Author Archives: David Collin

Search to equal email in frequency

Search engine use is approaching the frequency of use of email. Til now email was the king, #1 use of the internet. But it looks like searching for stuff is going to surpass it. Why? Broadband. Several factors explain the quick rise in search activity, including the spread of high-speed Internet connections, also known as broadband, into more homes, said ...

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This had to happen

It seemed to me that the video iPod didn’t make much sense unless there was a way to download about any TV show you wanted to it. So now TiVo is working on it. The pioneering digital video recording company, based in Alviso, plans to announce today that it is working on a service upgrade that will automatically transfer shows ...

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Toe in the water of Google Base

Trish Snyder and I have taken a peek at Google Base. It’s a general purpose database they’ve started in which you can post information about anything. I guess it’s supposed to make eBay nervous. I posted a notice for FISpace. Trish posted about her Relay blog, Relay for Life: Blogging for a Cause. Here’s an interesting thing. If you enter ...

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Primer on new web tools and services

The fizz in the term "Web 2.0" has already started to go flat like yesterday’s Coke. Nevertheless, there are interesting things going on on the internet. If you haven’t been spending all your spare time staying on the cutting edge, the following report on CNET might get you caught up with a mimimum of chasing things down. "Taking Back the ...

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