Riding the Google Wave

What is Google Wave? Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, [...]

The Amazing Power of “HTTP://”

Huh? What’s that? Or even “yeah, so what…” How many times in an email, Facebook, Twitter or other sites have you seen a web address like this: www.govisitmysite.com and the damn thing isn’t clickable? A little annoying, right? How many times have you copied and pasted the link? My guess… very few. By adding these [...]

Google Ads Free 411

Are you sick of paying for 411 calls on you cell phone? Google has released this great information service. Just another way for Google to integrate the great features they have to make our lives easier. To learn more about this great Google feature click here.

What Have You Been Watching on YouTube?

Hopefully you haven’t been doing anything on YouTube that you don’t want a federal court to find out… In it’s ongoing legal battle Viacom over copyright, a judge has ordered that Google must do the unthinkable… Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and [...]

Ning and the Art of the Viral Spiral

There is a great article in the new Fast Company Magazine all about the do it yourself social network “”Ning”. The article begins by letting us in on a little secret: Here’s something you probably don’t know about the Internet: Simply by designing your product the right way, you can build a billion-dollar business from [...]

The Perfect Blogger Tutorial

I have had a running argument on one of the popular search engine optimization and blogging forums about whether or not Google favors posts in its Blogger blog platform in search engine results. Now, that’s neither here nor there, what I’m going to talk about today is just how damn cool Google really is. Did [...]

The “Greening” of Google

In March 2007, Google announce that they were “going greener”.  In his Ars Technica blog post, Nate Anderson wrote on March 29, 2007: Google’s commitment to “green” means that the company sources carpet and sofas made without PVC, paints without volatile organic compounds, and cafeteria food from local growers. It’s not surprising, then, that they [...]

Facebook: “We Have Not Been Briefed On OpenSocial”

Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle. Oh really. . . MySpace and Six Apart will announce that they are joining Google’s OpenSocial initiative. Silicon Alley Insider reported the MySpace rumor earlier today. We’ve confirmed that from an independent source, as well as the fact [...]

1st OpenSocial App Gets Hacked Within 45 Minutes of Going Live!

Part of me loves a renegade until they hack into my servers and create an email bomb. . . bastards. Just ran across this great blog: Tech Crunch and a great article written by Michael Arrington Today there is a story about a developer who goes by the alias “theharmonyguy” and describes himself as “just [...]