dan tynan on Mar 18 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
A judge enters a courtroom.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you are hereby instructed to ignore all technological innovations of the past 25 years. In fact, ignore everything newer than the rotary phone. No, wait, make that the telegraph. Or the printing press. Scrolls and parchment? We hereby ban goose quills. Do any of [...]
dan tynan on Nov 12 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Are journalists to blame for Vista’s failure to catch on? Will Windows 7 suffer a similar fate? Cringely tosses more gasoline on the OS fire.
dan tynan on Nov 06 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Barack Obama’s national campaign used technology better than any in history. Can they drag the rest of Washington, DC — and the nation — kicking and screaming into the Web 2.0 century? Culture Crash blogger Dan Tynan has some thoughts…read more | digg story
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dan tynan on Oct 10 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
The world’s financial markets may be collapsing, but technology lives on — for the moment, anyway. This week the feds arrested a suspect in the Sarah Palin e-mail hacking case, and both Steve Jobs and Windows XP got yet another lease on life. Also: new e-books, virtual worlds, and some truly wacky science. Are you [...]
dan tynan on Sep 08 2008 | Filed under: Geekishness, Uncategorized, Web 2.0
And it starts with something resembling Blue Man Group — bunch of folks in black in totally dark room waving red and green lightsticks around. Where’s the cigar chomping comic and the showgirls?
8:42 am
OK, the Michael Arrington joke count has begun. Chris Shipley starts it off with an oblique reference to West Side Story and [...]
dan tynan on Aug 02 2008 | Filed under: 15 minutes, Shameless self promotion, Uncategorized
Harry McCracken (aka Technologizer) did a great podcast with the folks over at MyMac Magazine the other day. And what’s so great about it? Because he names me as one of his favorite tech writers, that’s why. And I didn’t even have to pay him (though the check is now in the mail).
The money quote [...]
dan tynan on Jul 31 2008 | Filed under: Infoworld, Life, Uncategorized
Ed Foster’s passing is a loss for all of us, inside tech journalist and out. He was one of the rare ones.
dan tynan on Jul 24 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
…coming at you, feeling free. What do Twitter and Pepsi have in common? Not a theme song, that’s for sure. But something generational for sure — less to do with age and more to do with Web 2.0ishness.
Anyway, if you’ve run out of people to tweet, Pro Blogger Darren Rowse has a list of 538 [...]
dan tynan on Jul 21 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
OK, readers of T.O.T. may have no interest in this, but: I am stupidly pleased by two little bits of link love that were bestowed upon this blog recently.
The first is Jon Newton at P2Pnet ’syndicating’ yet another of these posts (originally written for Infoworld.com) called “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide” (except for me and [...]
dan tynan on Jul 20 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Is Microsoft about to swallow AOL, or is this just another feint in the endless struggle to conquer Yahoo and achieve mediocrity in the search marketplace? Cringely has a few ideas, as well as some key questions for all you Microsoft fans out there.
dan tynan on Jul 18 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Some companies talk about being innovative, others actually do it. So I’m talking a poll. Which company do you think has done the most to push technology in interesting directions, or change how we use tech (computers, cell phones, the Internet) in our daily lives? If these four choices aren’t one of your picks, please [...]
dan tynan on Jul 14 2008 | Filed under: Apple, Quizzes, Uncategorized, iPhone
So the iPhone 2.0 has finally arrived last Friday, and what a friggin’ disaster it was. Apple’s servers were totally overwhelmed with traffic from people trying to activate their new phones, as well as those trying to download software from the iTunes AppStore and upgrade their iPhone 1.0 firmware. A total screaming c******f**k ensued, which [...]
dan tynan on Jun 27 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
(A slightly different version of this post originally appeared on Infoworld.com.)
Pity the innovators — always hounded by the jealous hordes who clamor for a sliver of their success. And so it goes with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, though exactly who’s the innovator in this scenario is a matter of some debate.
Zuckerberg is being sued [...]
dan tynan on Jun 07 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Geekishness, Lists, PC World, Uncategorized
Running a virtual business is easier (and cheaper) than ever, if you have the right tools
(An edited version of this story originally appeared on PCworld.com.)
by Dan Tynan
When it comes to running a business, our feet are firmly on the ground but our data and software are increasingly in the cloud. At our burgeoning media empire [...]
dan tynan on May 20 2008 | Filed under: Apple, Da Web, Infoworld, Microsoft, Music, Quizzes, Steve Jobs, Uncategorized
Windows holes, Google food, aging tunesmiths, cranky billionaires, Tony Soprano, and — yes — the ghost of MicroHoo dominate this week’s quiz. Are you ready to demonstrate your geek street cred? Give yourself 10 points for correct answers and bupkis for everything else. Ready? Then let’s rock and roll.
– Dan Tynan
1. Australian security researchers have [...]
