Beer breath...

Beer is many things, impetus of innovation, in my experience, it is not. Share the...

Ego-Alerts: Updated (33 minutes)...

Nice work, Google–33 minutes isn’t bad. Share the...

Ego-Alerts: Ain’t the Internets Gr...

Of course, alerts are nothing new, but to tie onto an old post, I have taken ego surfing to a new level.  Latest alert, “Jeremy Floyd.”  If you blog, post my name and I will let you know if Google is indexing your page. Share the...

Google Local Calling...

A while back I remember hearing rumors of Google’s business phone connect, but today I had the time to give it a test drive.  For any listing in Google’s local business directory, you can click on “call,” enter a phone number where you can be reached, and zap bang boom your phone rings and you are immediately connected to the businesses number. The opportunity for running refrigerators and Seymour Butts are endless, but you better watch out because Google takes pranking very seriously… I am using local to advertise a project I am working on,...

Media Junkie: Busted...

How do you make up for not buying a Valentine’s gift for the wife? Take this story to heart. Kept buying shitty phones and broken media devices green and dripping with DRM. You broke the site, clogging up the pipe like retarded salmon Ouch. Gordon, read that article–twice! Share the...

PIPE dreams...

Everybody who’s anybody has been writing about PIPES recently.  I have run a few of the prebuilt pipes, and I have the sense that this is something really big, and I am unable to figure out its use fully (beyond tying flickr pix to NYTIMES).  On the other hand, this could be another web 2.0 pipe dream. Thoughts? Share the...

Q update MOL2...

Okay, so I am not cutting edge on this one, but I have made the move to MOTO’s latest update to the Q (December 16, 2006).  This update is said to make the following changes: Before Update: E911: When device is locked, user could not dial 911 without using Alt key in between the numbers. After Update: Supported without using Alt key Before Update: Master Reset: Did not remove all user content After Update:Complete end user data wipe supported Before Update: BT Dial Up Networking: VZ Access manager did not support BT Dial Up After...

You know you are a geek…...

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Bring Me the News–When it Happens:...

The days of searching through reams of newspaper print for stories that are applicable to our lives are in their twilight.  RSS feeds (aka blogs) and Google Alerts change the way that valuable information is delivered.  In this segment, I would like to specifically deal with Google Alerts and how they can change our information flow.  For several years, I have used Google Alerts to comb the Internet for specific topics, and basically I thought of the alerts as a little geek secret.  However, when I heard a popular talk show host discussing Google Alerts the...

Rewind That: Picking an Alternative End...

Happiness, for me, on January 9th was not anxiously awaiting Steve Jobs announcement; it was instead watching the Doctor’s announcement of the latest Floyd line, baby boy Floyd. However, once the kid popped, I was glad to dive into news of the new iPhone and appletv. In a post delivery daze, I fumbled through pages of phone porn for hours pondering all the while creative tactics to avoid Verizon’s early termination penalties. Big Score Cingular. I finally turned my attention to appletv (“ATV”) to see the great apple offering. Although a PC user,...