Yesterday, Google announced Labs for Google Apps:
Google is making it easier for business customers and schools using Google Apps to also take advantage of our innovations and ideas that aren’t quite ready for prime time. We encourage your organization to experiment with the Google Labs features listed below to improve how you communicate and collaborate. [...]
My latest Intertubes distraction comes courteousy of MTV.
Hard to believe, considering how far out of their core demographic I am, and yet here we are. Anyway, the network rolled out MTV Music earlier this week. It’s an archive of music videos, remember those?
MTV infamously strayed away from playing videos in favor of reality programming more [...]
Location aware services and apps are white hot right now.
Cases in point, two new iPhone apps: Google Earth and Brightkite.
I can’t seem to find any use for Google Earth beyond the obvious eye-candy, cool factor. This has always been my complaint with Google Earth. It’s nice to look at, but not very useful.
The iPhone app [...]
Carl Backstrom died in a single car accident early Sunday morning. He was 35.
Earlier today, the news trickled through several of our Twitter feeds, as a nurse involved attempted to find and notify Carl’s friends.
Carl was an avid APEX evangelist and blogger, snowboarder and generally well-liked, nice guy. Carl read this blog and commented frequently; [...]
It’s been a few months since I did an FAQ post. This one has been on my list of to dos for months, and since I’m not doing as much community management as I did in the past, I wanted to crank out a post before I forgot all the content.
The focus of this post [...]
I’ve heard the future of Open Source during a recession debated quite a few times recently. It’s a pretty hot topic now, what with the downturn in full effect.
Andrew Keen, the author of “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture”, blogged (irony noted) his thoughts earlier in the week. They [...]
If you don’t use Twitter, proceed at your own risk of boredom.
If you’ve used Twitter for a while, specifically the web interface, you may have noticed you followers count fluctuates without any rhyme or reason. Well wonder no more.
I read about Qwitter in Mashable last week; it’s a very simple service that notifies you when [...]
Generally, I prefer choice in software. Intertubes browser is no different.
However, in this particular category, I am an unabashed Firefox fanboy. I’ve been using it since 0.8, and it hasn’t let me down yet.
I’ve tried the field, both for personal and professional purposes: Chrome, Opera, Flock, Safari, IE (all versions, 3-8), Netscape/Mosaic, even good old [...]
I noticed that the Cult of Mac converted another member this weekend. Floyd bought an iMac. He’d been pondering the jump for a while, and now, his love for Mac has leeched over into his work.
Full disclosure here, I’m a convert too. So is Dan. So are Paul, Rich and I assume Anthony, too. He [...]
Or is it just a matter of perspective?
This piece in Wired today seems like flamebait, and several bloggers have gladly obliged. The title alone begs you to clickthrough, i.e. “Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004″.
It reminded me of a conversation Paul and I had months ago; the short version was “does the conversation, [...]