In November, 2008, the Twing.com Forum/Community Search & Discover Engine disappeared from the world. After the abject failure of ill-fated parent company, Accoona.com, this interesting and potentially useful product went off into the netherworld of Lost Websites. Even the venerable Internet Archive for Twing doesn’t have a good copy due to the library feature’s apparently [...]
Yes. We can Google each other. Yes. As a manager, I’ve Googled others prior to interviews and such and. Yes. I’ve Googled others I’ve been curious about for whatever reason. Spock.com, however, may be nonetheless disturbing. I haven’t really decided how I think/feel about this product as yet. As a people search engine, they seek [...]
Yesterday, a friend was complaining about Internet Trolls, those annoying occasional inhabitants of message boards, blog comments and so forth, that exist merely to incite and inflame rather than participate or inform. The Irony Oddly enough, it’s quite possible trolls may help hasten the demise of some venues for anonymous speech and become not only [...]
I’m in big trouble. Actually, I’m in big trouble twice. One of my ‘bots, or automated personal agents if you like, hit an auction site and instead of just getting the lowest price on an item I want, it bid on all available items of that type. I now owe $24,572.38 to various vendors. If [...]
Bambi Francisco, who’s one of the better, (yes, just my opinion), net watchers/bloggers/writers out there did an article on MySpace and talked breifly about their opportunity to target ads by category. However, the thing is, like so much else I’m personally seeing these days, a lot of these concepts are not very new. It’s just [...]
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