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- (Images: David Karp's Vista annoyances)
- (Images: David Karp's Vista annoyances)Where Are The Other 10,000 Annoyances?T-minus 18 days til I go back to Windows XP.My opinion"Windows Explorer frequently chooses the wrong view for files, showing documents as thumbnails or photos in the Tiles view,"Good grief - totally agree. The worst offender is the total inconsistency of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, performance monitoring, David Karp, Microsoft Windows Vista, annoyance, Vista annoyance, Microsoft Windows, codec, monitor
- Discussion threads 2007-12-13
- There's only one reason the mobile web sucks
- It seems like the bus tour makes me stay a day behind the news, but I saw a post by Scott Karp in which he gave five reasons the mobile web sucks. It's what you'd expect. Wireless/Wi-Fi suck, the screens make it hard to view content/advertising and the mobile browser...
- Tags: Web, Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- YouTube: How to win with User Generated Ads
- Is User Generated Content a panacea? Need one even ask?Nevertheless, Scott Karp headlines his reaction to a New York Times story on one particular company's foray into the User Generated Ad game with the "news" that "User Generated Content is not a panacea."Of course not. THEREFORE, all the more opportunity for savvy companies...
- Tags: Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-27
- MySpace launches 'Take Down Stay Down'; Facebook does classifieds; MySpace: Microsoft's biggest competitor?
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…MySpace launches Take Down Stay Down. MySpace video has implemented new technology its calling Take Down Stay Down which uses filtering to stop users re-posting copyrighted material that has already...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., MySpace, Facebook, Take Down Stay Down, social networking, network, classifieds
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Google: Technology driven or people driven?
- Can Google CEO Eric Schmidt make it in NYC? I asked last October upon the grand opening of the spanking new East coast Googleplex in Manhattan’s Chelsea. WHY? Because Google proudly declares it is an engineering company, not a media company, despite the fact that its $10 billion in...
- Tags: Advertising, Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Microsoft, Marketing, Google Ads, Google, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-14
- YouTube to pay for User Generated Content
- Speaking at the World Economic Forum, YouTube CEO Chad Hurley has revealed that the company plans to financially compensate users who produce and upload their content. Other sites such as Revver and Brightcove have long offered a revenue-share to content creators, where YouTube has sought to only do deals with...
- Tags: Video Sharing, YouTube, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-27
- Steve Jobs, the iPhone and open platforms
- In a Newsweek interview with Steven Levy, Steve Jobs said:"You don’t want your phone to be an open platform. You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up."Dave Winer is not pleased...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Mobile, Apple, iPhone, Cingular, Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs
- Blog posts 2007-01-13
- Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field and the social web
- The coverage of Steve Jobs Macworld keynote was a great demonstration of the social web in action, and the benefits it can bring to news coverage. We had multiple bloggers live-blogging from the event, AJAX-powered text and photo feeds from sites like Macrumors, and the self-appointed editors of Digg (i.e....
- Tags: Social News Sites, Apple, iPhone, Steve Jobs, Reality Distortion Field, Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Texas secretary of state pushing e-voting - hard
- In many states, the verdict is still out on electronic voting machines, but if Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams has his way, his state will vote digital in all coming elections, reports The Statesman. Williams has taken his pro-electronic voting machine message on the Web and elsewhere to...
- Tags: Williams, e-voting
- Blog posts 2006-09-28
- Blogswarm on Google Apps for Your Domain
- Last night's relatively big scoop, given to a few media outlets, was Google throwing together a bunch of its communications applications and making them available as a suite of services for companies and organizations. Subsequently, Google will add Spreadsheets, Writely and other applications to fill out the suite and offer...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- Publishing 2.0: GigaOm and CrunchNetwork
- The new tech publishing moguls, following in the footsteps of Jason Calacanis' Weblogs Inc. and Nick Denton's Gawker network, are moving fast to expand their networks and coverage. The newly funded Om Malik has added several writers and just launched a new redesign for his GigaOm site, which now has...
- Tags: CrunchNetwork, network
- Blog posts 2006-08-10
- Web 2.0 as the Jerry Maguire of software
- Ex-Microsoft uberblogger and Podtech executive Robert Scoble is starting to really feel the weight of responsibility when running a Web startup. Investors have provided cash flow to speculate on the company's prospects and now it's up to him to find a way to make it all work. ...
- Tags: software, Web, Web 2.0, 37Signals
- Blog posts 2006-07-21
- Google 'search shrinkage': click fraud debated in blogosphere
- My story yesterday, "Google CEO on click fraud: "let it happen" is perfect economic solution," has sparked a debate on the many ramifications of the multi-faceted click fraud problem.Google CEO Eric Schmidt contends that Google advertisers being billed by Google for fraudulent clicks is not inherently troublesome because, in a...
- Tags: shrinkage
- Blog posts 2006-07-10
- Antispam advocate succumbs to spammer
- Antispam advocate succumbs to spammerRussian Spammer Counterattack!Please provide details of this Russian Spammer.It would be nice to see what he is all about.How good are his defenses?Blue Security should not have backed down.Anyone up the helping Blue Security with this fifth?If this is allowed, who will be next?Gentleman, start your...
- Tags: anti-spam, spammer, e-mail, spam, Internet
- Discussion threads 2006-05-17
- Google envy blinds Microsoft to the bigger opportunity
- In my previous posting, I wrote that by limiting itself to advertising, Google is missing out on more lucrative opportunities. The same is true of Microsoft's current determination to play catch-up in the online advertising space.Google's profits are vulnerable, but is the prize worth all the effort? As I...
- Tags: advertisement
- Blog posts 2006-05-16
- Save your sanity with these fixes for Windows XP multimedia annoyances
- This chapter excerpt from Fixing Windows XP Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About the Windows OS shows you how to fix the most annoying multimedia problems; problems that are probably all too familiar to you. When it comes to multimedia appliances, there...
- Tags: Multimedia, Microsoft Windows XP, O'Reilly Media Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Book chapters 2006-04-21
- To Critics of MySpace: leave the kids alone!!!
- I'm sick and tired of the criticism of the content on MySpace.com and since posting about it on my SVW blog, I wanted to bring it to you too, to see what you think.I peeked in on MySpace more than a year ago and I was very impressed with the...
- Tags: MySpace
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- Master the Windows XP Registry
- This book chapter, excerpted from O'Reilly's Windows XP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition , describes how the Windows Registry works, what's in it, and how to safely add and delete keys and values. It also shows how the Registry is organized and explains the function of many of its most...
- Tags: Registry, Chapter, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software
- Download resources 2005-02-19
- Maximize the Performance of Windows XP
- Here is an in-depth 62-page chapter from the O'Reilly book Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks, 2nd Edition. It contains a collection of "tips, secrets, and solutions" that administrators can use to improve Windows XP and overcome some of its idiosyncrasies.The second edition of the book includes updated information on Windows...
- Tags: Performance, O'Reilly Media Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software
- Book chapters 2005-02-12
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