Is Google shrinking?
There's a remarkably clueless post on ZDNet today, wherein someone who should know better says that Google's index is 25 percent smaller than it used to be. His evidence: when he checks his own name,...
View ArticleGoogle and Bing as a threat to content
Bing has now been around long enough for people to start looking for referrers in their server logs. Most people aren't seeing a ton of traffic from Bing so they think it's not a big deal. It's a...
View ArticlePorcine Aviation! Now Software Ships!
In April 2007, I bought an upgrade to the formidable contact manager Now Up-to-Date and Contact. I'd used it off and on for some years and was looking for something a bit more powerful than Apple's...
View ArticleSkype Goes Free. What's Next? Everything
You've probably heard by now that eBay unloaded Skype today to a consortium led by Silver Lake Partners and a bunch of other people including Marc Andreesen for mumblety-billion dollars. Dan Hoffman,...
View ArticleMary Travers, RIP
As part of the New York Choral Society, I was fortunate to have performed with Mary Travers (and Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey) a couple of dozen times in the late '80s and early '90s. I did a...
View ArticleGoogle Real-Time Search: some questions
Google today announced its inevitable reach into real-time search, instantly adding results from Twitter, FriendFeed and MySpace. As cool and useful as this may be, I've got a couple of questions about...
View ArticleGoogle UI changes?
Haven't seen this discussed anywhere else, but I've been noticing some small but significant tweaks in how Google's presenting its search results. (It's true that Google is always fixing this and...
View ArticleVisualizing Tufte
I spent the day yesterday in a ballroom listening to data visualization guru Edward Tufte. Given my increasingly hummingbird-like attention span, a full day of concentrated focus was as welcome as it...
View ArticleTVLand
Film crews are not uncommon in my neighborhood. "Gossip Girl," in particular, has been coming around a few times a year. But this week, the nabe's parking will be disrupted for two productions: the CBS...
View ArticleKawasaki on Management
I've been around the Macintosh world since about 1985, so I'm real familiar with Guy Kawasaki. Guy was the software evangelist for the Mac -- the guy who went around persuading software developers to...
View ArticleNew Bing Coming
Microsoft's Bing search engine will be rolling out UI changes starting in the next few days. Since its launch about a year ago, Bing has been innovating mostly on its interface, and these changes...
View ArticleAuto-captioning YouTube
I somehow missed the news that YouTube is now automatically captioning all videos in English. That's awesome news for the accessibility crowd. It's a little problematic for the content industry. Think...
View ArticleHands-on: Motorola Droid X smartphone is a win for Android - Computerworld
My first article for public consumption in quite a while, and a return to old stomping grounds: A review of the upcoming Droid X mobile phone. Overall a nice piece of hardware. I suspect I'll like...
View ArticleWuz LinkedIn Robbed?
There's a provocative column by Joe Nocera in today's NYTimes about LinkedIn's IPO last week. Nocera thinks that the investment banks Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch -- which LinkedIn hired to take it...
View ArticleWill Google Buy Sprint?
So I'm going to start a rumor here: I think, before the year is out, that Google is going to try to buy Sprint. The ties between the companies...
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