Friday, November 13, 2009
Apocalypse Then
In 1993, a tech consultant named Peter de Jager wrote an article for Computerworld with the headline “Doomsday 2000.”
Friday, October 16, 2009
It’s Just Fancy Talk
Here’s a little story to show just how thoroughly Google’s long-awaited chatting tool, called Google Wave, can kill your mood to chat: The other day, I was “waving” with Zach Frechette, the editor of GOOD magazine.
Monday, August 31, 2009
How to Beat the Kindle
Monday, August 24, 2009
Can Microsoft’s Bing, or Anyone, Seriously Challenge Google?
Every year, the market-research firm Millward Brown conducts a survey to determine the economic worth of the world’s brands–in other words, to put a dollar value on the many corporate logos that dominate our lives.
Friday, August 14, 2009
To Live, Twitter Must Die
Twitter went down last week, and the world got very quiet.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Let’s Fix Facebook
Back in March, I asked people to quit whining about Facebook’s redesign.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
The Case Against the Case Against Google
Is Google too powerful? The Justice Department’s Christine Varney thinks so.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Hipsters, Tempura Burgers, and Pets Who Want To Kill Themselves
“Look at this fucking hipster” was a universally recognized gibe before it became a Web site.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The Fantastic Firefox
Lately I’ve been worried about Firefox. Ever since its debut in 2004, the open-source Web browser has won acclaim for its speed, stability, and customizability. It eventually captured nearly a quarter of the market, an astonishing achievement for a project run by a nonprofit foundation. But recently Firefox seemed to go soft.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Shorten This!
To find a Web page you wanted in the pre-Google era, you often had to guess at its address. Was General Motors generalmotors.com, general-motors.com, or gm.com?
Friday, June 19, 2009
May I Smash Open Your New iPhone, Please?
Later this week, Kyle Wiens will travel to an undisclosed European country, stand in line for hours to buy Apple’s new iPhone, and then find a comfortable, well-lighted place to take the phone apart.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
You Can Live Without Apple’s New iPhone. But it’s getting harder to live without the App Store.
I didn’t go to Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday expecting a revolutionary new iPhone.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
They’re Fast, They’re Cheap, and I’m Out of Control
Last month, I became an obsessive air-traffic controller.
Monday, May 11, 2009
You Have No New Messages–Ever
Since March, I’ve been using Google Voice, the search company’s fantastic Web app that gives you a single number to connect all your phones and lets you make rules about who can call which phone when.
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