Year: 2011

You’ve no doubt heard about Britain’s phone hacking scandal that brought down the 168 year old News of the World tabloid and led to the arrest of its former editor Rebekah Brooks and the resignation […]

by Larry Magid There was no typo in the title of a Wall Street Journal blog post that declared, Netflix Customers Subscribe to Unlimited Screaming.” While I didn’t hear any actual screams, I did see a […]

I’ve been using Google+ for a couple of weeks now and it’s starting to grow on me. What I like about it lets you group the people you want to share with or follow into […]

I fell in love with Spotify almost the moment I started using it and now that I have a couple of days experience with it, I’m starting to wonder if Apple’s iCloud might be too […]

As you may have heard, Netflix has changed its pricing model so instead of being able to get unlimited streaming plus one DVD in the mail for $9.99, you’ll now pay $7.99 a month for […]

It’s been a long time since I’ve been an active pilot but if there was ever a product that would get me back behind the stick, the Terrafugia Transition has to be it.  Of course, […]

WordPress.com announced that there are now more than 50 million blogs powered by WordPress’s open source software.  About half of those blogs are hosted at WordPress.com while the others reside on blog owners own servers […]

It’s been a big couple of weeks for video and social networking. Last Wednesday, Facebook launched its Skype-powered video chat and the week before that, Google launched its Google+ social network featuring group video chats. […]

After returning from Facebook headquarters to hear Mark Zuckerberg make his “awesome” announcement, I had a chance to try out the new Facebook video chat which is powered by Skype.  The service lets you establish […]

For the past week, I’ve been playing around with Google+, a new social networking service that competes with both Facebook and Google. The service is in test mode at the moment, but will soon be […]