Facebook users now swear in code. Over the last year the site’s status messages have contained remarkably fewer average curse words than in years past, according to stats the company released today, but far more instances of the acronym “FML.” Read More »
Archive for December 21, 2009
Move over, Lybia: YouTube has chosen Belgium’s .be top-level domain for its new URL-shortening service. Google clearly decided to go for memorability vs. the shortest URL possible with this service — using simply http://youtu.be — which it describes as a secure URL shortener that… Read More »
Google’s Jonathan Rosenberg, senior VP of product management, late Monday put what was more of a tome than a post up on the company’s blog, entitled “The Meaning of Open.” Originally sent to Google employees as an email, it reads like a manifesto. Read More »
Do you remember the notion we used to have that multiple carriers selling the iPhone in the same territory seemed like a golden ticket to more options, lower prices and altogether more competitive deals for customers? Well, forget it. Ain’t gonna happen. Not if the UK’s mobile… Read More »
Although my holiday shopping is complete, I know that some of you might be scurrying around for last-minute ideas. When I saw this Logitech Comfort Lapdesk over at The Gadgeteer, I thought it might qualify for the mobile geek in your life. At around… Read More »
Converting a gas-powered vehicle to run on natural gas can add upwards of $10,000 dollars to the cost of a vehicle — depending on tank size, production volume and other factors. “It’s not exactly cheap,” BAF Technologies President John Bacon told us today. So why are… Read More »
You don’t have to look very hard to see how the most popular social networks encourage a kind of groupthink among their users. If you’re a maverick, though, or your organization wants to customize social tools for internal use, here are eight free, open-source resources. Read More »
What do you do when your short form video site lags the competition on the web? Put the same content on the iPhone! Or at least that’s what global video site Dailymotion has decided to do, releasing a new iPhone app with all the same functionality… Read More »
Threadsy has recently updated and added some new features that expands its already ambitious goal of becoming your universal social inbox. In addition to aggregating all of your regular webmail accounts (Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail), it has now added support for Apple MobileMe (me.com/mac.com… Read More »
My post last week about merging Google Contacts generated a related question from Dave Zatz, because although he’s very content with Yahoo!for mail and contacts, he’s interested in using Google Calendar for events on his iPhone. Surely you can’t mix and match among… Read More »
A lot happened in the world of greentech in the last 12 months – the U.S. government started doling out stimulus funds, the smart grid became a mainstream moniker, the Copenhagen climate summit passed with a whimper, and the first half of the year was… Read More »
Maybe it’s because you’ve been watching too many of these ads , but for whatever reason, the iPhone isn’t for you. You opted for an Android-based phone instead. It may blend, but will it sync with your Mac? Read on. There are comprehensive third… Read More »
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