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Star Wars Is Out In Digital HD — How To Make The Right Choice On Where To Buy

April 10, 2015 by Danny Sullivan

Finally, you can buy the Star Wars films in digital format — digital streaming, that is. Technically, we’ve had Star Wars in digital format via DVD and Blu-ray for ages. But if you wanted to stream Star Wars digitally from the cloud, you couldn’t until today. There seems to be no lack of providers offering […]

The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia

November 23, 2011 by Danny Sullivan

Right now, Wikipedia is busy asking for donations to stay afloat. Here’s a thought. If it wants donations, maybe open things up so that outsiders feel like they can contribute expert knowledge without wasting their time. A Debate Over Notability Here’s a case in point. About two weeks ago, Jessie Stricchiola let me know that […]

SeaMonkey: A Light, Easy HTML Editor I’ve Come To Love (& Wishes For More)

April 27, 2010 by Danny Sullivan

Until about four months ago, I used FrontPage 2003 as my HTML editor. Shut up. Seriously, shut up. It was a wonderful program, despite being old. But I wanted to keep up with the times, and SeaMonkey is now my tool of choice for doing HTML. Some thoughts and tips, below. First of all, I’m […]

For My Security, Facebook Demands My Birthday Then Blocks Me From My Account

January 24, 2010 by Danny Sullivan

Today, I logged into Facebook and got a huge, honking message saying they needed my birthday as a “security measure.” Then I got a second overlay message popping up right on top of that to make clear I really needed to enter it. Color me confused. I thought Facebook already had my birthday. In fact, […]

Flickr’s Big Fail On Creative Common’s Attribution Guidelines

May 31, 2009 by Danny Sullivan

Creative Commons is supposed to be this great way for people to license out their works to others. But it’s annoyed me for ages how lame it is in practice, when it comes to Flickr. Let’s say I want a picture of a car to use on my commercial blog. Using the Flickr Advanced Search […]

Behind The Scenes Of The Greg In Hollywood Launch

March 1, 2009 by Danny Sullivan

My good friend Greg Hernandez, a veteran Hollywood reporter, was laid off from his job at the Daily News last Monday. In the week since, it’s a been an all-hands-on-deck rush to get him established on his new blog, now up at Greg In Hollywood. Below, a look at how it all came together, with […]

Twitter Address: Now Mandatory For Business Cards?

February 4, 2009 by Danny Sullivan

> I’ve been without business cards for about seven months now, and I’m finally gotten around to getting new ones printed. In doing so, I realized I wanted my Twitter address on my card. Last time I had some printed, at the end of 2005, I don’t even think I had a Twitter account! But […]

Search Life Meets Real Life — My Slides & Video

August 22, 2008 by Danny Sullivan

I blogged earlier about being asked to present a talk called “Search Life Meets Real Life” at Gnomedex. I’ve just done that talk, and the slide for those who are interested are below (sorry, the animations don’t work correctly on one of them, “Google StreetView, Cool Or Not.” But I’ve allowed people to download the […]

Read The Wall Street Journal For Free

February 9, 2008 by Danny Sullivan

Reading Google News today, I noticed a Wall Street Journal article about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal listed. I’d just seen that article earlier on Techmeme, when on my work computer, where I read it after having to log-in to the WSJ using my paid subscription. So imagine my surprise when going back to it on a […]

Grokking Facebook: AOL 2.0

August 10, 2007 by Danny Sullivan

So as I go through the applications, a light bulb (compact fluorescent) finally kicks in about Facebook. It’s AOL. Shit — it’s AOL. How on earth did all these people wind up back in AOL only a year after AOL gave up on the walled garden? Maybe they’re too young. Maybe they don’t remember. I […]