dan tynan on Nov 14 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Facebook, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft
Is Verizon dumping Google? Can Microsoft compete face to face with Facebook? If we can put a man on the moon, why not Joe the Plumber? Cringely has answers to all these silly questions.
dan tynan on Oct 23 2008 | Filed under: PC World, Spamarama
This post originally appeared on PCworld.com.
As more and more spammers are arrested, prosecuted, and sued under state and federal antispam statutes, there’s one thing you can count on: Someone somewhere will invariably call the targeted spammer a “spam king.”
It seems the bulk e-mail industry has more kings than a pinochle deck. But who is really [...]
dan tynan on Oct 01 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Geekishness, Web 2.0
Think you know how to mind your manners in the brave new world of social networks? You may be in for a rude awakening.
[Note: A severely neutered version of this story appears on Macworld.com. Call that version “Copyeditors Gone Wild.” Here's what this story was supposed to look like.]
Etiquette used to be easy. As [...]
dan tynan on Sep 18 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Facebook, Foolishness, PC World, Privacy, Web 2.0
What’s a Halloween costume cost? For college junior Joshua Lipton, it was two years of his life. In October 2006, the Bryant University student was charged with drunk driving after causing a three-car crash that left one Providence woman in critical condition. Two weeks later he showed up for a Halloween party dressed as [...]
dan tynan on Sep 17 2008 | Filed under: Google, Web 2.0, yahoo
Do search terms really indicate what Americans are thinking? It all depends if you believe Americans are actually thinking. Cringely has more.
dan tynan on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, PC World, Privacy, Web 2.0
Now that an ex-beauty queen is running for the VP slot, life may be easier for hot mommas who also happen to be office holders. It will be too late to help Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, though. The former mayor of Arlington, Oregon, got in hot water with her constituents after a family member posted photos [...]
dan tynan on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Da Web, Foolishness, Lists, PC World, Privacy, Video, Web 2.0, youtube
It’s bad enough to dress up like you’re about to slip a dollar under some toothless child’s pillow. But former intern Kevin Colvin made it much worse by asking his boss at Anglo Irish Bank if he could take time off for a “family emergency in New York,” then flitting off to a Halloween party [...]
dan tynan on Aug 05 2008 | Filed under: US Airways Magazine, Web 2.0
Micro-blogs offer new ways to reach out and touch—140 characters at a time
(This post originally appeared in the August issue of US Airways Magazine.)
When American photojournalist James Buck was taken into custody by Egyptian security forces last April, he didn’t call his lawyer, the US embassy, or his mother. He whipped out his cell phone [...]
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 May 29 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Facebook, Google, Infoworld, Quizzes, Web 2.0, yahoo, youtube
(Note: An edited/augmented version of this piece appeared on Infoworld.com.)
Sure, you may know all about the garage where Apple was born, Michael Dell’s dorm room, or Bill Gates’ youthful indiscretions. But that’s all so 1997. The old guard of the PC revolution are giving way to the young Web 2.0 turks redefining technology for [...]
dan tynan on May 27 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Infoworld, Quizzes
Is Microsoft-Yahoo truly dead? Why did CBS buy CNET? How much would you pay for a letter from a dead genius? And what is Carl Icahn’s problem anyway? The answers to these questions and more are found in this week’s quiz — provided you choose wisely. Correct responses are worth 10 points a shot. Ready? [...]
dan tynan on May 20 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Facebook, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
Don’t look now, but there’s a secret cabal at work conspiring to lock you out of the public Internet. That, at least, is the hyperventilated opinion of Robert Scoble, who not so long ago was just another Microsoft employee with a blog and now is [...]
dan tynan on Apr 21 2008 | Filed under: 15 minutes, Da Web, Facebook, Families, Foolishness, Life, Web 2.0
by Dan Tynan
When word got out that my wife and I were splitting up, I received several emails from long-time friends who knew us back when we were both skinny–err, dating.
“I am a little heartbroken about your current relationship status,” wrote one.
“What’s with the single status? Are you guys splitsky? That’s so wrong and sad,” [...]
dan tynan on Apr 01 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Facebook, Foolishness, Google
$25 billion deal combines two Web powerhouses
by Dan Tynan
In a move that stunned Silicon Valley watchers, Google announced it is purchasing popular social network Facebook in a cash and stock deal valued at $25 billion.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg held a hastily arranged press conference where they outlined the key [...]
