Archive for October, 2009

As everyone is obviously aware of by now, last week the world finally witnessed the public debut of the latest operating system from Microsoft, the glorious Windows 7. The newest OS has received tons of positive reviews and everyone seems to love it and people keep comparing it to Vista that is now considered to [...]

Today I’ve seen a rare piece of news in my feed reader: about one of the most popular online task management applications Remember The Milk graduating from beta 4 years after the team began its development. The example they quote is obvious: now that Gmail is finally out of beta (with so many people trusting [...]

We keep talking about how important it is for corporations to build social media presence everywhere they can and what advantages they should expect virtually immediately. But the problem is that sometimes the field of social media is simply beyond the control of people in the corporations – and the results can be unpredictable instead [...]

What do you pay attention to when you visit a profile of some new Twitter follower? I am quite sure you do notice the Twitter background and this is what sends you a certain message in addition to that in the bio and the latest updates. I myself have a few observations regarding what a [...]

Now it is not surprising that the entire blogosphere is abuzz over Microsoft’s Bing deal with Twitter and Facebook about adding real-time search in public Twitter feeds and Facebook status updates. Of course real-time search is supposed to be a hit these days and everyone somehow tends to think this is exactly what is supposed [...]

Today is the day marking the beginning of international expansion of Amazon Kindle e-book reader. Amazon sends products to various countries around the world but for some countries the list of available products is only limited to books and CDs or DVDs. Starting today Kindle is entered on the list of available gadgets for 100 [...]

Earlier today I’ve read a very interesting post on a Russian-language geeky blog community that has drawn my attention to the notion of SuperNodes in Skype – something I never cared to investigate in Skype. And the most important question that I now have is how users are supposed to pay for their free applications [...]

Exactly how many notifications arrive daily to that special folder in your inbox intended for bacn messages? Facebook birthday reminders and invitations, LinkedIn groups news, new followers from Twitter, some subscriptions from Google alerts – the list can probably continue for too many paragraphs for anyone to continue reading this post at all. The number [...]

Of course everyone seems to realize already that it is impossible to work on a Windows-based computer without having some antivirus and internet security solution installed and running – simply because the Microsoft’s operating systems do not happen to be actually safe and the number of vulnerabilities is enough for no one to be able [...]