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 06 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Gadgets, Infoworld, Microsoft
You can’t stumble around the Internet these days without bumping into it. News, rumor, speculation, and hot gossip about — no, not David Letterman’s love life (who knew he had one?) or the Jon and Kate Gosselin train wreck — but Tablet PCs.
Yes, over the last year the PC’s buck-toothed, developmentally challenged second [...]
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.
dan tynan on May 05 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Twit or Tweet
Rumors can spread like tumors on the Web. Mostly they’ve been benign, but malignant ones may soon be coming.
dan tynan on Jan 30 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Web 2.0
Michael Arrington’s sudden hiatus from TechCrunch belies a bigger problem on the ’social’ web: it’s getting more and more anti-social. Even Cringe is feeling the effects.
dan tynan on Aug 13 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Web 2.0
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
Big trade shows like CES (and in the paleolithic era, Comdex) may have all the glitz, glamour, and booth bimbos, but the real action happens in the smaller confabs where the elite meet and greet. That’s where the next Googles and Facebooks will emerge.
For [...]
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 [...]
