Tech Week In Review 8-14-09

Is Facebook Destroying Our Relationships? As if we didn't have enough relationship problems, looks like Facebook causes you even more grief. According to a recent study, many of us just seem to act a little stalkerish online. The four main causes for this jealousy?

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FriendBook? FaceFeed? Facebook Aquires FriendFeed

In a surprise announcement to many FriendFeed users, Facebook has aquired FriendFeed. Many FF users are absolutely devastated. FriendFeed provided somewhat of a middle-ground between Twitter’s absolute bare-bones status updates and Facebook’s full-on walled-garden social network. While most Facebook users will be completely indifferent to this announcement, FriendFeed users  have mixed feelings. Ex-Googlers Paul Bucheit, [...]

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Tech Week in Review 8-6-09

This week, Google launched a new ad campaign that is aimed at pushing IT managers to switch to Google Apps. The billboards will run for a month and will be changed every day, updated with new information on the advantages of Google Apps. Google is going hard at Microsoft, linking to the Apps at Work website, which says:

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Tech Week in Review 7-31-09

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mentioned to CNN that Twitter is banned on most Whitehouse computers. This is normal for many companies to do, but with the way this admininstration has been using social media as a powerful to reach the people, it seems pretty silly. Later reports showed that there are some computers authorized for Twitter and that group may be expanded. I'm not sure any of this matters as those who intend to use Twitter will just access it via their mobile phones.

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Google No. 1 Website In June, But Watch Out For Bing

Who's No. 1 in website traffic? No surprise -- its that 800-pound gorilla, Google, according to Compete.com. Google, with nearly 146 million unique visits, ranked No. 1 in June in the Compete 250, the company's monthly ranking of the top 250 websites. Yahoo! was second with 142 million visits and Facebook was third with 122 million.

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Tech Week in Review 7-24-09

Google just announced a new Gmail feature which makes it simple to unsubscribe from trusted mailing lists. Sometimes, we subscribe to things and later decide it's too much or not valuable. Rather than hunting around for that tiny unsubscribe link, Gmail let's unsubscribe by hitting Report Spam. Even if it's not really spam, you can access the same option in the Details menu. This only works on certain trusted mailing lists and requires participation from the owner of the list.

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Fonera 2.0n: “TIVO for your Laptop”

Let’s face it. When you think of sexy, exicting tech the wireless router rarely if ever makes the list. Even though it resides in many of our households, giving us access to a world of funny videos, breaking news, and social networking that we greedily consume, the router sits gathering dust — an unsung gadget [...]

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Tech Week in Review – 7/10/09

Google Apps Finally Out of  Beta Google has probably been the longest running joke regarding apps being in beta forever, but budding geek comedians will now have to find someone else to pick on because Google has dropped the beta label from it’s Google Apps set of applications. These include Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google [...]

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CNN and Facebook Present Live Coverage of Michael Jackson Memorial Service

CNN.com and Facebook will present live coverage of Michael Jackson: The Memorial, Tuesday July 7, beginning at noon ET.

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Tech Week In Review for July 3rd

FriendFeed Adds 3 New Features I don’t know how those FriendFeed guys do it, but it seems like they add a new feature every other day. Here is what they’ve added recently: Real-time Search – We all know FriendFeed operates in real-time. New items slide up to the top of the page right before your eyes. It’s [...]

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