As we move more and more into a digital world where we get just about everything we need from the Internet, well entertainment wise at least, we are finding the more traditional outlets for our entertainment needs ...
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Numbers can be a little mind-numbing some times, especially when it comes to anything to do with technology and the Internet. Facebook with its 800 million users, or pretty close to it, Twitter with its 225 million ...
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If you want to start a passionate discussion in tech circles just mention Net Neutrality and FCC in the same sentence. If you want to get a lot of blank stares and shuffling of feet just mention ...
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As we head into the end of 2010 and the birth of a new year I have been pre-occupied with what is happening to The Web. It is a web that I have been lucky to have ...
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What goes around comes around.
What was once old is new again.
Those are just a couple of old cliches that perfectly describe what is happening in technology these days. For anyone old enough to have been around technology ...
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It seems that just about every day that goes by we hear about some new web startup launching and looking to be the next big thing. Every month there seems to be more tech conferences than you ...
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I'm betting that anyone who spends any time on the Web will know about the now famous Old Spice ads t hat went ballistic just a couple of months ago. However it wasn't the first viral ad ...
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It goes without saying that when Apple sets its sights on something there is never any doubt that it will do it right. From their laptops to mobile phones to their operating systems Apple's iron grip on ...
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Anyone who has been around the Web pre-Facebook and Twitter should recognize the stylization of this blinged out Claddagh ring. If not I'll leave it up to you to do a goatse image search, just make sure ...
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More than once I have said that broadband providers need to stop being content providers and become dumb pipe providers. The moment that you mix the two together you automatically have a conflict of interest where, in ...
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People complain that advertising is boring and mind-numbingly stupid except every once in a while a real gem comes along that you just can't help but stop to watch.
This latest Kia commercial that appears to have hit ...
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It's almost given. Give a human being something new to play with and chances are they will get carried away and pour all their attention into that thing. This is why we have things like sports fans ...
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One of the biggest things that both the freetard and the Web 2.0 warm and fuzzy crowd have been trying to implant in our heads is that the future of media is online and it will be ...
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Ad blindness.
It is an affliction that affects anyone who has been on the web for any length of time. In some cases it is bragged about as some kind of honor. In other cases people won't change ...
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We’ve seen the same thing repeated over an over with the music industry, television industry, news industry, and many more just like them. Crying doom and gloom about how their individual wealth creators are ...
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Admittedly Internet Explorer is a blight on the Web that many would love nothing better than to see disappear – instantly. It has, and continues to cause nothing but grief for designers and users ...
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Well it looks like Rupert Murdoch didn’t get Chris Anderson’s memo about everything on the Internet being free. Word is that the News Corp chairman told analysts in a earnings conference call that ...
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The ubiquitous internet Smiley has been with us for a very long time but its origins are shrouded in mystery even though many have tried to lay claim to their birth or knowing where ...
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The common wisdom these days is that the Internet and Web, as well as technology in general, will continue on a forward momentum. It will constantly add to our collective knowledge and increase our achievements as it ...
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On one hand this story could be funny and on the other it show just how sophisticated some of the scams on the web can be. After all if you are good enough to ...
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If there is one thing you can say about the whole Web 2.0 thing it would be that it definitely hasn’t been boring. Every time you turn around some new service being announce, some new idea ...
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Video on the web has come a long way with broadband speeds making watching online less like a hurky jerky dance that use to make it all so painful and pointless. As good as ...
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