Updated. Netflix, the popular online video service seems to be having an outage of some sorts. For past hour or so, I have been trying to access the service but I have been unable to watch it on my iPad or on my Apple TV. It is about 8:40 PT. Does anyone know what...
Image: Flickr/Cara Photography Tristan Louis Why the Open Web Matters The bubble is (group)on Is LinkedIn the new Netscape or the new Google? Twenty years after its creation, the open Web seems to be facing some of its biggest challenges and its survival may make the whole difference between a world where a few...
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave the green light to Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, the Internet telephony company. Skype Journal reports that the FTC go ahead comes at a time when many key senior executives have left or have been asked to leave the company. Skype senior staff David Gurlé, Christopher Dean, Russ...
Sprouter Why Startup Employees Need to be Exceptional Addictive Social DJ Service Turntable.fm Launches Private Beta Why Building Outside Silicon Valley Helped Grooveshark Succeed Eco-friendly Printing and the HP Officejet Challenge Rent frock Repeat launches dress rental service for budget-conscious trendsetters Silicon Valley may be thought of as the entrepreneurship capital of the world,...
With a number of news stories lately about kids under 13 on Facebook ( on the site against the social network’s terms of service), you’d think there weren’t any other social networking sites that were geared for kids or where kids wanted to be. That’s hardly the case, as there are many social networks,...
Almost half of of all Internet access in Brazil take place in cyber cafés, based on figures published in 2010 by the Center of Studies on Information and Communication Technologies (CETIC). The proportion is slightly lower than in previous years, due to the democratization of Internet access from home, but it’s still relatively high: cyber...
You might have seen me post about San Francisco-based photo sharing service, Instagram way more than any of the newer mobile apps and services. It is because I am quite fond of the service and to it represents a unique way of thinking about mobile apps. It is also one of the applications that...
The tech bubble of the late ’90’s was fueled largely by the promise of universal high-speed Internet access. As millions of consumers gained access to the Internet, new market opportunities emerged. But today, content is so heavy, and networks so overburdened, that more efficient use of the network is a critical behavior. The state...
Unlike pretty much the rest of Vancouver, I don’t watch hockey — even Stanley Cup finals — so I was in a state of media blackout during the seventh game on June 15. The one exception was Twitter, which I was mostly ignoring because the feed had degenerated into nothing but anguished variations on...
Image: Dashiell Bennett/Business Insider Everyone in the sports media world made a very big deal out of ESPN.com columnist Bill Simmons’s new Website, Grantland, when it launched earlier this month. This was for a good reason: Simmons is a big star. So it was a bit surprising this morning to find that Grantland.com is...