Sony, I’m Speechless…

”Sony Tech: We know about this problem. Its our new copy protection that’s making these discs unplayable in some players including our own, we do not intend to change the copy protection. The only correction to this problem is a firmware update to your player. The electronics division know about this […]

Makeover Hacks - A New Industry?

I was surfing around last night and found two very cool makeover hacks. The first is a redesigned site theme for Google Reader that is built on the Stylish Firefox extension. The theme essentially mimicks a OSX application and, IMO, improves Reader quite a bit.

The next makeover hack is actually far more straightforward, it’s a Greasemonkey […]

Freshbook Report Cards

Freshbooks, the online invoicing and time management application, released an innovative new feature called Report Cards.

This is a really interesting feature that takes advantage of a unique aspect of hosted applications, namely the ability to aggregate data across a network of customers. Putting aside the permissions and security issues that this raises, what this gives […]

Are Embargoes Done?

Marcus Brauchli, who takes over from Paul Steiger at the helm of the powerful business newspaper, is a noted opponent of the media embargoes that Silicon Valley companies love so much.

Valleywag is speculating that the WSJ will lead the charge to end the PR practice of embargoes on press announcements. I […]

Cambrian House - Crowdsourcing Gets Real

Up until now a lot of the talk about wisdom of crowds has been theoretical in nature, lot’s of sites like Digg claim the title but in reality a very small percentage of the user base ends up steering the market. Cambrian House is a company that aims to put crowdsourcing to work, literally, but […]

Top 10 VC Lies

The post is here:

  1. We’re all on the same side here.
  2. A lower Series A valuation is good for you too.
  3. We’re not funding XXXX companies anymore.
  4. I liked it. Really. But we just don’t have the bandwidth right now.
  5. We don’t do deals we can’t drive to.
  6. Come back when you have a lead […]

Civics 101

I remember watching an interview with that Duke prosecutor Nifong last year where he made a point of saying that the case should go forward so that the victim can have her day in court. My reaction at the time was that a prosecutor should know that his client is not the victim; the prosecutor’s […]

Google Releases Feed API

The Google AJAX API team has announced a genuinely useful Feed API that gives an Ajax developer the ability to access feeds, cached in the fast Google edge cache where appropriate, from across the web using a simple JavaScript API.

This is similar to Pipes but uses Javascript rather than a visual […]

Yahoo! Jumps! on! the! Bandwagon!

”Jerry Yang and I just announced at our quarterly employee all-hands that Yahoo! has committed to going carbon neutral this year.”

Apparently they are also committed to going profit neutral.

“All in all, there didn’t seem to be a lot to get excited about,” said Derek Brown, an analyst with Cantor Fitzgerald. “There was no tangible proof […]

Maybe RIM Should Call Amazon as Well

NEW YORK — NewsChannel 4 learned of a massive system failure that affected all BlackBerry users in the western hemisphere late Tuesday.The RIM Company, which stands for Research In Motion, developed BlackBerry technology and said its infrastructure failed around 8 p.m. Tuesday and was until about 7 a.m. Wednesday.E-mails were not […]

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