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Celebrity Tweeting Done Right: Danny DeVito - September 5th, 2009

[UPDATE]:This account has been verified. While the legitimacy of this account is still in question, I think it’s safe to say we’re all hoping that it’s really Danny DeVito. If it isn’t him, then I’m still fully behind this guy because he’s so amazingly awesome. If you’re still not quite sure, then take a look [...]

Tags: hollywood, lol, twitter, win
Posted in news, social-media

 

Google Caffeine – It's Sneaky Goodness - August 15th, 2009

Earlier this week Google went public with its experimental new search engine, lovingly called Caffeine. Mashable has a great write-up on it, so I don’t need to spend much time here to deliver my message. I love Google Caffeine more than actual caffeine. That’s a serious amount. Seriously. To nearly everyone who uses it, Google’s [...]

Tags: google, web, win
Posted in google, news

 

SO GIBSON IT HURTS. - August 6th, 2009

Early this morning, Twitter dropped off the face of the Internet for a couple of hours. When I noticed the distinct lack of chatter I went to see if anyone was still awake on Facebook. That wasn’t loading either. I started wondering if maybe both had gone down simultaneously, since I still had data streaming [...]

Tags: cyberwar, facebook, georgia, google, international, livejournal, russia, twitter, war, web
Posted in international, news

 

Facebook: "Misleading Rumors" About Ads - July 29th, 2009

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 [...]

Tags: facebook, fail, privacy, web
Posted in fail, news, social-networking

 

Google Latitude for iPhone - July 27th, 2009

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 [...]

Tags: apple, google, iphone, latitude
Posted in google, news, social-networking

 

[Updated] AT&T Picks a Fight… With 4chan - July 27th, 2009

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 [...]

Tags: 4chan, anonymous, at&t, censorship, ddos, fail, web
Posted in fail, news

 

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