View From the Top

  • "View From the Top"

    Gwyneth Paltrow glows in a light airplane comedy that's actually funny.
  • The gleeful contrarian

    Not content with pushing buttons at Arts & Letters Daily, Denis Dutton now plans to shake up the publishing industry.
  • Who ya gonna call? Patent busters!

    BountyQuest CEO Charles Cella explains why his Web site is offering cash to patent destroyers.
  • ICANN-oclast

    Get ready for a shake-up: Radical Karl Auerbach just got elected to the Internet's top governing body.
  • The Mojo solution

    Forget Napster and Gnutella. Jim McCoy's Mojo Nation is the coolest file-trading service on the Net.
  • World wide webcam

    In Garland Simon's future, everyone and everything will be on camera, all the time.
  • Defanging Carnivore

    A security specialist explains why his open-source version of the FBI's snooping technology is a victory for privacy fans.
  • Cheap at the price

    Earthlink's founder, Sky Dayton, explains why spending $7.5 million for the business.com domain name was a smart deal.
  • When Big Brother knows you watch "Big Brother"

    TiVo helps you find and record TV shows it thinks you'll like, and shares your viewing habits with networks and advertisers.
  • The Michael Jordan of gaming

    Dennis "Thresh" Fong leaves the deathmatch arena to try his hand at building a business.
  • Information just wants to be Freenet

    Rob Kramer and Ian Clarke's new venture, Uprizer, wants to be the Red Hat of peer-to-peer networks. What's behind their wall of secrecy?
  • Why Scour is not the new Napster

    Dan Rodrigues defends his multimedia search engine, even as it faces a nasty lawsuit.
  • We're no dot-com!

    Critical Path has faced stock drops and layoffs, but CEO Doug Hickey won't be lumped in with the losers.
  • E-book 'em!

    AtRandom publisher Jonathan Karp is looking for literary revelation -- and mass readership -- from digital books.
  • Watermarks in music?

    Talal Shamoon, a key technologist for the Secure Digital Music Initiative, says that he's found the key to protecting copyrighted tunes.
  • I want my own .tv

    The CEO of a company that administers the domain name for the island nation of Tuvalu thinks it could be more profitable than .com.
  • A Napster lawsuit laid to rest

    Rob Reid shelved Listen.com's legal action, but he says it'll take an act of Congress to resolve the digital music tug of war.
  • Britain's first software billionaire

    At Autonomy, Mike Lynch creates programs that act like people do, analyzing words and extracting ideas.
  • Aliens: The sequel

    A tale of off-world visitation gave USWeb founder Joe Firmage no end of trouble -- but he's still alive, kicking and raising gobs of venture capital for his latest crusade.
  • Easy coder

    Martin Tobias' film about a cross-country Harley ride prompted another journey -- into multimedia encoding.
  • It's the dream life

    Peter Lund, formerly CEO of CBS, teams up with self-help guru Tony Robbins to build an online audience of people who want to be their best.
  • A hitchhiker in the new economy

    At h2g2.com, Douglas Adams is trying to make his guide to the galaxy come to life.
  • Dot-com servitude

    "Will work for options" was the motto that built the new economy, but mylackey.com's Brian McGarvey takes it to new extremes. Housecleaning anyone?
  • Napster at law

    Attorney-turned-interim CEO Hank Barry promises to make money, not war, for the beleaguered music-swapping service.
  • Camera on a chip

    Photobit CEO Sabrina Kemeny's tiny image sensors will bring us "Get Smart"-style watches and cellphones that take snapshots.
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