Posted on Tuesday, 5th May 2009 by Cheyne
I bought a second laptop about a month or two ago, a much smaller one so I can take it away with me, or use while on my commute to work.
I assumed I would buy a USB stick with wireless Internet and will be fine. Turns out they are more expensive than I thought considering [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 23rd April 2009 by Cheyne
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Yahoo is closing Geocities. After acquiring it in 1999 and leading the free web hosting space for so many years, Geocities holds a place in every experienced Internet user’s heart, as we all once had a website hosted there. Yahoo missed a big opportunity to convert those users into the first major social [...]
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Posted on Monday, 5th January 2009 by Cheyne
Twitter was hacked overnight, allowing the culprits access to any accounts they wish. Obviously, they went for the bigger ones, like Fox, Britney Spears and Barack Obama. While they had full access to the President-elect’s account, they opted to simply post some basic spam rather than create something more authentic looking.
But what if they did?
They [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 30th December 2008 by Cheyne
This was originally a comment to Mike Arrington’s post here about a probable 50% revenue slowdown for content sites this quater, but the comment turned out to be very long so it has spun into a small post.
There are positives to this. If you are a business with a decent cash reserve, this can be [...]
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Posted on Monday, 29th December 2008 by Cheyne
Cuil is back in the news again, not for a new feature release or another round of investment, but for TechCrunch blogger Robin Wauters’ post on how the site’s traffic has bottomed out since their very publicized launch in July. Epic fail, right?
I agree that as a search engine, Cuil has done nothing but fail. [...]
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