By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
A Weave will improve the looks of your Firefox to everyone that sees it. Especially when you move it from computer to computer with ease.
This Weave is from the Mozilla Labs and it is…
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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)
Cloud computing. Get familiar with those words. You probably already use a cloud computing service. If you use Gmail, you know what it is. And programs like Salesforce.com operate on a cloud.
In general, cloud computing is any program or service…
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, Cloud computing , Security , Storage 
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
If you really want to know what made the iPhone such a game changing device you need look no further than the fact that it challenged every concept of what a mobile phone was.
By challenging concepts and executing ideas…
Read the full story », ding3000 , Handhelds , iPhone , Kris Smith , Managing editor , Smartphone 
By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)
Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey told me about the 3 great uses of Twitter before most celebrities even knew what Twitter was (except Ashton Kutcher). Then Oprah joined. And suddenly there was a race to get as many followers…
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By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
A couple of months ago I dropped Google as my default browser search and switched over to Bing.
Yesterday, I gave up on Bing and moved on to Duck Duck Go.
I’ve had…
Read the full story », alternative to google , Bing , Duck Duck Go , Google , Google alternative , Microsoft , Web search engine , Wikipedia 
By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)
Anyone who put their doppelgänger up just showed their Facebook friends how narcissistic they really are. Unlike real-life habits, you can’t see how other people spend their time online.
Some people innocently lurk and passively read people’s status updates. It’s…
Read the full story », Boonsri Dickinson , Doppelgänger , Facebook , High school , Social network , Social network service 
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
I’ve sat on the fence all day surrounding the TechCrunch writer DB taking gifts to write posts on companies.
I don’t have much to add to this fray beyond being a spectator of a problem…
Read the full story », debacle , Dropbox , Etherpad test , Google , LinkedIn , seesmic , TechCrunch , Yammer 
By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)
Bob Guccione Jr. didn’t know he had an online identity, until his friends told him he had a Facebook account.
He emailed me: “Phantoms who create Facebook accounts in other people’s names. I mean, why?” Bob didn’t create his profile, so…
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By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
Room for new ads. Check
Prepping the masses for more. Check.
Facebook is setting itself up with this redesign to launch a bevy of new features and partnerships with developers to create the largest internet portal ever seen.…
Read the full story », Facebook , facebook business , Facebook search , facebook wave , Google , Online Communities , Social network 
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
As most of you know based on logging in to Facebook since last evening or have read in nearly every media outlet – Facebook got a facelift.
A slight nip tuck and a little work done…
Read the full story », facebook future , facebook redesign , facebook searc , Google , search engines , search on facebook , Social network 
By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)
CEOs of medical start-up companies, investors, writers, and lawyers attended a networking event at Merrill Lynch tonight. The room was packed and was full of energy during the happy hour session.
John R. Lieberman CPA/PFS at Perelson Weiner LLP and Wendy…
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By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
The New York City Big Apps winners were announced this evening and release by Center Networks.
The winners were selected from contest entrants that developed applications to best transmit information about city and add to transparency. That information took…
Read the full story », Android , New Jersey , New York City , New York City Subway , Port Authority Trans-Hudson , Twitter , UpNext , WayFinder NYC 
By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)
Really amazing magazine writers get $3 a word. Newer writers get paid a $1.
Ummmmm, not anymore.
Read the full story », Demand Media , freelance writer , publishing , Spot.us
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
I think it is still too early in the rise of Facebook for it have a rival or great competitor that comes from nothing.
Social networking startup would have a very hard time duplicating Facebook’s rapid success and string of…
Read the full story », Application programming interface , Facebook , Facebook features , Markup language , Online Communities , Social network , Social network service , Twitter 
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
With threats that beyond borders like the attack that occurred at Google last month and many other corporations it is no surprise that Google would seek outside help to secure its networks
The byproduct of that byproduct of that being…
Read the full story », Business , Computer security , Google , National Security , National Security Agency , NSA help Google , Private sector , Security 
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
So the iPad is getting all the love and Kindle is being kicked to the curb.
But it doesn’t matter except to a small subset of users. These consumers are concerned with the newest, fastest,…
Read the full story », Amazon.com , Consumer Electronics Show , E-book , e-reader , Electronic , eReader , File format , Proprietary format , Sony 
