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.

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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.

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Yahoo Skype’s instant messenger

Monday, December 12th, 2005

In this week’s Plain Text.

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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.

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