dan tynan on Feb 11 2010 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Da Web, Google, Infoworld, Privacy, Twit or Tweet, Web 2.0
I wake up each morning with the same mix of hope and dread. I hope Google will buy me for a princely sum and allow me to retire to some sandy beach where they serve mojitos 24/7. And I fear Google will simply invent a better version of me, forcing me to get a [...]
dan tynan on Jan 18 2010 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Da Web, Facebook, Google, Infoworld, National insecurity, Privacy, censorship, politics
So far, 2010 has started off with a bang. Google decides to take on Apple in the ultra-smart phone market, while Apple appears on the verge of creating yet another new market for touchscreen tablet PCs. Google says "bite me" to China, after Chinese cyber-attackers target it and three dozen other tech firms. Yahoo [...]
dan tynan on Dec 31 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Apple, Cringley, Da Web, Facebook, Future Tech, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, Twit or Tweet, Web 2.0, amazon, youtube
It’s kind of hard to believe the first decade of the third millennium is almost over. Seems like only yesterday we were pulling out our hair worrying about Y2K; now we worry about whether enough total strangers are following the minutiae of our lives on Twitter and Facebook.
The last ten years have been dominated [...]
dan tynan on Dec 07 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Da Web
Child porn is the third rail of the Internet: Come anywhere near that topic and you’re very likely to get jolted. As with terrorism, many otherwise rational people lose all reason when it comes to this topic. Question the tactics of those who oppose it, and you may be misconstrued as supporting it.
So, [...]
dan tynan on Oct 23 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
As operating system launches go, Windows 7 has been a pretty sweet one for Microsoft. The reviews are mostly thumbs up. And aside from some unintentionally hilarious videos promoting Windows 7 launch parties, they’ve mostly done things right.
Today, the Microsoft site is featuring a running series of tweets praising the new OS (though [...]
dan tynan on Oct 09 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, Web 2.0, yahoo
Richard Koman at ZDnet published a blog post late last night that amply demonstrates nearly everything that’s right and wrong about Web journalism.
Using information he received from an Iranian blogger, Koman accused Yahoo of handing over the account information for 200,000 Iranian bloggers to the country’s authorities– an act not unlike handing a list [...]
dan tynan on Oct 07 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, amazon
Bad news, freebie bloggers. The FTC is coming down on you like a tray of dishes. And not just bloggers, but anyone who uses social media. If you receive money or something for free and you blog, Tweet, write up a positive review on Amazon, or share something nice about it with your 4,987 closest [...]
dan tynan on Oct 02 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Facebook, Infoworld, Twit or Tweet
More headlines today about the seething dark underbelly of the Web creeping up to slime you and your friends.
According to security company AVG, somebody pwned Facebook’s CAPTCHA anti-bot mechanism yesterday, either by cracking the code or (more likely) hiring a team of human drones for a few pennies apiece to decode the squiggly letters. They [...]
dan tynan on Aug 24 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, 15 minutes, Cringley, Infoworld, Privacy, Web 2.0
Have a supermodel and an angry blogger just killed anonymity dead the Internet? Is Google to blame? And does Cringely hate women? Readers share their thoughts.
dan tynan on Aug 17 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, Twit or Tweet, Web 2.0
To hear some people tell it, social sites like Facebook and Twitter are on the wane. Cringely thinks they’re only just getting started.
dan tynan on Aug 07 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, Web 2.0, politics
The DDOS attack on Twitter shows not only how vulnerable the microblog is, but also how dependent we’ve become on it. That’s a dangerous combination.
dan tynan on Jul 27 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld
When a multibillion-dollar telecom giant and the Internet’s most notorious pranksters square off, who will win? Cringe handicaps the battle between AT&T and 4chan.
dan tynan on Jun 17 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, Web 2.0
Web-based decision-making tools like Bing and Hunch are suddenly all the rage. Whatever happened to making up our own minds?
dan tynan on Jun 12 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Facebook, Infoworld, Twit or Tweet, Web 2.0
News that Facebook will be passing out ‘vanity URLs’ this weekend has the blogosphere’s collective boxers in a bunch. Does having your ‘real’ name on your Facebook or Twitter page really matter to anyone with an actual life?
dan tynan on Jun 01 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, Web 2.0
The world’s most popular encyclopedia just banned an entire church from editing it. But why stop there?
dan tynan on May 27 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Twit or Tweet, Web 2.0
Yes, you heard right: Somebody in Hollywood is cooking up a TV show based on Twitter. The Apocalypse is indeed upon us.
dan tynan on May 26 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft
Microsoft is about to unveil yet another attempt to beat Google at the All Things D conference. Please reserve your smirking until after Mr. Ballmer has finished his presentation. Thank you.
dan tynan on May 22 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, Privacy, politics
The battle between craigslist and state attorneys general over adult ads is getting whackier by the minute. Pull up a seat and grab some popcorn.
dan tynan on May 14 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, Privacy, Web 2.0
NPR is in hot water after censoring a movie review that named allegedly gay politicians. So why is it OK to call people alleged murderers, but not homosexuals?
dan tynan on May 11 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Facebook, Infoworld, amazon, censorship
Should Facebook deny Holocaust deniers on its site? Where should the lines be drawn? It’s a question with no easy answer.
