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BY Heath RowMon Jun 6, 2005 at 11:32 AM

Last week, Icann, the organization that oversees domain name assignments, took a step toward creating a proposed .xxx domain name extension, which will identify X-rated, adult-oriented, erotic content. And already, domain name ...READ»

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Delivering DSL

BY Kevin OhannessianWed Jun 1, 2005 at 11:24 AM

SBC is now offering DSL for $14.95 per month. The company's COO Randall Stephenson is quoted as wishing to increase the reach of broadband. And that is good. And SBC's move will force competitors to lower prices. Others may offer ...READ»

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Law and Online Orders

BY Heath RowTue May 17, 2005 at 10:13 AM

Remember Virtual Vineyards? The company was an early dot-com success story that showed how offering information to consumers could increase sales. After securing substantial venture capital, the precursor to Wine.com faced some ...READ»

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Of Blogs and Men

BY Kevin OhannessianWed Apr 27, 2005 at 1:32 PM

Mr. Hammond's entry on blogs got me thinking. The blog phenomenon has grown large enough, and perhaps mainstream enough, to support different types of blog-readers. Some may prefer reading the personal lives of others, or the ...READ»

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Top of the Market?

Wed Apr 27, 2005 at 10:27 AM

No offense to Arianna Huffington, who as far as I can tell is a very smart, decent and, needless to say, connected person. But the news of her new celebrity blog, The Huffington Post, strikes me as a sign that the blog phenomenon may ...READ»

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Search Me

Fri Apr 22, 2005 at 10:53 AM

Yesterday's post from FC intern Kevin Ohannessian about Googling former classmates got me thinking. If you and your co-workers are at a loose end this afternoon, why not challenge them to a game of competitive name-surfing? Look ...READ»

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Can't Decide? Use Both

Wed Apr 6, 2005 at 1:07 PM

Here's a funny--but useful--email forward I just got from my brother-in-law's German girlfriend (Subject line: "SUCHMASCHINE"). Who knows if a Yahoo-Google marriage would ever happen--doubtful, I'd say--but in the meantime, here's a ...READ»

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Mail Wars

BY Kevin OhannessianFri Apr 1, 2005 at 11:35 AM

Google is doubling the Gmail capacity to 2 gb. This beats Yahoo, which matched the 1 gb capacity of Gmail. I remember when Hotmail increased its capacity to 250 mb when Gmail began offering beta accounts a year ago. Will this stir ...READ»

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An Internet Rant

BY David LidskyThu Mar 31, 2005 at 7:22 AM

Can I urge in the strongest possible terms that somebody over at Roadside America get off their butt and start hooking up their items to a map? It's a friggin' travel site, for goodness sake. Even Jane and Michael Stern, whose ...READ»

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Photo Sharing and the Return of the Flip

BY David LidskyMon Mar 28, 2005 at 9:55 PM

I got an email a little while ago that the company that owns NetZero and Classmates.com (the almost 1960s sounding United Online--what, no Amalgamated?) is purchasing PhotoSite, a photo-sharing website, from Homestead Technologies. ...READ»

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Google Gone Bad?

BY Kevin OhannessianMon Mar 21, 2005 at 10:38 AM

Is it going to their head? Google has been sued for stealing a French company's news stories and photos. They've apparently been accused of a similar act previously. Has their recent success made this company into a steamrolling ...READ»

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Whiter the Whistleblowers?

BY Heath RowThu Mar 17, 2005 at 11:09 AM

Many of the recent corporate corruption scandals and court cases would not have come to light were it not for an internal whistleblower. But what if you encounter questionable behavior -- and wonder whether the risk of tattling ...READ»

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Now, That's Dynamic!

Wed Mar 16, 2005 at 8:51 AM

I discovered an interesting feature of Amazon.com yesterday. I was searching for FC contributing writer Martin Kihn's new book, the extremely smart and funny "multinational phenomenon" (Marty's words) "House of Lies: How Management ...READ»

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The Next 10 Internet Years

BY Kevin OhannessianWed Mar 9, 2005 at 11:47 AM

Yesterday America Online announced that in the next month they will be offering VoIP, or voice over internet protocol. Such internet phone services have been much cheaper than your typical land line. Could this mean a re-emergence ...READ»

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Beware the Bloggers II

BY Heath RowTue Feb 15, 2005 at 5:02 PM

Ryan's entry earlier today reminded me of a Seth Godin column from early last year: You Are Your References. In that piece, Godin makes the case that references don't really matter when everybody's life is on the public record.READ»

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Beware the Bloggers

Tue Feb 15, 2005 at 11:38 AM

I love the idea of blogging: transparency, freedom of speech, pure Internet-fueled democracy at its best. But I'm beginning to hate the actual practice. I don't have strong feelings one way or the other for Dan Rather or Eason ...READ»

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May Day! Hallmark's Site Down on V-Day

Mon Feb 14, 2005 at 2:24 PM

Hallmark, that ultimate purveyor of commercialized sentimental holiday cards, has taken its site "temporarily offline for maintenance," and "are doing a bit of house cleaning." Today? When all those too-late for snail mail cupids are ...READ»

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Google Loses a Blogger

Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 6:41 PM

Believe it or not, it looks like Google--the place we love for its open and populist culture--has just done the unthinkable: lost an employee whose blog about life at the company caused a ruckus. Mark Jen, who only joined Google a ...READ»

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CEOs Who Blog

BY Heath RowTue Feb 8, 2005 at 6:52 PM

In our February issue, we took a look at three notable CEOs who maintain their own blogs. One of them is Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO of Sun Microsystems. Earlier today, a reader of FC Now emailed to inform me that another ...READ»

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Spam

Tue Feb 1, 2005 at 5:47 PM

It's been awhile since Fast Company took a behind-the-scenes peek at the spamming world. As far as I can remember, editor Keith Hammonds was the last to go snooping around in that shadowy corner of commerce (see The Dirty Little ...READ»

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Fun With Spam

Tue Jan 4, 2005 at 11:45 AM

OK, truth is there's almost nothing fun about spam. But lately, my inbox has been filling up with messages from an odd cast of characters. The fictitious senders' names, generated by a computer program, combine real words to produce ...READ»

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10, 9, 8, 7, 6...

Tue Dec 14, 2004 at 5:15 PM

Don't look now, but the 15th of December represents the first of The Last 10 Shopping Days Before Christmas!!! Not sure what Secret Santa present you should buy for the weird guy in accounting? Let the World Wide Web decide for you. ...READ»

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The Mark of Craig-O

BY Scott KirsnerFri Dec 10, 2004 at 1:48 PM

I stopped by Harvard's annual conference on The Internet and Society this morning, mostly to see a panel on business and politics - what those two fields can learn from one another about using the Net. The panel wandered...and ...READ»

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Predictive Web Searching

BY Heath RowFri Dec 10, 2004 at 12:30 PM

I tend to dislike the predictive text insertion used by some cell phones and handheld devices. Perhaps it's because I'm too impatient for the tool to "learn" my usage enough so the predictions are actually useful. But maybe it's ...READ»

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Digerati in the UK

BY Heath RowFri Dec 10, 2004 at 12:11 PM

E-Consultancy has developed a list of what they consider the 100 (or so) most important and influential Net and Web pioneers in the UK. Focusing on the last 10 years -- hence, the Internet Decade -- the group tapped 100 industry ...READ»

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