LiveJournal Censorship Revolt
As if there was not enough lessons learned by folks from the latest Digg Revolt, Live Journal has decided that it was time to test the waters and see what would happen if they deleted a bunch of sex themed journals, in an effort to “protect the children”.
Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against [...]
Startup Search
A great new project has started up, not surprisingly enough called “Startup Search” in that you can search out companies that are new startups as a database system to find things that might interest you. The brain child of Niall Kennedy, he announced it on his blog, and gave a link to his new site. [...]
Google Gears
While a lot of the news was focused on Microsoft’s boffo Surface Computing system released yesterday, Google released their own way cool tool set and API’s for Google Gears. Google Gears is:
Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features: [...]
Google chants developers developers developers
ZDNet is talking about why Google loves developers, all they need now is a person to dance around the stage screaming “Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers” until the audience goes mad. If Mr. Brinn starts pacing a stage somewhere doing the developers chat, its time to sell your Google stock and find someplace else to invest. [...]
Video Games for this summer
School is out for those that go to school as their full time profession, meaning the kids need something to do, so why not play video games. Normally the best time to get a major blockbuster in is November right after thanksgiving, but sometimes they come out with some decent titles for the summer months [...]
Will Wheatons advertising adventure
Everyone wants to make more money off the advertising space they sell off their web site, just one of those things that makes sense. We really can’t charge for premium content on the smaller blogs, nor can we really do much other than the Run of Network ads at various companies like Adbrite, Adsense or [...]
Google Takes on Sweden
Sweden’s new proposed communications monitoring law has caught the attention of privacy pundits’ worldwide, and now they have caught the attention of Google as well. Google usually does not comment publicly on things like this, but Google’s privacy counsel person Peter Fleischer has come out saying Google just cannot do business in Sweden if the [...]
Microsoft Shows off is this a New Trend
If anyone really Microsoft watches, most of us have been asking, “What is the deal” and wondering if Microsoft has any relevance left in the world. While Vista is selling well, and MS Office is selling well, if you take a look at the recent press releases, and Microsoft’s foray into hardware with the Zune, [...]
Digg the unofficial FAQ
SEOPedia has a great summation or FAQ about how Digg works, and the influence of some of the algorithm changes that they have implemented in the last month. While there are a lot of folks who try to game Digg, and get spam to the front page, many of us smaller, single site posters like [...]
Not enough Women in web 20
Penelope Trunk is on a tear and this time pinging on the lack of women in Web 2.0, and comes up with some pretty interesting theories on why this is the next big issue. So far, no one has solved the wage gap, and it looks like no one will.
Or, here’s another idea. [...]
Customer Service Hall of Shame
Looking like they are tired of the customer support that they get, PC Pit Stop has decided that they are going to record every single trouble support telephone call that they make, and if it is really poor customer service, then they are going to put that recording on their web site under their “Hall [...]
More things never to put on your resume
In general it is stunning what information people put on their resumes, there are a lot of things that people do not want to know about you. They really just want to know if you can work, do good things, and help the company. It is irreverent that you have a pet ferret, or [...]
Former IPod Killers on the street for cheap
Not that you have to hit up someone on a street corner peddling MP3 Players, but all the “IPod Killers” that have been released are being sold for pennies on the dollar according to MP3 newswire.
Checking sites like Big Lots, Overstock.com, and even eBay to see who has a still reasonably useable MP3 player [...]
Woman wrongly caught up in MySpace Sex Predator Database
We knew that it was just a matter of time until someone who was not a sex offender got caught up in the MySpace purge of Sex Offenders, and today, Jessica Davis who is not a sex offender was wrongly identified of being one and had her MySpace material pulled.
“They have a corporate [...]
Google cannot shake big brother image
As the European Union keeps on asking Google why it keeps personal information for two years, the images of Google becoming big brother from the classic book “1984” has taken hold. The ramifications to Google are enormous, and the job of being a Google Public Relations hack just got a lot tougher.
There are [...]
