In my first post about embargoes, I tried to provide some reasoning for why they exist in the first place. In the comments on that post, a number of things jumped out at me. But…

Remember the great Beacon debacle of '07? Facebook users don't. The social network's users were purportedly up in arms about the marketing program, which was supposed to tell users…

For those Urchin fans out there, Google has lifted the beta designation from the Website analytics software that it acquired back in March, 2005. The technology behind Urchin is…

Alert Thingy, the FriendFeed desktop application that launched just three days ago, just launched v 1.2 of the service, with Twitter support. In addition to viewing FriendFeed data…

Last week, Yahoo! purchased enterprise-level web analytics service provider IndexTools. Yesterday, Dennis Mortensen, COO of Index Tools, announced on his blog that Yahoo! would be…

Brijit, the magazine and newspaper review site we reviewed very positively when it launched in October, is today expanding its innovative platform to include very short user…

Zoho is announcing the launch today of Zoho CRM Enterprise Edition. Their business suite now includes: CRM, Invoice, Projects, Meetings, People, DB and Creator. Zoho has created a…

Trouble for domain-squatters, and for Google (GOOG): a federal court ruled the search giant can be sued for trademark infringement for placing ads on sites with names similar to…

That web page you just received might not be a perfect copy of the original. New research shows that one percent of pages are monkeyed with between the server and your browser, but…

Harrison Hoffman is reporting that Microsoft has launched Live Search News which is part of the Live family. Hoffman notes that it's a lot like Google News. He also puts in a…

The European Commission has cleared the $18.9 billion merger of Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) and Vivendi's (EPA: VIV) games unit on several anti-trust grounds. The EC began a routine…

Verizon is one step closer to being able to sell its cable TV service in New York City, which will finally give Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Cablevision (CVC) some competition. But…

Google Earth, the 3D global mapping application that has grown to become one of the most popular and freely-accessible software developments to come out of Mountain View not…

We can't take it anymore. Every day brings news of another web site or company or media conglomerate that has decided that its path to salvation and web riches is...becoming an ad…

Music executives from the UK continue to try to out-dumb their counterparts in the U.S. We’ve barely started to settle down from the Warner Bros. led attack (with both…