Today, CNN’s new app hit the App Store, and the world rejoiced. Mashable reported on it, and told masses of impressionable readers that it was impressive. I’m not going to disagree with Ben on this, but I am going to chime in a bit where he left off.
What wasn’t talked about all that much in [...]

When Facebook Lite launched just under two weeks ago, my immediate reaction was a sigh of relief, followed by the question “how long will it take them to trash up this one, too?” When I asked that question, I fully expected to find out by Christmas. I thought wrong.

Well, imminent for the general population… I’m already having convulsions. Today, in a blog post, Facebook announced they’ve reached the 300 million user landmark. It was less than six months ago that the company hit 200 million. They’ve also gone from struggling to monetize to “succeeding at building Facebook in a sustainable way.” In fact, [...]

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Yesterday, I read in Mashable that big Redmond released the newest beta adventure for their upstart search engine, Bing. I wasn’t originally planning on posting anything about this, because it’s non-news, but it’s been irking me all day.
So what was this release? They’ve apparently come up with a visual search. This idea all [...]

[UPDATE]: Facebook’s “tagging” feature went live today (14Sep09), using the @mention format, and it seems to be nothing more than an autocomplete feature for mentioning people on your friends list. Once you choose a name, it simply substitutes the @name you’ve typed for the person’s full name, which is also a hyperlink to their profile. [...]

Today, British PM Gordon Brown issued a fully open and public apology for the treatment of Alan Turing, whom his own government betrayed and drove to suicide far before most of us were ever born. Regardless of the timeframe, Turing played a part in all our lives today through his work with early computers and [...]

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I’ve recently noticed a disparaging spike in twitter spam, and while that’s pretty much normal in and of itself, this time it’s different. Donald Trump seems to be named in at least one spam-tweet every minute, and it’s only getting worse. So, I got curious.

I’ve seen a lot of HTML cheat sheets, and many of them are very nice, but I have to say this one amazed me. Not only is it absolutely enormous, but it’s extensive, to boot. Dimensions weigh in at a full 4961×3508. It’s clean, simple, and rather elegant for being so packed full of useful [...]

Sound a bit harsh? Check out Gizmodo’s post on this seriously wrong move, the latest by Microsoft:
This vile competition is on the level of tearing a teddy bear out of a child’s arms and then ripping it apart into a pile of fuzzy remains on the spot.
- Rosa Golijan
To sum it up, what could have [...]

(Flux Capacitors set to 2007!)
While at first glance, this seems like your average 2012-style semi-psychotic rant, Andrew Keen introduces his book titled The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture, and he’s actually got some good points. The funny thing is, this speech took place in 2007. It’s interesting how little [...]