DWT) Is Stupid
I get very nervous when I ride shotgun with people who decide to read their Blackberry or send text messages when driving. It is an inherently stupid and dumb thing to do,…
- One to Watch: Delish
I have a confession: even though I have a del.icio.us account with hundreds of bookmarks saved in it, I almost never look at it. Thats because the relentlessly textual…
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune Owner Avista Writes Down 75 Percent Of Investment; Falling Knife, Anyone?
Going private isn't a form of immunity: Avista, the PE-fund that bought the Minneapolis Star-Tribune for $530 million in late 2006, has written down 75 percent of its original…
- WSJ Plans Closer Ties With London Times; May Offer Business Tools
News Corp (NYSE: NWS) is planning closer integration between its new Wall Street Journal website and its existing News International publications in the UK. Times Online EIC Anne…
- Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, the Internet
So all you agile programmers working on Ruby-on-Rails, Python and AJAX, pay attention: If you want more people to think your application loads faster than Google and do not want…
- Amazon Now Serving OpenSolaris on EC2
During our on-stage chat at Startup Camp, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz hinted at some big news involving Amazon and its web services. Today, the company officially…
- Traditional Media Companies Fight The 'Lumbering Giant' Tag
Lumbering giants of the past or the prime innovators of the moment? That was the question moderator and EconSM conference editorial director Elizabeth Osder put to a panel of old…
- OpenID Marches On
First, JanRain (who run the myOpenID provider service) have come out with an ID Selector widget for web developers. Drop their javascript on your page, and theyll create a control…
- Wall Street Journal Paper Redesign: Launching Tomorrow; Broader Focus
The much-anticipated Wall Street Journal print redesign is launching tomorrow, as this long Newsweek story writes about, including positioning it as Rupert Murdoch's full frontal…
- Google Website Optimizer Opens Up
One of Googles lesser-known web developer tools is Google Website Optimizer. That may be because until recently you could only use this tool in conjunction with a Google AdWords…
- Dow Jones Acquires Business Networking Tool Generate
Dow Jones has started its acquisitions again, now as part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). it has bought a much-talked about company in the business social networking space: the…
- Two Ways to Expand Your Twitter Network
In watching people sample Twitter, Ive come to one conclusion: those who end up finding it a useful service tend to be people who build up a network of a few dozen to a few…
- Economist CEO Leaving, Replaced By Ex Online Boss
The Economist Group CEO Helen Alexander is leaving the publisher after 23 years to become an adviser to private equity house Bain Capital. Her replacement, from July 15, will be…
- TwitterLocal Peeks into the Real World
For the most part, despite a few geographic mashups like twittervision, Twitter users have existed in some amorphous location best known as cyberspace. But a new service,…
- Comcast to Twin Cities: Want WideBand? Gonna Cost You Big
Comcast, the largest cable company in the US announced today that it is going to start selling a 50 megabits per second (down) connection in Minnesotas Twin Cities region. The…
- WSJ Staff To Move Into News Corp HQs?; Online Model Set For Now
The new Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) CEO Les Hinton gave his first public interview to The Australian, and though no revelatory points, some reiteration of current policies, and a hint…
- Are We Entering the Post-Reader Era?
Were certainly fans of RSS (and Atom) feeds here at WWD; our own full content goes out, weve reviewed plenty of feed readers, and we recognize feeds as one of the underlying…
- Coming Soon: The Cisco Blade Server?
The movement toward blade servers in the enterprise data center has been growing steadily for some time, backed by manufacturers like IBM and HP. But expect to soon see networking…
- NYP Shuts Down PageSix Standalone Site After Less Than Four Months
PageSix.com, the entertainment gossip site that gained independence from its original home as part of the NYP.com in December, has been shuttered, Gawker reported. A rep for the…
- Fox Business Loses Domain Name Battle Due To Laziness
Talk about being dumb on the smallest of things: Fox Business Network has lost its battle for the domain name www.foxbusinessnetwork.com, because it did not register its trade…
- Dow Jones Makes First Post-News Corp Acquisition: Buys Betten Financial News
Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), now officially part of News Corp. has made its first acquisition after the deal: it has bought Dutch company Betten Financial News, in an effort to expand…
- Delicious Wishlists
Were fans of services that leverage data that youve already collected; re-entering things is not only inelegant, its time-wasting. If youre a del.icio.us user (and most web…
- Microsoft To Buy Norwegian Search Firm Fast Search & Transfer For $1.23 Billion
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will buy Norwegian web and mobile enterprise search software firm Fast Search & Transfer in a deal that values the company at 6.6 billion kroner ($1.23…
- Here Comes Trouble: The Thin Edge of SIP
Vint Cerfs Facebook profile includes a picture of him wearing his favorite t-shirt: it reads IP on Everything. Cerf co-authored the 1973 paper that led to TCP/IP being used as a…
- Apple Rumor Site Think Secret Shutting Down On Settlement
Think Secret, a popular source of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) gossip and news, will be shutting down, per a settlement of a trade secrets lawsuit brought by Apple in 2005. In a statement,…
- Factiva Downplays FT Subscription Fee; Impact From A Free WSJ.com Is Uncertain
Factiva customers who want continued total access to the FT.com will have to pay for a second, separate subscription, reports our sister site PC:UK. The change is part of the FT's…
- FTC Gives Go-Ahead to Google-DoubleClick Deal
This just in: Googles $3.1 billion merger with DoubleClick has been cleared by the Federal Trade Commission, which said it saw neither current nor potential competitive problems…
- Dow Jones CMO Ann Marks Leaves As Well
The executive shakeup at Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) continues, as it is in the second official day of life under News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) Ann Marks resigned from her posts as the chief…
- Amazon Web Services launches SimpleDB Beta
- Updated: @ DJ Shareholder Meeting: Shareholders Approve Sale Of Dow Jones; 60.27 Percent Support
It's official: Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) shareholders have approved the sale of the company to News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) In the end, shares representing 60.27 percent of the total voting…
- DVR Software Firm ReplayTV Sold To DirecTV
ReplayTV, one of the pioneers in the DVR business and now in its faded glory, has been sold by its Japanese owner D&M Holdings to DirecTV, (NYSE: DTV) for an undisclosed sum. D&M…
- Google Sync for Blackberry Calendar
When it comes to working with Google data on mobile devices, Google isnt all about the iPhone after all. A few weeks after Google updated their cross-platform Maps application…
- Dow Jones Shareholders Set To Approve Sale To News Corp.
Not that it was in doubt by this point, but Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) shareholders will accept News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) $60 per share offer for the company. The actual shareholder…
- Neil Budde Leaving Yahoo; Khemlani Expands Role To Include News
Last week, when I checked with Neil Budde and inside Yahoo after Valleywag floated the idea that he was leaving, I was told that wasnt the case. But the situation changed…
- CNBC.com And Microsoft Partner On Ad Sales, MSN Money Content Syndication
- The Exit Interview: WSJ Publisher Gordon Crovitz
- Twitter's Summer Funding: $4.8 Million of a $5.4 Million Round
Twitter's funding round from this summer, which we reported on sans amount, netted the company $4.8 million, according to a regulatory filing obtained by PE Hub. The round, which…
- How will HD Radio fare in 2008?
Radiosophy, a three-year-old company that makes affordable HD radios, emailed me their newsletter and it was full of some interesting bits. For instance, there are 1,000 HD…
- AllBusiness.com Acquired By Dun & Bradstreet For $55 Million
Online business resource AllBusiness.com has been acquired by Dun & Bradstreet for approximately $55 million to enhance its internet presence. The site will operate as a wholly…
- Beliefnet Being Bought By News Corp; Cable Ties Possible; Not Buying LinkedIn
Beliefnet, the NYC-based multi-faith community site which has been around since 1999 and has gone through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, has finally been bought. The buyer is News…
- News CorpFox Close To Deal With Apple For iTunes Movies: Report
News Corp and its studio Twentieth Century Fox are close to a deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to begin offering new releases and catalog movie titles through iTunes beginning in…
- 10 Ways to Be Productive with Backpack
37signals online organizer tool, Backpack has been a favorite with GTD geeks and web workers for some time now. Its sleek, its cool, its got all kinds of Ajaxy goodness. And it…
- Online Video Service Joost Gets Whopping $45 Million Funding
The much-hyped online video service Joost, which launched in open-beta last week, has raised a big round of funding: $45 million. The round included Sequioa Capital, Index…