Microsoft is releasing Windows 8 on October 26th 2012. What does this mean for the state of the web? According to Mozilla and Google, Microsoft is bringing the web back to the digital dark ages when there was only Internet Explorer available on the windows platform. Microsoft is blocking API access to other applications, sound […]
This post was inspired by pure anger. I can admit it! As a web marketing consultant I spend a lot of time following the latest social media trends, because it’s my business to do so. However, Facebook tricks even ME into posting things publicly and it’s a big issue. Recently I went to upload an […]
Update: GoDaddy has completed the outage investigation with the following statement: “The service outage was not caused by external influences. It was not a “hack” and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS). We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables. […]
San Francisco is a hotbed of tech development and activity. I continue to be impressed with the conferences I attend here, they are so very geeky and that is something I enjoy. MobileAppCon 2012 was a small conference, but a good one. My favorite speakers were: Sam Shank – Hotel Tonight Ron Conway – SV […]
We’ve all seen the headlines, whether it’s Google paying record fines or Facebook making our personal data up for grabs. Every day there is some sort of threat to our online privacy. While I believe our notion of privacy will continue to evolve over time, there are a few free ways to protect yourself online. […]
Farmville, Mafia Wars and Dream Heights are just a few of the successes social gaming powerhouse Zynga has produced. With success, controversy is never far behind. No stranger to controversy Zynga has been sued for patent infringement and accused of cloning competitors games by the developers of Tiny Tower. These past events pale in contrast […]
This is our second blog on Yahoo in a week, which is kind of odd yet zesty to me. I’m happy that we are entertaining thoughts about the growth of a company that many wrote off, a la myspace. For the record, I have not written Yahoo off and do not plan to. Despite the […]
Online web security is a hot issue in 2012, Yahoo was reminded of this today after suffering a MySQL injection attack resulting in the publishing of 453,492 usernames and passwords. A group called D33DS Company has taken responsibility for the hack and leak of user information. Its speculated that Yahoo! Voice service was the main target of the attack, formally known as Associated […]
Apple and Samsung are mobile’s largest and most prominent companies. They both dominate the landscape heavily. Apple Inc., previously helmed by the innovator and businessman Steve Jobs, was the force behind highly iconic gadgets such as the iPod mp3 player, the iPhone, iPad and MacBook notebook computers. The South Korean Samsung Electronics, on the other […]
We see it in the news more and more every day. Companies and individuals are getting attacked online. There are entire websites and public service announcements dedicated to stopping cyberbullies. There is no shortage of weirdos in the world. If you’re attacked online it’s natural to want to react to this type of behavior, but […]