I came across this steaming pile of fail today, and couldn’t resist the urge to say something about it. /SLASHCONTROL, or /CTRL, or /C, or however else you may find it badged, appears to be AOL’s newest and most pathetic venture into new and exciting world of Hulu ripoffs. AOL is a highly transparent company, [...]
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, [...]
Image via Bing. 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 [...]
[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. [...]
Image via Twitter Search 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.