Webcast: Palm’s CTO details webOS for developers

Palm’s new Pre device and its accompanying webOS platform have stirred up a lot of excitement in the mobile application development community. Unfortunately, only a select group of larger developers (Facebook, Pandora and TeleNav, to name a few) have been given access to the software… Continue Reading

Roundup: Brin’s blog, O’Reilly gets serious, Joost’s browser version goes live and more

Roundup: Brin’s blog, O’Reilly gets serious, Joost’s browser version goes live and more

Here’s the latest action:

Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin starts his own blog — Dubbed “too“, Brin starts off by detailing his fears of getting Parkinson’s disease since it runs in his family. Compelling stuff. Too bad it’s nearly impossible to read with his choice of light blue… Continue Reading

Roundup: Second Life, Snap, Zoo, Good’s $500M, exec shuffling & more

Roundup: Second Life, Snap, Zoo, Good’s $500M, exec shuffling & more

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The latest round-up from tech-land:

Second Life hype continues — Sun holds a conference in the virtual world, and pisses off a journalist, who has a point. Why make it so tough for people to get to your message? But that hasn’t deterred others from joining the… Continue Reading

O’Reilly takes over Esther Dyson’s Release 1.0, renames it Release 2.0

Tim O’Reilly, of O’Reilly Media has acquired analyst Esther Dyson’s Release 1.0 publication, and is renaming it Release 2.0 to help promote the Web 2.0 brand, which was coined by and is owned by O’Reilly’s group.

O’Reilly confirmed the story, first reported at Valleywag, however told… Continue Reading