Tag Archive 'Google'
dan tynan on Nov 26 2008 | Filed under: 15 minutes, Apple, Computerworld, Culture Crash, Da Web, Facebook, Google, Lists, Microsoft, Steve Jobs, Web 2.0, politics, yahoo, youtube
What do retired billionaires, supermodels, search engines, supervillains, energy drinks, whacked-out actors and fried breakfast pastries have in common? They’re some of the things I’m thankful for this year.
If I’m conscious, I’m usually complaining about something. But because it’s almost Thanksgiving I’ve decided to list some of the things I’m grateful for, in and [...]
dan tynan on Nov 25 2008 | Filed under: Computerworld, Culture Crash, Geekishness, Google, Web 2.0
Part Deux of my ‘letters to inanimate software series’ continues with this missive to Gmail, responding to the dozens of commenters on Digg and Culture Crash beat me up over this.
Dear Gmail:
I know, I know. You’re totally cheesed off about me calling you a "train wreck" the other day. I admit that was [...]
dan tynan on Nov 23 2008 | Filed under: Computerworld, Culture Crash, Da Web, Geekishness, Google, Web 2.0
She was the new girl in town for a while, but Google Chrome has lost her shine. Sorry Chrome: You’ve been swell, but I’m going back to my old flame, Firefox.
Dear Firefox:
When we met three years ago, I thought: This is it, the browser I’ve been waiting for. I’ve found my life partner. So [...]
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 Nov 07 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, yahoo
Thanks to the DOJ, Google has backed out of its partnership with Yahoo — leaving the #2 search company dangling helplessly over the jaws of Microsoft. Can it survive?
dan tynan on Oct 22 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld
Who does the high tech world want to be our next president? How about a dark horse candidate with no skeletons in his closet and a clear tech agenda? Read on to find out who Cringely’s voting for this year.
dan tynan on Oct 15 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld
Google’s ad programs have made it possible for thousands of small businesses to a make a go of it in the Net economy. Get on Google’s bad side, though, and it’s like waking up a hibernating grizzly bear – you’ll be lucky to escape with all your limbs intact.
Mac developer M. P. found this [...]
dan tynan on Oct 10 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, Video, youtube
Politics is infecting everything these days, from YouTube to email to, yes, Cringely’s blog. Thank god Microsoft and Google finally decided to get along. Right?
dan tynan on Sep 15 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Privacy, Web 2.0
Google has magnamimously decided to halve the time it holds onto your IP address — or has it? There is less to Google’s latest privacy moves than meets the eye.
dan tynan on Sep 08 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld
It hardly seems possible that Google is now a tween. But it’s true: ten years ago, on September 7, 1998, Google Inc. was born.
Back then there were a dozen ways to search the Web — Excite, Lycos, Alta Vista, Hotwire, Yahoo, etc. — none of them particularly good. I would go from one to [...]
dan tynan on Sep 03 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Google, Microsoft, Web 2.0
It’s all Chrome, all the time, here on the InterWeb. Does Google’s browser beta live up to the hype? Well, yes and no. Cringely has more.
dan tynan on Sep 02 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Google, Identity Theft, Microsoft, Web 2.0
Services like Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault are the best thing to hit medicine since the oral thermometer
I hate clipboards. Not all clipboards, mind you, just the ones I’m invariably handed every time I go to a new doctor’s office. If I have to fill out one more paper form listing my name, address, and [...]
dan tynan on Jul 28 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Gadgets, Geekishness, Google, Web 2.0
You know your product is gonna have problems from the get go when you have to constantly explain how its name is pronounced. Cuil (pronounced “cool”) is a new search engine, the brainchild of ex-Googlehead Anna Paterson, her husand Tom Costello, and assorted other people with more gray matter than sense (apparently).
I know, I know: [...]
dan tynan on Jul 25 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, yahoo
Our long national nightmare is over — or so it would seem. After Yahoo gave Carl Icahn a seat at its table, Microsoft walked away, allegedly for good. Is truly the end of MicroHoo? Cringely has his doubts.
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 16 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, yahoo
It’s BratFest 2008. As Microsoft, Yahoo, and Carl Icahn squabble like schoolchildren over who called the other one “stinky,” Cringely longs for some adult supervision. Can’t Google do something to make them stop?
dan tynan on Jul 09 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Privacy, Video, youtube
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
So a New York judge last week ordered Google to hand over 12 terabytes of YouTube user information to Viacom. Yes, we know what you watched last summer, or at least Viacom’s attorneys soon will.
The owners of Comedy Central and VH1 are attempting to [...]
dan tynan on Jun 14 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Google, Microsoft, yahoo
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
It’s over, finito, kaput. The fat lady hasn’t merely stopped singing, she’s taken off her girdle and waddled home. There are now so many forks stuck into the Microsoft Yahoo deal that it looks like a cutlery display.
This time its really really really really [...]
dan tynan on Jun 13 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Google, Microsoft, yahoo
Personally, I’m not convinced that this whole thing is truly over. But is Yahoo’s partnership with Google better than its partial or complete takeover by Microsoft? Take this BuzzDash poll and tell the world.
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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 [...]
