A representative from the Wikimedia Foundation told CNET News.com that it has not released an official statement addressing the speculation about McNamee’s involvement. But Wikimedia Foundation chair Florence Nibart-Devouard said to the Times that she was “not comfortable with the concept” of the nonprofit accepting massive funds from donors best-known as capital investors, and the [...]

Eye candy or not, the Silverlight version of AOL Mail is bringing to the table something I’ve wanted out of Gmail for a while now. While simplicity is great for day-to-day use, personalization and customization makes these Web apps feel a bit more human, which is refreshing coming from AOL.
The Silverlight version of AOL Mail [...]

There’s also a MyBlogLog-like feature on the site, so your visitors can see who else is looking at pages. That makes perfect sense for a small community site.

My biggest issue with Sampa is how it handles photos–arguably the most important function type when you’re building a family site. Sampa 2.0 does not have [...]

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Update
Biz Stone, from Twitter, tells us that the screenshot comes from an admin account where they try different things out from time to time. Even though he doesn’t give a timeframe for the update, Biz says that, “…we’ll definitely be integrating the search.twitter.com goodness into Twitter proper soon.”
We’ve assumed that [...]

Landmark 2: By March 14, Microsoft must name its dissident slate of directors to Yahoo’s board if it wants to go hostile and wage a proxy fight. Yahoo’s full 10-member board is up for re-election at the next shareholders meeting, which currently is slated to occur sometime between May 18 and July 7.

Public companies [...]

Such a test case is currently underway in Japan as police try to track down Tatsuya Ichihashi, a man wanted in the 2007 murder of 22-year-old British English teacher Lindsay Hawker. Ichihashi barely slipped out of an arrest situation and has been at large ever since.

Bill Hawker, the father of slain 22-year-old teacher Lindsay Ann [...]

Share a lot of photos online but find yourself only going back to reminisce on rare occasions? If you’re a Flickr user check out photag newsletter service Photojojo’s time capsule tool.
In case you’re worried about how boring your photos from a year ago are, the service lets you pick other dates, ranging from one month [...]

The actual player is a little less extensible, offering a simple play/pause button and the option to skip back and forth between posts. You can also grab the RSS feed and subscribe to the feeds as a podcast in your favorite feed catcher. What it’s missing is a way to embed it on other sites [...]

The PS3 is about to become an even better Blu-ray player.

In addition to enhanced Blu-ray support, the PS3 2.20 firmware is expected to include a number of other enhancements, including better DivX and WMV file support, better integration with the PSP, and improved Web browsing. Full details are available at Sony’s PlayStation Blog.

While most Blu-ray [...]

An Oakland Raiders executive went ballistic in front of a room full of reporters–well, no big deal about that. It happens all the time in sports. But wait, we’re in the Internet world where EVERYONE is watching.
The Android software developer kit will allow programmers to create applications that will run on Android phones, even before [...]