Filed under: Internet, E-mail, Social Software
The Outlook Social Connector first debuted back in November 2009, and at that time, only LinkedIn was supported. Today, the MySpace plug-in has been made available, and now you can see your friends’ easily-excited, angst-ridden emo updates in Outlook!
If you’re running Outlook 2010 Beta (which is very, very nice, incidentally), [...]
Filed under: Internet, Google, web 2.0
In a move that is surely reminiscent of Microsoft and Bing’s emphasis on VISUAL RESULTS (did you see Pivot?!), Google has just launched a new feature for its Reader. It’s called Reader Play, and it lets you click through all of the goodies that the Internet has to offer (or [...]
Filed under: Internet
The UK is already one of the most-monitored Western countries. It has a record number of security cameras on the streets and public transport stations (one camera for every 14 people!); its authorities are installing chips in garbage cans to monitor the amount of trash, and now Google is “helping out” by bringing [...]
Filed under: Internet, Mobile
It was only a matter of time. First, jailbroken iPhones were humorously Rickrolled by a worm, and now both iPhones and Android phones have been exploited to form a botnet that is over 9,000 devices strong!
Fortunately, like the Rickroll, the botnet was a benign experiment by two researchers at TippingPoint Digital Vaccine [...]
Filed under: Internet, web 2.0, Browsers
Microsoft Labs has an insanely-cool tech demo product called Pivot. In a nutshell, it’s a completely new browsing paradigm which lets you “swim” in the ocean of data rather than drown in it. You can zoom in and out on complex sets of data, and slice and dice them in [...]
Filed under: Internet
Today seems to be ‘rights for all!’ day, or something. It’s quite easy to get rights and privileges mixed up, which is the only explanation for the results of the BBC World Service survey: four in five people believe that Internet access is a fundamental right. Like the right to marry, or freedom [...]
Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Macintosh, iPhone
I recently decided to retire my self-hosted WordPress blog, and start blogging on a different platform. After deciding that it wasn’t practical to try to import seven years worth of posts to the new platform, I decided that I would just retire the site, but leave it online so as [...]
Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, Browsers
Good afternoon! As I write this the sun is shining, the birds (and ‘SEO specialists’ are tweeting, and the sky is a brilliant and pure baby blue. It’s spring, ladies and gentlemen, it’s frickin’ spring – here in England, at least. My apologies if you live in Canada, or somewhere else [...]
Filed under: Fun, Internet, News, Google
A special shout out to our tipster @RussHogg who told us the entire 137 year archive of Popular Science Magazine is now available for online free browsing. You can view the entire collection’s issues as they appeared at time of publication. It’s definitely fun to go back in time and [...]
Filed under: Internet, Microsoft
I hinted that, with Office 2010, Microsoft would be moving the focus of its development towards the cloud, but I had no idea they were quite so involved! As of today, around 75% of its employees are working on cloud-related projects. “A year from now that will be 90 percent,” says [...]
