Microsoft is now accredited by ICANN to register names in .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, and .PRO. Microsoft follows Amazon in 2003 and Google in 2005.
Microsoft is making this move so they can register names in connection with their Windows Live initiative, and also, like Google Registrar before them, to get preferential [...]

With the unveiling of his new company crayon, Joseph Jaffe has crossed the line from harmless enthusiasm to plain old “wacko”.

Forget his self-description as “industry thought leader”. Forget his unwarranted utterly false claim that crayon is the first business in Second Life. Forget that crayon is just the kind of [...]

This morning, I began to read my RSS feeds with Google Reader, where I was invited to “manage my subscriptions.”
Good idea! Time to cull some stuff I was reading out of a sense of duty:

Joi Ito’s Web today features a photo of him (in a suit and tie) next to [...]

This morning I began to use Google Reader. I was invited to “manage my subscriptions.”
Good idea! Time to add a few great blogs that deserve to move from “occasionally” to “frequently”.

Clublife is written by a bouncer at NYC clubs. He hates the customers. He can barely stand the people he [...]

I’m sorry to report that two of my friends have unexpectedly departed this world.

Second Life Sex Club, by James Deavin
They’re off to Second Life, leaving only traces behind.
Bret Fausett, the gadfly lawyer who annoys ICANN so beautifully by holding them to their pontifical pronoucements, has set up shop in the trendy otherworld by buying [...]

A thought-provoking review appeared in the October 13 2006 issue of the Times Literary Supplement:

Privileged information has been leaking into the public domain since the Reformation. During the 1530s, in England, records that for centuries been restricted legal and religious texts were transformed into historical documents… [T]hey were picked up by… the antiquarian, who [...]

How many world-shaking ideas have you had in stop-and-go traffic, meditating on those Pennsylvania license plates URLs that seem to change every year? I’ve had 53 — but I can’t remember any of them.
Enter DictaBrain.
DictaBrain gets World-Shaking Idea #54 out of your head and onto your blog (or your book, or your [...]

Elliot Noss spent $18 million to acquire all the family names at NetIdentity, but he still didn’t get noss.com, which belongs to some polluting paper pulp company.
Georgebush.com - gone!
Andreamerkel.com - gone!
Jacqueschirac.com - gone!
Tonyblair.com - gone!
Stephenharper.com - gone! (who’s he?)
Even world leaders can’t get their own domain name. No-one can. And everybody’s bitching and [...]

Conferences? Usually? Frankly? Boring. I go for the networking in the halls.
Why? I never knew exactly, but now Jen Bekman may have found the answer. Homogeneity, all boring white tech nerds.
A breath of fresh air, much needed — her list of women speakers for your tech/media/fashion [...]

A Federal judge last week dismissed [1.7MB PDF] a trademark infringement case against Google, which was accused of infringing on the trademark “Rescuecom” by allowing others to purchase the term as a keyword to trigger sponsored search engine results.
Is this a “dog bites man” story? No, because on the Internet, famously, [...]