Posts Tagged with ‘twitter’

Lately I’ve been noticing that the vast majority of newly-launched startups looked very much like something we have already seen before - but with great modifications that make the copy much better and usable than the original was. But unfortunately that does not really mean that the clone will ever be able to grab users [...]

Yesterday there was an interesting announcement from the team over at Facebook about a new option allowing users to make certain portions of their Facebook profiles available to everyone. Until now the privacy options for various types of information you populate your Facebook profile with included Only Friends, Friends of Friends, and My Networks and [...]

We all know the famous trends of web 2.0 like user-generated content or content syndication and we have grown to accept the internet as it is - along with all the strengths and weaknesses of the system. And of course as any medium internet can have both good and bad sides - and quite logically [...]

Do you remember all the recent buzz surrounding Amazon launching the second version of Kindle, its reading device? Of course when some new device is launched to the market accompanied with buzz like this, it will inevitably get attention from potential consumers and even those of us who don’t plan any expenses on new gadgets [...]

This afternoon I’ve spent a few minutes offline rebooting my machine after that. After the reboot I’ve had the Twhirl windows open, one of them with Twitter stream from my friends - and to my surprise it was populated with countless messages from my network about Gmail being down. A quick check proved that Gmail [...]

There’s quite an interesting Twitter hack discussed today - that of “Don’t click” links that suddenly arrived to multiple Twitter accounts from the people they follow. Basically the hack involved updating a user’s status with a link that, when clicked, brought a user to a site using the so-called clickjacking technique.
The technique is a known [...]

I just love the days when the web analytics service Compete makes its data for the previous month available to all of us as we get the chance to look into statistics of various websites we like to track for some reason and see how they are doing compared to their competitors. Since Compete is [...]

I believe no one will argue that once a person receives something as a gift, he or she will often be inclined to go online searching for additional information about this thing (especially if it is a gadget that requires some technical knowledge or instructions) or at least to share their joy of having this [...]

The issue of companies blocking access of their employees to certain websites has already been discussed a lot and normally I myself am of opinion that the company can determine what activities it is actually willing to pay its employees for - and browsing social networks or watching porn in the office may not really [...]