Buzzword Chasers

Apple’s Never-Ending Releases Part II: What’s the Consensus on the iPhone 4?

With everyone talking, writing and tweeting about the iPhone 4, it’s difficult to uncover the consensus on Apple’s newest gadget. In Part II of this blog series, we’ve sorted through the endless reviews to compile a list of the phone’s stand-out features that the technological world is ranting and raving about. For an overview of [...]

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Geo-Location: Twitter and Facebook… Promising but Murky Future- Part 1

Geo-Location: Twitter and Facebook… Promising but Murky Future- Part 1 Imagine reading someone’s tweet about the World Cup and being able to tell if they are watching the game on TV or are actually at the stadium. This is now a reality as Twitter announced on its blog Monday the introduction of a location identification [...]

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Privacy, Predators, and Bullies

Part I: Social Shield Provides Online Protection for Children A few years ago, Sun Microsystem’s CEO Scott McNealy sparked the online privacy debate with the statement: “You have no privacy. Get over it.” Since then, social networking sites like Facebook have come under fire for disregarding users’ privacy concerns. Recently, both [...]

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YouTube Insights: Video Analytics Serve up Viewer Traffic and Origins

YouTube has recently made interesting changes to their website that impact how users interact with the site, as well as the level of information available to ‘channel’ owners. The most notable introduction is YouTube Insight, a comprehensive video analytics program. Google and YouTube partnered to create YouTube Insight. Users can now log [...]

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April Fools: The games are in full effect!

It’s that time of year again, April Fools Day!, and the online hoaxing is everywhere! You’ve probably already seen them everywhere today. That amazing deal, or that new app that sounds too good to be true, chances are….it probably is — very few companies take April 1st seriously, but its all in good fun! Here are some [...]

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Get Organized: Outlook Social Connector

As more and more communication takes place online, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep track of everything we do through email and social networking sites. However, Microsoft is introducing a social connector that will help individuals save time and energy. Outlook Social Connector: What You Need to Know What is the key to organizing social networking? [...]

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Google Base Joins the Online Market

With its advent of a free content submission program, Google has joined Craig’s List and eBay in the competitive online marketplace. Google Base and Google Merchant Center, released respectively in November 2006 and September 2009, allow individuals to post online and offline content for Google to make searchable. How does it work? Through Google Base and [...]

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Google and China Engage in Online Battle

In a country driven by the internet, where a good book or a delicious pizza are just a click away, it is hard not to take our freedom to search the web for granted. However, some countries do not allow their citizens the same liberties we cherish when it comes to online searching. On January [...]

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Google hopping on the QR Code bandwagon

A QR (Quick Reference) code is a variation of a barcode, having a pixilated rectangular image rather than a series of stripes, and can store pretty much any information you want. QR codes have been widely used in Asia for some times, and Japan is going nuts over them! QR codes can appear on items [...]

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The Truth about Spam: How to Decipher Comment Spam and What to do if you’ve been Infected

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