August 2008
Google Search Evangelist Adam Lasnik says that Google is getting much better at indexing Flash and other rich media content. But for now, webmasters still need to focus on making sure their... Read More
Imagine if every time you had to fill out a CAPTCHA image to submit an online form you were actually helping to digitize old books, newspapers, and other manuscripts. That's exactly what reCAPTCHA... Read More
Football (soccer) is still a second class citizen in the United States when it comes to sports popularity, but new stats from comScore seem to indicate that its popularity is actually on the rise.Read More
Game developer Cliff Harris, who has long fought against software piracy, realized recently that he didn't really know why people pirated his games. So he came up with a radical plan to find out: he... Read More
About a year ago LiveRail launched as yet another video ad network. A year later, the site has shifted focus and no provides ad server and ad management software to video publishers. We think that... Read More
200 Nipples sells limited edition t-shirts priced at up to $100 each. Think that would never fly? Think again. The site is now profitable and planning to scale up to print more new t-shirts each... Read More
Founder Kevin Rose once heralded Digg's ability to find and highlight breaking news faster than the automated news aggregators like Google News. Two years since he made that comment, changes to the... Read More
So you've been given the task of creating an HTML email newsletter, but you've heard the rumors: rendering issues, image blocking, not to mention the email client discrepancies. Check out Alex's... Read More
ISPs have been harping for years that broadband use is causing network congestion and threatening to bring down the Internet. But that's really not true -- one ISP saw a decline in web traffic last... Read More
Facebook made updates to its News Feed service today allowing for a couple of new filtering options for users. That may seem like a fairly minor and insignificant update to most observers, but it... Read More
Earlier this month we wrote that Microsoft should consider investing in small startup teams in the style of Y Combinator. Paul Graham, who founded Y Combinator, doesn't think Microsoft could make it... Read More
Yesterday Gmail went down and based on the web's collection reaction you might have thought the world ended. But that the cloud will falter is a fact of life that anyone using web-based apps has to... Read More
In an effort to curb spam on Twitter, the site's developers added follow limits, capping the number of friends users can follow. That may help fight spam on the service, but it also might be... Read More
Got the germ of an idea for your own startup? Perhaps you're wary of the afflictions that can beset new businesses. In his second article on web startup companies, Daniel examines some common... Read More
