A lot of people often ask what the biggest problem is today that has to be answered on the web. These types of questions often lead to some great new startups or products. For a long time I’ve been thinking that problem is email overload. While Gmail revolutionized email management, it doesn’t solve all the [...]

The easiest thing in the world of blogging is writing a fluff piece. I could do it for just about anything without having to even look at a product or use a service. Just give me a press release or some basic info and I’ll be fine. And the person behind the product/service will be [...]

Just a little heads up that while I’m still getting into the swing of things over at TechCrunch, I obviously won’t be writing as much here. But I still like to do my links with snarky comments, which is easy enough. And I’d also thought I’d start re-posting excerpts from some of my longer thought [...]

Matt Marshall has taught me a lot of things. When it comes to writing, one of the most important ones is not to bury the lede. So I’ll come right out with it: Yes, I’m leaving VentureBeat and joining TechCrunch.
A lot of you have probably already read Matt’s nice send-off, and perhaps some want more [...]

There’s an interesting guest post on TechCrunch called “Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet.” It misses on some points, but hits on others, such as:
“It’s not that we no longer need information to initiate or to complete a transaction; rather, we will no longer need advertising to obtain that information.
Online advertising is something I’ve [...]

Last year, I was completely overwhelmed by SXSW. I had just started working full time for VentureBeat, and wasn’t yet fully aware of how to handle this whole blogging-as-a-profession thing, let alone how to cover a huge conference. And one that has a Spring Break element to it on top of it all.
This year, I [...]

A hot eruption of Bitchmeme has happened over the past few days starting when TechCrunch wrote a story about Last.fm sending its listener data to the RIAA supposedly to find out what naughty children had obtained the new U2 album early. Such a story obviously was followed by a shit storm of outrage including people [...]

What the fuck is wrong with Engadget? I’m not going to go too far into this since their commenters seem to be doing a pretty decent job as is, but here’s what they had to say today about our VentureBeat piece on the whole multi-touch thing with Google and Apple:
So we’ve been watching this sketchily-sourced [...]

Today was a good day for me in terms of predictions.
First, Prediction #1 for 2009 came true — that iTunes would go DRM-free — during the keynote at Macworld. Yes, that’s one prediction true, 6 days into the new year.
Then I also found out that I was Hubdub’s News Pundits Tech Pundit of the Year [...]

The keynote address for Macworld is in a few hours. Despite the lack of Steve Jobs, I’m excited as it’s not only Apple’s last Macworld — the site of many big product launches — but also my first.
I’ll be there covering the event for VetureBeat. Live-blogging a keynote — especially an Apple keynote — isn’t [...]