Category Archives: Teh Interwebz

Twitter may have just committed suicide

Posted on March 13, 2011 by alan

Twitter told third party developers to take a hike. In a statement issued today by Twitter on its official developer mailing list, the company informed third-party developers that they should no longer attempt to build conventional Twitter client applications. I … Continue reading →

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Robb has his 15 minutes.

Posted on March 2, 2011 by alan

And does an excellent job promoting open carry in Florida

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They Wish

Posted on February 21, 2011 by alan

The New York Times says Blogging is dying. No matter how hard you wish it will never be 1976 again.

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Publishers Beware

Posted on February 9, 2011 by alan

Your time is up. Before ebooks, publishers made sense. They paid for the printing costs in exchange for a hefty percentage of the sale. Unless you had bags of money it was almost impossible to become a best selling author … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Teh Interwebz | 7 Comments

AOL: Kiss of death

Posted on February 7, 2011 by alan

AOL is buying the Huffington Post. I’m sure that will work out well for them.

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Egypt cut off from the Internet

Posted on January 28, 2011 by alan

Last night, routes to Egypt disappeared. Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical … Continue reading →

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How to enable HTTPS on Facebook

Posted on January 27, 2011 by alan

Although they’re not enabling it for everyone automatically (which they should) Facebook has started rolling out a setting to enable HTTPS. Like most things FB, it will take a while to roll out to everyone but you should turn it … Continue reading →

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I AM TJIC!

Posted on January 19, 2011 by alan
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pdb is on a roll!

Posted on January 14, 2011 by alan

Not even two weeks into the new year and he’s already blogged twice! Hopefully he can keep up the grueling pace. As for point shooting, there may be SOME people that can do it reliably just like there are SOME … Continue reading →

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The Internet, Disintermediation and You.

Posted on January 8, 2011 by alan

The internet is a massive engine of creative destruction. Historically, one of the biggest problems in commerce was information. Giant businesses were created to leverage economies of scale for information gathering and dissemination. Newspapers, magazines, publishers, radio and television stations, … Continue reading →

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