Facebook and its Golden Horseshoe
First they close a deal with Microsoft that guarantees them about $200 million over three years, then they piss off about a million of… Read More
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Mini Planets
There are a series of compelling photos that have been making their way around the net called “mini-planets” and they have a mysterious draw for… Read More
iPod, uPod, weAllPod
Is Apple’s success with the iPod due to control? Many software and computer makers have tried to roll out their own products and have… Read More
Web Design is Settling Down. Thank God!
Web sites are becoming easier to use mainly because major web destinations have standardized on several design patterns – transforming them into conventions that smaller… Read More
Facebook Loses Face, Kids Think the Internet is Private, and Mass Mobilization
News Flash: Information on the internet is public. Anyone with a computer and an internet connection has access to everything everyone publishes. It’s the nature… Read More
Zeitgeist Surfing with Google Trends
Google’s come out with a neat little tool that I suspect is part of their master plan to take over the universe: Google Trends… Read More
Apple Droning: Explained
Two weeks ago, I wrote about why Apple was doomed. That entry generated a lot of …er… feedback. The feedback was emotional [and misguided], to… Read More
DAMN OFFICE PHONE!
I have joked (in a not-so-funny-way) that the reason I (an otherwise marginally capable web developer) have trouble with office phones is that there really… Read More
They can put a man on the moon… so why is my cell phone so #$&@ hard to use?
It was with great hope that we purchased our latest round of cell phones. New phones! Surely these will work better than our last phones,… Read More
Losing My Mobile [Kinda] Changed My Life
As I was getting out of a cab in Chicago two weeks ago, I realized that my pocket was a little lighter than usual. I… Read More