How to Hulu

I’ve been talking about Hulu to a lot of people lately…after being initially critical, I have come to love it. It has allowed me to watch the entire season of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (may it rest in peace) and every episode of Arrested Development. So in my mind, Hulu is [...]

Why Southwest Airlines has a Better Blog Than Your Company and What to Do About It

Corporations in the realm of social media have been met with both skepticism and open arms because their approaches have varied from press release posting boards (they called them blogs) to truly engaging community empowerment initiatives. One of the companies that I have come across that has really gotten a firm grasp on the world [...]

A Plain-English Guide to the Facebook Terms of Use

NOTE: Due to a server crash in mid 2008, the screenshots associated with this post are no longer available, however the text still does a good job of covering the Terms of Service.  I will be writing an updated post in the near future.  Sorry for the inconvenience. -ac
Over the past few days there has [...]

December 20th Web Picks

Well the trend since the beginning of school is that my blogging has decreased in frequency…so it seems the my Web Picks is becoming more of a monthly occurrence…so for the future, I’m just going to plan on getting in the groove of irregularly timed Web Pick lists that happen to be about a month [...]

Hulu Beta Review (beta)

This is actually just a test post…I just got an invite to the Hulu private beta and I’m fiddling with the site. First impressions are good…it has a great UI and flows really well once you get in…the site runs really slowly through the signup and login process, but hopefully that is temporary. [...]

NBC Falls Waaaay Off the Bandwagon

Over the last couple of months, NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker has had a rather public spat with Apple as his company has pulled out of iTunes because apparently Steve wouldn’t let NBC price gouge its consumers for episodes of shows like Heroes and Biggest Loser…so Jeff decided to take the ball and go home. [...]

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 [...]

Del.icio.us Gets Ready to Grow Up

Yesterday, the social bookmarking website del.icio.us launched an invite-only preview of its upcoming facelift that will take this excellent site into 2.0-land. Currently del.icio.us is my favorite site to use to share links: it makes a good RSS feed, it styles well in my blog, and it’s built-in browser add-on makes this one of the [...]

September 4th Web Picks

Well, after quite the weekend in Las Vegas and the recovery period that followed, I’ve managed to stop planning my return trip long enough to compile this edition of Web Picks. A couple of good sites plus a facebook application and a Google Earth ‘easter egg‘ round out this week’s list:

Natuba is a social [...]