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.
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.
Twitter went down last week, and the world got very quiet.
Back in March, I asked people to quit whining about Facebook’s redesign.
Is Google too powerful? The Justice Department’s Christine Varney thinks so.
“Look at this fucking hipster” was a universally recognized gibe before it became a Web site.
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.
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?
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.
I didn’t go to Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday expecting a revolutionary new iPhone.
Last month, I became an obsessive air-traffic controller.
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.
Do you hate Facebook’s new design? Do you find the homepage too noisy, with important updates from your friends getting buried under a stream of banal comments from high school classmates and other people you pity-friended? I bet you think the site’s confusing, too. I’ve got news for you: You’ll get over it soon enough.
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