Facebook Now Sends Messages’ Content In Email
While it was (presumably) nice to see that you’d received new messages on Facebook, it wasn’t too helpful that the social network’s email notifications stopped there; from your email account, you’d need to head over to the Facebook site to read the actual notes. No longer, though – Facebook’s now passing the messages along. Is [...]
Like Adulterous Women? Google Can Help
Google makes what you might call "moral" judgments with whom is expressly forbidden from advertising on its network. Adultery, though, is apparently not a topic the company will take a stance against. It would be a stretch to say allowance of questionable advertising is an endorsement of it, but not too far of a stretch [...]
Bonnie Brown On Massaging Google Geeks
Bonnie Brown was working as massage therapist at Google from 1999 to 2004. Before that, she ran a private school for 10 years. Now, Bonnie is traveling and also wrote a book called Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google. I met up with her on Google Talk (the transcript below has spellchecking and punctuation [...]
MySpace’s Cranky Error Message
MySpace might or might not be able to hold onto its lead in the social networking world. But one thing’s for sure: it really needs to find someone other than Tom to write its error messages. “The function that you are currently trying to use is disabled and will be back shortly,” states one message, [...]
Twitter and Search
In my recent inverview with Twitter’s Jack Dorsey we talked for a while about the integration of search into Twitter. The obvious notion is to integrate some type of people search functionality. Twitter has already launched funtionality that allows you to search profiles and find people of related interests, or whom are near you. But [...]
Woman Sues Apple Over Price Cuts
WARNING: The following contains names of Chinese language origins that have beautiful meanings in that language. At no time will we condone crass comparisons and/or puns noting their similarities to certain American English euphemisms or expressions. The same goes for obligatory references to a certain character in John Hughes’s "Sixteen Candles," who was a Korean [...]
Scoble Predicts Google Death By Facebook
Notify the SEC. Analyst blogger Robert Scoble predicts the demise of Google within four years. He boldly outlines a Future Search engine combination of Facebook-Techmeme-Mahalo technology that will spell doom for Google. The Naked Conversationalist has become the Naked Shorter. In a video worthy of the best linkbait, Scoble predicts SEOs — those reviled search [...]
Internet Hunting Makes Terrorism Easier?
It’s comforting to know the previous Congressional idiots were replaced by fresh Congressional idiots from the other side of the political fence. Really? This is the best we can do? When nobody was hunting via the Internet, the Humane Society labeled it a scourge that must be stopped, and the one site that offered it [...]
Pearl Jam Accuses AT&T Of Censoring Webcast
When a "live" webcast of grunge band legend Pearl Jam’s Lollapalooza performance didn’t make it to the audience in tact, the band immediately pointed a finger at AT&T, who sponsored and monitored the event, accusing the telecommunications giant of censorship. What in the future may be viewed as AT&T’s colossal blunder has intensified the Network [...]
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