Daily Kos:
With the release of AHIP's major advertising effort aimed at derailing the fast-tracked healthcare reform train, more attention is being payed to their role in killing healthcare reform back in 1994 (remember Harry and Louise (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
To most people, the term "open source" immediately conjures an image of two geeks sitting in a dark room (probably a basement) -- curtains drawn, McDonald's remains strewn across the desk, and 42 oz sodas within arms' reach - (Read More)
VentureBeat:
When I founded NewDealDesign nine years ago, the axiom in Silicon Valley was that software was the only way to go for new entrepreneurs. Things haven’t changed much since then.That traditional thinking ignores some ugly reali (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Ever since the Egyptians invented zero, curmudgeons have argued that technology creates as many problems as it solves, but I've never encountered a product that does exactlythat, until now. I'm talking about a litter box. We (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Chances are you wouldn't tell grandma about the wild party you went to last Saturday night. Likewise, you might have spent Sunday evening at home knittin' a mittin and only feel secure enough in your manhood to share picture (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Trendwatchers take note: Brazil offers a fascinating glimpse at how rapidly social media has changed internet usage patterns. Brazilian consumers spend an average of 19.3 hours online for personal use versus 9.8 hours watchin (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Natal may be the latest gaming breakthrough, but it's just one of many evolutions and revisions in controller designs over the years. Whether it was the gamepad, analog controls, or a fishing rod, there have been plenty of ne (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Social web aggregating iPhone app Zensify launched yesterday with a wave of tech blog coverage. Early reviewers were excited not just about the app's ability to display updates from friends on multiple networks in one interf (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Kevin Wassong is the president of Minyanville Media Inc., a digital network that creates branded content about the world of finance. Prior to joining Minyanville, he built one of the first "new-media" advertising agencies, di (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google me? I'll Google you! Google has become the de facto public record these days but most people remain in relative obscurity there and/or fear of what past indiscretions Google will expose to people who search for them. (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
Today we're excited to announce Google Ventures, Google's new venture capital fund. This is Google's effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies. By borr (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz is implementing a new management structure that she says in a post on Yahoo's blog that aims to remove the "notorious silos" in the name of speed and simplicity. Bartz' memo is pretty vague (Read More)
Valleywag:
Rather than put more people on the street, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd is cutting salaries by 5 percent or more across the board. It's a paycheck experiment never before tried at a company this large. Hurd himself is taking (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
I originally wrote this email for internal consumption; Presidents' Day here in the US and President Obama's recent inaugural address got me thinking about the future of the Internet, Google, and the challenges that lie ahead (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Rumors of a Facebook "sentiment engine" analyzing aggregate user data, or a new form of the company's Engagement Ads that offer rapid polling to advertisers, have been flying around the web since the start of this week's Worl (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In his book The Innovator's Dilemma, Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School describes the theory of how large outstanding firms can fail "by doing everything right." The innovator's dilemma, according to Chr (Read More)
BBC:
Will Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington today prove to be the biggest new media event ever? Maybe - but it could also turn out to be a triumph for the old media.If you want to watch the event live, then there are innum (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Even with the economy in its current state, many companies are still hiring. ReadWriteWeb Jobwire is living proof of that. But when it comes to hiring in a down market, supply always exceeds demand, because there are always m (Read More)
Submitted by patrozoo
from Google Reader:
We live in a technologically rich and increasingly Web-savvy world. In this post, we celebrate the World Wide Web by selecting our top 10 international products of 2008. What do we mean by 'international'? We looked for produ (Read More)
BBC:
A casual observer might think the UK games sector was in rude good health. After all, this is the country where the year's biggest blockbuster Grand Theft Auto IV was developed - even if the franchise is in foreign hands - an (Read More)