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Not quite sure where to eat? Do you want to know what others think about a particular restaurant? Try BooRah! BooRah is a semantic and natural language processing aggregator of restaurant reviews. The service pulls in reviews from numerous review sites and a substantial list of restaurant review bl
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I have been asked many times how I manage to keep track of all the social networks and services that I have. It is very difficult. Since I also review sites, I am constantly signing up for social networks or services. I think I am the only person that does not have a Myspace account, however I suspe
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I have spent a number of years following backup services and discovering new ones. Some are good, some are bad, but one that slipped under my radar was a service called SpiderOak. I was contacted by Ethan Oberman, co-founder, for this relatively new service and I was, of course, ready to experience
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So I was sent a VMware disk image containing the recently-released alpha version of Google Chrome OS and asked to write a review. I can only imagine that I was asked to write this review because of my charm, lack of sarcasm, and tendency to write reviews that don't piss people
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For those of you who haven't been invited to beta-test Twitter's redundant waste of time new ReTweet feature, I've got the full skinny here: you're not missing much, and nothing innovative is brought to the table here at all. Twitter's Retweet (beta) feature: note the "ReTweet" link next to th
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Ever noticed in Gmail, Twitter or Facebook how the last portion of the URL (the so-called "hash") changes with each navigation, while the actual URL remains the same? This unique AJAX technique, employed by some of the top current Web 2.0 apps, has many benefits besides usability: it actually sav
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When I was a kid, I would take foods that tasted really good by themselves and mix them all together - sometimes in a blender. And it was fucking nasty. I look at Google Wave as Google's technological way of repeating the same experiment: take Docs, Orkut, Gmail, Wikipedia, and IM, stick the
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Twitter decided to give a nice Happy Halloween to users today in the form of radically changing the site's design and modifying tweets upon an update containing solely "#trick" or "#treat" tweeted from its standard web client. Below are some screenshots of this temporary feature (for historic pu
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Bored websurfers have, at some point or another, typed "www.hell.com" into their browser's address bar just out of curiosity. And they've discovered an anomaly that provokes many questions, seemingly with no answers. Well, this article explains everything behind www.hell.com that there is to kno
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If anybody noticed, Yahoo! Geocities officially closes today for good. But, for the geeks that recall being on the Internet prior to 2000, a piece of history was lost today. To pay tribute to what was the first web host for many of us, several popular website have paid tribute and provided archives
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