Outside the Lines

Track business executives' tweets with ExecTweets

Rick Broida — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:17:00 PDT

Good news for Twitter users and aspiring CEOs alike: The free ExecTweets app brings to your iPhone the daily brain droppings of nearly 100 business bigwigs.

Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

Wolfram Alpha: Next major search breakthrough?

Dan Farber — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:42:00 PDT

Stephen Wolfram has come up with a new and potentially revolutionary search paradigm for finding answers via the Web.

Microsoft's Live Mesh top innovation at the Crunchies

Dan Farber — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:55:00 PST

A most surprising and deserving winner at the Crunchies was Microsoft's Live Mesh, which won in the category best technology innovation/achievement.

Originally posted at News - Microsoft

Macintosh at 25: Still the innovation leader

Dan Farber — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:31:00 PST

On January 24, 1984, the Macintosh came into the world, starting a revolution in personal computing. Now, all attention is turned to what Apple will introduce next.

Print news is fading, but the content lives on

Dan Farber — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:43:00 PST

According to a Pew survey, the Internet has overtaken newspapers as a main source of national and international news. But newspapers still supply much of the seed news content that's refactored by millions of bloggers.

More speculation on Yahoo's CEO choices

Dan Farber — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:07:00 PST

Kara Swisher continues her search for Jerry Yang's replacement, gathering picks from the raft of ex-Yahoo employees.

Google's 2008 Zeitgeist lists of most popular searches

Dan Farber — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:57:00 PST

With 2008 coming to an end, the data miners at Google have compiled global lists of the most popular search terms and trends for the year.

The information flow from Mumbai

Dan Farber — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:30:00 PST

Internet sites like Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Global Voices are providing a very rough first draft of history in the accounting of the bloody attacks in India.

Ray Ozzie's dream of connectivity

Dan Farber — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:12:00 PST

In an in-depth profile, Steven Levy traces Ray Ozzie's journey from his undergrad days to his assumption of Bill Gates' software czar responsibilities at Microsoft.

Lifestreaming in Obamaland

Dan Farber — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:59:00 PST

The technologies that helped Obama reach the White House are going to make the president-elect's life more transparent and scrutinized than any previous White House occupant.