dan tynan on Mar 19 2010 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Facebook, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, National insecurity, Privacy, Web 2.0, censorship, politics
Privacy is all over the news these days, including social networks, where it seems the Feds like to play.
dan tynan on Feb 12 2010 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, Privacy, Twit or Tweet, Web 2.0
If you work at Google, your ears are surely burning right now. Google’s introduction of its Buzz social media tool this week was possibly the most disastrous product debut in the company’s 12-year history.
Almost immediately Google Buzz got smacked around hard by the blogosphere and veteran journos for making it easy to access information [...]
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 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 23 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Web 2.0
Stop me if you’ve read this one before. Actually, stop me if you’ve read anything at all original on the Web over the last year. Odds are whatever you did read was copied or repeated from someone else, who took it from someone else, who took it… and so on and so on.
Is [...]
dan tynan on Dec 15 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Gadgets, Google, Infoworld, Web 2.0, iPhone
Google Phone mania has hit the Webberlands. If the rumors are to be believed, Google is on the verge of introducing its own handset called the Nexus One. It will be be built by HTC, use Android 2.x, be available for use with any US-based GSM network (like T-Mobile or AT&T’s), and be sold [...]
dan tynan on Dec 01 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Web 2.0
Dan Lyons, perhaps better known to residents of Cringeville as the evil genius behind the Fake Steve Jobs blog, has a curious piece in the current issue of Newsweek talking about the rivalry between Google and Microsoft.
It’s curious, because Lyons — who usually seems like a pretty sharp guy — doesn’t seem to [...]
dan tynan on Nov 23 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Deadpool, Google, Infoworld, Web 2.0
Is Microsoft planning a secret news cartel that will ace out Google? Are Steve Ballmer and Rupert Murdoch in cahoots? That’s the butt that’s been scuttling across the blogosphere this morning, as reports leak that Bing has offered to pay News Corp. actual cash dollars for exclusive rights to index its various properties (Wall [...]
dan tynan on Nov 20 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Da Web, Google, Infoworld, Steve Jobs, Web 2.0, iPhone
Apple Tablets? Google Phones? CrunchPads? Don’t expect to find any of those under the tree come Christmas. But that won’t stop people from writing about them.
dan tynan on Nov 19 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Web 2.0
I’ve come to the conclusion that the end of civilization as we know it is indeed upon us. And I blame Google.
Though all search engines are at fault, Google in particular is contributing the most to the dumbing down of the Web, which in turn leads to the dumbing down of everything else. Eventually [...]
dan tynan on Nov 02 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Facebook, Infoworld, Web 2.0
I’ve written a bit lately about how cyber thieves using social media to scam people. It turns out the most egregious scammers are many so-called “legitimate” companies that run deceptive ads on these networks.
TechCrunch has a fascinating series on how advertisers are using social games to trick Facebook and MySpace users into forking [...]
dan tynan on Oct 21 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Video, Web 2.0, Wired
Online content factory Demand Media has a new way to generate blogs and videos, using software and a network of human drones. Welcome to your Web nightmare.
dan tynan on Oct 21 2009 | Filed under: 15 minutes, Cringley, Infoworld, Web 2.0
Last week’s drama about 6-year-old Falcon Heene’s bogus balloon flight consumed the Net. When we narrow in on dramatic stories like this, we miss the bigger picture.
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 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 21 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Web 2.0, censorship
Model Liskula Cohen has forced Google to hand over the name of an anonymous blogger who slandered her. Is this the end of free speech on the Net?
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 01 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Web 2.0, politics
US citizens have a brand new tool to gauge how well their government is performing — at least, when it comes to IT. Cringely says it’s about time.
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?
