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T is for thursday and technology news (with some business and media thrown in the mix)

By liza
Created 14 Dec 2006 - 2:47pm

Infothought: Google Transferable Stock Options (TSO's) [1] or how Seth Finkelstein succeeds at redifining web 2.0 [2] with Google's Transferable Stock Options tool as Citizen Lunchmeat.

Eat The Press | Craigslist Robs Food From the Mouths of Journalist's Babies | The Huffington Post [3] or how media dinosaurs cry the money blues.

BetaNews | Yahoo: Lower Page Views Due to AJAX [4] or, if it takes a giant like Yahoo! to discredit a site rankings based on pageviews, oh lord have mercy, that would be so fine by me indeed. AJAX [5] is a thing of web wonder that more sites should have to do away with the non-contextual page refreshing that happens due to non-dynamic designs. BTW, if you don't understand what I am talking about, don't worry. This is a shout-out to the techies in the community.

TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Le Web3 the good, bad and ugly. [6], or the seedy underbelly of Web 2.0 technology conferences.

SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check - Valleywag [7] or how PR and marketing departments are selling the virtual lie that is Second Life [8]. This is Clay Shirky [9] at his best and I am definitely coming back to this article.

rexblog.com: Rex Hammock’s weblog » Blog Archive » What if magazines were were published using radical transparency? [10] or how to re-think honesty as a business opportunity.

duncanriley.com » Gartner gets it wrong on Blogging growth [11] or how Duncan Riley smacks American's lack of international sophistication when it comes to duncanriley.com » Gartner gets it wrong on Blogging growth [11]">the internets.

Venture Beat Contributors » Who cares about Community? [12] or ponderings on how to build a community by one of the technology founders of Facebook [13].

Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth: New Virtual Earth release launches [14] or how can you tell if Microsoft's earth is realer than Google's?

Google Launches Google Patents, Full-Text US Patent Searching [15] or some fascinating insight into the world of search. Read the whole article for the technica details.

Monkey Bites | The Pirate Bay Bans ISP In Protest Move [16] or the problems raised by the "moral decisions" of internet providers when those decisions are not supported by the law.



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