YackTrack will be taken offline soon as the servers are being patched by my ISP. I have been told that they will be offline tonight from 12AM GMT-7 until 5AM GMT-7. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. I will update this post when I receive a notice that the servers are available again.… Read More YackTrack Server Maintenance
Yesterday we saw some news that Yahoo is discontinuing Yahoo Go. In case you did not know, Go is a mobile application for mail, news and other assorted Yahoo services. This is a logical move, and Yahoo admitted as much: The reasoning behind shutting down Go is simple, says Yahoo. As Yahoo unrolls individual apps… Read More Yahoo Slowly Slimming Its Services
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the possibility of Google going evil. At that time, I was talking mostly about the fact that Google has free or cheap applications in many different areas. However, I did not really talk about standards they were developing. One commenter, Ed Richardson, mentioned this as a reason why… Read More Google Makes A Bid To Control The Internet
The Next Web has an interesting set of posts regarding women in technology. The first post by Boris makes the accusation that women are holding themselves back. He even includes this inflammatory idea: The longer I work in our industry the more I’m starting to think that most women never miss an opportunity to miss… Read More Want Women In Tech, Find The Role Models
Earlier this week, we saw that LinkedIn announced a partnership with Twitter. The basic idea is that LinkedIn status updates (yes, they have them too), can now be pushed to Twitter, and Twitter updates will be pulled into LinkedIn using the #in hashtag. This does not sound like much and Marshall Kirkpatrick says as much… Read More It Is Official, Twitter Is The Microblogging De Facto Standard
It has been an interesting week if you are following news about Twitter. After their launch of lists, most people probably figured that Twitter would get fairly quiet for a while. Well, it sounds like this is a different kind of Twitter team. Instead of waiting for a week or a month to go by,… Read More Is Twitter Trying To Lure You Back To Twitter.com?
For whatever reason, Google decided to release three different things on one day. Due to such an event, the blogosphere had a collective heart attack and had no idea what to write about. I am going to look at the three announcements and talk about what they really mean. First, we can look at the… Read More Google Announces Major Social and E-Commerce Push
There have been a lot of posts recently where people are trying to help others “be awesome” or “kick ass”. There are whole industries supporting this idea as well. Many of the personal productivity systems try to help you be awesome every day. The problem is that it does not work. Awesomeness is not something… Read More You Need a Foundation Before You Can Be Awesome
Twitter lists have been available now for a short while and the blogosphere has been talking about them constantly. We have heard the reasoning behind much of it, like aiding user discovery and having users define their own suggested users list. Maybe I am getting crankier as I age, but I call bullshit. This has… Read More Twitter Lists Are Not About Discovery
In most technical circles, Microsoft has been considered the evil empire for many years. Well, Microsoft may have a new challenger for that title as Google has decided they want to rule the world, and the blogosphere has started to notice. Google has been given a free pass for quite some time because they changed… Read More Has Google Gone Evil?
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