The news aggregator with a heavy personalization edge has been around for two years, seeing significant growth in traffic and viewed hits each quarter.

Around this time last year, New York University professor Jay Rosen declared the “bloggers vs. journalists” debate closed. He cited New York Times writer John Schwartz’ own admission that “for vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs.”

RefundPlease.com keeps track of price changes for items purchased by users; a price drop within 30 days of purchase entitles the buyer to apply for a rebate.

Several months of querying for a pair of new executive chefs for the Googleplex has yielded an odd outcome to date: zero results returned.

Handling character strings in Java is supported through two final classes: String and StringBuffer.

The NY Times reports News Corp suffered a backlash from MySpace “bloggers” when the company tried to censor any mention of competitor, YouTube.

Greetings and happy New Year! Wow, I haven’t posted here in a month but I promise you will see a lot more activity soon. In the meantime, I wanted to give you an update.

It was a long, hard day. Up early to clean a room of furniture so that new carpet can be put in later this week, off to a real estate refinancing closing after that, back to rake leaves and then the usual computer type work.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) recently released a set of guidelines for creating online video commercials as well as a compliance program to assist advertisers identify publishers and technology providers that follow the guidelines. Some big name Web companies have signed on to the compliance program like Yahoo!, Walt Disney Internet, MSN, Fox Interactive, CBS, and NY Times Digital.

Many business, non-profit, government agency and association managers, like the rest of us, want to kick our bad business habits and start the year 2006 anew.

Notwithstanding the Dell Hell saga of last year, I love my Dell Dimension XPS Gen 5 which I bought in August.

Ok, you’re probably tired of me touting our online reputation monitoring (promo) services, but I’m telling you, this is going to be huge in 2006.

A tweak to the craigslist.org robots.txt file now bans all spidering, including that done by Google or Yahoo, from taking place.

We’ve decided to put our money where our collective mouths are and launch a Fortune Interactive corporate blog.

The bookmarklet from Google’s Blogger has been tweaked to add some formatting buttons for easier on-the-page blogging.

The LA Times is reporting Google may announce the launch of a Google home computer system.

Contrary to earlier reports, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is now saying there will be no ads in Wikipedia.

Advertising was the hot issue after a Times Online UK interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales seemed to indicate they would be part of the online encyclopedia’s future.

The release of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on November 7th 2005 created a buzz around the office for IT professionals.

A show that looks very low-tech in appearance has a powerful hi-tech back-end when it comes to storing episodes of “South Park.”

The Starz cable channel plans to unveil its Vongo service, which will allow subscribers to download movies to portable video players.

The licensing organization headed by Lawrence Lessig made its 2005 fundraising goal courtesy of a late-arriving check with a Redmond return address.