The internet is a wonderful communication medium but recent experience has thought me that there really is no true substitute for person to person live communication. Chat, Twitter, Skype, Video. We have so many great tools for communicating in real or almost real time yet so much still gets lo ... Read more

There's a new search engine making the rounds this week called Search Wikia , big deal, right? Well, maybe. See, this search engine has two pretty interesting things going for it 1) It's being built by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and 2) It's billed as a freely licensed ( ... Read more

Comcast will offer huge movie library on demand [NYT] The plan, which Brian L. Roberts, the chairman and chief executive of the Comcast Corporation, will describe in a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is aimed at making a nearly limitless supply of movies and telev ... Read more

If you often download torrents from public torrent sites, then you probably know the pain involved in finding torrents, especially those rare ones. YouTorrent.com makes things easier for us to search multiple torrent sites at once. Unlike, my ex-favorite ScrapeTorrent , YouTorrent is l ... Read more

We all have dreams or plans on becoming quite wealthy. The majority of the top 20 are all self made billionaires. How long until we see your name up on that list? It also gives information on their background and what they are up to. 20 Wealthiest People I could only guess the top two o ... Read more

I'm officially starting my Christmas wish list for 2008 and this curved monitor from Alienware is right at the top (almost). Lit by LEDs, this 2880&215;900 monster is well over three feet wide and is said to have an other-worldly .02ms (we think!) response time, great for gaming. A ... Read more

I was fortunate to meet Frank Shaw from Waggener Edstrom. He used to work with my former boss at the Financial Times, Paul Abrahams. There is an interesting story here... http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2006/08/microsofts_pr_a.php Paul Abrahams works very closely with Mic ... Read more

A few months ago Google unveiled its Android open operating system for cellular phones. There were speculations back then that it was Google's way to show a measure of disparity between the company and Yahoo!, one of its biggest rivals to date. And many were expecting a similar move from Yahoo!, w ... Read more

Want to know about Bill Gates, the person? Well, here's how. The head honcho of Microsoft has invited readers of the BBC News website to send him questions about his life and career. This invitation has been extended to readers from all over the world, and the timing could not have been more ap ... Read more

Jason Friend, a co-founder of the wildly successful software developer 37Signals stopped by the Duct Tape Marketing podcast recently to chat. 37Signals makes a collection of killer online apps such as Basecamp , Highrise , Backpack and Campfire . These productivity enhancing tools ... Read more