Roland Tanglao points to a post from David Temkin, founder of Laszlo, stating that Laszlo has changed its business model and has just gone open source. This on the same day that Macromedia announced free non-commercial licensing of Flex; imagine…

Good news. If you’ve got a non-commercial (or perhaps, pre-commercial) use for Flex — Macromedia’s solution for building rich web apps on top of Flash — you will soon be able to get a free license.

Having talked extensively with Google and Yahoo (and spent some time with the good folks at SME Global Solutions et al) about Local Search and its relationship with (online) newspapers & directories, I feel like I could write a book…

I met Stuart MacFarlane on July 1st (2004) when Andy Wilson (formerly SVP Global Product Management, Overture Services… now Managing Director, Momentum Venture Management) invited me to join Stu and him for lunch. Terms like “great guy”, “brilliant”, “passionate” and…

Yesterday, I posted that Yahoo’s Local Search offering had gone gold, but that it wasn’t drafting off the main Yahoo search box (at yahoo.com). I was corrected by a poster over on John Battelle’s blog, who said that it worked…

If you’ve got the time (i.e., you’re not going to Battelle’s Web 2.0 conference, like me), this should be an interesting event. Event Description & Free Registration (link)

Scott Johnson, VP Eng & Co-Founder of Feedster, releases usage stats on MP3 enclosures in the RSS feeds that Feedster monitors. The numbers are small now (35 MP3s in the last 24 hours, 696 “all time”), but given the stampede…

Evan Williams, Co-founder and CEO of Pyra Labs (makers of Blogger) announced today that he’s retiring… but only for a while. Evan will be resting, exploring life (instead of working insane hours) and contemplating his next start-up. As a user…

Jeremy Zawodny points to a blogger dinner for those in SF on 10/19 (Tuesday) who’d like to meet the Feedster founders; Jeremy is signed up. Assuming I’m in SF that day w/ Gap, I’ll be there as well.

ClickZ’s Chris Sherman breaks the launch of Yahoo’s Local search service moving out of Beta and being promoted to the main Yahoo page in his article entitled Yahoo Local Officially Launches. Chris covers Yahoo’s company line and adds his own…