Rupert Murdoch ready to sue Google?
A new profile of the News Corp. baron quotes a source who says he’s willing to press legal action against Google in the event that talks about indexing content fall through.
Boston SEO And Websites
Let's Talk: (877) 520-6707
Archive for February, 2010
Hello, stranger: the ups and downs of Chatroulette
A new Web sensation called Chatroulette feels like a throwback to the early 1990s, when online chat rooms brimmed with lonely strangers looking for meaningful connections, meaningless sex, or something in between.
A young dynamo hits turbulence
In 2007, Lilly Deng was a 20-year-old Harvard junior featured in a cover story about students driven to succeed and recent college graduates who, depending on your perspective and likely when you were born, were either the key to America’s future or the first wave of a new workforce that was self-interested, had a feeling of entitlement, and would be, …
HP updates ultraportable with Core i5, i7 chips
Hewlett-Packard is updating its line of business ultraportable laptops with Intel’s latest chips.
Why Google Pushed Buzz Out The Door Before It Was Ready
When Google Buzz launched three weeks ago, the product wasn’t ready. There were basic privacy issues that still needed to be hammered out (and were quickly addressed by Google), but beyond that Google Buzz simply did not work smoothly enough to force feed it to 175 million Gmail users without any warning. (MG covered some of the usability issues last week).
So why was Google Buzz pushed out the door too soon? I have three interrelated theories:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Circa 1986
This isn’t new, but it’s new for us. A 1986 TV clip of a then thirtyish year old Eric Schmidt that is just amazing. The awkward smiles and huge glasses say a lot about the era as well as the nerd cred of Google’s CEO. Today’s too cool for school hipster engineers living in lofts in San Francisco and spending more time grooming than coding should be ashamed of themselves.
Just two years later, though, Schmidt had his act together, and looked significantly more like an exec than a nerd. That’s too bad – 1986 Eric was cool.
A series of changes for creators of ‘Parenthood’
PASADENA, Calif. – Trends and technologies may change, but from the Stone Age to the Internet age, two aspects of life remain constant: Family can be the source of great joy and sorrow, and parenthood is a challenge. You can bet a Paleolithic adolescent was just as embarrassed by her caveman dad regaling her friends with tales of hunting and …
eBay buyer pays $41,300 for Nintendo game
A man hears that a copy of Stadium Events sold for $13,000. So he rummages in his basement and finds an unopened copy of the same game.
Northeastern’s smart shirt aims to prevent pitcher’s elbow
Prototypes Dice-K shouldn’t be the only athlete worrying about his mechanics and how they might be pulling his body apart.