Is Google making a mistake by entering the full blow operating systems area or is this a brilliant move to further diversify their products’ and services offering and attack a fairly stagnant market?
DIY Themes’ Thesis
I finally found some time over the past week to do some research (it’s what I do 😉 ) on the best WordPress themes out there and DIY Themes’ Thesis seems to come out on top. I decided to go with it and after playing around their code “sandbox” for less than a day I absolutely love the possibilities and …
WebDAV connections on Vista
As I’m setting up the previously mentioned laptop I keep coming across minor tweaks needed to make everything work as expected. This is somewhat of an updated post back from 2007 (posted on a previous blog) when I first encountered WebDAV issues on Vista. I wanted to map a new network location to our NetDrive, but as it didn’t work …
Help me pick the best apps
As I’m in the middle of setting up my new work laptop I have some choices to make. I need to pick two apps, one for Twitter and the other as my main IM client. When it comes to Twitter, I normally use the web but am now in need of more features. I need support for multiple accounts as …
Behavioral ads
Behavioral ads are cool as they make the content more relevant to you and are more appealing to advertisers at the same time due to greater accuracy in targeting users. On the other hand, the concern arises from what happens with your browsing history and preferences after the ads have been served? Is it used for other purposes, will it …
Is MySpace dead?
Looking at my personal usage of social networking sites and considering the recent “exodus” of executives from MySpace (and their features lag), I think that they are pretty much done. Am I wrong?
Facebook knows they made a mistake
Facebook seems to have realized that they went overboard with their recent “Terms of Use” changes and has decided to revert back to their previous version. According to Mark Zuckerberg (their CEO & Founder) they have acknowledged and took ownership of this mistake. His exact words were (quoted from FB blog): A lot of the language in our terms is …
Facebook Terms of Use
Facebook has revised their Terms of Use recently and most notable changes basically state that they own all of your content from now until perpetuity. Under “Licenses” heading they state the following: You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform …
HSBC’s system maintenance
Déjà vu…I tried to access an account in the middle of a business day and wasn’t able to do so. Back in November I had a similar, but much stranger experience accessing an Aetna web account. Today, around noon or so I tried logging in to HSBC Direct, I got in, but couldn’t get an eStatement which is what I …
LogMeIn in production
It’s been in testing for a couple of months now, most of us on our team have used it years ago, but as of today, we are deploying LogMeIn to all of our college machines (with a big push beginning on Monday) in order to improve responsiveness and support levels to our clients. This application will be installed on all …