Lynda Hurst from the Toronto Star asked a simple, yet ridiculous (imo) question yesterday: “Is a cellphone a basic human right?” Plain and simple: No, it’s not. Neither is my iPhone, laptop, & internet service. We’d all love if they were though! In my opinion, air and water are the only basic human rights that […]
Read moreWhen Real Life Interrupts: Maintaining Separate Images & Personas
I am officially 21. My birthday was this past Friday and I want to take the time to thank you all for the well wishes and gifts. I’ve gotten a ton of both. For my birthday I partied hard with my friends Friday and Saturday night. However, I encountered a dilemma on Sunday when I […]
Read moreWhy Location Based Social Networks Need To Offer Something Different
Today on FriendFeed, Tamar Weinberg posted a message on FriendFeed about giving up on Brightkite. I asked Tamar what she was getting out of it to begin with and she replied, To be honest, not much. I forged one real life friendship out of it, so that was cool — it was fun to share […]
Read moreWhere Google Chrome Failed To Succeed: The Integration Of Google Services
Today, Techmeme was probably the last site you wanted to visit if you weren’t interested in the latest Google news. The popular news meme was full of links about Google’s latest entrance in to the browser wars with Chrome. You can read plenty of information about Google Chrome on ReadWriteWeb and in the ReadWriteWeb FriendFeed […]
Read moreHave You Lost Your Job Because Of Technology?
Last week I had a conversation with a neighbor about technology. The conversation stemmed from her question about I do for work. It’s pretty hard to explain blogging to some folks but I just told her that I review a lot of web services and analyze web news, which pretty much sums up my online […]
Read moreBe Careful What You Buy In The App Store
Boing Boing has recently written up an article about a very serious concern for people who buy apps from the iTunes App Store. Apple does not refund the money on apps that they pull from the store. According to the post, one customer tried to receive a refund from Apple for pulling the NetShare Tethering […]
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