Are you responsive? Boy is that a loaded question. Itzy (love the name) asks if responsiveness impacts your professional reputation.

I leave in an hour with the clan to California for a nice long weekend. Being a glutton for work, I will have my laptop with me so my post title is probably not entirely true.

Although it still isn’t ready for prime time, Microsoft did give game developers and C# programmers the chance to take a peek at the first pre-release of the XNA Build at the Game Developers Conference last month.

With their research showing podcast adoption in about one percent of online households, Forrester Research managed to trigger some commentary disputing that figure.

Socialtext is opening it’s doors to host DCamp, the first ad-hoc event focused on design & user experience, May 12th & 13th.

Yeah, this is silly, but someone at Digg noticed that Alexa has blocked a Google IP for violating the Terms of Service. Googlebot getting a little too frisky with Alexa’s data ports?

Open source developers are the grunge rockers of the new millennium, the originals long dissolved in corporate formulaic art. Unlike their barefoot hippie predecessors (who woke up one day in Birkenstocks as Volvo-driving yuppies), they kept their ponytails as an affront to The Man, sharing their warez with the Kool-Aid drinking masses.

I had the accidental honor of being the last speaker at Software 2006. So as I often do, I veered off of my showcase company presentation to point out how Socialtext is a conclusion of a theme.

Ingram Micro Inc. announced a new Reseller Services Portal value-added resellers (VARs), powered by MaintenanceNet. The new web portal, available to US customers, automates IT product service renewal contracts, in and effort to make it easier to drive incremental revenue on product sales.

Multiply CEO Peter Pezaris has moved beyond his past of contributing to Xemacs and selling companies to CBS Sportsline to help build a social networking site; we managed to avoid discussion of a certain other social media site in a recent conversation.

A question I tend to see a lot in the forums is: “How do I delete a directory and all files/directories inside of that directory?”.

The total marketing spend on social media is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of 106.1% from 2005 to 2010, reaching $757.0 million in 2010, according to a research report that will be available on April 11 from PQ Media.

A recent upgrade performed by Yahoo’s MyWeb team has tweaked a few of the features in the service, with one being an easier way to find and share bookmarks with others.

Microsoft has picked up Lionhead Studios, the game house started by gaming legend Peter Molyneux.

It’s time once again for another installment of everyone’s favorite, our Straight Up Site of Interest.

You’ve got until April 30th to take advantage of a free subscription to the newly launching Search Marketing Standard magazine.

The new service from PayPal where users of mobile phones can pay for goods with a text message or phone call will be able to try out the service during Bravo’s “Top Chef” series.

When I look at podcasts in the context of the complex sale, and compare them to other mediums, the audience for podcasts is still tiny but gaining momentum.

The word “platform” has become quite popular in the Yahoo! vocabulary in recent months.

No matter what justification an advertiser can bring to the discussion, no matter if he or she can debate the issue like Henry Clay, you cannot have any sort of popup ads on AdWords landing pages.

Ike Pigott, a public affairs officer with the Red Cross in Birmingham, Alabama, has a bright idea.

The Chron and the Associated Press are reporting that San Francisco has chosen a joint bid by Google and Earthlink to blanket the city with wifi.

Thomas here and I just wanted to let you all know that I’ve released a Firefox extension called yExplore to quickly access the Yahoo Site Explorer.

The Washington Post’s Leslie Walker says growth is skyrocketing at sites focused on social networking, blogging and local information.