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The Big Questions 7 Social Media Sites Must Answer in 2011

The Big Questions 7 Social Media Sites Must Answer in 2011

To say social media will be bigger in 2011 is like saying a 5-year-old will be bigger when she's 6-years-old....

Leaked Government Documents? Try Zuckerberg and Farmville Instead!

Leaked Government Documents? Try Zuckerberg and Farmville Instead!

Person of the Year is a fairly substantial award given out by TIME magazine annually. Nearing the end of this...

Hybrid Technology Goes Into The Gutter

Hybrid Technology Goes Into The Gutter

Hybrid vehicle sales account for less than 3 percent of auto sales overall. Despite this surprisingly low figure in the...

Firefox Was Yesterday and Chrome is Now. Is Opera Tomorrow?

Firefox Was Yesterday and Chrome is Now. Is Opera Tomorrow?

Internet Explorer is a distant memory for anyone who knows what the word "browser" means. Firefox is hanging on by...

Why Yahoo Sucks at Social When They Should Have Led the Charge

Why Yahoo Sucks at Social When They Should Have Led the Charge

May Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, and MyBlogLog rest in peace. You likely won't be missed, but your collective unrealized potentials will...

Americans Spent As Much Time On The Internet As They Did On Television In 2010

Americans Spent As Much Time On The Internet As They Did On Television In 2010

Newspapers are not dead, despite every effort by many (including newspaper publishers) to kill them. That may have been the...

Tr-iAd: Tron Lands First iAd on the iPad

Tr-iAd: Tron Lands First iAd on the iPad

The first iAd on the iPad will be for the upcoming movie "Tron Legacy". A Tr-iAd. And thus, the era...

Google Demo Slam Makes Tech Demos Personal

Google Demo Slam Makes Tech Demos Personal

Maybe tech demos are your most favorite thing in the world, but even if they are not, Google Demo Slam...

The Evolution of the Blogger

The Evolution of the Blogger

What started as an online diary for lonely people to express their thoughts to nobody in particular (or in some...

Android Ad Impressions Come to A Screeching Halt

Android Ad Impressions Come to A Screeching Halt

If there is one thing that Android really needs to have happen, it is that advertising needs to remain positive...

4 Issues Leading To A Permanent Fail Whale

4 Issues Leading To A Permanent Fail Whale

Twitter has been known to push the envelope on social communication and interaction. Twitter is even credited for heavily influencing...

Julian Assange Set Free on Bail [Updated]

Julian Assange Set Free on Bail [Updated]

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been set free on bail by the British courts today. The conditions of...

This Is The Future of the Desktop PC

This Is The Future of the Desktop PC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VNTPwVvLzE It's not every day you get to re-imagine what the desktop computer will look like, especially in an age...

Abuse of Power: The Rise of Social Media Blackmail

Abuse of Power: The Rise of Social Media Blackmail

Social media blackmail. When called anything other than blackmail, it's something that people normally talk about with a positive sentiment....

Ping Still Trying With Shared Playlists

Ping Still Trying With Shared Playlists

You're well aware I'm not in love with Ping, and I'd be willing to bet you aren't, either. Ping blows....

Is Illegal Filesharing Getting Less Popular?

Is Illegal Filesharing Getting Less Popular?

My girlfriend used to ask me to download music all the time. She'd ask: “Can you get me the new...

As The Facebook Turns – Winklevoss Twins Sued for Their Stake

As The Facebook Turns – Winklevoss Twins Sued for Their Stake

In yet another bizarre twist in the Facebook story, now  made very public by "The Social Network" movie, a man...

Google Zeitgeist 2010 is Out – Stats Geeks Everywhere Rejoice

Google Zeitgeist 2010 is Out – Stats Geeks Everywhere Rejoice

The Google Zeitgeist for 2010 is out. Some of the "Fastest Rising" results are surprising, some are expected. The iPad,...

In Case You Needed More Data Saying Facebook Is Huge…

In Case You Needed More Data Saying Facebook Is Huge…

If you haven't heard, Facebook is a pretty prominent site. In this latest update to the World Map of Social...

Ancient Greek Technological Marvels are Child’s Play… Literally!

Ancient Greek Technological Marvels are Child’s Play… Literally!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk Those ancient Greeks think they're so great, developing an astonishingly-accurate mechanism for predicting astrological events over 2000 years ago....