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Video: LeWeb Twitter Apps Panel via UStream
This morning, I moderated a panel on Twitter Applications, at LeWeb, featuring:Iain Dodsworth, TweetDeckLaura Fitton oneforty Barak Hachamov, My6sense Marco Kaiser, Seesmic Sean McCullough, Ping.fmDaryll McDade, Microsoft Mario Menti, TwitterfeedThe ...
Still Waiting for An Evil Google? It\'s Not Going to Happen.
Like many other early adopter technology watchers did today, I tweaked my computer settings to utilize Google's new Public DNS system - letting my Internet usage flow through Mountain View instead of through my cable Internet provider, Comcast. I did...
The Era of the Faceless Giant Corporation Is Over
It wasn't all that long ago when the names of companies were more likely to make me think of unfeeling skyscrapers reaching toward the heavens with their steel and glass than I was to think of the people inside who made the brand stand for something,...
Framed: Should Microsoft, and Would Apple... Fight Back vs. Google?
Wednesday's announcement from Google that they were releasing a Web browser plugin called Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer gave IE users many of the same core elements they would receive by surfing with the native Chrome browser - namely support fo...
Real-time Search: What's Most Important Now, Not Most Accurate
This afternoon, at TechCrunch's Real-Time Crunchup event, representatives from many of the innovators in the real-time search space had a quick round table aimed at furthering the discussion, framed by a question by moderator Erick Schonfeld, who sai...
Google’s Apps Surround Search, Pulling a Reverse Microsoft
As the discussions around Bing continue, I found myself often thinking of how the product would need to not just be marginally better than Google search for me to switch, but dramatically better - not due to an inherent bias on my part, but because o...
Palm and Bing Triumph Over Low Bars They Set for Themselves
Amidst the buzz from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference that took over the tech news world today, in the shadows, something very weird has happened. Companies that were once market leaders, and then, later, laughed at as the ugly stepchildren in...
