Get Your Virtual Pen Out And Sign The Google Voice Desktop Petition

As soon as everyone got to actually see the unreleased Google Desktop application in action, they wanted to have it. The only problem is this isn’t just about waiting until Google finishes it off and ships it. There’s a real possibility that Google will never release a Skype-like soft phone for the desktop – they clearly want to build these types of applications in the browser. More here:  Get Your Virtual Pen Out And Sign The Google Voice Desktop...

Get A White iPhone 4 Right Now — If You Have Money, Steady Hands, And No Fear

In the past week or so that the iPhone 4 has been available, there’s been one major thing holding people back from from getting one. No, not the antenna issue View post:  Get A White iPhone 4 Right Now — If You Have Money, Steady Hands, And No...

The $700 Million Travel Search Deal And Google’s Shift In Strategy

Last Thursday, Google placed a major $700 million bet on a new strategy. It announced an agreement to purchase ITA Software , a leading provider of flight information (fares, schedules, availability) to most of the key online travel sites, travel search engines, and airlines Here is the original post: The $700 Million Travel Search Deal And Google’s Shift In...

The Top 10 DIY iPad Projects

So you have yourself a fancy new iPad , eh? Good for you. Now it’s time to deck it out with all sorts of cool but expensive add-ons View post:  The Top 10 DIY iPad...

Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats”

Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unknown. Marc Andreessen has the same advice for old media companies: “Burn the boats.” Yesterday, Andreessen was in New York City and we met up. We got to talking about how media companies are handling the digital disruption of the Internet when he brought up the Cortes analogy View...