Abstracting hardware: obsolescence obsolete (with OnLive)
Most everyone has heard the news of OnLive, the new cloud-based computer gaming platform. I’m not here to regurgitate that for you. Instead, I intend to give it some context. Cloud computing is all the rage right now. With netbooks…
The Facebook TOS controversy
Facebook recently updated their terms of service to include language which made users of the service a little uncomfortable. The new terms gave Facebook “perpetual worldwide license” to any content shared on the service. There was an outcry from the…
Caps return us to the days of limited Internet access
ISPs everywhere are making it known that they do not intend for Internet access to be unlimited. It was a popular marketing term in the days of time-limited Internet access. Everyone has seen the old AOL disks and CDs that…
Create rich Gmail signatures in Firefox with Blank Canvas
Blank Canvas is a FireFox extension which allows you to create HTML signatures for automatic inclusion in your outgoing mail from Gmail. Gmail has offered signatures for some time, but they are plain text only. This means no images, no…
Facebook emulates FriendFeed, adds “Like” feature
Facebook has taken a page from FriendFeed‘s book and added a “Like” feature. Now, if you, like, “Like” a, like, post on Facebook, you can, like, “Like” it by, like, clicking on the “Like” link. Facebook looks to like… if…
Google Chrome getting extensions soonish
I really love Google’s Chrome browser, but it really seems to lack polish in some areas like RSS support and platform support (Mac, please). It’s true that many browsers lack support for extensions, but I have been spoiled by Firefox….
Digg founder and CEO address problem of “power users”
Digg.com is an excellent resource for the hottest content on the web. In recent weeks, there has been something of a backlash amongst the Digg community over a major problem many users perceive: “power users” gaming the system. Digg allows…
Google Reader adds comments for sharing
This is a big deal for social web addicts. One of the first articles posted to this site was about the inadequacies of Google Reader as a sharing platform when compared to FriendFeed. Yesterday, one of FriendFeed‘s advantages over Google’s…