I was recently catching up on a whole bunch of episodes of the Colbert Report the other day not knowing — to my great surprise — that he recently interviewed social media troll Andrew Keen. For those who are not social media nerds (such as myself), Andrew “Blogging Is Destroying Life As We Know [...]
I was pretty harsh with this mealy mouthed response to the Skype outage a few days ago — but it looks like in a bid to make things right Skype is doing more than just making apologies.
In giving a kind of ‘refund’ to paying users. Some of them anyway: Skype Pro, Skype Unlimited, SkypeIn or [...]
If this isn’t the biggest news item of August 22nd, it should be. I’m referring of course, to Google / YouTube introducing in video ads, which is covered in detail by Jordan McCallum (who does a good job), and the New York Times.
The gist of it is this: Google / YouTube has fastidiously avoided [...]
Microsoft released Tafiti recently, and its is new “visual” type of search engine that rides on the Silverlight engine. Hearing that its a slick piece of work (and being the kind of person who likes to try slick pieces of work), I checked out this slick piece of web candy.
Hey, did I mention how slick [...]
Well, after a generally upbeat August — in terms of frequency of postings — you may have noticed an absence over the past few days. The reason can be explained in two words: Harry Potter. I picked up the Deathly Hallows some time ago and got around to reading it over the past few days. [...]
If it sounds as sad as I think it does, I worry that the ongoing debate (if it can be called a debate) about the evolution of newspapers in the face of Google has taken a turn for the pathetic. Jon Carrol, of the San Francisco Chronicle, a paper which has had to organize [...]