To commemorate the January 25th revolution in Egypt, an Egyptian man has named his first-born daughter Facebook Jamal Ibrahim as a tribute to the role the social networking site played in organizing the protests in Tahrir Square. The girl’s family, friends, and neighbors in the Ibrahimya region gathered around the newborn girl to express their [...]
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Did AOL just jump the shark? The online company once known for its dial-up access and CD-ROM’s has purchased The Huffington Post for $315 million. Now pick your jaw up off the floor. In addition to closing the blockbuster deal, AOL will also add HuffPo co-founder Arianna Huffington to its management team. After the acquisition [...]
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The U.S. Department of Justice has in its possession a court order asking Twitter to hand over information about the accounts of activists with ties to WikiLeaks. Those mentioned in the order include an Icelandic politician, a legendary Dutch hacker, and a U.S. computer programmer. Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of Iceland’s national parliament, has revealed [...]
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently did an interview with Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch. This should really be an eye-opener, I thought. We’ll really get some interesting insights from the TOP DOG over at the world’s number ONE internet search company. Then I read the following quote from Schmidt and I quickly realized that the [...]
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“Screw you! … Mike, you are such a troll … I’ve had it with Mike Arrington, he’s the most trollish person I’ve ever worked with.” Leo Laporte from Gilmore Gang goes off on Mike Arrington of TechCrunch after Leo got angry at him for implying that his opinion of the Pre was biased by the [...]
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Google is buying Twitter. No they’re not. Yes, they are. Well, maybe. That’s basically how the blogosphere looks this morning. Earlier today, TechCrunch reported that Google was in “late stage talks” to buy Twitter. Quote: “Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter.” Not so fast. They later posted that the talks were actually [...]
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OK, it’s time for me to admit something. I’m a bit of a tech, gadget, and internet marketing nut. There are times, however, when a news item appears that flies just over my head a bit. Such was the case today when Amazon added something called Hadoop to its Amazon Web Services lineup. What is [...]
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Here’s another new and depressing way to keep tabs on the latest employers to slash jobs. Telonu is launching a new Layoff Tracker widget that can be added to any blog or website. The Layoff Tracker widget actually pulls all of its data from other news sources, so there really isn’t anything unique about the [...]
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