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A week ago, European startup Zemanta launched in Alpha with a product for blogs to suggest links, pictures and other related content and tags while you write blog posts. It uses a semantic analysis engine that serves up the relevant information in your Internet browser as you write. According to TechCrunch, this type of application [...]

We have a new look. Again. I hope it’s not frustrating to our readers. The last design, while cool as hell had too many bugs that I was not able to fix. This new design, called 3K2, is based off the original WordPress theme called Kubrick. We felt that this three-column design brought more information [...]

Imagine that you subscribe to The Washington Post, The New York Times or The Boston Globe and one of those papers is delivered to your front door every morning. I congratulate you because you are seemingly and intelligent and informed person who stays up on the current, well-reported and important news. Or, are you? Now [...]

A former colleague, David Churbuck, recently asked the question whether people are still listening to podcasts, on his blog. As usual, his timing for predicting or questioning Internet trends was dead on. I don’t see as much written about them by computer and technology experts. And these days, I really don’t listen to them as [...]

Chris Murray, an Internet colleague and great friend, has struck out on his own and started The Northborough Group, an information management consulting firm. The Northborough Group’s mission is to provide services that help businesses manage information better and to use that information in ways that support their business goals. We also design and develop [...]

Please say our worst fears are not true. Please say we’re not going to going to have to pay full price for the iPhone and get saddled with a 2-year contract from an average cell phone company. According to SciFi Tech columnist Adam Frucci, Apple had the chance to revolutionize the cell phone industry, but [...]

Randye had a hell of an IT day today. A crack squad of suicide gremlins attacked her computer and the printer connection, delaying and lengthening her work day by about 3 and a half hours. Here’s a quick synopsis of what happened. Problem one: Randye’s Quark Xpress application, which she uses to create print page [...]