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Six Apart and Vox—How Promise Gets Squandered
Sep 3rd
Six Apart is shutting down its free blogging service, Vox, and as Mike points out this announcement is really about cleaning up for an upcoming merger with VideoEgg. With 250 million uniques worldwide spread across thousands of blogs and a growing ad business, Six Apart isn’t a failure. But, like Slide and More >
Toshiba Satellite May Double as Handy Labor Day BBQ
Sep 3rd
If you’re reading this on a Toshiba laptop, you might want to switch from AC to battery power before continuing.
The company is recalling 41,000 of its Satellite computers for fear that they may overheat and injure someone. And while that hasn’t yet happened, there have been 129 reports of the computers More >
YC-Funded Cloudant Launches Its NoSQL Cloud Database Platform
Sep 3rd
YCombinator-funded Cloudant, a database platform built around Apache’s open source CouchDB framework, officially launches after three years of hard work.
Cloud-based like Cloudera and Amazon Web Services and part of the NoSQL movement, Cloudant scales your database on the CloudDB framework but also provides hosting, administrative tools, analytics and support so “You don’t have More >
New From Symantec: Norton Antivizzle for PCizzle
Sep 3rd
Hip-hop star and noted role model Snoop Dogg is now lending his considerable moral authority to the fight against cybercrime. He’s teamed up with security software vendor Symantec (SYMC) to host an anti-cybercrime rap video contest.
Dubbed “Hack is Wack,” the competition invites aspiring law-loving lyricists to bust some malware rhymes on More >
Cloud Calculators: A Sign of Slick Marketing in the Cloud
Sep 3rd
As the cloud computing market gets more crowded, a number of Web-based calculators are popping up to lure customers.
These online calculators deserve their fair share of scrutiny. For the most part, they are there for the vendor to tell their own story in a way that shows the benefits of More >
Twitter Now Over 145 Million Users, Almost 300,000 Apps
Sep 2nd
When I read Twitter CEO Evan Williams post tonight about the state of Twitter from a mobile perspective, the first thing that jumped out at me what that Twitter for Android, an app Twitter worked hard on, isn’t even in the top 10 most-used apps for the service. But Williams also used the post More >
Walkman (Temporarily) Outsells iPod (In Japan)
Sep 2nd
Remember the Walkman? Evidently, Japan does, because Sony’s (SNE) digital music player has outsold Apple’s (AAPL) iPod there for the first time in more than four years, according to research outfit BCN.
Sony’s share of the market for digital music players in Japan rose to 47.8 percent during August, surpassing the 44 More >
Google Announces Wave In A Box
Sep 2nd
Google Wave is far from dead, and developers, early adopters and enterprises will be glad to hear it. Today Google announced it will expand on the code it has already open sourced, building Wave into a functional application that will allow users to run wave servers, host their own waves and build More >
Nailed It (Not): Our First Twitter Post, Circa 2006
Sep 2nd
I often point to my first post on Twitter, the day it launched in 2006. Why? Mostly because of how wrong I was. Best line: “I imagine most users are not going to want to have all of their Twttr messages published on a public website.” I also love that More >