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- B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary
- In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- 10 Windows XP services you should never disable
- You guys are pitiful. DNS clientOnly deals with cacheing. This below is from XP's description of the DNS client. This is why bloggers suck as journalists. You are a joke and never do your homework. The DNS Client service dnscache caches Domain Name System DNS names and registers the full...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Dead-Finger Tech: Google Maps
- You may have noticed the term "Dead-Finger Tech" floating around the ZDNet blogs recently. No, we're not talking about zombies. The term refers to a piece of technology that you can't live without -- the one that if it were to break, or you were to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Microsoft: Plotting an acquisition or joint venture?
- Microsoft last week registered a limited liability company LLC in Delaware stoking speculation that it is planning an acquisition or joint venture. If true Microsoft may be planning a little bit more than a demo of its search engine and a big ad campaign to promote it. ...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- LinkTrigger 2.3.2.4047 (Windows)
- Similar to a remote control for your TV, LinkTrigger is a desktop clicker that gives you convenient access to Web sites and files on your computer. It hovers to the edge of your desktop screen, and, different from toolbars, lets you have more viewing space of your Web browser. Use...
- Software downloads 2009-05-13
- Easily spam Twitter with trending topics API
- Easily spam Twitter with trending topics APIExcellent Article!Twitter is like a breath of fresh air on the Social Media scene. I have been on it for just a few weeks now and I have met several interesting people. It is a platform to network with people you would like to...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-11
- Warner Music Group: All your memories belong to us
- I would consider myself to be a law-abiding citizen and as a writer, someone who has respect for copyright laws, particularly as it applies to the written word and major works of media, such as music, television shows and movies. So I completely understand why a...
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Twitter: A fine 'pre-business' but un-monetizable and a deadly acquisition target
- Dear Google, Yahoo and any other potential buyer of Twitter. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay says it's a bad idea. A really bad idea. In a research note, Lindsay delivers an interesting history lesson of Internet "pre-businesses." You know the ones: The companies with large user bases, a...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- 10 things Linux does better than OS X
- 10 things Linux does better than OS XGreat Blog entry. I submitted it to Digghttp://digg.com/apple/OS_X_is_buggy_unusable_and_not_as_good_as_Linux1 thimg?Apparently spell checker isn't one of them. ;)Get some help, dudeBefore you blow a gasket.Not sure what you are refuting but......article is about things that Linux does better than OS X, and not about which...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-19
- Trusteer launches search engine for malware configuration files
- Trusteer's recently launched "Attack Trace" search engine aims to help financial institution by letting them search through the configuration files of popular banker malware SilentBanker, WSNPOEM/Zeus/PRG/Zbot and Torpig in order for them to verify whether or not their sites are targeted. And while the search engine is a marketable way...
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Inside an affiliate spam program for pharmaceuticals
- Bargaining with your health doesn't just mean you're heading for a shorter life expectancy, but also, increases the chances that you will either get scammed in the process, or have to pay more in the long-term while dealing with the health issues arising from using expired pharmaceutical with unverifiable origins,...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- BigSender 3.76 (Mac)
- Got something to say? Express it with BigSender 3.Now it's even easier to compose and publish e-zines, online newsletters, media releases, announcements, bulletins or other personalized broadcast messages just like the big-budget news sites.BigSender features include self-installation, unique Hybrid messages with inline graphics, sounds and movies, intuitive one-click HTML-to-plain-text converter...
- Software downloads 2008-10-12
- eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing
- eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricingI'll stick with Amazon...Doesn't require yet 2 more accounts eBait and PayPal and I actually trust Amazon.I do not trust PayPal.RE: eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricingEight years ago eBay was an amazing place. ...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Where are the expense management startups and Dirty SaaS?
- My Irregular chums have been fiercely debating the need and merit of a sensible expense management solution that combines the best of online purchasing with accounting and the ability to re-bill (where appropriate.) It all started when there was a discussion around Concur and Rearden Commerce...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Google Health launches; Read the terms of service
- Google Health launches; Read the terms of serviceWow!!This is the era of minority report.Who would be foolish enough......to put all their health info on the web for the world to see and for Google to share with the rest of the world? Especially nowadays when potential employers are, ahem,...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Is AOL a viable option for Yahoo against Microsoft?
- Is AOL a viable option for Yahoo against Microsoft?Sure....Yeah, like Yahoo needs the boat anchor known as AOL hung around its neck.A year later all the Yahoo! shareholders will be wishing Microsoft HAD purchased Yahoo. And following that up with quite a few lawsuits, I would imagine.maybe M$ should...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- Google Sites: evaluate first and don't believe the hype
- Google Sites: evaluate first and don't believe the hypeHow's all this Google specific?So...''" if you want to show financial data to an end user, you will have to allow Google's servers a pass through your firewall to make the web service call.That's a basic security issue. Nothing...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- 2007 year in review: 10 most popular posts
- Due to the lack of news during this time of year and a gentle prod from my ZDNet editors I thought it would be fun to look back at some of the most popular posts here on The Social Web in 2007. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these posts were also...
- Blog posts 2007-12-28
- Facebook's Beacon and the need for social networking literacy
- By now many of you will have read accusations that Facebook has "ruined Christmas". The story being promoted by MoveOn.org is that because "Project Beacon", a component of Facebook's new advertising platform, publicizes purchases at participating sites on a user's Facebook "news feed", friends and loved ones are inadvertently being...
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Are all 'open' Web platforms created equal?
- There's been a lot of talk lately about various Web platform vendors opening up their programming interfaces in order to make their offerings more readily customizable and programmable. Facebook has opened up its social-networking platform to developers. Google is poised to open its Orkut social-networking application programming...
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
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