Blogging FeedBurner May Not Be Hearing Your Pings Blogging is a fast medium, that's one of its advantages over traditional media. There are bloggers who specialize in reporting fast about breaking news on a wide variety of topics. Most of those bloggers use Google's RSS publishing technology FeedBurner as a middleman to deliver their posts to subscribers and capture analytics. If FeedBurner… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features Into the Cloud: Our 5 Favorite Online Storage Services Being able to access your files from anywhere and from any computer is one of the great conveniences of the always-on Internet. Online file storage has been around for quite a while, but the latest generation of services are so cheap and easy to use that there is almost no reason not to back some of your files up into the cloud. Most online storage… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Product Reviews Twitter's Election Site: A Sign of What's to Come? Just in time for tonight's first presidential debate (which, as we just learned, will indeed take place), Twitter has launched an election themed site that tracks all the political tweets on the service. Twitter regularly determines a set of 'Hot Election Topics' and displays every tweet that fits into these categories in a automatically updating… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
Features The Scannable World, Part 3: Barcode Scanning In The Real World This is the third part in a multi-part series about integrating the internet with the real world through barcode scanning technology. In the first two articles we looked at the history of scanning barcodes with your mobile phone, newspaper print ads, and a new effort to bring barcodes to web printouts. Now we'll look at other uses of the… Sarah Perez View comments
Analysis Patent Crisis and The Age of Open Source Ideas We live in an age when success of innovation is mixed with unprecedented failures. On one hand we're reinventing the web, fighting for a greener future and building genomix. On the other there are housing bubbles, credit crises and war. The technology patent crisis is important to our future. For decades the patent law served its purpose… Alex Iskold View comments