Archive for December, 2005

another way to waste time online

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Before I fled for the holiday, I Plain Texted about Internet video, and in particular a few nuggets of gold on Google Video.

calling MySpace with Gizmo

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Two short pieces this week. We included the MySpace guys in Newsweek’s annual “Who’s Next” issue, and in this month’s Wired, I have a short piece on Gizmo, a rival to Internet phone service Skype.

Yahoo Skype’s instant messenger

Monday, December 12th, 2005

In this week’s Plain Text.

hacking the search engines

Monday, December 12th, 2005

This fall I began looking into the world of search engine optimizers for Wired magazine. In the end, the piece didn’t quite work for Wired, so this week I reconstituted it for Newsweek. Special thanks to Rand Fishkin for all his help and patience.