Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Cisco Video: Is Cloud Computing Powered by Angels?
I guess no one has a clue what the increasingly fashionable term “cloud computing” means.
Friday, June 12, 2009
AT&T Knows a Lot About You, and Now It Wants You to Know That
For most people (including me), privacy policies fall into the same category as “terms of service” documents–they contain important information, but are usually so long and impenetrably written that they’re not worth the effort of reading.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Could Social Gaming Run Afoul of Gambling Laws?
A variety of social network gaming applications are making lots of money from virtual goods.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Can eBay rebrand itself as the Web’s Wal-Mart?
Ebay has a problem: It’s viewed as a quirky second-hand bazaar.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Twitter Is Dominated By Males. Quick: What Does That Mean?
The majority of people who send text messages on Twitter are male, according to a study released by Nielsen Mobile, a mobile market research company.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Watch It Live: Kutcher vs. CNN Race to a Million Twitter Followers
You can’t get more meta than a site that micro-blogs trends in micro-blogging.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Web 2.0 Expo: An “American Idol” for Start-Ups
During the “Launch Pad” session, five start-ups took a grilling from developers, journalists and venture capitalists, then faced a crowd vote at the Web 2.0 Expo’s version of “American Idol.”
As attendees texted their votes, moderator John Battelle, founder of Federated Media Publishing, jokingly asked: “Want to have a dance-off?”
None were necessary. The techies in attendance were starry-eyed for all things mobile, picking Nitobi’s PhoneGap, an open-source tool for building mobile apps, as the People’s Choice winner. Life-tracking site zeaLOG was a close second.
Monday, March 16, 2009
ABC News to Interview John McCain–On Twitter
Twitter’s 140-character limit is a blessing and a curse–for the former, it can stop people from going on for too long about something. And that’s something that politicians are known for. So in a way, an interview with a politician conducted entirely over Twitter almost makes sense. Almost.
Friday, March 6, 2009
If Authorities Want Your Location Data, They’re Going to Have to Friend You on Latitude Like Everyone Else
Those who are deeply disturbed about the rise in location-based applications and services and their impacts on personal privacy can breath a small sigh of relief tonight. Google, which recently entered the space with its Latitude location network feature, has agreed to take a stand for user location privacy, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Happy Birthday, Yahoo Buzz. Who Are You Again?
Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Reddit, Delicious. These are all social sites that are well known for sharing stories with a massive amount of people. Yahoo Buzz? Not so much. But apparently, it’s also in the business of sharing stories. And today is its first birthday.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Apple to Verizon: Can You Hear Me Now? Maybe.
Before it settled on AT&T as the carrier for the iPhone in the United States, Apple shopped the phone to Verizon Wireless and was shot down. It’s thought that Verizon didn’t want to make the concessions (including ceding a lot of control) to Apple, which AT&T ended up doing. Of course, the mobile landscape was very different at the time.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Twitter Gets Half the Press Coverage of Facebook, but a Fraction of its Traffic
Ever heard the phrase, “Why is everyone always talking about Twitter?” Well, here’s the reason, maybe. The micromessaging service is getting half of social network Facebook’s press coverage, according to Google Trends stats for both companies in the U.S.–even though searches for Facebook dwarf searches for Twitter.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
While People Worry About Facebook Photos, a Million Users Let Google Know Exactly Where They Are
Why should location-based social networks be worried about Google? Because its new Latitude product was able to gain over a million users in just a week, Google’s vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra told an audience at the Mobile World Congress today.
Friday, January 9, 2009
CES: Mattel Revamps Web Sites and Launches Digital Toys
Digital toys and Web sites for kids have had a mixed history. But the future is so full of techno-savvy kids that toy makers are finding they have no choice but to move into the digital realm by providing better online entertainment, as well as digital toys in the physical world.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Facebook’s Platform: Rebuilding the Plane in Midflight
Facebook’s developer platform was a watershed. It gave outside companies unprecedented access to users of a major social network. But the platform, launched in May, has come under increasing scrutiny. Facebook has continued to change the technology and the rules governing what developers can and can’t do on the site.
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