TECH.BLORGE.com » Web2.0 http://tech.blorge.com Top Technology news Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:33:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 British police need lessons on what not to do on Facebook http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/12/31/british-police-need-lessons-on-what-not-to-do-on-facebook/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/12/31/british-police-need-lessons-on-what-not-to-do-on-facebook/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:30:25 +0000 Susan Wilson http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/12/31/british-police-need-lessons-on-what-not-to-do-on-facebook/ British police need lessons on what not to do on FacebookPeople getting fired over what they put on Facebook is nothing [...] Related posts:
  1. British police get Facebook lessons
  2. Hundreds of police officers disciplined for looking at porn at work
  3. Delhi police catch drivers via Facebook
]]> http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/12/31/british-police-need-lessons-on-what-not-to-do-on-facebook/feed/ 1 The Internet’s a tool for oldies and a toy for youngsters http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/12/05/the-internets-a-tool-for-oldies-and-a-toy-for-youngsters/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/12/05/the-internets-a-tool-for-oldies-and-a-toy-for-youngsters/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:34:51 +0000 John Lister http://tech.blorge.com/?p=41395 The Internet's a tool for oldies and a toy for youngstersIf you’re aged 18 to 29, you’ll probably be going online at some point today just to kill time or have a bit of fun. That’s one of the findings of a new survey that suggests the older you [...] Related posts:
  1. Youngsters prefer Facebook to blogging
  2. Young adults favor mobile devices over desktops for net access
  3. Now your granny is on Facebook
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  1. Groupon turns down Google’s $6 billion
  2. Investors think Groupon is a great deal
  3. Groupon pulls controversial Super Bowl commercials
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Most of us use at least one social network, probably Facebook, these days. But what has [...] Related posts:

  1. Social networking goes mad – Facebook and MySpace for babies?
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  3. Social networking sites: A favorite hunting ground for identity thieves
]]> http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/10/26/nextdoor-brings-social-networking-to-real-life-neighborhoods/feed/ 0 MC Hammer launches WIREDoo – good idea, terrible name, horribly engineered http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/10/20/mc-hammer-launches-wiredoo-good-idea-terrible-name-horribly-engineered/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/10/20/mc-hammer-launches-wiredoo-good-idea-terrible-name-horribly-engineered/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:43:15 +0000 Dave Parrack http://tech.blorge.com/?p=40741 A search engine that does more than just deliver keyword driven results? Sounds good. It’s just a shame that name is so damn bad.

MC Hammer, yes, he of U Can’t Touch This fame,

  • Yahoo and Google provoke hammer of justice
  • Microsoft brags that Bing is superior to Google with TV ads
  • Blekko = another ill-fated search effort
    • ]]>     http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/10/20/mc-hammer-launches-wiredoo-good-idea-terrible-name-horribly-engineered/feed/ 0     How much of the Internet are you missing because of filters http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/05/22/how-much-of-the-internet-are-you-missing-because-of-filters/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/05/22/how-much-of-the-internet-are-you-missing-because-of-filters/#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 19:41:12 +0000 Susan Wilson http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/05/22/how-much-of-the-internet-are-you-missing-because-of-filters/ How much of the Internet are you missing because of filtersThe vast frontier of the Internet is not as vast as we may think.  When we click [...] Related posts:
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    ]]>     http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/05/22/how-much-of-the-internet-are-you-missing-because-of-filters/feed/ 2     4chan founder targets mainstream http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/03/14/4chan-founder-targets-mainstream/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/03/14/4chan-founder-targets-mainstream/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:00:39 +0000 John Lister http://tech.blorge.com/?p=36512 4chan founder targets mainstreamThe man who’s site has been credited with (or blamed for) everything from LolCats and Rick Rolling to fighting Scientology has formally launched a more mainstream project. 4chan’s Christopher Poole says Canvas will be the best place to share and play with [...] Related posts:
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    3. AT&T blocks viral birthground 4chan
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    Yep, a freelance journalist and an illustrator have now created a 48-page comic about Mark Zuckerberg and his [...] Related posts:

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    2. Facebook wants to control the words “Face” and “Book”
    3. Is Comic Sans the “plague of our time”?
    ]]>     http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/02/24/facebook-becomes-comic-book/feed/ 0     Parents beware: your toddlers are tech savvy http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/01/25/parents-beware-your-toddlers-are-tech-savvy/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/01/25/parents-beware-your-toddlers-are-tech-savvy/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:00:00 +0000 Susan Wilson http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/01/25/parents-beware-your-toddlers-are-tech-savvy/ Parents beware: your toddlers are tech savvyUsed to be that when you needed your VCR programmed you would call the next door neighbor’s teenager.  Now VCR’s are a [...] Related posts:
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    3. Parents starting to understand that M is for ‘Mature’
    ]]>     http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/01/25/parents-beware-your-toddlers-are-tech-savvy/feed/ 1     Start-up about.me snatched up by (gasp!) AOL http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2010/12/21/start-up-about-me-snatched-up-by-gasp-aol/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2010/12/21/start-up-about-me-snatched-up-by-gasp-aol/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:05:51 +0000 Michael W. Jones http://tech.blorge.com/?p=35064 Apparently, this is not your father’s AOL. The venerable, which is to say long-in-the-tooth, keeper of Grandmother’s portal to the internet has acquired the oh-so-hip about.me site just as the doors open.

    The vast majority of my contact with [...] Related posts:

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