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Thinking Outside the Dropbox with Minus–A New Image-Sharing Tool

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on December 2, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

Friction: It keeps our shoes on, it’s a buzzword at product meetings and UX conferences and it’s the sticking force that keeps money in people’s pockets. So, reducing it can mean changing the game for an entire arena–just look at eBay’s PayPal and Netflix. Minus, a sharing service currently limited to images, mixes some HTML5 and cutting-edge Javascripting to lower the friction in online image sharing about as far as it can go without eliminating the drag-and-drop.

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You've Got Ads

Emily Steel, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 12, 2010 at 11:06 pm PT

AOL Inc., struggling to turn around its fortunes, is preparing to introduce a larger, splashier ad format that it hopes will attract more ad dollars from big brands and help revitalize its business, according to people familiar with the matter.

Even in Test Form, Windows 7 Leaves Vista in the Dust

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on January 21, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Walt previews the public beta of Windows 7 and finds that even in beta form, it’s better than Vista.

Organizing Your Web Life in One Place

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on December 16, 2008 at 6:06 pm PT

Katie reviews Windows Live, Microsoft’s Web-based attempt to consolidate many of the regular activities you perform on the Internet: sharing photos on Flickr, emailing via Hotmail, posting status updates on Facebook, following tweets on Twitter, sending instant messages on Google Chat and keeping a calendar on Apple’s MobileMe.

Microsoft Officially Facebooks, Oops, Socializes, Windows Live Internet Services

Kara Swisher in News on November 12, 2008 at 9:00 pm PT

Microsoft officially rolled out its next version of its Windows Live Services tonight, with a heavy emphasis on socializing its online offerings and giving users better tools to share all sorts of information from across the Web within them. Microsoft said the changes–similar to those made by Yahoo and AOL recently–would “begin rolling out to customers in the U.S. over the coming weeks and will be made available globally in 54 countries and in 48 languages by early 2009.” You might call this the “Facebooking” of Windows Live, which is the brand name for Microsoft’s communications and other related online services aimed at consumers, especially because the much anticipated changes also include a new profile and a “What’s New” feed.

Apple’s Time Capsule Gives You Easy Way to Back Up Wirelessly

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 6, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Apple’s new Time Capsule packs both a giant hard disk and a speedy Wi-Fi wireless router into one slender case, allowing computers to easily back up their hard drives wirelessly.