By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Let’s be honest here. We should all be honest. Google shapes our world view.

They are the information hub for most of us. What we search for and what they then return to us is chosen by computer…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Eric Schmidt might have said in a tweet that “Hell has indeed frozen over.” That in response to their Super Bowl ad.

It might have had to freeze over for them to run an ad like this but they…

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…

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…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Lifehacker has a great little piece that will interest the Windows users out there.

It’s about a program called Lammer that adds some new right-click menu features for folders and files. Welcome additions that allow users to search the…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Both are good and in the biz they are called synchronous and asynchronous.

To get the full effect of the web they both needs to exist in parallel and be ready to perform at the whim of users. If the…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Let’s talk about the inner workings of Twitter for a minute or almost two.

Comments and links go in, clicks and tracking metrics come out the other end. Somewhere in between each tweet is digested in…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

This post is 100% personal.

Over the last week many things have changed in my work life and other general online activities. Couple that with the last 3 weeks of beginning to charge for my personal podcast and you’ve got…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Kicking today off with the iPad seems like the right thing to do. Especially, after reviewing our statistics from yesterday.

Everyday I check out search, referrals, etc. from the previous day to make sure that we are writing posts that…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

The good folks from Open Calais were tweeting this morning about a mashup of search and their semantic engine called Drigger.

Drigger is a different type of search engine.…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

If I had to describe WebMii in a single sentence it would be this:

“WebMii is a vanity search on steroids.”

It’s that, and much more. The first thing you’ll notice is something called PeopleRank which, according to WebMii, is a…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

The team from Speakertext gave one of the coolest demos to ever grace the stage at the New York New Tech Meetup last week.

Fronted by founder and CEO Matt Mireles, I watched the demo as the full text of a…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

Tweexchange was once a marketplace for Twitter usernames: want a username that someone already has? Buy it. That is, until they were purchased by Blast Applications, a company that produces iPhone, Read the full story »

Tags: Domain Name Search , Find a Domain Name , Finding a Good Twitter Username , GoDaddy , Tweexchange , Twitter Username , Twitter Username Marketplace

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

Like most people, my budget for stock images is pretty small. Unlike Kris, I don’t shoot my own stock photos, either. I just can’t be bothered to carry an SLR along with all my other gear.

So, I search the internets…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Or is he? Over at Seeking Alpha Jeff Jarvis has a short post about Google and its next frontier.  You would think he was the guy that wrote the book,…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

When Etsy makes dinner reservations for their next party they’ll need make sure that is plus 5.

In a deal to acquire Adtuitive, Etsy gains new team members Jason, Greg, Isaac, Matt and Stefan. They’re the posse…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

Over at GigaOm, Sebastien Rupley speculates on whether Google will renew it’s search and advertising deal with Mozilla on or before November 2011, when the deal is set to expire.

One could…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Let’s face it, everyday online in your activity you are giving away your knowledge. It is being captured by the cookies on your computer, the search engines that you use and your favorite social networking sites. They know more about you…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

Twitter founder Biz Stone has indicated that the company would likely make some acquisitions…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

For those of you unaware, Engadget put on a new face this week and restructured the way stories are found on their site. As part of this new design they began sculpting links with a technique that I’m…