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Plenty of Fish suffers major outage

Popular free dating site Plenty of Fish has suffered a major outage…

Duncan Riley

You too can follow President Obama

When times are hard and people have time on their hands they…

Steven Hodson

Kindle Getting Competition From Cosmo Publisher

Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader will soon see competition from an unlikely place:…

Bertel King, Jr

Robot sandwich maker – well almost

Ah the life of a true geek – never having to dirty…

Steven Hodson

Have You Seen the Exploding PowerBook?

It’s been a bit since we’ve seen reports of an exploding computer,…

Bertel King, Jr

38 Cute Animals, 1 Mobile Phone Ad, Bucket Loads of Win

I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for fluffy animals, and I’m also…

Duncan Riley

The day that Web 2.0 swallowed the sugar cubes

Wow … I think I just had a flashback. A warm sunny…

Steven Hodson

Google Introduces App Status Dashboard to Deal with Downtime

Google has unveiled a new Apps Status Dashboard following this week’s Gmail…

Bertel King, Jr

Twitter to cost Canadians 15 cents a tweet

For those of you with short memories there was a point last…

Steven Hodson

Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

As Twitter continues to boom, so to does the market for 3rd…

Duncan Riley

A return to silos – the big Web 2.0 joke

As we have moved along the timeline of what we refer to…

Steven Hodson

Internet Brands acquired four sites for $2.8 million in Qtr 4, and why you should care

Online media company Internet Brands acquired four sites in the 4th quarter…

Duncan Riley

Judge says a private Facebook account isn’t so private

Granted this is a ruling by a judge in Ontario Canada so…

Steven Hodson

Gmail Adds New Custom Title Bar Labs Feature

Following its day of nonstop downtime coverage , Google is releasing some…

Bertel King, Jr

T-Shirt Hell: Back From the (Make Believe) Dead

Remember how the guys behind novelty shirt site T-Shirt Hell announced they…

Bertel King, Jr

Google takes on Microsoft in Europe, applies to join anti-trust case

Google is applying to join a European Union antitrust case against Microsoft…

Duncan Riley

Safari 4 Beta Released: The Need for Speed

Apple has upped the ante in the browser wars with the release…

Duncan Riley

And your mother said not to play with electricity – wow

The above picture is of Terry Blake – also known as Dr.…

Steven Hodson

Tweetdeck and 12seconds team up once more

For the last six months Tweetdeck and 12seconds have been working together…

Steven Hodson

Google Releases Update on Gmail Downtime

Google has released an update on the outage that caused a few…

Bertel King, Jr

Mahalo adds Twitter support to Answers service

Jason Calacanis’ Mahalo has added Twitter support to its question and answer…

Duncan Riley

Twitter Chairman confirms turning down $500 million Facebook offer

Did they or didn’t they? Back in November it was reported that…

Duncan Riley

Australian Minister confirms legal content may be blocked by Censorship Regime

Despite saying previously that “unwanted” content would be included in the Great…

Duncan Riley

Former Podtech CEO John Furrier launches Silicon Angle

Former Podtech CEO John Furrier has entered the tech blogging space with…

Duncan Riley

What are the biggest blogs worth? 247 Wall Street gives it a shot

Valuing a blog isn’t always the easiest exercise (see our previous post…

Duncan Riley

Nothing better than a good old fashion smackdown

Part of the fun of being a blogger who reads a lot…

Steven Hodson

Firefox 3.1 Update: Possible Fourth Beta, Talk of Pulling TraceMonkey Altogether

Don’t count on seeing the final Firefox 3.1 release any time in…

Bertel King, Jr

Let the Twitter backlash begin: Times calls Twitter users narcissistic

With the massive growth in Twitter over the last year, a backlash…

Duncan Riley

Wind power causes more deaths than nuclear power

While this post technically will go under the Green Tech category here…

Steven Hodson

Epic Fail: Microsoft asks for overpaid severance payments back

In a failure that would make a blue screen of death or…

Duncan Riley

Denton shuts Defamer as stand alone site, now part of Gawker

Gawker Media’s Nick Denton has shut Defamer as a standalone site. Defamer…

Duncan Riley

Blogging verticals: hot and not verticals for February 2009

I was asked by someone this week what my advice would be…

Duncan Riley

News is free – packaging it isn’t

It’s a simple inescapable fact – news is free. It will happen…

Steven Hodson