We mentioned this thought in passing alongside Dieter’s report on the Nokia App Ovi Store, which he says has far, far better discoverability than the iTunes App Store: What Nokia has done is build a sophisticated relevancy engine that can sort apps based on a variety of factors that are actually relevant to you [...]

Major League Baseball is building an in-game chat system for the times. While its MLB.TV live video service had some 500,000 subscribers last year, only an average 18 people per game used the built-in chat feature. Not good enough.

So MLB.com is throwing out their old chat system and building a new one. And since we're closely following their MLB.TV development this spring, we want you to help.

Read the objectives and add your ideas to comments, or email them to dfrommer@alleyinsider.com. Send us mockups or wireframes. We'll mention the best ones ...

VirtualBox is a great way to test out new operating systems, without having to configure your machine to dual-boot. You can even install Windows 7 on VirtualBox. There are two ways to obtain free operating systems for VirtualBox: using virtual disk images (VDIs) or actual installation disks. Downloading virtual disk images is probably the quickest and [...]

Instant messaging has been very popular for quite some time now. Although services like Twitter have somewhat tarnished the appeal of IM, chatting with your friends on Google Talk or Yahoo Messenger is not going away any time soon. Here are some of the top tips and tricks that you can use to get more out [...]