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NYC Offers its Citizens a Choice: Free Movies or Jobs [Yeah, Right]
This morning, in going through my feeds, I found a beautiful info graphic representing the piles of money that Hollywood has made this year for taking film of people saying things. The infographic is pretty neat, and is put out by a fellow named Zach Beane, and is not just a static graphic, but an ...
KindleTwit: A Toy for Your Brand New Kindle
I’ve had a Kindle for a while now, and enjoy it for reading books and periodicals, as nature intended, but haven’t found it extremely useful for other online communication tasks. Because of the slow screen refresh rate and the limitations Amazon’s put on the Beta developer’s program, apps for the device are few and far ...
How Much Did AOL Spend on All Those CDs?
In today’s day and age of almost frictionless customer acquisition, thanks to universal login systems like OpenID, Facebook Connect and Twitter authorization, it’s almost comical to look back a mere 10 to 20 years ago, and see what it took to get a new user to an online service. Lalawag founder and VP of Online ...
Quora is Different from Aardvark (and other answers services).
In case you missed it, Quora is really hot right now. I got an invite to Quora a while back. I can’t remember if John Furrier invited me, or if I had been on it previously. It is, in essence, Yet Another Answers Service. It is, because of the explosive growth and slick UI, probably ...
Is it fair to refer to Software Development as Hacking?
Over the Christmas break, it seemed that the world discovered that Kit Dotson and I have been covering the Kinect hacks pretty extensively here at SiliconANGLE. This was mostly due to some prominent placing on the Reddit front page, which led to Techmeme listing one of our Kinect posts as a headline late Friday night. ...
The 17th Century Roots of Activity Streams
It occurs to me that history is written by journalists. That seems a bit obvious now that I read it in black and white, so let me backtrack a second and explain the train of thought that lead me to that “epiphany.” The etymology of the word “journalism,” it turns out, goes back to the ...
2010 Round Up: Mister Ellison’s Wild Ride
Another one of the biggest news stories we covered heavily here at SiliconANGLE this year was the bare-knuckled brawl between ERP mega-players Oracle and SAP. It was a gift that kept on giving throughout the year, and one that got a little bit of sex appeal in the later stages of the story, thanks to ...
2010 Round Up: Sex, Lies and Mark Hurd
One of the biggest news stories of the year was the ongoing drama surrounding Mark Hurd’s decision to step down from HP’s CEO position back in August. As soon as the news broke, SiliconANGLE’s founder John Furrier and frequent contributor Tom Foremski immediately wrote their takes. [box type=”info”]Happy Holidays! The SiliconANGLE news and editorial team ...
What You Missed Living Under Your Rock in 2010 [#RoundUp2010]
Happy Holidays! The SiliconANGLE news and editorial team came to a group decision: we wanted a few days off for the holidays. Since very little in the way of tech news will be happening over the next few days (and you’ll still be looking for content to voraciously consume), we’d round out the biggest stories ...
The New FCC Network Neutrality Rules: So Wrong in So Many Ways
Today, the FCC announced the results of their vote regarding rules concerning Network Neutrality. Kit Dotson reported on the vote earlier today: Right now the big row about the net neutrality vote in front of the FCC happens to be about how many groups feel that the rules being considered are broken and don’t go ...
