Anyone heading to CES 2011 this year in Vegas? You’ll definitely want to check out the room in the Venetian for Anthony Gallo Acoustics. They are very well known as a loudspeaker company that works with spherical enclosures. That’s their thing and they’ve been doing that since 1994. So, all Read more…
As with anything in life, if there is something that becomes big and a lot of people enjoy it, there will be those that abuse it. And Facebook and Twitter are no different. We can’t just have people put their stuff up there and share it with others, we have Read more…
A Facebook intern (they don’t pay him anything for this stuff??) has created a visual map of Facebook friendships all over the world. Paul Butler took a sample of 10 million users and color coded and weighted connections, accounting for longitude and latitude. A rough outline of the world was Read more…
It’s always exciting/scary when a new version of WordPress is released. On one hand, you can’t wait to upgrade and see what new features you have. On the other hand, you worry that the upgrade will have bugs and/or won’t work with what you are currently running. All that said, Read more…
We are on Foursquare and we even use it from time to time. But, it’s mostly for research purposes, to see how we can use the location-based social media application. For the most part, we aren’t in love with it. However, we just saw a neat article on Black Friday Read more…
For the second time in a month, Google Adwords advertisers are upset over drops in quality scores. Some are claiming that this has resulted in higher costs, but we haven’t seen that yet. “We don’t believe it to be a new issue, but are looking into [the situation],” a Google Read more…
In what some are referring to the end to the battle for dominance in the social media war, MySpace has introduced Facebook Mashup. Basically, MySpace will use information in your Facebook profile to stream content updates through Facebook Connect. “Sharing entertainment and music interests is part of many of our Read more…
Have you heard about Path yet? It’s apparently the newest social network on the block and it’s model is the complete opposite of Facebook and Twitter. Whereas the latter two are all about building your huge empire of friends, family and associates, Path limits you to just 50 friends. It’s Read more…
Perhaps you’ve heard about Facebook’s new “non-mail” system. According to the folks at Facebook, it combines email with SMS, IM and texting. Based on who you ask, this could be a good or a bad thing. We are reserving judgment until we actually get to, you know, use it. But Read more…
Kanye West recently went on the Today Show with Matt Lauer to address some things from his past. Specifically, he apologized to George Bush for saying that he “didn’t care about black people” during a national telethon to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims. But, they also went on to Read more…