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Remember how, in the months, weeks, and finally days before the 2008 Summer Olympics, companies were churning out all sorts of interesting…
In a move that won’t surprise as many people as it would have this time last year, Fox Interactive Media has announced it will be cutting its workforce by as many as 100 jobs. Fox is the parent company of social network site MySpace as well as Photobucket and various mobile sites.
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington had an unfortunate encounter at the Digital, Life, Design Conference he was attending in Munich, Germany yesterday.He describes the incident in post titled "Some Things Need To Change" where an anonymous person walked up to him and spat in his face.
As frequent travelers, folks with bad ISPs, and laptop lovers can agree, it's not always easy to connect to the Internet, and being cut off from the world is a real nuisance. But now Google's solving one aspect of the problem by making Gmail accessible to people who are offline.
The main competitors in the browser war may still be Internet Explorer and Firefox, but it looks like Google's found another way or two in which to give Chrome an advantage. YouTube and Facebook users have started to notice promotions for Chrome pop up left and right.
Does the “decay rate” at community sites like Epinions.com spell eventual doom for Wikipedia? Technology and Marketing Law blogger Eric Goldman thinks so, and, not to put any more pressure on him, is working on an academic paper to show why. The site’s decay rate—the rate at which community members become less devoted to a site over time—is just one part of Goldman’s larger argument.…
