By Sean P. Aune |
Everyone treats MySpace like a ghost town in spite of the fact it is still the second biggest social network next to Facebook. No, it doesn’t enjoy the popularity it once did, but it sure isn’t exactly dead either. In the light of the user…
By Sean P. Aune |
Internet connectivity on planes was once considered a dream. The ability to do work on a long flight, checking your e-mail, staying in contact with your office and so on was something business people would kill for. Well, not only is that day finally here,…
By Travis Harvey |
Earlier this week, Mozilla submitted their Firefox Home application to the App Store. Thanks to Apple’s restrictions, this isn’t the Firefox you’re probably thinking about. Instead the app allows you to access your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks, and open tabs all from your browser. …
By Travis Harvey |
The guys over at TechCrunch have a hilarious interview with a robotics engineer behind Anybots, a startup that created this remote controlled Segway look-a-like. Controlled through a Firefox plugin that logs you into any authorized Anybot you’ve setup. These things breeze around at 3.5 mph…
By Sean P. Aune |
Last last month The Social Network (AKA “The Facebook Movie”) started its promotional rounds. First we got a teaser poster, followed by a wholly unexciting teaser trailer of nothing but voice-overs and finally seeing the poster we had all already seen. We skipped posting that…
By Sean P. Aune |
We’re still some time away from Google announcing which community (or communities) will be given the Google Fiber for Communities project. Even though we don’t know who “won” yet, what Google did learn is that this country very much wants faster Internet access, and so…
By Sean P. Aune |
Ever since the Old Spice commercials debuted with … well, the guy they have given no name to … have debuted, the Internet has loved them, sharing them across various sites, and talking about how funny they were. Well, yesterday the company decided to really…
By Sean P. Aune |
We are all familiar with privacy policies on websites, and how they all promise that they will never sell your information to a third-party, and your privacy is of great concern to them etc. etc. But, what happens when that site goes out of bankrupt?…
By Travis Harvey |
What a doozy! Remember the proposed changes to Blizzard’s official forums where each poster’s first and last name would be revealed to the world? While the plan was only days old before it was scrapped, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board received hundreds of complaints from…
By Sean P. Aune |
Rumors are circulating this weekend that Google has buddied up with social gaming titan Zynga, the company behind FarmVille, in a deal that sees not only the games coming to the search site, but also a rather healthy amount of investment. The name “Zynga” doesn’t…
By Travis Harvey |
Tuesday on Blizzard’s Battle.net forums, Blizzard announced a significant change coming to all official Blizzard forums that’s already making waves with the community. The Battle.net Real ID feature recently implemented ties a user’s first and last name to their Battle.net account. Launching with the revamped…
By Sean P. Aune |
Well, that only took six years. After numerous unofficial Greasemonkey scripts and other workarounds, Google finally introduced its own rich text editor for Gmail this week. Rich text editors have existed for years in other e-mail programs, allowing you to add links, images and other HTML elements…
By Sean P. Aune |
While the idea of Promoted Tweets, special messages on Twitter paid for by companies, hasn’t exactly made people do back flips, how do you think people are going to react to the idea of Promoted Tweeters? Well, it isn’t a done deal yet, but it…
By Travis Harvey |
Fresh off the news of YouTube’s mobile page revamping comes a beta version of their newest creation, YouTube Leanback. Launched by visiting Youtube.com/leanback, you’ll find your browser filled with the first of many in a long playlist of videos found in your YouTube ‘feed’. This…
By Sean P. Aune |
There are a lot of bad things you can say about Twitter, not the least of which is how are we still getting the Fail Whale popping up after four years, but you certainly can’t say it hasn’t grown at a stunning pace. Starting in…
By Sean P. Aune |
Get ready to disconnect your modems folks. You might as well throw out your MP3 players. Prince, formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, has declared that the Internet is a fad and it’s over. In an interview with The Daily Mirror in…
By Sean P. Aune |
I think we can officially say now that Google wants to be in every aspect of our lives. Yahoo has had a successful travel portal partnership with Traveloicty for some time now. While Yahoo makes a fee on each sale ($5 I believe), it has…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems to be a subject that never quite gets settled, but once again the prospect of an Internet sales tax is rearing its ugly head as states scramble to fix budgets that seem to be horribly broken. The world economy is currently a mess,…
By Sean P. Aune |
Someone alert the media! (oh wait, that’s us …) Microsoft’s Internet Explorer didn’t lose any market share in June, and it actually went up! After months of decline, Internet Explorer actually enjoyed a bit of a gain this month, picking back up .63 percent of…
By Sean P. Aune |
Back in May, during the height of the Facebook privacy scare, a group of four friends who are computer students made a big splash in the social networking world by asking for some funding to work on a decentralized social network they planned to call…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the switch being thrown on July 1st at Starbucks corporate stores to give free Wi-Fi to its customers, you almost have to wonder if this going to become an obligation of all service type businesses so that they can make sure to keep their customers. Over…
By Travis Harvey |
There’s something about Woot that makes them unlike any of their competitors. They’ve got a sarcastic and witty demeanor that’s refreshingly different from what we’re used to seeing from today’s retailers. So what’s the most likely product to come from Amazon’s recent acquisition? If you…
By Travis Harvey |
Rickrolling seems to slowly be on its way out after a few years on top nobody expected. We’ve all been on the receiving end of a well placed Rickroll (if you haven’t you haven’t lived) and it may go down as the most successfully viral…
By Sean P. Aune |
After months of promises, Digg has finally taken the wraps off its redesign. While overall it is a wholly much more pleasing experience to use, will it be enough to recapture some of its fading glory? Invites began going out on the evening of June…
