Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
1:05 PM ET, March 2, 2008

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Office Online and Attacking The Innovator's Dilemma  —  Nick Carr has a lead on the story that we all knew was coming eventually: Key Microsoft applications, including Office, may be moving online, soon.  Carr's source says to look for enterprise applications to move online …
RELATED:
Nick / Rough Type:
Rumor: Microsoft about to unveil web-apps strategy  —  Put your ears to the ground, my friends, for the Beast of Redmond may be stirring.  I've heard that Microsoft has begun briefing its large enterprise clients on an expansive and detailed strategy for moving its software business into the cloud.
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:
Is an offline version of Silverlight coming at MIX next week?  —  There have been rumors for a while and today TechCrunch says they've been hearing that an offline version of Silverlight is coming to compete with Adobe AIR.  Currently, despite a lot of comparisons in the tech media world …
Discussion: Brandon LeBlanc
Heather Timmons / New York Times:
Online Scrabble Craze Leaves Game Sellers at Loss for Words  —  NEW DELHI — The latest bane of office productivity is Scrabulous, a virtual knockoff of the Scrabble board game, with over 700,000 players a day and nearly three million registered users.  —  Fans of the game are obsessive.
Discussion: GigaOM
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
i-mate's US outpost implodes, most laid off  —  We've caught wind from a number of employees — or ex-employees, as the case may be — that i-mate's US division in Redmond, Washington has all but disintegrated after a Friday bloodbath that saw the entire engineering, QA, and tech writing departments laid off, among others.
Discussion: The Boy Genius Report
Dan Farber / CNET News.com:
Google CEO Schmidt practices the art of stonewalling  —  It's been a busy week in the tech world, but the newsroom highlight of the week had more to do with what was not said.  Our own Elinor Mills was dispatched on short notice from San Francisco to Orlando, Fla., to interview Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Discussion: Insider Chatter and WinBeta
RELATED:
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
My stunted interview with Google's Eric Schmidt
Discussion: Ryan Block
Mark Bittman / New York Times:
I Need a Virtual Break.  No, Really.  —  I TOOK a real day off this weekend: computers shut down, cellphone left in my work bag, land-line ringer off.  I was fully disconnected for 24 hours.  —  The reason for this change was a natural and predictable back-breaking straw.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Biographicon Wants To Be Wikipedia For The Non-Notable Masses  —  Having a page put up about you in Wikipedia is difficult, mostly because of the Notability requirement for inclusion - and you aren't “notable” unless you've received significant media coverage elsewhere.
Discussion: KillerStartups.com
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Twitter Details SXSW Traffic Preparation Measures  —  We've written about Twitter and their server/capacity issues since day 1.  This week we saw downtime which could be related to heavy usage at the future of web apps conference.  Next week is Twitter's superbowl: SXSW.
Hiroko Tabuchi / Associated Press:
Japanese robots enter daily life  —  TOKYO — At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust.  —  Hooked up to a database of words clustered by association …
Discussion: Slashdot and Digg
David Watanabe / DWBlog:
newsfire... the news starts here!  —  Today's a big day for NewsFire.  After much internal debate, I've made the decision that as of today, NewsFire is totally free.  No feature restrictions, no ads, no cut-down ‘lite’ version... this is the real deal.  —  For those new to this …
Mark Evans:
So How is Wordpress Going to Make Money, Matt?  —  It's difficult not to like Wordpress (especially if you're a blogger!) but after its parent, Automattic, raised $29.5-million earlier this year, there was a fair bit of head-scratching out why it needed so much dough and how its investors …
Discussion: Geek News Central and TechCrunch
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 1:05 PM ET, March 2, 2008.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Tribe AI:
Is AI just hype?  —  Find out how top enterprises use Tribe to get real business results.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Zoho:
Authy killed their desktop apps.  Time to switch to a reliable authenticator.  Time to switch to Zoho OneAuth.  —  Twilio's Authy recently announced end of life (EOL) for their desktop apps on March 19, 2024—five months ahead of schedule.
Comprehensive.io:
Browse salary data from 3,000 startups for free  —  Click for FREE, immediate access to real-time compensation benchmarking data.  Paid version helps HR automate comp reviews and communicate total compensation to employees.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Egan Orion / Inquirer:
Judge reverses Wikileaks injunction
Discussion: IP Democracy and CNET News.com
Mike / CrunchNotes:
TechCrunch Unique Visitors
Discussion: Portfolio.com
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
“Facebook Anthem” Says We're Bored of Facebook
Discussion: Bloggers Blog
The Boy Genius Report:
AT&T stores to offer refurbished iPhones with new activations, $199 and $249
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Innovation comes cheap, says Google engineer Kevin Marks
Discussion: hyku | blog
Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
Why I'm Fed Up with TED  —  Maybe it's sour grapes …
 Earlier Items: 
David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
Geography, social media and breakfast
Reuters:
More Americans turning to Web for news
Reuters:
Ask.com not planning to scrap search: source
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft's Greatest Hits: Top 5 internal e-mails
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Totspot - It's A Social Network For Babies
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Patrick Frater / Variety:
Tencent Music reports Q4 revenue down 7% YoY to $971M and a $198M profit; in 2023, paying subscribers rose 21% YoY to 107M and net profit rose 36% YoY to $735M

 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page