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19 May 2010
Should *Mozilla* Fork Firefox?
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Apparently, there's an interesting thread over on a site called Quora about the future of Firefox. I say apparently, since I can't s...
23 July 2008
DYB DYB DYB for Drigg
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As rumours swirl about Google buying Digg, spare a thought for the parlous plight of the open source version, Drigg: I took Drigg this far...
22 July 2008
Time for the Firefox Tablet?
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For all its faults, TechCrunch is arguably the leading tech blog. But it has been content to remain on the sidelines - commenting rather th...
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09 May 2008
Has Thunderbird Finally Taken Off?
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There's an interesting set of data on TechCrunch derived from the consolidated activity of users of the RescueTime service. This show...
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03 December 2007
Don't Steal This Book, Michael
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The Kindle is a breakthrough device, in many ways analogous to the first iPod. Just as the iPod brought MP3 players to the masses, the Kindl...
22 November 2007
That Umair Bloke on Blogonomics 2007
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Glad it's not just me that feels this way .
08 October 2007
Another Reason DRM is Dead...
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Here's someone else who gets it: Yahoo Music VP of Product Development, Ian Rogers . I’m here to tell you today that I for one am no lon...
05 October 2007
Full of Sound and Fury
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I didn't comment on this piece from TechCrunch entitled " The inevitable march of recorded music towards free " since it large...
11 September 2007
The Story of Our Lives
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TechCrunch notes the rise of a new class of services: part blogging, part genealogy and part something unique. They are focused on the very...
04 January 2007
Wise Words on Wikia
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Here's an example of TechCrunch doing its job well: I was going through CEO Gil Penchina’s Wikia presentation slides at the Le Web con...
14 December 2006
TechCrunch UK Gets Crunched
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I don't normally comment on these kind of in-house spitting matches, but I can't help feeling that five years down the line, this wi...
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09 December 2006
Wordie for Wordies
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How could I not love this totally pointless site ? Actually, come to think of it, I'm sure it'll feed into some interesting mashups...
05 December 2006
Mashup 2.0 and a New Data Commons
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One of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0 is the ability to combine data from various sources - the mashup. And yet, in a sense, mashu...
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04 October 2006
Crunching Nuvvo
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I hadn't heard of Nuvvo, but now I have, I'm not surprised by this item from TechCrunch : We wrote about Nuvvo, a brave startup tak...
23 September 2006
Crushing the Hype
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I have animadverted before upon the fact that I find TechCrunch - for all its undoubted virtues - just a little too breathless in its exci...
31 August 2006
A Blogalicious Roundup
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With all the frenzied blogging activity that is going on, it's easy to lose track of who's doing what and why. That makes this Busi...
20 July 2006
No Comment, No MT et al.
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Comments are the ichor that courses through the blogosphere's veins. A blog with no comments is probably dead, and a blogger that doesn...
31 May 2006
Half-Open, Half-Closed
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This isn't really open source, but it seems to me that the underlying idea has much in common with the open source development process -...
21 April 2006
Shopping Made Delicious
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Well, it had to happen. After all the innocent tagging fun at bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, somebody has now come up with a vulgar co...
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