SF News SFist Tech Labs: Say Uncle! Last week, after Yahoo's share price dropped when the company's profits failed to reach analyst's expectations, Chairman Terry Semel conceded in an interview with SFGate, "Frankly, Google has done a better job than
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: For Great Justice The story is of interest more in terms of its precedent than for any actual privacy concerns. The data cannot be traced back to any personal information of individual users, and Google's objection
SF News More New Stuff! The practical upshot is this: now, when you do a search, instead of combing through everything online (including slash fiction about on PAX TV) you can press a button and constrain your search
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Consume! The keynote announcements from Google are in line with the more believable rumors of the past couple of days: the Google Video Store, a partnership with CBS and other video content providers for
SF News New Features! More new features: check out our new footer! You'll have to scroll to the bottom of the page to see it, but trust us, it's totally cool. Subscription info, Rollyo searches of SF-based
SF News The Year In Sports That's the thing about this Internet. In a way, it makes it easier to listen to new music but it's also easier to just pull yourself into some sort of musical bubble in
SF News Jackson's So Best Posts of 2005 In that spirit, I'd like to present my So Best: Jackson's Top Ten Posts, If Measured Quantitatively by Pageviews Logged and With a Chronologically Fore-weighted Data Sample. Since I get to use the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFisting: Shake that Fruitcake, Don't Break It Feeling a bit nervous about squeezing into that rubber catsuit for any City Hall Getty-esque holiday fund-raising affairs we're to be invited to this weekend, we're so ready for a little bump and
Arts & Entertainment Big Changes at Tribe.net The very definition of a 'chilling effect' on free speech is when legislation or enforcement of new laws are so potentially onerous that people and organization self-censor out of fear and potential liability.
SF News There Is No Generic Tamiflu! Any other "Law and Order" fans reminded of the show's episode entitled Fluency upon reading about the fake Tamiflu seized at a South San Francisco post office? Tamiflu is one of the two
SF News TechConnect Public Hearing Sasha at Left In SF did liveblog the event, which you can watch on SFGTV here [RealPlayer]. We have to commend kicking it off with a good old, single-source, un-verifiable rumor:Google proposed
SF News SFist Tech Labs: With a Name Like Yahoo, It Has to Be Delicious The del.icio.us announcement got a great big steaming pile of comments and website/blog coverage, much of it positive, but much of it taking part in a pre-emptive backlash dogpile against
SF News Mini Golf Terror Watch out for that 16th hole -- it's a doozy! The sandtrap and rotating windmill take on a sinister tone now at San Jose's mini golf haven Golfland, as authorities discover that the
misc SFist Raves: Internet Access (almost) Wherever We Go Yesterday we were ranting about the fact that stoopid SBC had decided to reduce the status of our internet connection from DSL to dial-up. It kind of pissed us off and we were
SF News SFist Tech Labs: We've Got a Report Due On Space That scandal, plus a less intense scuffle over the history of podcasting and the influence of vee-jays thereon, prompted Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales this week to change the site's policy and accept new
SF News SFPD Video Scandal We've never understood this phenomenon of encouraging disgruntled employees to film skits to screen before the whole office to "boost morale." The last time we were forced to do this, we filmed a
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: format c:\ Intel is jumping on the home media center bandwagon with its new VIIV technology, specifically aimed at creating media PCs. SFGate's take explains how Intel is having to work with content providers as
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Greg Whiteley SFist is thankful for many things this time of year. We are especially thankful for independent movies and the independent theaters that show them. SFist has been lucky to attend the Sundance Film
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: My AIBO Ate My Homework Steady on, San Francisco! The city, if not the entire blogosphere, is still reeling from the lack of a SFist Tech Roundup post last week. But we have a very good excuse. All
SF News We Like NextBus and We Cannot Lie http://www.nextbus.com/googleMap/test.jsp?a=sf-muni&r=31 Most buslines aren't on the system yet; if you enter a line that isn't wired, then the "Initializing Agency" message simply
Arts & Entertainment Take Back The Nap When SFist was a young child, we'd always get sent home from preschool with a note that said, "Did not nap today." Man, we didn't know how good we had it! Nowadays, what
SF News Muni Wifi at Minna So Media Alliance managed to score Lawrence Lessig for a prezzo at the venerable tech-art speakeasy at 111 Minna. We bought soda and took it seriously, and checked out some of the phantasmagoric
SF News Schwarzenwatcher Plays With Numbers The big story concerning Herr Governator is that according to a new poll, his ballot initiatives are actually winning right now. Is it due to all those super-expensive Hollywood style campaign stops he's
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: A Very Brady Bulletin When we agreed to open the SFist Tech Labs to the public with this column, we had visions of writing about new cell phones and PDAs and MP3 players, web applications, and all
