This week in the Mercury News, I wrote about three promising business models emerging on the Web: Apps, virtual goods, and daily deals. The column was timed to the big DEMO conference this week in Silicon Valley, where I got a chance to meet Andrew…

This past week we learned that USA Today was launching a major rethinking of its newsroom structure. The Associated Press reported:

“USA Today, the nation’s second largest newspaper, is making the most dramatic overhaul of its staff in…

In a few months, Microsoft will begin selling its Kinect for Xbox 360. The technology is based on the company’s Project Natal technology that allows users to interact with video games without use of a controller or a wand.

Found via the FlowingData blog, which says:

“Connoisseur of scaled rounded rectangles, bubbles, and triangles, David McCandless of Information is Beautiful talks data visualization in…

The Web is about to undergo an important shift with the adoption of HTML 5 and CSS3. I’ve been hearing about this for some time, and I’ve been talking to people about the new standards and trying to…

Earlier this week at the Founder Showcase, a Silicon Valley start-up pitch contest, I sat through a number of lukewarm ideas for new companies. But one that made me sit up was a presentation by Gene Massey, CEO of MediaShares.

A couple of weeks ago, I visited BitTorrent’s headquarters in San Francisco for a briefing with CEO Eric Klinker. This was a routine appointment that turned out to be far more interesting that I expected.