Macworld Too Much For Twitter

Oh, dear.  It's done it now.  Twitter was already known for experiencing an embarrassing amount of downtime, but the microblogging service crashed during the Macworld keynote, and users are not happy.

The Web Fails To Bring Us The Real Britney

Not that this matters for much of anything at all, but does anybody else find it strange that there are all these reports that Britney Spears is as immodest as a 2 year-old streaker but no pics make it onto the Internet?

Patrons Visit Porn Sites On Dallas Library Computers

City officials in Dallas said they will examine ways to restrict access to pornographic Web sites on public library computers in response to a newspaper study that found the viewing of inappropriate material to occur frequently.

Microsoft, The Fast Buy, And Big Brother

Everyone thinks Microsoft's purchase of Fast Search & Transfer is about enterprise search. We thought there could be more to the deal. Here's a stream of consciousness for you to consider.

Web 2.0 Companies Waiting to go Public

At this point, we really haven’t seen a major Web 2.0 company make it through an IPO. We’ve seen YouTube gobbled up by Google, and MySpace snagged by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. To date, they remain the companies that have truly defined success in the evolving Web 2.0 era.