My Wish for 2010: A Personal Dashboard for the Social Web
Give, give, give — that’s all I (and other social web users) do. We share a lot of information about ourselves these days, and we get a lot out of that experience (monetarily speaking, the companies...
View ArticleMr. Open Web Goes to Google
Chris Messina, self-titled “open web advocate,” will take that official title at Google starting Monday, he announced today on his blog. He joins Joseph Smarr, the former CTO of Plaxo, who will also...
View ArticleThe Short and Illustrious History of Twitter #Hashtags
With Twitter having made its way to the mainstream, one early tweeting convention has brought a nerdy flavor along for the ride. It can be a bit jarring to come across Heidi Montag tweeting about her...
View ArticleShould Open Web Advocates Stay Independent?
When it was revealed Wednesday that developer and noted open web champion Tantek Celik was joining the Mozilla Foundation, a wave of congratulations swept across Twitter and the blogosphere. But not...
View ArticleEvan Williams on Twitter and its ecosystem
As we’ve described in a number of recent posts — including one about my ongoing “love-hate” relationship with the service — Twitter has been going through a transformation of sorts recently, closing...
View ArticleVerizon pushes Android 5.0 Lollipop to the Samsung Galaxy S5
Good news for Samsung Galaxy S5 owners on the Verizon network in the U.S.: Android 5.0 is ready for your device and Verizon has made it available. A notification should appear on your handset to...
View ArticleMotorola sales double in 2014 as the brand re-enters China
Lenovo reported its earnings for the past quarter on Tuesday. During the quarter, the company officially completed its $2.91 billion acquisition of Motorola from Google. Lenovo announced its smartphone...
View ArticleCheck out Shadow: A portable panic button that phones for help
In an emergency situation, your best friend might be your smartphone. But what if your personal security is threatened and you simply don’t have time to dig for your handset, unlock the device and...
View ArticleNo, it wasn’t just you: Netflix went down Tuesday afternoon
Netflix experienced an extended outage this Tuesday afternoon, with users reporting on Twitter that it went down around 3:40pm PT, according to Downdetector.com. Netflix’s website remained inaccessible...
View ArticleYouTube experiments with multiple camera angles for performances
Multiple camera angles are coming to YouTube, if only as an experiment: YouTube added a first live music performance with four camera angles to its site Wednesday, allowing users to switch back and...
View ArticleApple spotted driving sensor-equipped vehicles in the Bay Area
San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX has been following a mysterious minivan tooling around Concord, California, with a roof rack fool of advanced sensors. Checking in with the Department of Motor...
View ArticleGoodlatte revives Innovation Act to curb patent trolling
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va) has reintroduced a patent reform bill, known as the Innovation Act, that enjoyed bipartisan support last year, but was killed by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt). The prospects...
View ArticleTwitter beats on earnings but misses on user growth
Twitter’s stock rose slightly today after the company announced its fourth quarter earnings. It beat by a significant amount, although it missed in terms of what analysts expected for user growth. Here...
View ArticleGoogle advisory council: Right to delist should only apply in EU
To help it handle the EU ruling that forces it to delist certain results about people, Google assembled a team of expert advisors that travelled the continent, seeking out various opinions on how best...
View ArticleFacebook search tools take aim at Twitter’s relationship with news
Facebook is updating its search tool to make it easier for users to find things that interest them among the 2 trillion items archived by the company’s index. The update boasts personalized search...
View ArticleMy Wish for 2010: A Personal Dashboard for the Social Web
Give, give, give — that’s all I (and other social web users) do. We share a lot of information about ourselves these days, and we get a lot out of that experience (monetarily speaking, the companies...
View ArticleMr. Open Web Goes to Google
Chris Messina, self-titled “open web advocate,” will take that official title at Google starting Monday, he announced today on his blog. He joins Joseph Smarr, the former CTO of Plaxo, who will also...
View ArticleThe Short and Illustrious History of Twitter #Hashtags
With Twitter having made its way to the mainstream, one early tweeting convention has brought a nerdy flavor along for the ride. It can be a bit jarring to come across Heidi Montag tweeting about her...
View ArticleShould Open Web Advocates Stay Independent?
When it was revealed Wednesday that developer and noted open web champion Tantek Celik was joining the Mozilla Foundation, a wave of congratulations swept across Twitter and the blogosphere. But not...
View ArticleEvan Williams on Twitter and its ecosystem
As we’ve described in a number of recent posts — including one about my ongoing “love-hate” relationship with the service — Twitter has been going through a transformation of sorts recently, closing...
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