I had a chance to talk with Henry Whitfield, founder of TelID.com, on October 10th, 2004. (For those keeping score, Henry and I met through LinkedIn.com.) What is TelID? A surprisingly simple idea for marrying web addresses to phone numbers…

Doc Searl’s differentiates podcasting from internet radio (streaming), imparting upon us the necessity for this to be so to insure podcasting remains free from regulation (and legal persecution from the NAB & RIAA). Why podcasting isn’t radio | Doc Searls’…

I had the pleasure of meeting the charming (and surprisingly soft-spoken) JD Lassica (and about 20 other fine folks) at a dinner that he co-hosted with Marc Canter in San Francisco Wednesday night. JD was there to raise awareness and…

Update 2: Blockbuster has just announced that they will drop their prices starting Nov 1 to meet Netflix’s lower price. Mike over at HackingNetflix.com does his usual bang up job of providing comprehensive coverage of NFLX news with his post…

From the article linked to in the headline: “Our customers have encouraged us to offer low-priced online DVD rentals, but we have no announcements to make at this time,” Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith said In the understatement of the year,…

Want to find reliable local businesses? Yelp! believes it’s the answer (as do about three dozen other sites). Yelp!’s approach is just a tad bit different from sites like Tribe.net, in that: – The UI is purely activity/task driven. Users…

Want to create your own Feed Reader, or want to work with RSS and Atom feeds in some other way… but don’t want to write and maintain the code to deal with all of the different versions of each of…

Yet another site using social networking as part of their recipe. I’ve been saying it for a couple of years… so why not kick the dead horse again… “Social Networking” desperately wants and needs to be a web-wide (i.e., platform/framework)…

I’ve had a bit of blogstipation this past week, which is thankfully clearing up tonight. I’ve been meaning to write this as a follow-up piece to Now They’re Doing a Browser?! (on Google Browser rumors) and .Mac Addresses Storage; iLife…

I had lunch with Greg Sterling of the Kelsey Group (which is putting on the must-attend Interactive Local Media 2004 conference I’ll be blogging in early Nov). By total coincidence, Greg had just finished talking with Mark Pincus of Tribe.net…