I recently caught up with Tien Tzou, CEO of Zuora, the billing management company that offers Z-billings, an on-demand service. In his opinion, the business model of the...

There are times when it makes sense to write a message now to be delivered in the future. Reminders are the classic case: if I need to remember the book sale Friday, I...

Doing journalism at its most basic level is a combination of two essential tasks. The first is reporting — gathering information via research, interviews, etc. The...

Does your desk look like this photo? No comment on where the photo was taken, of course... There's hope! Pixily just launched, with a business model that could be...

"Domaining" means buying and selling domains for profit. It's only tangentially related to affiliate marketing in some instances, but in other instances it's extremely...

In an era of aggregators, YokWay is a very pretty sharing service. Much like Delicious or FriendFeed, the idea is to discover new content based on what other people are...

babyZbook is a Swiss-based startup currently in beta which hopes to help you move your baby books online. The name is pronounced as "babies book". The service is...

Filed under: Gaming Interesting that this didn't get announced at E3, but Games for Windows Live is now free for all. Yep, totally free, cross-platform multiplayer with...

If there's a single experience that bonds all Web developers, it is the incomprehensible joy of wasting hours of our lives supporting IE6. The quasi-palindromic Dionysios...

I applied for a Business Process Patent years ago because it appeared to be a way to protect a business model that larger, more aggressive competitors could co-opt. It...

Not too long ago, blogger Taylor Davidson and I debated the value of a future economic system where Venture Capital or something like it might fund less expensive...

Architect Tara Prakriya is in the business of finding solutions to hard problems. What are hard problems? Ones that are complicated by both the business model and new...

John Allsop wrote a long piece over at Web Directions South with some thoughts on writing native iPhone apps versus web-based iPhone apps. The obvious flaw in his piece...

Mindquarry is an Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing, task management, team collaboration and Wiki editing that meshes simplicity and...

This post was written by Jeffrey MacIntyre. Last week’s splashy entry into the online video arena of SnagFilms, a widget platform for watching and sharing...

Adobe has launched Acrobat.com, a free collaboration service now in beta. On the site, you can store up to 5GB of files, create documents with the Buzzword online word...

In 2008, the summer solstice will occur at 23:59 UT on Friday, June 20. It is the first time since 1975 that it hasn’t occurred on June 21. To celebrate, b5media is...

Just heard of this new service called Plurk which is a similar “microblogging” service rather like Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku etc. According to Venture Beat it...

A number of our blog posts over the past months have dealt with agents and authors thinking outside the box as they pursue their book projects. Today, I would like to...

Techcrunch has interviewed Twitter cofounder Evan Williams after the acquisition of Twitter search engine Summize (now using search.twitter.com as a domain). Besides the...