De-Friend Sounds Better than Remove

Mashable had a highly entertaining post earlier in the week called “12 Great Tales of De-Friending“. As social networking eases into the mainstream consciousness, awkward situations will arise, and since there’s no playbook, conventional wisdom or Miss Manners for social network interactions, stories of de-friending will continue to entertain us. Or not, depending on your… Read More

Thanks

It’s Thanksgiving here in the States. So, if you’re celebrating, have a good one. If you’re not, be glad we’re not at work today and enjoy the silence. I debated whether to do a thank you post, since it’s cliché and done to death. Well, add another thank you post to the torrent. Here goes:… Read More

All a Twitter

Hot on the heals of news that Facebook and Twitter couldn’t agree on an acquisition deal, news broke yesterday that Twitter had purchased Values of n. So what? Values of n produces Stikkit and Sandy, two very useful and artfully designed products. According to Rael Dornfest, these services will become Twitter’s IP and will go… Read More

Google SearchWiki

Shortly after I finished a post about a couple cool things Google has done recently, they announced that Google SearchWiki would be going public. Back in the Summer, Google teased the addition of Digg-style social features into search, and it looks like these became SearchWiki. So, what does it give you? When you’re logged into… Read More

Let’s Take a Legal Break

Something has been bothering me for years about our (American) legal system. Pause for snarky comments. As a longtime reader of Slashdot, I’ve followed the legal aspects of technical lawsuits passively for years, especially  court decisions that affect overall precedent, e.g. RIAA and MPIAA decisions as they pertain to P2P, cyber-bullying, spamming, anti-trust in tech,… Read More

Google Does and Knows a Lot

It’s pretty hard to keep up with all the stuff Google does. There are several blogs I know of whose only purpose in life is to cover Google. Anyway, a couple noteworthy Google announcements recently caught my attention. So, I figured I share them and collect your thoughts. Google Flu Trends Google.org announced Google Flu… Read More

More iPhone Apps

Here’s some more iPhone goodness, and a teaser to whet your appetite. Fake Calls Thanks to Floyd for this tip. I started out to review three fake call apps, but quickly realized there are a lot more than three. Eleven apps matched the keyword search “fake caller” in the App Store, and only one didn’t… Read More

Who Owns Your Address Book?

Friend of the ‘Lab Dan McCall sent this post my way last week. The issue in question is whether your LinkedIn contacts could be considered the property of your employer, should you decide to part ways. This is an intriguing question, considering: LinkedIn’s self-described purpose as a “professional network”. People use LinkedIn to keep track… Read More

Two More iPhone Apps

Another pair of iPhone apps came to my attention today, making it four for the week, and it just so happens one is brought to you by Oracle. Oracle Business Approvals for Managers Steven Chan put me on to this one, which looks like an iPhone app that surfaces a lot of the worklist notifications… Read More

Panels Experiment

I’m going to try an experiment on all of you. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt, much. I’ve just installed Panels, which is a newly launched beta service, on this blog. Panels adds, well, panels to your blog links. From their blog: With the addition of panels to your site/blog your readers are given all the… Read More