The End of an Era…and the Beginning of Possibilities.

Today was Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft.  That simple statement of fact is really pretty incredible.  I realize that they are very different in what they did, but I cannot help but think of this as being similar to when Washington left the White House.  One cast off tyranny , bringing freedom to a [...]

Proximity to Ozone Hole Causes Space-Time Continuum Rift over Australia… iPhone Hysteria to Ensue

All the world is abuzz with the news of Apple releasing the iPhone 3G on July 11th. (Which, I may note is inconveniently before my July 15th payday) and apparently the fervor over the product in Australia has reached such monumental levels that the folks over News.com.au forgot the number of months in a year. [...]

How Much Is Your E-Mail Account Worth?

Apparently on Monday, Charter Communications was doing a sweep of customer email accounts to delete inactive accounts and managed to accidentally delete 14,000 active accounts as well.  The company says all the data contained in them is irretrievable and that is “sorry”….so they are giving all affected customers a $50 credit on their next bill.  [...]

Why We Fight: Writers’ Strike 2007

A cool intro video that explains why the Writers’ Guild is on strike! support the strike: www.unitedhollywood.com
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The Great Google Strikes Again

Over the past few days, the internet has been abuzz with the news about Google’s upcoming foray (or perhaps more accurately: retry) into the world of social networking.  It has promised to build 2-way APIs for multiple networks that will change the way users transfer their social data on the internet by allowing multi-site access [...]

Twitter Finally Gets a Grown-Up Design

Twitter has just launched a new site design, finally varying from its trademark sky-blue and cloudy background. One of the biggest criticisms of Twitter over the past few months has been that it seems to be having major growing pains, and since it got a nice chunk of VC money back in July, it [...]

Finally a Federal Shield That Might Work

Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Free Flow of Information Act, a journalist shield law that would protect professional journalists from prosecution should they refuse to reveal sources.  Ars Technica has a good analysis of the Act and its implications for the blogging world: at first glance, it appears that professional bloggers will also [...]

The Village Idiot

In case you haven’t seen the recent exchange between TechCrunch and some delusional pseudo-attorney, be sure to check it out and get a hearty laugh for the day.
Basically, some photographer took a picture of Ashton Kutcher and someone linked to it in a comment left on TechCrunch. Apparently, the photographer and her little crony [...]

Quick News: September 9th Edition

I was just drafting an email with the weekend’s social networking and political news, when I realized that I might as well post it…maybe it will become a regular thing, along with the Web Picks. We shall see, but for now, this is what happened this weekend across the internet:

Steve Forbes is predicting that [...]

Microsoft Genuine Advantage Has Gone AWOL

Ars Technica is reporting that Microsoft Genuine Advantage Validation Tool is experiencing worldwide outages and is invalidating installations all over the map. This has some serious consequences for Microsoft if it isn’t fixed soon: every piece of Microsoft software that you install on a Windows-PC has to be validated which means that anyone buying [...]