Skiff Reader: The Largest Yet Thinnest eBook Reader to Date



It's bigger than any Kindle or device from B&N. Optimized for magazines and newspapers, the Skiff Reader offers a durable 11.5-inch (1600 x 1200) "Metal Foil" touchscreen display, but it's still just a quarter of an inch thick.

10 Ways the Internet Will Change in 2010

Solid predictions for the Internet's continued evolution -- and how it will affect you.

What Can We Expect From the Consumer Electronics Show?




Expect this week's technology press to be stuffed full of info relating to and stemming from CES 2010. But what exactly can we expect from the show this year?

Apple's iDecade

In a 10-year span when so much went wrong, the maker of the iPod and Mac got a lot right. By Arik Hesseldahl

Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships

Companies are working fast to figure out how to make money from the wealth of data they're beginning to have about our online friendship. By Stephen Baker

Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media

Check Expectations for Apple's Tablet at the Door

If its engineers hew to recent history, Apple's tablet computer may look nothing like what the prognosticators foresee. By Arik Hesseldahl

Top 20 Free Google Android Apps

Here's a list of the top 20 'free' Google Android apps by PCmag.com

Privacy fears over Google Googles

Privacy concerns have forced Google to delay an expansion of its Goggles service which would have enabled camera-phone users to identify strangers on the street.

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TwitVid gets a real-time search engine, analytics


TwitVid, a free video host for Twitter, is launching two new, useful features on Monday. The first is a real-time search engine that will let users sort through videos both on TwitVid and YouTube. The other is an analytics engine that lets video owners know more about who is watching their uploaded clips, and where they're from. By Josh Lowensohn

Google phone looks supershop

A blog post from a Google executive on Saturday morning dropped hints that the company would release a Google Android phone of its own.

50 Best websites for 2009

Time magazine offers it's listing of the best websites for 2009.

10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010

2009 will go down as the year in which the shroud of uncertainty was lifted off of social media and mainstream adoption began at the speed of light. By Ravit Lichtenberg

Discover the truth about a site's online traffic

You can find the traffic of a popular website (and compare it to another site) by entering the URL into compete.com. or quantcast. By Seth Godin's Blog

Cisco: ‘Why vlogging is better than blogging’

Cisco Sys­tems, the Sil­i­con Val­ley pow­er­house, has become the poster child for how to use video in the enter­prise. By JS Lasica

The Future of Social Media Marketing

Social media has transformed itself in the last 2 years from blogs and forums to Facebook and Twitter. By Social Media Optimization.

Kaddoz

Kaddoz is a local gift recommendation engine present on the web at www.kaddoz.com and on the iphone (kaddoz iphone app).Kaddoz allows you to quickly find quality gifts and walk to the store to purchase it.

Foodspotting

A visual local guide that lets you find dishes, not just restaurants, thanks to foodspotters who report sightings of foods they love.

See what's new in Chrome beta

Twistory

Add your Twitter backlog feed to your favorite calendar application and browse through your personal Twitter diary, making your Twitter history both fun and useful.

The new AOL faces a tough fight


The former dial-up giant is being split off from Time Warner in its latest attempt at a comeback. This time, it may work. By David Goldman

Google Chrome for Mac: First Impressions

Google finally released the beta version of its Chrome browser for Mac. By Ian Paul

Apple Tablet Due In March?

The device will be going into mass production in February 2010, and should be launched in March or April.

Court battle as Craigslist and eBay fight for control


Auction giant claims rival has secretly diluted shareholding. By Bobble Johnson

Hands On with Google's Public DNS

Here's some additional information regarding Google's public DNS by Michael Muchmore.

Beware Social Media Snake Oil

Hordes of marketing "experts" are promoting the value of wikis, social networks, and blogs. All the hype may obscure the real potential of these online tools. By Stephen Baker

Web Advertisers Push to Increase Awareness of Targeted Ads



The Federal Trade Commission has been gently pressuring the Internet advertising industry to reveal more information to consumers about how it collects data and targets ads. By Terrence O'Brien

Potholes And Repairs? Boston Has An App For That

A few weeks ago, 41-year-old Bostonian Heather Sears thought the coolest app on her iPhone was SitOrSquat — a listing of the city's cleanest, closest restrooms. By Tovia Smith

Google’s Checkbook Opens Up for Collaboration Start-Up AppJet

Google, which has bought five companies in five months, just made it an even half-dozen: The company has snapped up AppJet, an online collaboration start-up. By Peter Kafka

Twitter users share early adopters symptoms



Recent findings of a Pew Internet study revealed, Twitter is being extensively used as a status update service to keep in touch.

These words may be affecting your popularity

Text Mining techniques can be used to identify specific words that are correlated with Twitter accounts having high or low popularity. By Themos Kalafatis

Building Your Social Media Marketing Plan

It’s that time of year when companies start to look towards 2010 and marketing executives are busy developing marketing plans for the new year.

The Missing Sync for Android now available

Good article on Android and syncing by Greg Kumparak.

The Evolution of Storage

Here's a great graphic about the evolution of storage by Patrick James.

The 2009 Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report

FEED: The Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report 2009 Key Findings

View more presentations from Razorfish Marketing.

Apple wants technology from struggling Lala



Apple acquired Lala on Friday, unlikely offering much for the streaming-music service. By Greg Sandoval

Google Public DNS

When you type www.wikipedia.org into your browser's address bar, you expect nothing less than to be taken to Wikipedia. Chances are you're not giving much thought to the work being done in the background by the Domain Name System, or DNS. By Google Blog

Ten Commandments of Social Media

There are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to social media. People seem to think that every day standards and decency get tossed out the window because of the anonymity of the Internet. By Robb Clarke

The 50 best inventions of 2009

From a rocket of the future to a $10 million lightbulb, here are TIME's picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year

Google Chrome OS

Google Wave iPhone App Hits The App Store … Temporarily

Do a search for Google Wave on the App Store from your iPhone or desktop client, and you’ll see an application called just that pop up, ready to be installed as soon as you fork over $0.99. By Robin Wauters.

Salesforce Jumps Into Collaboration Software With Chatter

Salesforce.com Chief Executive Marc Benioff has never been shy about borrowing a bit of other companies’ mojo. On Nov, 18, he introduced the software company’s latest product, a business collaboration tool that takes pages from the playbooks of Facebook and Twitter. By Aaron Ricadela

Google Testing a Permanent Search Sidebar

According to Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search product and user experience, Google is looking to streamline its search experience.

What's So Unbearable about Working at Google New York?



Despite its celebrity chefs and razor scooters, Google's New York office houses a surprisingly disgruntled workforce. By Ryan Tate

VideoLobby Wants To Help You Create Your Own Custom-Branded Live Webcasts



VideoLobby, a new service founded by Peter Urban that’s looking to make it easier to create professional-looking webcasts, complete with custom branding.

Qwisk Brings Your Social Networks To The Browser



Qwisk, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser.

Augmented Reality Is Both a Fad and the Future -- Here's Why



Why layering data on top of smartphones and computer screens is both a fad and the future. By Farhad Manjoo

Microsoft Still Chasing the Competition With IE9

Serious work has begun on Internet Explorer 9, the next revision of Microsoft’s flagship web browser. By Scott Gilbertson

Google OS: the end of the hard drive?

Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks. By Dylan F. Tweney

Do You Poken?

The pokenverse is a free service to manage and engage with your contacts over time. it's simple, interactive, and it will revolutionize the way you socialize.

Turn your iPhone camera into a translator



PicTranslator is only $1.99 and includes translation from your choice of one of the 16 supported languages.

Track your tweets the way you want



Clockwork's Tweetwally is a Twitter power tool, a way to save and customize search results and present them in different formats—at a specific URL (your own, or at tweetwally.com), on a projector (at a conference, party or other gathering), or on an iPhone.

How to record your mobile, landline and internet telephone calls

Interviews are the cornerstone of a journalist's arsenal and with many more interviews happening over the phone, journalists need some way to record them. Whether its a landline, mobile phone, or internet telephone service, here are a few ways to record your phone calls. By 10,000 Words

Datamasher

The Federal Government produces an immeasurable amount of data each day. DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with those data by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues.

ThirdPresence

Publish your content on any mobile device with a web-based SaaS platform that enables you to distribute your media content to any multimedia-capable mobile phone.

Organize your flow of information



A real-time collaboration environment that helps teams organize the flow of information, talk things over and work together towards common goals seamlessly on the web.

Google Serves Up Free Wi-Fi at 47 Airports for the Holidays



Holiday season air travel just got a little less crappy—freebie access starts today, and runs through to January 15, 2010. By Danny Allen

How to Make Employees Social Media Ambassadors

As companies start to dip their toes into the social media waters, we have seen them implement a couple of different approaches. By SpankyGirl

Top 15 Brands Social Media Presence

The Top 15 Brands as decided by Interbrands. By Social Media Optimization

Three Tips For Social Media Management

How do you choose which social networks and channels to focus on? By Jason Falls

After 5 years, Firefox faces new challenges

Five years ago, Mozilla made it clear that the browser wars weren't over after all. By Stephen Shankland

With AdMob, Google seeks mobile-ad advantage



When the long-expected development of smartphones and handheld devices into primary computers reaches maturity, Google wants to make sure it occupies just as strong a position on the small screen as it does on the big one. By Tom Krazit

Enabling the next level of innovation

Here’s a thought experiment: try to imagine what it would have been like to create Google before the era of the Internet and open standards. By Joi Ito

The 40th anniversary of the first internet connection

Forty years ago today, a team led by Leonard Kleinrock typed the “Lo” of “Login” into a Stanford computer, which promptly crashed before the command could be entered. But because Kleinrock’s team was sending this message from a UCLA machine, he had just taken part in one of the great milestones in communication history. By Michael Belfiore

Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears




The iMac revived Apple after a decade of sickly malaise. The name is so obviously iconic. So it's shocking that Steve Jobs hated it and wanted to call it something so awful it would "curdle your blood." By Matt Buchanan

TED - Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future

Winking robot nav head knows where you're going




AIDA's expressive behaviors are designed to endear the device to you as it helps in your daily navigation. The robot learns your daily commute and which areas you frequent for which purposes.

Flickr betters its apps, developer showcase



It seems like everyone has an application directory these days, and now Flickr is no exception. By Josh Lowensohn

Twitter translates into Spanish



So how do you say "fail whale" en español? Twitter has launched a Spanish translation, according to a blog post Tuesday (in Spanish) by co-founder Biz Stone. By Caroline McCarthy

Win 7: Microsoft Gets It Right (Finally)



The operating system is fast and loaded with smart features—unlike the disastrous Vista. By Stephen H. Wildstrom

Amazon's new Kindle DX means business

The company's powerful new e-reader brings the paperless office a big step closer. By Stephen H. Wildstrom

How tech for the disabled is going mainstream

Designs conceived for the handicapped, such as voice commands for PCs, often lead to products for the masse. By Reena Jana

StatsMix

A analytic tool that displays an overview of all your web stats. From Google Analytics to Twitter to FeedBurner, monitor all your sites in a single view.

ShowtimeFu

Offers real-time movie showtime information by zip code. Results are interleaved by start time and include approximate end times as well. Filters by theater, movie, start and/or end time.

Springpad

Free online notebooks that help you manage your life. Use your springpad to keep track of notes, photos, maps, to-do's, contacts, appointments and more.

The Top 3 Brands by Social Media Presence: Google, Apple and Microsoft

Interbrand recently released its 2009 list of the best 100 global brands. Social media monitoring and analytics firm Sysomos took a closer look at this data. By Frederic Lardinois

A fan with no blades



After trying its hands in vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, Dyson has now come up with an innovative table fan called “Air Multiplier” that propels a cool breeze but without the use of blades. By Naresh Chauhan

BlackBerry Storm2 9550 (Verizon)



The BlackBerry Storm2 9550 finally delivers on the original Storm 9530's promise. It's a powerful device with an innovative click screen that really works—and it feels finished instead of like an engineering prototype. By Jamie Lendino

The Street awaits Apple's earnings

What's Wall Street expecting this quarter? The analysts we polled are all over the lot. By Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Twitter co-founder's 'Square' comes into focus

Well, we finally have a glimpse at "Square," the new mobile payments venture coming from Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey. As expected, it's a little hardware add-on that can turn an iPhone into a credit card reader. From Caroline McCarthy

Eric Sanderson pictures New York -- before the City

Zensify

Zensify, the makers of the Zensify iPhone app, have a new iPhone app out called Zen News that helps users discover the latest headlines from a dozen news sources. These range from established media powerhouses like The New York Times, BBC News, and The Washington Post to TweetMeme and soon other online-only news sources.

Touchscreen PCs prompt interface innovations

Touchscreen displays are going to get a big boost from Windows 7’s built-in support for multitouch tech — but there’s a hitch: Flicking, scrolling and opening programs can be cumbersome when stubby fingers meet Windows’ tiny icons and menu items. By Priya Ganapati

6 of the best budget monitors for your Mac

Unless you only use an Apple notebook or iMac, you need a monitor to go with your Mac. Today's flat-panel models are light, slim and take up very little room on your desk. By Ian Osborne

Chrome Mac beta nearer; Win 7 features recede

Programmers have mostly overcome a crucial hurdle to releasing a beta version of Chrome for the Mac, printing support, but several Windows 7 features won't make the cut for the present 4.x version of Chrome.

Penzu

Penzu is an online diary and personal journal that is focused on privacy. With a unique and compelling user experience, it makes writing online as easy and intuitive as writing on a pad of paper.

Aardvark

Aardvark was founded in late 2007 by Max Ventilla, Damon Horowitz, Nathan Stoll, and Rob Spiro.

Aardvark was conceived as the first Social Search engine: a way to find people, not web pages, that have specific information.

10 tools for presenting with Twitter

Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the presenter to manage the backchannel. By Olivia Mitchell

6 Taiwanese Startups Demo Their Services



TechCrunch/CrunchGear Meetup Taipei. By Serkan Toto

Did You Know 4.0

tvChatter iPhone Application



tvChatter is an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that presents lively commentary about your favorite TV shows. The commentary comes from the Twittersphere but you do not need a Twitter account to see what people are saying. Watch your favorite show on your TV set or PC, launch the tvChatter app, choose the show from the social program guide, and watch the streaming commentary text. If you have a Twitter account, you can tweet, reply, re-tweet, or filter on your followers for a more intimate conversation.

Tim Brown urges designers to think big

The Apple Museum

The Apple Museum is dedicated to the history of Apple Computer, Inc. and with more than 350 Apple products listed, ...

Goby

Goby (GO-be) is a new search engine that's all about finding fun ways to spend your free time, from a weekend to a week off.

FastPencil

Unlike self-publishing approaches that focus only on printing, FastPencil is about helping you get your book written and published. Write and edit with powerful, free tools; have friends review your book; publish with a few clicks and order one or thousands; sell on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and more.

Musefy

New social network for musicians.

MaYoMo

A new video-centric social news network for journalists and their readers, empowering a new era of Internet news creation and distribution. Attracts content from both young, aspiring journalists, as well as experienced independent journalists and bloggers.

Ruba

A travel guide and tour review site that helps travelers from around the world discover their next perfect trip.

The future of journalism

3 Multimedia journalists to watch. By 10,000 Words

The Evolution of Apple Ads

Apple first started advertising its products in the late 1970s. By Cameron Chapman