sizzleing tech

Google May Start Pre-Testing New Buzz Features With Users (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:45:05 +0000

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google May Start Pre-Testing New Buzz Features With Users — This afternoon at SXSW, a panel of Gmail and Google Buzz team members took part in a panel where they discussed what goes on behind the scenes at Gmail. The panel covered a smattering of topics, covering everything from Gmail stickers …

Shane Curcuru: Urgent question!

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:25:10 +0000

In The Blues Brothers, isn’t the sound the rocket launcher that Carrie Fisher fires when they go back to Elwood’s apartment taken from Battlestar Galactica?

Big Lego Blackberry built

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:25:09 +0000

Lego artist/sculpter/genius Nathan Sawaya has created the ultimate in geek toys, a giant Lego RIM Blackberry Tour 9360 complete with working LCD screen.

Q4 release for Mafia 2 (re)confirmed; Payne, Noire, Civ V still on hit list

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:25:08 +0000

Earlier this month, Take-Two announced the potential movement of one of the titles planned for release in its fiscal fourth quarter, extending from August to October.

France Telecom attacks ’scary’ Google database

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:25:07 +0000

Raoul Roverato, France Telecom's executive vice-president for new growth businesses has called for Google to be investigated over the "scary" amount of information it collects about its customers. ...

Apture toolbar: a model of popup discretion

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:25:06 +0000

If you’re a regular visitor to this blog, you’ll know that it’s “enhanced with Apture.” Well, you may not know that, actually.

Glen Mazza: Web Service Links (14 March 2010)

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:25:05 +0000

Web service related links of interest this week: Java Web Services: WS-Security with Metro - IBM dW article by Dennis Sosnoski (Dec. 2009) Java Web Services: Metro vs.

In a moment of insanity

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:25:04 +0000

I take the Fifth. I plead temporary insanity. Nolo contendere. I threw reason out the window. I felt smug for some reason. And I was feeling jealous of all the people who, on April 3, had their iPad.

Ben Hyde: micro-gossip account linking

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:25:03 +0000

Quite a few years ago now I spent many months thinking and working on the Internet Identity standardization. At the time we spent a lot of energy on what we called “account linking.

Ask TUAW: Clocks, screen guards, MacBook hard drive replacement, NFS automount, and more

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:25:02 +0000

Filed under: Features, Troubleshooting, Ask TUAWWelcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column.

Bobby Cremins sitting behind Tech bench today – updated

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:25:01 +0000

GREENSBORO, NC – From one row back and about four seats over from the bench, Georgia Tech had a familiar old white shaggy head taking in its ACC championship game.

Decision on .xxx porn ‘ghetto’ delayed

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:25:00 +0000

Web regulator defers decision until June on whether to create a ".xxx" internet suffix as an online red-light district.

CBS Scores $37M Beyond TV With Help of March Madness

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:24:59 +0000

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- CBS is turning live, ad-supported sports on the web into a real business, selling out its inventory for March Madness on Demand and bringing in about $37 million in online ad ...

Tech is dancing in Wisconsin as a No. 10 seed

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:24:58 +0000

GREENSBORO, NC – Georgia Tech earned its first NCAA bid in three years, using an ACC tournament final run to draw a No. 10 seed and a first-round game against No.

One Analysis of the Google Buzz Mess

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:24:56 +0000

The backlash to Google's social networking feature sheds light on the challenges all technology companies must face when it comes to thinking about privacy, says one researcher.

Classmates.com Settles One Privacy Lawsuit—And Gets Hit With A Second

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:24:55 +0000

The lawyers at United Online-owned Classmates.com are busy; the social networking site is paying up to $9.5 million, along with $1.

Apple’s Rivalry With Google Gets Personal

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:24:54 +0000

The New York Times walks through the timeline of the current Google and Apple rivalry and reveals that the competition has become quite personal.

“Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity” (danah boyd)

sizzle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:09 +0000

danah boyd:
“Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity” — [This is a rough unedited crib of the actual talk] — Citation: boyd, danah. 2010. “Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity.” SXSW. Austin, Texas, March 13. — Good afternoon! — Let me begin by saying that I'm tremendously honored to be here doing the welcoming keynote at SXSW.

OMGConan: The big Digg party Twitter hoax (Daniel Terdiman/CNET News)

sizzle — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:10:00 +0000

Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
OMGConan: The big Digg party Twitter hoax — On Saturday night, Twitter rang out with news that Conan O'Brien was joining Internet TV network Revision3. The only problem? It was a huge hoax. — AUSTIN, Texas—Did you hear that Conan O'Brien, fresh off his ugly divorce with NBC …

Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8 (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

sizzle — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:45:15 +0000

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8 — Facebook plans to announce the availability of a firehose of user data at its F8 developers conference in April, we believe based on research. Such an offering could be similar to the firehose that Twitter has shared …