Archive for the 'Internet Stuff' Category
This kind of stuff is just disgusting. A gay 18-yr old violinist named Tyler Clementi jumped off a bridge to his death after his roomate, Dharun Ravi and a friend of his named Molly Wei from Princeton University took part in recording him making out and having sex with another man and broadcasting it. Dharun [...]
September 30th, 2010 | Posted in Internet Stuff, News | No Comments
The new RIM Playbook was announced today, and is intended to take on Apple’s iPad. Its quite different looking so far, being much smaller with a 7″ screen closer in size to most e-Readers than the iMac. It also has HD 1080p screen definition and dual facing HD cameras. Whether or not this is a [...]
September 27th, 2010 | Posted in Internet Stuff, New Stuff | No Comments
This is like almost straight out of a Sci-Fi movie.. Reminds me a bit of that movie Gamer with Gerard Butler. You log on from your computer or even your iPhone, and you control Paintball Guns, Shockers or RC Cars and try and take out one of several people living inside a warehouse in LA. [...]
September 17th, 2010 | Posted in Internet Stuff, Web Funnies | No Comments
See, I’m not the only one that believes that Google will take over the world. Google has the most complete stats on user behavior on the internet culled from their Free Analytics software and their search engine usage. Additionally, they have scanned tens of thousands of books, most of them violating copyright laws. They are [...]
April 8th, 2010 | Posted in Internet Stuff | No Comments
eBay’s latest fee increase comes on March 30th, 2010. They are now creating a flat-rate 9% fee on all auction style listings, creating over 100% increase in fees for many items. Fees that used to be around $10, could hit over $20! Many eBay sellers are up in arms, but the Giant is tailoring their [...]
April 1st, 2010 | Posted in Internet Stuff | No Comments
Looks like the battle for domination of US Internet Traffic has ended in Facebook’s favor for the first time. This is very interesting to those that use the internet as a means of income as it means that facebook may start branching out to take over Google’s ad revenue, which is their primary source of [...]
March 17th, 2010 | Posted in Internet Stuff | No Comments
Every Year, Google sends some gifts to their clients and publishers for their hard work. This year Google is doing something different, and very cool. Much better than a little USB drive with Google printed on it or something like that… this year they’ve donated $20,000,000 to various charites around the world. See more here: [...]
December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Internet Stuff | No Comments
As we look back at this recession, we (at least I) hope to see encouraging Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales – indicators that we are passed the recession and are on a solid road to recovery. Online sales reports have been in, and we are seeing an 11% rise in sales from last year [...]
November 30th, 2009 | Posted in Economy, Internet Stuff, News | No Comments
Looks like Windows 7 has single-handedly surpasses Mac OS X market share.. and yes, that’s ALL Max OS X versions. Seeing as Microsoft Windows does have over 92% of all market share this is of course going to be an inevitable trend, but Microsoft’s overall market share has also increased this month, which means that [...]
November 24th, 2009 | Posted in Apple Stuff, Internet Stuff | No Comments
I’ve noticed this happened to a lot of people.. while I don’t really care about Technorati enough to make a fuss (I own 5 blogs and they have all been removed), but its unnerving to see this happening, especially to all the blogs out there that play the linking game to try and work their [...]
October 24th, 2009 | Posted in Internet Stuff | No Comments