Recently, I posted about the kibosh Apple put on Google’s Voice app for the iPhone, leaving it a web-app like Latitude. It turns out, Latitude itself was also meant to have its own native app, which was summarily put to death as Voice’s was. I’m seeing a great deal of ranting and raving about AT&T’s [...]

Sometime recently this message began popping up whenever a user visits the Facebook Ads section of their Facebook Privacy Settings. It’s dressed up to be some sort of reassurance to paranoid individuals, but to me it looks like a blatant insult to anyone aware of the original issue, as well as a statement calling myself [...]

A few days ago, Google quietly released their newest web app for the iPhone, Latitude. We’d been waiting for what seemed like forever, and in fact many had lost hope that it would ever get ported over to iPhone at all. With Google’s new round of upgrades to their mobile sites (and the iPhone being [...]

It’s hard to say at this point exactly what the brass at AT&T were thinking. Apparently they’ve decided the best reaction to DDoS attacks targeting 4chan is to completely block access to the site’s affected boards. The move affects users on their landline networks only.
I don’t think it’s necessary to go into too much depth [...]

I’m not about to lie to you. Google Wave gets me so excited that I feel like a schoolgirl. I’ve never even been a schoolgirl before, so that’s an odd feeling. Wave’s like that.
So it’s not difficult to imagine how giddy I was when Mashable posted about Google’s surprise blog update that actually named a [...]

[UPDATE]: Earlier today (Tues., 21 July), Jay Adelson posted an official statement on Digg’s blog detailing the company’s position on the diggbar issue. It reads as follows:

Hey everyone,
I wanted to clear up some confusion created over the past couple of days surrounding the DiggBar, specifically how Digg short URLs work. As we’ve stated in the [...]

Facebook’s received a lot of attention in the three days since I posted about their use of users’ profile pictures in ads. Numerous blogs have covered the story since, including both DownloadSquad and Mashable, which invariably led to enough of a ruckus that Facebook felt inclined to address the matter.
David Swain, of the Product and [...]

I received a message in Skype today, it went a little something like this:

Let’s be honest, Skype is a great service with a valuable chat system built into it, but sometimes it kind of sucks. There’s just no better way to put it, but griping about Skype in general could take pages, so we’re just [...]

[UPDATE]: Facebook has since responded to me regarding this issue, see that post for updates.

Image: Culture Smith Consulting
“Peter” in this case is the Facebook user logged in to his account. The woman in the “Hot Singles” ad is his own wife. According to Facebook, these ads “respect all privacy rules.” Personally, I think it’s [...]

I know it’s silly, I’m not a fool, but that doesn’t stop the little kid in me from getting excited over this. There are few things I can commend NASA for these days, and this is one of them. It brings back memories of visiting a national lab, or watching Nova on PBS. It’s the [...]