The state of blogging report by technorati says around 1.5 million blogs updated in the last week, 900k in the last 24 hours…
Bloggers have been at it an average of three years and are collectively creating close to one million posts every day. Blogs have representation in top-10 web site lists across all [...]
The Royal Society, Britain’s oldest scientific academy, has published a series of papers in its Philosophical Transactions outlining some of the options for intervening directly in the planet’s climate. Some of these are pretty scary.
Richard Branson, a British businessman, is already offering a prize of $25m for a workable way of removing a [...]
Semi sales up 7.6% year on year (via Briefing.com). Lots of market talk about LCD sales softening as well.
Semiconductor chip sales during July increased 7.6% from last year, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. In turn, total July sales were $22.2 billion. Sales were also up from the prior month when they totaled [...]
Turns out those cash registers aren’t any more secure than voting machines, and the incentives to get it right are just as bad.
“Zappers” alter the electronic sales records in a cash register. To satisfy tax collectors, the tally of food orders, for example, must match the register’s final cash total… The more sophisticated [...]
Paul Graham is recommending AppJet’s Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Programming on the Web; a javascript environment that allows you to write and test applications right from your browser.
The goal of this guide is to be the easiest and most fun way for a beginner to get started programming. To this end, we have [...]
Surprisingly, Disney has managed to make the virtual mobile network concept work in Japan when it couldn’t in the US by teaming up with Softbank. From TechCrunch:
Disney embarked on a cellular phone business in the US as early as June 2006 but pulled the plug at the end of last year… but in [...]
I’m talking platform leverage — the sort of leverage you can get in a proxy battle by putting a page like this in front of millions of people, many of whom may in fact own your stock, the week before the meeting, for free:
Or, the leverage in media you can get by interjecting [...]
Toyota Motor on Friday showed off a new stand-up scooter that could one day be seen zipping alongside the Segway on the personal-transporter superhighway…
The “Winglet” has a body the size of an A3 sheet of paper that houses an electric motor, two wheels, and internal sensors that constantly monitor the rider’s position and make adjustments [...]
Cuil, a new search company with all the right principals, is struggling with it’s launch.
…with 120 billion Web pages, Cuil’s search index is larger than any other… Instead of showing results as short snippets of text and images with links, it displays longer entries and uses more pictures… Cuil, which has about 30 [...]
The NYTimes and LinkedIn are announcing a partnership that will bring tailored headlines in the NYTimes Business and Technology sections to LinkedIn users based on some of their profile information. The example the NYTimes uses: LinkedIn members who work in the energy sector will see Times stories that cover the energy business. Users can also [...]