Facebook and Google both introduced URL shorteners to help their users share links that are short and simple. The hidden value of short URLs is that they are trackable, sending information back to the source about how web pages are shared and which ones are popular. Read More »
Archive for December 2009
UPDATED High-profile cleantech investor Vinod Khosla has made his first publicly announced bet in the wind industry, backing Danotek Motion Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of advanced electrical generators for wind turbines. Khosla’s venture firm Khosla Ventures led the $13.2 million round of funding for… Read More »
I see a lot of phones in my line of work — so many that I have to admit after a while they all begin looking alike. They are similarly sized to fit in the hand, some of them have keyboards while others don’t. There are… Read More »
Everybody’s worried about lack of online privacy, but it seems like if you work for the U.S. government, you ought to be more worried than most. Two legal cases stand poised to heavily influence the online rights of government workers. Read More »
After writing “6 Tips for Using Google Wave on Your First Project,” I’ve been learning more about Google Wave as my client and I use it for document collaboration… Read More »
Matter of Degree: Until recently, the goal of the Copenhagen climate agreement was expected to be to limit global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius. “That’s still the goal of the big polluters…Science, however, increasingly indicates that this would not save low-lying island nations… Read More »
TiVo is hurting. That’s the gist of a story today from Multichannel News about the fate of TiVo, which lost 314,000 subscribers last quarter. All in all, the DVR maker is now down to 2.7 million subscribers. That’s 62 percent less than during its… Read More »
As the social web — and increasingly, the geo-aware web — make our lives more public, we are having to (quickly!) figure out how and how not to share the more private parts of our lives online. Facebook last week updated its settings to… Read More »
Welcome to our newest Monday feature — Android Ecosystem! The week started with a bang and all of the news about the alleged Google Phone. So far, I think much of the early speculation and hype is mostly just that. While there are many thoughts… Read More »
In my career as a contract technical writer, a project management pain point I’ve seen time and time again is in the communications of project schedules and status. The venerable Gantt chart is a project management staple, but stakeholders without formal project management training… Read More »
When Toyota detailed plans this summer to lease hundreds of plug-in hybrids based on its popular Prius model by year’s end, the automaker called the program “a key first step in confirming how and when we might bring large numbers of plug-in hybrids to global markets.” Today… Read More »
These days it’s not unreasonable to see a Sprint phone later appear on Verizon — or vice versa, depending on the case. After all, both carriers use the CDMA network, so there’s no major reworking of a handset’s innards. But in the case of the… Read More »
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