Remember back about 15 years ago when everybody’s online identity was private? Having a handle was the cool thing to do. The first handle I remember having was spam444. This was before spam was widely used as a term for junk email. I just thought it was a cool word because of its use in …
So, you know that ABC show, Better off Ted? It’s based around a company, Veridian Dynamics, that makes cool products based on research in their labs. I’ve found this strange phenomenon happening where I watch an episode of Better off Ted and then a few days later find that the product they created has actually …
Social websites open the door for anyone to easily place their content online. This is great as it eases the barrier to entry, but think with me for a few minutes about the implications.
What if it goes down?
We have all seen Twitter’s growing pains over the past couple of years. As people are beginning to …
So, this is not an original thought of mine, but I thought it was interesting anyway. I was listening to This Week in Google (TWiG) and the panel brought up an interesting article by Anil Dash that proposed the idea that online trends work because they are incremental and the learning curve is weekend-project sized. …
I spend a lot of time on the computer. My job requires me to be in front of a computer for 8 hours a day. When I get home, in addition to online bill payments, blogging, catching up on news feeds, Twitter posts and Facebook, I often spend time working on web (or design or …
Have you heard of cloud computing? Sure you have. Do you use Gmail? That’s cloud computing. Anytime data is stored somewhere “on the internet” or a computation is done without using your local computer…that’s cloud computing.
So, why should you care about this term that has popped up recently for describing a service that has been …
Below is a list of my top 10 (free) programs (in no particular order) that I have found to be extremely useful over the years.
Evernote – I use this to keep track of all my notes. Personal things, work projects, etc… I’ve used it since its beginning when it looked a lot different than it …
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