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...federal agencies to aid victims of natural disasters, has risen to Katrina's various challenges. "The Red Cross has turned over a new leaf,"says Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy. Fund raising has obviously not been a problem. The organization teamed with Google, MSN and Yahoo! to channel money through their websites--and nearly half its Katrina funds arrived via the Internet. Though not as forthcoming with details of its spending as critics would like, the Red Cross is at least edging toward transparency. It says it has used $358.7 million of its cash to house...
...together now? Microsoft and AOL fought bitterly during the browser wars of the '90s and vied for dial-up customers before broadband took off. Today they're losing billions in ad revenues to Google and Yahoo. By consolidating their websites into a mammoth network, they could sell ads across the board. Hooking up would be a defensive play too. Google raised $4.1 billion in a stock offering last week and has been encroaching on Microsoft's most precious turf, the computer desktop. Microsoft is worried about falling further behind Google in the Web-search races and would love...
Beginner's Kit Blogger is the easiest software to use, promising a free blog within 5 min. After quick registration, use any Web browser to write or add links and even photos. Other easy and free options: LiveJournal, Yahoo! 360 and Friendster...
...Yahoo and AOL have their own voice-over-instant message services. All these deals have generated as much confusion as excitement. Is eBay just trying to acquire Skype's 54 million users? Maybe GoogleTalk will let you click to dial a phone number of someone you've just Googled. Will Teleo mean yet more software bundled with Windows? None of these questions are likely to be answered any time soon. Making phone calls over the Web (also known by the acronym VOIP, for Voice Over Internet Protocol) is one of those radical new technologies that surely will change our lives...
...personal sound bites--a bit like audio versions of blogs. There has been no advertising. PodShow Inc., Curry's new, San Francisco-- based company, which aims to commercialize podcasting, just landed $8.9 million in venture capital from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, the Silicon Valley powerhouses behind Yahoo! and Google. PodShow aims to bring podcasting to the masses. "Whoever wants to podcast should be able to do that for free--no matter what--and we're going to facilitate that. And if you want to kick it up and monetize it, make a business...