RSS

hakia: A Search Engine Without Cookies

That's right, hakia, a new "meaning-based" search engine, is cookieless. hakia's COO, Melek Pulatkonak, writes on the company's blog: "hakia.com does NOT place a cookie on your PC when you search at our site. We are the very first ...READ»

FastCompany.com, The Twitter Edition

Microblogging may be the next phase of online conversation. At least that's what people who are using Twitter and Jaiku believe. We're still unsure about its potential, but we've set up our own Twitter profile to join in the ...READ»

MySpace to Acquire Photobucket

Reports have been surfacing all week that MySpace would acquire photo-sharing giant Photobucket for as much as $300 million. Considering the issue of users being unable to utilize various third-party widgets on MySpace, including ...READ»

AOL: More Beta Blues?

Some Fast food for thought: One of my favorite Internet experts (and fellow FC'er) pointed out a striking similarity between AOL.com's new beta homepage and Yahoo's. It does seem to be a remarkable...homage. (Check out our friends ...READ»

Lone Rangers in Cyberspace: How Can we Protect Ourselves?

I've spent the last few days trying desperately to get into my hotmail account and being unable to do so. That irksome error message -- this page cannot be displayed -- is so exasperatingly embedded in my brain that I've caught the ...READ»

Inside "Inside Facebook"

One of the nice thing about being a magazine writer who also has access to a clean, well-lighted space on the internet, is that I get to resurrect some of tasty tidbits of reporting which get cut in the often brutal process of ...READ»

Facebook and Virginia Tech: A New Normal

In the hours, now days, following the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech, this blog, as well as numerous outlets, chronicled the role of Facebook and other online media sites in the lives of those affected. First, information about ...READ»

My Week on MySpace

Yesterday, I wrote a blog post about the safety of social networks. I would personally like to rescind that and talk about how I have since been violated by the lack of security on MySpace. While I am still a firm believer in ...READ»

Next Level DVD Bootlegging

Maybe I have the wrong idea about SSupload, a video sharing and uploading community made possible by EntertaimentScripts.com, a Web development company that creates advanced scripts for webmasters seeking to generate revenue from ...READ»

Facebook: We're Laughing With You. Mostly.

At some point a company or service gets so big that people make fun of it. (The public, not just family members.) Awareness in the form of pan-cultural parody is probably a good thing; it certainly marks a tipping point of relevance ...READ»

Syndicate content