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URL shorteners sprang into sudden essentialness with the advent of microblogging, and especially with the advent of Twitter. Until yesterday, TinyURL was…
Have you noticed how many retro ads you’re seeing lately? Going retro is no accident of course. Marketers are vying to grab a suddenly very important demographic: the Baby Boomer.
Amazon has introduced a new version of its Kindle Store that is optimized for the Safari Web browser on the iPhone. In March, Amazon launched an application that makes ebooks sold on its site readable on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
Earlier this year, Twitter began integrating Twitter Search (formerly Summize) into its home page. Just about a week ago, it became available there for everybody.
It’s been long established that just because Google has registered a domain, it doesn’t mean the company has any plans other than keeping the domain out of non-company hands; googleblows.com is a good example. But what about trademark applications? That’s a bit more expensive and serious method of protecting certain names. A quick search through trademark applications at the USPTO’s website brings back about 60…
Some controversy stirred up earlier this week after the Electronic Frontier Foundation stepped in on behalf of the creators of Wikipediaart.org, a site dedicated to a Wikipedia-related art project. The EFF was responding to demands by a lawyer for the Wikimedia Foundation, the parent company of Wikipedia, that the artists turn over control of the domain.
