The NPD Group has some figures now from the Windows 7 launch , and are reporting that the new Microsoft operating system is selling well — or at least, much better than Vista did at its launch. In the first few days of sales, Windows 7 units in the U.S. moved 234 percent faster …

On Thursday, Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a surprise visit to the Web 2.0 Summit and was interviewed on-stage by John Battelle for about 18 minutes. Our full notes from that day are here , but the video above gives a good sense of where Brin’s head is at right …

Even though plenty of us have found ourselves shortening our tweets to meet the 140 character limitation imposed by Twitter , very few of us ever really need 1400 characters. For those few, however, may we present you with Woofer , the anti-Twitter site where every woof (their equivalent to the tweet) must…

The most popular URL shortener on Twitter just teamed up with Imageshack’s Yfrog . Could this spell trouble for TwitPic ? In a blog post earlier today, Bit.ly revealed several major companies using its API (application programming interface) to share their content via the URL shortening service. They include some big companies, …

Earlier today we mentioned that Digg.com appears to have changed the behavior of its short URLs so they no longer go to the source of the story for logged-out users: instead they direct visitors to a landing page on Digg.com. The change has many negative implications for publishers, …

Forty years ago, on July 20th, 1969, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first human beings to set foot on the moon. The Apollo Program, though, was a decade-long project involving millions of dollars, thousands of scientists, and constant competition with the Soviet Union. The result was one of mankind’s most…