Over on PVRblog today, I got to briefly explain how TiVo changed television for me, alongside some of my favorite web folks. Caterina has my favorite quote: “It’s not hard to fin... Read more
Happy to announce that my weekly tech therapy session, This Week in Google, is now available for to watch on YouTube. In this week’s episode we covered Google’s treatise on the m... Read more
The application formerly known as Twitalytic is now called ThinkTank, and I’m carving out some time in the New Year to grow it into something good. Here are a few details on my plans f... Read more
Cloud data backup service, Backupify, has dropped its paywall until January 31st in an effort to acquire more customers. The service backs up Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Google Docs, W... Read more
When you sync your iPod/iPhone in iTunes 9 and you’ve got space left, check off the “Automatically fill free space with songs” box on the Music tab to use every last free m... Read more
It’s still not easy to explain what, exactly, Google Wave does and is, but it sure does make for some cool screencasts. Hit play for a Wave-powered trip through 2009. (If you liked thi... Read more
Getting up on stage, taking a microphone, and facing an expectant audience scares the crap out of most mere mortals. But rock star public speakers from Al Gore to Tony Robbins inspire and in... Read more
Now that you’re auditing your online account security, log into your Google account(s) and visit the Account Recovery Options page. Here you can update your secret question and answer,... Read more
Two stories of online account break-ins this week: First, Twitter.com got redirected to an Iranian hacker page because attackers were able to get into the email account registered with their... Read more
It kind of amazes me that Gmail has an advanced feature like “mark unread from here” but still lacks basic things like sorting your messages by date or searching/sorting by attac... Read more
Author Seth Godin has compiled a free 80-page e-book entitled What Matters Now, a collection of thought-provoking nuggets from authors and technologists across the web. I’m thrilled th... Read more
An unlocked GSM phone running Android 2.1 and available early 2010? I am in. Read more
Just found out about a neat Google Easter Egg for the New Year: on the Google homepage, click on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button with nothing in the search box, to see a liv... Read more
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