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.”
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Message Error
In yet another repudiation of its predecessor, the Obama administration this week migrated the White House Web site to Drupal, the popular open-source Web site management software.
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, September 14, 2009
The iPod Is Dead
One sign that Steve Jobs is back to his old self: He’s already sniping at rivals.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Masters of the Wikiverse
The council of elders that runs Wikipedia confirmed last week that, sometime soon, the unwashed masses will no longer be able to directly edit the profiles of famous living people.
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.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Why Is Gmail Still in Beta?
Gmail turned five on Wednesday, April 1. Launched in 2004 as an invitation-only email service, the Google product now has more than 100 million users.
Monday, March 23, 2009
I Can Has Internet Millions
For the Web’s cognoscenti, the lolcats fad is so over. I Can Has Cheezburger, the site that sparked captioned-cat-picture mania, launched in January 2007. The online world’s early adopters learned about the phenomenon that February, when Boing Boing first linked to the site. Over the next few months, lolcats showed up in Gawker, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, and Time. Last October, Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami, the site’s founders, published “I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun,” a book that spent 13 weeks on the New York Times paperback best-seller list.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Bono Has a BlackBerry?
A question inspired by this week’s news that Research in Motion, the company that makes the BlackBerry, has become the chief sponsor for U2’s next bombastic world tour: Who exactly is profiting from this deal?
Friday, February 27, 2009
Fear the Kindle
It’s hard not to love Amazon’s new e-book reader. For starters, it’s gorgeous. Unlike its bulky predecessor, the redesigned $359 Kindle, which came out this week, is light, thin, and disappears in your hands. In my few days using it, I was won over: The Kindle is the future of publishing. And that’s what scares me.
Friday, October 10, 2008
The Daily Beast’s Burden
Early every morning, I open my Web browser and load up a half-dozen “aggregator” sites: Techmeme, Memeorandum, Real Clear Politics, Google News, the Drudge Report, and the Huffington Post. This is my first sortie into the day’s news, the way I orient myself to what’s going on in the world now that I no longer subscribe to a print newspaper.
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