After doing 2,500 minutes of demos (40 hours) this year and many more last year for the conference, I’ve learned a lot about what makes for a great demo and what makes for a horrible demo.

As an intelligent romp through the realms of science, mythology, religion and hope about the universe around us, Spore both provokes and amuses.

Google knows how to lure users with the seeming simplicity of its products, even though there’s a great deal of complexity going on behind the scenes. Microsoft often makes products that seem to create more work than they should for users.

I had no idea that Google captured 1% of the browser market in 9 hours. But this IS a good history lesson in browsers and the difference between launches today and yesterday.

Twitter Grader is a new tool to help you learn how to optimize your twitter profile for business needs. Also good for knowing how your profile compares against others in the network.

Google have launched their new browser, I like many other people have been very keen to install and use it. My first impression is it seems very slick, fast, has cool features such as speed dial and its intuitive to use for mouse users.

TechTicker's Sarah Lacy interviewed Jason Calacanis and Michael Arrington about the upcoming TechCrunch50 conference. The first two segments are up. In the first ...

Affiliate networks often allow PPC campaigns where the affiliate points directly to the merchant - no landing page. Here's a great forum thread on European affiliate networks that allow this.