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Announcing the Online Community Unconference on June 18th at the Computer History Museum (cool!) in Mountain View, CA. The Online Community Unconference is a gathering of...

Still don’t have your VIP tickets for this Friday’s MashBashNYC? We were sold out but I managed to finagle the venue into adding 50 more last minute tickets....

I had a chance to talk to John McCrea today regarding the acquisition of his company by Comcast, and while a lot of the raw information is probably found elsewhere or in...

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Next month GigaOM will hold Structure 08, a conference centered on the changing face of computing infrastructure. The event will discuss the wave of cloud computing...

Yeah that’s right. I have a puppet parody now, too. This is pretty tame stuff compared to the hit job Loren did on Shel israel. Before you hit play, note that there...

Google Translate just got more useful for a Prague citizen visiting India. The online translation function now can understand 10 more languages: Bulgarian, Croatian,...

Last week NBC quietly released a learning tool called iCue in conjunction with MIT (see coverage on CNET TV's Loaded). It's been designed as a "learning environment"...

The New York Times had an article today about the loss of women in the science and technology fields as they hit their 30s and beyond. It cites a report that blames a...

Surprise! Yahoo doesn’t agree with Carl Icahn’s assessment that “it is unconscionable that you have not allowed your shareholders to choose to accept an offer that...

One Laptop Per Child will ship a special version of Windows on their low cost laptops for poor children, the two companies announced this afternoon. Previously the...

More details on Facebook’s banning of Google Friend Connect from the Facebook API earlier today. I spoke with Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly and...

Last month we ran a brief post introducing Spellr.us, a service that monitors websites for spelling errors. Little was known about the site at the time - all we had to...

This is getting a bit boring, but here we go again... Twitter is down. Unlike last night, tonight they are saying that today's service interruption is their fault. On the...

There is no business model behind it, but mesh WiFi company Meraki is offering free WiFi access to San Francisco, one neighborhood at a time, as I discovered when I...

CrunchGear’s Doug Aamoth is currently liveblogging from the Apple Store on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. The line is now a mile long and growing. Yes, folks: This...

Graduation can be a hectic time for high schoolers or college grads, and you need all the help you can get. We’ve gathered a couple of online tools and services...

Looks like Cox Communications is following in the footsteps of Comcast, having been found to be interfering with file-sharing by blocking its customers’ Internet...

Following outages last night that Mark blamed on the Democrats, Twitter has gone down again this afternoon. I’ve been noticing the outages for at least an hour,...