Category Archives: Internet

Friday Fun Link – Apple's Eight Steps to Beat Microsoft & Google

Apple Study: 8 easy steps to beat Microsoft (and Google) View more presentations from Ouriel Ohayon.

Wikipedia Manual of Style: Spelling

As someone who tends to use pretty much all of these interchangeably, I still think this page is great!

Michael Geist Doing a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" on Friday

Geist did the closing keynote at the recent CLA (I taped it with my iPhone but haven't decided whether to post it or not – copyright and all that, you know! ) and he's always got interesting things to say.  So having him come to Reddit for one of of their patented “Ask Me Anything” […]

Friday Fun Link – Google Tourist Heat Map (May 28, 2010)

Here's a pretty cool mash-up that takes user-submitted photos to Panoramio and places them onto a Google Map to identify tourist hot-spots worldwide.

Top 40 Sites to Learn New Skills

I suspect there's probably also an Internet site dedicated to teaching people how to make lists of other sites as a way to generate Google AdSense revenue.

Happy Third Birthday, Pace!

Stupid YouTube blocked the audio on this stupid video because I used a stupid Oasis song as the backing track.  So there was a bit of a delay (which you might not even notice since I'm backdating this post to May 19 when the video was supposed to go up, dagnabit!) so I could get […]

More Facebook Fallout

[Edit: A sample of the growing Facebook backlash from across the web.] I recently wrote about the backlash against Facebook for the increased loosening of their privacy controls.  Between that, their arbitrary movement of your profile information to suit their needs, security holes in their chat and Instant Personalization program and the increased whispers about […]

Betty White on SNL and Six Other Victories of the Internet That Influenced Pop Culture

Former Golden Girl and definitely not-the-typical Saturday Night Live host, Betty White actually *was* the host of last night's show, mainly because of an Internet campaign that started on Facebook.  Here's an article that details some other examples of Internet campaigns affecting pop culture. 

Facebook Doesn't Care About You

Facebook has a long history of implementing features that are counter to what users want and/or treating their users like shit with a general lack of respect.  Lately, Facebook has been giving an even stronger impression than ever before (if that's even possible) that their early appeal as the one social web site which gave […]

Amazon Releases Info on Most Highlighted Kindle Books and Passages

How many times have you been reading a book, come across a great quote and then, unless you're really anal diligent and somehow transcribed it, ended up forgetting all about it?  I've always thought that the tipping point for e-books would be something that easily allowed you to track these quotes as you came across […]