Okay, so I got Greasemonkey like a year ago, played around with it, added my one or two little scripts that sounded cool, and never looked or touched it again, aka, probably (and I’m assuming) the typical Greasemonkey-er.
Now I’m someone that’s online several hours a day, every day. I work a lot and [...]
As Twitter continues it’s rise in the world of social media, companies are scrambling for ways to reach consumers through the micro-blogging service. Marketing firms like MagicShovels are responding by offering a paid service that sells targeted Twitter followers to companies and individuals.
The new service allows you to buy Twitter followers in quantities that range [...]
A spin off of Carnegie Mellon University, ReCaptcha, has been acquired by Google. The technology aims to reduce the amount of spam and fraud for websites by providing users with a simple word puzzle that they must solve when registering at a website or completing a purchase. It works in its simplicity as computers cannot [...]
Do you hate manicures and love sports and porn? Or do you miss the music where band names were things like like Iron Maiden, Guns N’ Roses, and Nine Inch Nails instead of Black Eyed Peas and New Kids on the Block? Can’t believe Labradoodles are categorized as a dog along with Dobermans and Rottweilers? [...]
Digg just announced a new platform that will allow users to vote for advertisements just as they do for content. This beta version will be rolled out over the next few days to a select few to help test the product.
“We’re rolling Digg Ads out initially to small sets of users to help us test [...]
Google Inc. announced on Wednesday that they will be buying out a small software development firm operating out of New York’s Capital Region called On2. It is expected that the company, which is best known for developing software that makes digital video easier to store and distribute in small files, will be sold for $106.5 [...]
In an effort to control how the troops engage with the open web, the US Marine Corps has banned the use of social networking sites from its network. The ban on popular websites like Twitter and Facebook is effective immediately and will be in place for at least a year.
The corps says the reason for [...]
Google will be launching a developer version of its browser, Chrome, in a week that will allow for cloud-based bookmark syncing, in competition with Mozilla’s Weave and bookmark discovery service Xmarks.
The Chromium mailing list got an email from Google Engineer Tim Steel on Friday saying that the new synchronization code would appear in developer builds [...]
eBay currently powers Skype’s P2P connections via technology provided by Joltid, a Swedish firm which is owned by the original founders of Skype. eBay may have to come up with a workaround for this technology as Joltid says that they are terminating the license agreement which eBay went against as it said that could not [...]
As of 15:00 UTC, the FirefoxCounter Tweeted that the browser has officially registered over 1 billion downloads. The count includes all versions of the software dating back to its first release in 2004.
TechCrunch reported yesterday that Mozilla’s browser had passed 999 million downloads during the morning. It took just about 19 more hours to hit [...]