Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: 62 Ways to Use Twitter for Business Many of you already know Twitter’s value in business, but you can still take it further and use it to land… Read More »
Archive for August 2009
I am sitting in Denny’s with a full tummy, sipping some fresh-brewed coffee from a bottomless cup while working away. No, this is not an ad for the restaurant chain, it is me blatantly using their free Wi-Fi for getting some work done. I am using… Read More »
While a single swallow doesn’t make a summer, it is safe to say that 4G wireless broadband is making a shy appearance in the U.S. The increasing availability of Clearwire WiMAX (which some say isn’t quite 4G) has now been followed by the news that… Read More »
In the chaos of the 2008 presidential election, viral video had one champion of adorableness — sixth-grader Damon Weaver, a student reporter for KEC TV whose interview with Joe Biden propelled him to viral fame, securing him a college scholarship on top of… Read More »
It seems like just yesterday Kevin Rose was teasing us all with tantalizing tweets about an upcoming Qik iPhone application that would allow you to stream live video from your device to the web. Of course, that was before the iPhone 3GS, which brought… Read More »
We’d like to say thanks to this month’s WebWorkerDaily sponsors: Rackspace: Experience fanatical support. Mozy: Back up your photos, music, and files with Mozy for as low as $4.34 per month. WebEx: Web Conferencing and Collaboration Solutions. BackBlaze: Online backup for only $5/month per computer for… Read More »
We’d like to say thanks to this month’s sponsor of TheAppleBlog: Mozy: Back up your photos, music, and files with Mozy for as low as $4.34 per month. BackBlaze: Online backup for only $5/month per computer for unlimited storage. FREE Trial for Intel Mac users. Fuze… Read More »
San Diego Gas & Electric has always been a forward-looking utility when it comes to deploying IT — it was one of the first utilities to work with Google’s PowerMeter and it’s now installing 1.4 million electric smart meters. But SDG&E also has one… Read More »
Updated: On August 17, Facebook let us know that it had submitted the 3.0 version of its app to the Apple store. Where is the newest version of Facebook’s iPhone 3.0 application? Being a fan of the app -– which I now use on my iPod… Read More »
The Verizon MiFi may be handling all my mobile data connections, but that’s because I’m not roaming globally. I’m stuck in North America with my MiFi and business travelers need more than that. That’s why Verizon is releasing the ZTE AD3700 global modem, which… Read More »
Cutting Carbon at $365 per Ton (Ouch!): University of California-Davis professor Christopher Knittel calculated how much we’re spending for each ton of carbon dioxide saved through the cash-for-clunkers program, and “It ain’t pretty.” — WSJ’s Environmental Capital Group of Two: China and the U.S. are the… Read More »
Twitter might be revolutionizing social communication, but it’s also providing a handy way for hackers and virus makers to issue commands once their creations are out in the wild. Symantec has determined that a trojan horse called “Downloader.Sninfs” was using the @upd4te Twitter… Read More »