FM has partnered with Chevy to create a site that pulls together the best of sites on the web covering all things green. I've found it a nice way to stay in touch with a subject I'm increasingly interested in. I use the feed to monitor stuff, and then...

Five things you've got wrong about Vista. At least, in Microsoft's opinion. Only five?

This morning, we've had two unconference sessions, here at the Berkman tenth anniversary conference. And I have to say, as far as I can tell, it's going really well. The participants (formerly known as attendees) filled in the grid of times and places with a set of great topics, ranging ...

Apparently there are all sorts of unofficial brand fan pages on Facebook. This story talks about how one of them, a fan page for Ralph Lauren, was disabled and transferred from the individual who started it to an "official" brand page on Facebook. As far as I can tell,...

Yet another example here....

From News.com: A post Thursday on Facebook's developer blog explains that the social network has suspended participation in Google's "Friend Connect" project, citing a violation of its internal terms of service. "Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we've had a chance to evaluate the technology," the post by...

Supernova has posted a 15 minute vcast interview with me, by Howard Greenstein, about the Berkman Publius Project and my op-ed in it about why tacit governance is usually better than getting all explicit about stuff.[Tags: berkman publius governance ]

Google's plan to distribute user data via website widgets has run into a snag

The Union of Concerned Scientists has published a Periodic Table of the Elements, except instead of elements, it's instances of US government interference in science.[Tags: science ]

Yahoo 404 was a clever idea back when it debuted (more). I was at the game with Jason Weisberger, our COO, who is a great photographer, and after this post, he pinged me with this image: "How the Giants view the Yahoo Reorg" This was a year ago. When...

Over the years I have often pondered the connundrum of Google as a marketing driven company. On the one hand, this company is entirely driven by marketing - hundreds of thousands of businesses, small and large, marketing themselves through the global platform that is Google AdWords and Adsense. Let's...

BBtv has a thought-provoking piece on some guerilla art with regard to Google and its China policy. I've written extensively on the background (for more, here). if you want to get to the good stuff quickly (I understand folks are busy,) the piece is long-ish, head to 4.45 min...

I dunno if you believe in global warming. But it's MAY 15TH fergoodness sakes. Look at the outside temp indicator on my car. Which is parked IN THE SHADE....

(image) Yahoo's Search Monkey is released today. Not a moment too soon. My one word summary of what Yahoo needs to do to win: Open. Nothing new there, this is the rallying cry of Yahoo's senior leaders. But perhaps I should add another word: Open faster. Today Search Monkey,...

About a year ago, I took part in a meeting where the question: "What does open source "mean" in a SaaS world?" came up in conversation. A year later, that same question is becoming increasingly pertinent as the IT industry's move to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud-based computing accelerates. For Bungee Labs (I work there), where we provide an entire platform-as-a-service  (PaaS)

After disappointing sales, MIT's Linux-based OLPC project is bringing Microsoft on board

Charlie Nesson begins by saying that the morning had a negative cast to it. It was about fear. But he was uplifted when Yochai and Jimbo got to what Wikipedia is and could be. [Live blogging. Full of errors and omissions. Posted unedited and unspellchecked.] He asks the general counsel of ...

John begins by pointing to Publius, a set of essays and discussions about the Net's many "constitutional moments." But his overall topic is, as Yochai Benkler frames it, whether the networked sphere expands democracy. E.g., photos and videos of the monks' protest in Burma were spread through the Internet. [Live ...

Tracking more than 240 terrorist groups on a global map

But the growth and company rankings are different in France and Germany