Tech news sites seem a little too gleeful in reporting the media war between Facebook and Google. CNET reports that that fight got a lot dirtier when Facebook hired a PR company to spread naughty rumors about Google. In the … Continue reading →

Controversial as always, TechCrunch gets our attention this month by questioning the “Google-it” mentality. And we’d like to not only refute things like this, but go all the way back to Socrates and lay out our direct, irrefutable line of … Continue reading →

An interesting quote at 37Signals leads to a blog post over at an investment firm answering Why We Prefer Founding CEOs. The names of Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Ev Williams (Twitter), and Jeff Bezos (Amazon) are bandied about. If you do … Continue reading →

The World Wide Web is absolutely riddled with forgotten, abandoned search engines that seemed like great ideas on paper and performed like a dead skunk in reality. But what about an “answer engine?” That’s what Wolfram Alpha claims to be. … Continue reading →

One of the problems with the web is that people can’t reach right through the monitor and punch each other in the nose. If they could, web fights would be over with in five minutes. Since that’s not the case, … Continue reading →

It only looks to involve the US and UK/EU at this point, but the broad plans of ACTA, the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, look like they could eventually become a de-facto standard for the whole wide world of e-commerce. TechDirt … Continue reading →

We love Mashable, but we think we can go them one better. They just posted 10 Fun Microsoft Facts You Might Not Know. But hey, who says you can’t dig up more facts about the world’s favorite software company? 1. … Continue reading →

More funding is being thrown at research to try to make computers have common sense. You’ve seen this story before, and you’ll see it again – just the players change. Related to this is the concept of the semantic web … Continue reading →

Talk about reinforcing a cliche! As this post demonstrates, our biggest web businesses all got their beginnings in garages, basements, and bedrooms. With the exception of some offices. Not pictured: Yahoo! was started in a trailer on the campus of … Continue reading →