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Yahoo has publicly knocked back the offer by Microsoft. The tone of their rebuttal suggests that they may now be resigned to an eventual MS buyout and are now just looking for the best price, but I still wonder how some of these executives come up with their valuations of their companies worth. The current Microsoft offer rates Yahoo at
One thing I hate is a company that wanks about someone's site design or tool design that looks similar too theirs. Today the folks over 37Signals are crying foul saying the Google HuddleChat application released as an example of what is possible with the Google App Engine is supposedly a dead ringer for the 37Signals Campfire application.
Podcast.com Announced today that once again Geek News Central Podcast remained a Top 15 Podcast for March 2008. Moving from Position 6 in February to Position 19 in March.
Some great feedback from the last show, also I talk about a sneak preview of the blubrry podcast publisher link to video is below. Sponsors: Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy Code Todd20 [Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com!] Use Code Todd [Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts. No
If you have not updated in a while you may want to have a look at your templates and upgrade your installs. If you read the linked article don’t skip the comments.
While it is a bit of a slow news week, the addition of chat functionality to facebook seems to be getting a lot of interest. Is this really a functionality that is particularly life changing? There is some good use for this if most of your friends are on FB and this has become your main tool of connection, but
If you haven't seen the Danger Room blog at Wired yet, it mainly focuses on what is new in National security issues. While it does post about some serious topics it also has a fantastic series on how to survive particular disaster situations. By far my favorite so far is the guide to how to survive a zombie apocalypse. With
I got some of you hook line and sinker on the last show. Never fear the show goes on for sure and I have a great lineup for you today. Sponsors: Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy Code Todd20 [Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com!] Use Code Todd [Try GoToMeeting free
Why is it that podcasters will spend hours editing the content of their podcast but fail to spend 30 minutes one time to make sure that theirRSS feed is setup properly. In some cases I blame whole heartedly the service they are on for hijacking the internal data of their RSSfeed and not giving podcasters many choices in configuring them.
An interesting litttle app that will give a measure of how secure your password is. One extra that others like this have not offered before is the ability to download an offline version so you don't have to enter your prospective passwords into a web site you do not control. It does not yet solve the problem that secure passwords
While April fools day is wrapping up here in Australia it is just getting into full swing over in the US. A few people have tried to get the jump by posting their AF jokes early (You know who you are Kevin Rose) which unfortunately according to the rules of AF day (any joke not delivered on April 1 is
Very Important Announcement in the show that you will not want to miss. A content full show as always lots of fun stuff in this one. Also thank you for supporting the sponsors. Sponsors: Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy Code Todd20 [Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com!] Use Code Todd
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