Internet Pro News

[2005-12-28] XB90 Goes Down
I reported on Monday's "Hobson & Holtz Report" that Om Malik had discovered a blog-purportedly addressing VOIP issues-that was stealing his content and posting it alongside Google AdWords.

[2005-12-28] A Worthwhile Year-end List
One of the things I've always loathed about the end of a year is the flood of year-end lists that seems to be a requirement to mark another passage of the Earth around the sun.

[2005-12-28] Wordpress - Heading Into 2006 at High Speed.
Wordpress is arguably one of the best blogging packages out there. From it's full list of features to its many themes and plugins, it seems to have it all.

[2005-12-22] Vectorized Version of the Standard Feed Icon
Matt Brett has graciously posted a gorgeous vector version of the new standard feed icon that will be in the Mozilla and IE browsers.

[2005-12-22] Why Doesn�t Microsoft Connect have RSS?
Rick Hallihan asks why Microsoft's http://connect.microsoft.com/ site doesn't have RSS?

[2005-12-22] Jews For Jesus Sues Google Over Blogspot
Jews For Jesus, that [unprintable] religion, has sued Google to get the rights for jewsforjesus.blogspot.com away from a critic of theirs.

[2005-12-21] Dan Gillmor Goes Nonprofit
Congrats to one of my heroes (and a friend) - Dan Gillmor.

[2005-12-20] Looking to the Next Billion Internet Users
The internet is growing at an annualized rate of 18% and now has one billion users, says web usability guru Jakob Nielsen.

[2005-12-20] Call it What You Want, the Web is Changing
The tech blogosphere is troubling lately. Lots of echoes, as seen by the Yahoo! acquisition.

[2005-12-20] How Telecoms Will Kill The Internet
Net neutrality is coming to an end, as an array of deep-pocketed telecom firms throw money and lobbyists at Congress in an unyielding effort to put a barely-figurative chokehold on Internet users.

[2005-12-19] Googlezon Video Becoming Reality for Google?
Gregory Lamb of The Christian Science Monitor takes a look back at the "EPIC 2014" video - a mock documentary looking back from 2014 at the merger of Google and Amazon and the death of traditional news - and wonders if it might come true after all.

[2005-12-19] Getting Back up to Speed with TypePad
A welcome sight for every TypePad customer - you can access the TypePad service again and you can update your blog to reflect accurate content.

[2005-12-19] Icahn Unhappy With Google-AOL News
A $1 billion cash infusion by Google into AOL in exchange for a 5 percent minority stake has powerful investor Carl Icahn concerned that Time Warner is "on the verge of making a disastrous decision."

[2005-12-19] Wikipedia Close to Brittanica, Sets Donations Goals
As Wikipedia becomes larger and more widely accepted, now with an Alexa rank in the range of the top 30 websites on the Internet, it's beginning to have an impact on people's perception, accuracy, and donations strategies. All of which have been, for the most part, positive.

[2005-12-15] Google Maps Video Ad
Via Rubel, an interesting video ad for Google Maps.

[2005-12-15] A Standard Symbol for RSS?
One of the topics Shel and I discussed with Rick Klau of FeedBurner during our FIR podcast interview with him on Tuesday was about the challenges of helping 'normal' people understand what RSS is.

[2005-12-15] FT: 'Tolerate Some Libel for the Greater Good'
There has been much written in recent weeks concerning the character assassination of John Seigenthaler over his biography in Wikipedia, prompting much discussion over the trustworthiness of an open information resource like Wikipedia which anybody can edit.

[2005-12-15] Gmail Adds Auto Vacation Responses
Gmail has been adding features like crazy lately, and this one should come in handy for the holidays: autoresponders for when you are on vacation.

[2005-12-13] Pointers (12-13-05)
If you've heard about the blow-up between Six Apart's Mena Trott and a Les Blogs participant, you can actually view a video of the exchange.

[2005-12-10] RSS Drives Reuters Lobby�s Screen
We just got back from the wonderful Global Voices conference which was held in Reuters' Headquarters.

[2005-12-08] Reflecting on Les Blogs 2.0
Worthwhile being there is how I'd sum up my experience of Les Blogs 2.0 in Paris on Monday and Tuesday.

[2005-12-08] Gmail Adds RSS 'Web Clips' to All Accounts
Gmail has added a mini RSS reader to all Gmail accounts. It was previously in a limited beta.

[2005-12-05] Les Blogs 2.0 Kicks Off Today
The Les Blogs 2.0 conference in Paris formally starts today and runs until Tuesday evening.

[2005-12-01] Platforms, Mashups, and Markets
Yesterday Greg Linden asked Is Web 2.0 nothing more than mashups? In that post, he makes the following claim ...