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Honoring fallen comrades. GeoCities goes down.

3:28 pm PDT • October 26, 2009

Today marks the death of an internet giant. One of the first, one of the best. Oh GeoCities. What would we have done without you? Where would we have put…

Today we are trusting the web with our most personal and important data, from private photos and social graphs to finances and key work documents. Our hesitation to share such…

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1% of web users using Linux

1:40 pm PDT • May 4, 2009

Linux users, rejoice! We’ve been a minority for a long time, but we’re slowing gaining more and more traction in the world. Word is that in the last twelve months,…

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The mobile web sucks

2:20 pm PST • February 17, 2009

I was so excited when I got my first Palm Treo: I’d be able to browse the Internet from anywhere! That happy moment was soon shattered by the realization that…

Shocking news, everyone! Age plays a factor in how we figure out web site navigation! According to a new study in the journal Psychology & Marketing, younger kids do better…

A couple days ago we received a press release for a new service named CallingAmerica, which permits you to make free VoIP calls to U.S. phone numbers using only your…

http://www.viddler.com/player/ef68075d/ Nokia is working hard to merge mobile phones with mobile computing, making it easier to access and use of the full suite of Internet resources from a variety of…

[photopress:feb08web.jpg,full,center] Newly released Net Applications numbers show the iPhone at the fourth most used Web browsing platform out there. Windows leads the pack with more than 91 percent of the…

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Google sending a drink down the bar to Yahoo?

9:19 am PST • February 4, 2008

Yahoo’s had no shortage of handsome suitors lately. While Google may not want to explicitly purchase Yahoo, it has offered “an alliance as an alternative to Microsoft’s bid,” according to…

[photopress:riseofweblowres.jpg,full,center] I wish I were kidding, but this half-page of notes (higher res version here) cost me around $500 yesterday. I’m taking a class called Rise of the Web taught…

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Korean Web junkies get sent to boot camp

1:16 pm PST • November 18, 2007

South Korea can boast that it’s the most wired nation in the world, but that sort of accolade comes at an expense. You now have a country full of Net…

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Your N95 will help you quit smoking

11:00 am PDT • October 12, 2007

Or that’s what Internet startups and Denver, CO is betting. According to Jodi Kopke, a media director at Colorado’s State Tobacco Education and Prevention Partnership (STEPP), acting immediately is key…

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DirecTV To Offer Internet Over Power Lines

9:22 am PDT • August 15, 2007

Not a lot of info here, but the WSJ is reporting that DirecTV will FINALLY start offering broadband Internet access via power line distribution. The service is possible through a…

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Digg PC: The Ultimate Fanboy Case Mod

12:57 pm PDT • June 22, 2007

We know you love finding great tech news and reading insightful comments on the web, so we can venture a guess you’re already familiar with Digg. If you wanted to…

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Google Gears Discovered

10:25 pm PDT • May 30, 2007

This evening, I came home and loaded up Drudge Report. I found an interesting article on Google and how they’re about to challenge Microsoft even farther with offline web applications.…

Open source is all well and good, but what should happen to all the money that’s generated in its creation? A very good question, and one the New York Times…

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Terrorist Blows Up Internet Cafe In Morocco

8:10 am PDT • March 12, 2007

I suppose I can somewhat understand the tactic of blowing one’s self up in a place like Iraq, but an Internet cafe in Morocco? Some nutball terrorist was trying to…

So without major announcements or anything of that sort, YouTube decided it’d spruce up its site a bit. One of the major new features is an ability called Quick Capture.…

I’m really sick of advertising companies and the brands they represent crying over the lost revenues from TV viewers skipping over commercials with their DVRs and/or TiVos. While it’s true…