All Things Digital

Skip to main content.

All Things Digital
D: Dive Into Mobile
ADVERTISEMENT

Twitter's Great Big Problem Is Its Massive Opportunity

One of the many reasons I find Twitter fascinating is that the company seems endlessly at an inflection point.

Thinking Outside the Dropbox with Minus–A New Image Sharing Tool

Friction: It keeps our shoes on, it's a buzzword at product meetings and UX conferences and it's the sticking force that keeps money in people's pockets. So, educing it can mean changing the game for an entire arena--just look at eBay's Paypal and Netflix. Minus, a sharing service currently limited to images, mixes some HTML5 and cutting edge Javascripting to lower the friction in online image sharing about as far as it can go without eliminating the drag-and-drop.

Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing

Back in 1999, Mark Frauenfelder wrote an article about new web tools that made it easier to do something called "blogging."

Wikileaks Evolves

This summer, when Wired.com reported that WikiLeaks was in possession of tens of thousands of State Department internal communiques, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, engaged in what might be called a small act of public diplomacy.

Why Gawker is Moving Beyond the Blog

The 2011 template represents the most significant change in the Gawker model since the launch of Gizmodo and Gawker in 2002.

I, Reader

When I recently moved to New York to live with my partner, Dustin, I introduced 22 boxes of books to the one-bedroom railroad apartment in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, where he’s lived for 19 years.

The Real Issue In Comcast's Dispute With Level 3 Is About Power, Not Money

Yesterday, Level 3 went public with a statement saying that Comcast was for the first time demanding, "a recurring fee from Level 3 to transmit Internet online movies and other content to Comcast’s customers who request such content."
More Voices Inside »

About Voices

This is a section of the All Things Digital Web site featuring posts from around the Web, from other Dow Jones properties and also original pieces we solicit. The section is now explicitly labeled that it comes “from other Web sites.”

Regarding third-party posts: We are trying to point readers of this site to other posts from around the Web that we admire and are trying to do so in the quickest manner possible.

That is why we have made even more changes to Voices to ensure we do this in the most transparent and timely way. While we don't expect that everyone will agree with our policies, we have made changes that reflect our intent in pointing to content outside our site.

So here is exactly what we do.

Read More »

All Things Digital Widgets

Thursday, December 2, 2010

News Byte

Barry Diller and John Malone Complete Their Divorce

Barry Diller and John Malone, who have been tied together for 17 years, are officially split up, for good: Malone’s Liberty Media is abandoning its majority stake in Diller’s IAC holding company and taking $220 million along with IAC’s Evite.com and Gift.com units, as parting gifts. Meanwhile Diller himself is making a smaller break with IAC by stepping down as CEO, but will remain as chairman. More details from Shira Ovide.

NewEnterprise

As Amazon Cuts Off WikiLeaks, Sen. Joe Lieberman Claims a Pointless Victory

WikiLeaks, the site infamous for exposing America’s diplomatic dirty laundry, has confirmed via its Twitter feed that it is no longer hosting its files on Amazon’s servers. The move comes as Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut–who was a onetime vice-presidential nominee and who is also chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee–had called for Amazon to cut its ties to Wikileaks. Read More »

BoomTown

If (When) Goopon Closes, Remember Her Name: Google’s Commerce Chief Stephanie Tilenius

As the possible acquisition of Groupon by Googlechugs along–sources tell me bankers are starting to swan around annoyingly, which could be a sign of fruition, but we shall see–BoomTown realized that I have been remiss in mentioning one likely key person in the deal strategy. And, I am only guessing, that would be the search giant’s relatively new head of commerce, Stephanie Tilenius. That’s because the unassuming former longtime eBay exec–you won’t see her all over the scene swanning, for sure–is one of the few at the company sharp enough to have seen Groupon’s copious local retail data as a strong fit into Google. Read More »

Voices

More Tech Firms in Festive Mood

Silicon Valley’s improving outlook is beginning to manifest itself through local companies’ holiday gifts and parties. Take Equilar Inc. Last year, the Redwood City-based compensation-research firm handed out pullover fleeces with the company’s logo as an end-of-year gift to its work force. This year, the firm held a Thanksgiving lunch and went one better: It gave out Apple Inc. iPads, which start at $499, to all 74 employees. Read More »

MediaMemo

Pay For Web TV? No Problem! Hulu Plus “Exceeding Expectations”

CEO Jason Kilar says he’s found plenty of takers for his premium service. But why pay Hulu at all, when you can get it for free on your PC? It’s a core question for the service and for Web video in general. Read More »

Digital Daily

GSA Goes Google

The General Services Administration–which oversees government procurement–will soon become the first major federal office to move to cloud-based office apps on an agency-wide basis. And it’s chosen Google Apps to do it. Read More »

BoomTown

Password Manager LastPass Acquires Xmarks

LastPass, an online password manager and form filler, has acquired the social bookmarking and browser synchronization service Xmarks. The San Francisco-based Xmarks has been in the midst of some tumult of late, as it closed down in September and then quickly opened back up again in an effort to keep its service running for a large group of active users and to find a new home. Read More »

Voices

Michael Moritz Isn’t Giving Up Against San Francisco Politicians

As a managing partner at Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and long-lived venture firms, Michael Moritz can speak eloquently about industry trends, entrepreneurs and the rise of global competition. He did so last night at an appearance for Xconomy, a business and technology Web site in San Francisco. Read More »

BoomTown

Viral Video: BermanBraun Doesn’t Just Make Web Sites (“The Cape” on NBC Debuts Soon)

Here is a teaser trailer for a mid-season replacement television show on NBC called “The Cape.” It’s from Hollywood multimedia production company, BermanBraun, which is known in tech for the handsome content sites they make for Microsoft’s MSN, such as the celebrity-focused Wonderwall. “The Cape” is about a good cop who is framed and has to turn himself into a crimefighting hero to regain his old life and family. With a cape, natch. Read More »

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Mobilized

Verizon’s 4G Network Is Windows-Only, for Now

Those who want to be among the first to rule the air on Verizon Wireless’s new 4G network better have a Windows PC handy. Verizon had already made clear that, for the rest of this year at least, the company will have only laptop cards and that 4G smartphones wouldn’t come until next year. However, it looks like Mac users will also have to wait–at least a little while. Read More »

NetworkEffect

YouTube Adds Personalized Channels to Lengthen Living Room Sessions

YouTube today is launching a personalization update to its “Leanback” viewing mode, which is meant to be played on televisions. YouTube users who watch through Leanback already spend on average 30 minutes per session, two times longer than sessions on the Web. Read More »

News Byte

Sen. Kohl Urges Close DOJ Review of Google-ITA Deal

Getting on board with those who have reservations about Google’s planned acquisition of flight information provider ITA Software, Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis. and head of a Senate antitrust panel, today urged the Department of Justice to be extra diligent in its review of the deal. Citing the concerns of consumer groups and existing online travel search and booking sites, Kohl suggested the DOJ may need to consider predicating its approval on certain conditions to ensure fair competition.

BoomTown

CBS’s “60 Minutes” Revisits Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg (And BoomTown Takes Back “Toddler CEO” Title)

This Sunday, the CBS news magazine “60 Minutes” returns to Facebook after several years to check in on co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the first interview by correspondent Lesley Stahl in early 2008, Zuckerberg’s social networking empire was much smaller, beset by a series of management snafus and mired in yet another privacy controversy. Plus, he was more than a lot more awkward. Fast-forward to today: Zuckerberg rules one of the most powerful tech companies in the world and BoomTown dubs him a prodigy! The worm has officially turned. Read More »

Page Three Meets iPad

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.) Read More »

NetworkEffect

Pulse News App for iPad Gets Social

Pulse, the visually engaging mobile news reader, is adding a social element today. To date, Pulse (for iPad, iPhone and Android) gave users an easily scannable and image-driven view of their favorite RSS feeds. Now, users will also be able to add their Facebook accounts and flip through material posted by their friends. Read More »

Voices

FTC Backs Do-Not-Track System for Web

The Federal Trade Commission unveiled a report on Internet privacy Wednesday that calls for the development of a do-not-track system that would enable people to avoid having their actions monitored online, a move the online-advertising industry has opposed. Read More »

Mobilized

Windows Phone 7 Update Is No iPhone Killer

Since it is bubble-bursting Wednesday here at Mobilized, let me assure you that the forthcoming update to Windows Phone 7 is neither “massive” nor an iPhone killer, despite some reports to the contrary. On the other hand, the software update, which could come as early as January, will add two things that are very important for Microsoft. First and foremost, the update will pave the way for Windows Phone 7 devices that work on Sprint and Verizon’s networks. It will also add copy and paste, an omission for which Microsoft has received no shortage of grief. Read More »

BoomTown

Amazon Poised to Make a Major Strategic Investment in LivingSocial to Counter Groupoogle (or Goopon?) Threat

With the red-hot acquisition dance between Google and Groupon sucking up all the attention, it’s easy once again to ignore the No. 2 player in the fast-growing social buying space–LivingSocial. But not everyone is. According to sources close to the situation, the Washington, D.C.-based company that also focuses on local deals is in advanced talks for a major strategic investment–as high as $150 million–by online retail giant Amazon, at a very hefty valuation of over one billion dollars, to counter a possible Groupoogle challenge. Read More »

News Byte

WikiLeaks Leaves Amazon, Returns to Sweden

WikiLeaks has left its U.S. host, Amazon Web Services, and moved its operations back to Sweden. The whistleblowing site had left Bahnhof, its Swedish host, and sought refuge with Amazon after Sunday’s leak of U.S. State Department documents left it besieged by almost constant DDOS attacks. The site reported another DDOS attack early yesterday, and was down earlier today. Neither WikiLeaks nor Amazon has officially commented on their relationship or why it ended.

NewEnterprise

No One Is Happy With the FCC Chairman’s Speech, Except Broadband Investors

Everyone has something to say about today’s speech by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on the subject of net neutrality. Having been blocked in the courts from imposing sanctions on Comcast for throttling users of BitTorrent, the commission has been spinning its wheels trying to find a way to nudge the broadband industry in a direction toward treating all Internet content fairly. Read More »

Earlier Posts

Apple TV: Streaming and Renting From Devices

The revamped $99 Apple TV streams content from online, computers and portable devices, and allows you to rent TV shows and movies, but has a very limited selection of Internet video sources. Read More »

Mossberg’s Mailbox

The Mossberg Solution

Latest Videos

More Videos »