Internet Now Serves 100 Million Websites

The World Wide Web was created as a mechanism for scientists to post text and images, and share them with colleagues. Keep that in mind the next time you visit sites with Flash navigation, embedded videos, sound clips that play when the site loads, and advertising on display.

IsiPhone The Holy Grail of Podcasting?

Reports this week of a deal between Apple Computer and Cingular, coupled with Apple's new speech-recognition patent, have rekindled rumors of the company developing the much talked about iPhone. Would the advent of such a device herald a subsequent launch of wireless podcasting?

Yahoo Starts Matching Souls

Yahoo has partnered with Beliefnet, a "leading spirituality media company" (oxymoron, anyone?), to enhance an online community for spiritual daters. Dubbed Soulmatch, the site is already up and running; this new arrangement will supposedly make Soulmatch "the largest and most active" site of its kind.

MySpace For Trademark Infringement

When capitalizing on the social networking explosion, it's best to not be too obvious that you're ripping off somebody else - especially when everybody knows that somebody else and the high-priced lawyers that come with. For example, a site called "MySpace for Midgets" is wrong for two reasons, but we'll just focus on one.

SNCR Advisory Board Meets in Boston

What a spectacular day it was yesterday in Boston. I did the trolley ride around town for two and a half hours and had a quick whistle stop tour of all the historic sites.