This is most bizarre and very sad. A 'new media' 54-year-old addict, unable to take a rest from his online world, has died from from starvation. For the seven weeks prior to his death, he posted comments into one forum or another on an average of...

BetaNews : Skype Beta Released for Smartphones: "Internet telephony company Skype has issued a beta client for use on Windows Mobile based smartphones, which could one day enable users to make voice over IP calls using a mobile phone. For now however...

Nick Bradbury, developer of FeedDemon RSS reader shares his thoughts on the RSS advertising arms war (my bold) : "But despite my personal dislike for some forms of advertising, in the end I've decided that FeedDemon should not strip ads, at least...

Frankie Fresh points out that RSS Bandit developers are considering an ad blocking feature in the next version of their RSS reader. The RSS ads arms war begins, it goes like this: --Users want easier ways to consume relevant content and RSS meets...

'My Web', is Yahoo's new personal search engine integrated with Yahoo! Search... from their blog : "You can publish your My Web links via RSS and, of course, there’s an API for My Web published on YSDN. We're also experimenting with Attention.XML...

The second Internet boom has just begun, according to Mary Meeker, Morgan Stantley's MD : "Meeker has observed patterns emerge over a decade that are critical to the Internet's success as a commercial proposition. In terms of company creation, she...

Google Ads Are Coming to RSS , via John Battelle . Good, bad?

ZDNet : "Netscape pioneers Mike Homer and Marc Andreessen are back on the start-up scene, launching a TiVo-like online network for distributing and viewing public TV, radio and grassroots media. The free service, called the Open Media Network...

Associated Press : "Software maker Microsoft Corp. said Monday that it hired Chris Liddell as the company's chief financial officer effective May 9. He replaces former CFO John Connors, who retired in January. Liddell previously served as CFO...

From Bill Gates' webcast page "In his keynote presentation, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates reflects upon the hardware industry over the last 20 years and how the introduction of 64-bit and multicore computing will create...

Darth Vader is blogging : "Short entry today. Full schedule. Deploying killer probe droids across the galaxy. You know what I hate? Idiots. ...Whose trachea do you have to crush with your mind to get a little service around here?" (Via...

IE blog: "We’re doing a lot more than this in IE7, of course, and we’re really excited that the beta release is almost here - we’re looking forward to the feedback when we release the first beta of IE7 this summer. Stay tuned for more details as...

You've been warned. More here .

OK, Friday silliness starts here. Steve Rubel is featured in an article of the current edition of Business Week, 'Blogs Will Change Your Business' . I saw this pic, and thought...let's have a daft caption competition! OK, I go first: "Steve...

Rob Enderl has written an interesting article over at LinuxInside, 'How Linux Saved Microsoft': "I'd like to ask the Microsoft folks to stop reading here, and to remember that if you don't continue to make the changes you are making, Microsoft will...

The Microsoft Press Pass site has the transcript of the keynote here , and you can see the video here . Internet.com reports: "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company would make serious investments in, and open up, its Virtual Server 2005...

Check out this interview with Vint Cerf describing what he'd want to see in a documentary about Doug Engelbart. I found this on the project site of a TV documentary currently in production about Doug Engelbart's life and work, 'Invisible Revolution...

SilliconValleyWatcher comments on a The NY Times press release claiming a 342% annual increase in RSS click-throughs on their site.. "It's interesting to look at how the RSS click-throughs for March 2005 compares to the total traffic for that month...

John Cleese introduces The Institute for Backup Trauma . (Via Adrants .)

J.D.Lasica pitches Ourmedia 's differentiators : "On Friday afternoon, I uploaded my first video to Google under its new video upload program . The process was pretty similar in some ways to Ourmedia 's upload process, with a few exceptions ......

Love this thread: MSN Messenger on the PSP . ace11: "OMFG Finaly MSN Messenger on the PSP wipout pure haxed browser just point ur browser to http://mob.e-messenger.net/mobile/ and log in and walla your there!" tigerbot: "You're spelling is really...

I've held off getting one of these wireless 'Digital Media Receivers'...waiting for the early, early adopters to work through a couple hardware and software generations and therefore not needing a PhD in Networking to get one of these up and running....

Robert Scoble makes it clear that until there are more Longhorn bits to play with, he'll be keeping his knob in check. Which may be a relief to some. "As for myself, yeah, I've seen Longhorn and, yeah, I'm very excited to be working at Microsoft...

Frank points to this Pizza CRM flash movie created by the American Civil Liberties Union . "You want privacy with that?"

I've mentioned Acid2 before , but there is actually something to test against now (plus a detailed technical guide that explains how the test works ). From Web Standards Project : "Today, the Web Standards Project (WaSP) is putting the makers...