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Google has released two new features for its RSS reading product, Recommendations and Drag-and-Drop.The Discovery recommendation feature suggests new sites a user may wish to read based on current subscriptions and (interestingly) browsing history. Google has previously offered feed bundles based on subjects, but this is the first time it has offered customized recommendations in [...]

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Dow Jones’ MarketWatch may not report stock information about particular companies as well as its competitors, such as Google Finance, newly redesigned AOL Money & Finance, or even Yahoo Finance, but it has taken the initiative to develop a new portfolio tool that tops them all.Whereas the others’ portfolio tools are still stuck with clunky [...]

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So many cliches come to mind today. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. You can dish it out, but you can’t take it. The shoe’s on the other foot.Of course, I’m talking about Zuckerberg’s recent legal action against 02138mag.com, an independent magazine we all probably never would have heard [...]

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I first met Sarah Meyers when she crashed our 2006 party at August Capital. She was booted, but got enough video footage to make this video. This year she was back at the party, but as an invitee - see one of her videos here.Meyers now lives in New York, and has been working on [...]

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It’s been less than two weeks since Google penalized PayPerPost bloggers in the most devastating way possible - by resetting all of their PageRanks to zero and effectively removing them from the Internet. PayPerpost, now called IZEA, is in the process of launching RealRank, an alternative way to rank blogs. But their advertisers are still [...]

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Frugal faithful

Dell agreed to ship PCs and laptops with the Ubuntu operating system after more than 130,000 people promoted the notion on the company’s IdeaStorm web site. It would seem, however, that only a fraction of these zealots were willing to back their votes with cash.…

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No, you’ve got System z in my…

Bitter adversaries IBM and Sun Microsystems have been adding a little sugar to their parley. Their corporate fisticuffs have even recently given way to hand-holding.…

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The $140m activation code

Microsoft has been told to fork over $140m because Windows XP and certain versions of Microsoft Office require more than one activation code.…

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Delusions of grandeur

Comment One IT Manager, bemoaning his lot to me, recently compared the rise of Web 2.0 enthusiasts to the problem the Police has with Freemasons. The blog and wiki evangelists within are not as secretive, of course, but they’re equally cult-like: speaking their own language, and using the populist rhetoric of “empowerment” for relentless self-advancement.…

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