Stop the presses. Google has an ad on its homepage
Having the cleanest homepage on the internet has often been attributed to much of Google's early success. Before they were the search engine, they...
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Why Diaspora failed (and why their failure is important to the social web)
Social media is fragile right now. The Facebook IPO failure (which followed several less-publicized failures by other social media sites) has investors...
Twitter closes the gates further on 3rd parties, removes posting source attribution
The great Twitter breakup is continuing. After kicking Instagram and Tumblr to the curb and closing the doors on developers, Twitter has taken another...
Software, engagement can be used to keep employees
It isn't about the money. While salary is one of the factors in keeping employees and arguably the most important component in hiring them, a recent study...
Since the rebellion, R2D2 has fallen on tough times
As the only true survivor of the entire Skywalker saga, the noble robot R2D2 watched the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker and then helped his son bring...
Instagram rolled the dice. They didn't cut a "bad deal".
The presumptions of reporters are often baffling. Bloggers (myself included) are usually worse, but when everyone in the tech blogging world and even...
Rumor: Google to halt new free accounts for Google Apps
Google has always allowed free access to their business-productivity product, Google Apps. Up to 10 users can have custom email addresses, calendars,...
Facebook and class action lawyers work out sweet deal for themselves. Judge isn't buying it
Facebook and the lawyers suing them over their "Sponsored Stories" advertising platform worked out a pretty sweet deal whereby the lawyers would get a...
Twitter: another example of why you never build a service around someone else's service
It was recently revealed that Twitter has over 500 million users. Now the fat birds of microblogging are planning to virtually pull the plug on many apps...
I said from the beginning that Facebook's "buy point" was $17. I may have been too optimistic
I said over a year ago that Facebook would be the worst tech investment in history. It's now being confirmed as the worst performing IPO on record....
The complex process of the Google search, simplified
It's something that we totally take for granted thanks to the continuously-advancing wonders of the internet. We don't go to libraries. We open phone...
How 140 characters has defined our world
It's one of the top 10 most visited sites in the world. It is both the subject of addiction and ridicule with opponents and avid users often going at each...