Keep Your Tab Down by Brewing Some Recession Wine [Drinking]
You’ve brewed your own coffee liqueur, Skittles-flavored vodka, and even made edible shot glasses. What could be left in your alcohol-powered bag of tricks? It’s time to brew some homemade wine. Photo by Rein Rache..
First let’s clear the air on this experiment: you’re no Monopole, and this isn’t going to yield a vintage bottle of [...]
FriendFeed Adds A Mob Tear Gas Option With “Disable Comments”
Just to follow up on our story from Friday, FriendFeed has now implemented the feature that will allow you to disable comments on individual threads.
This move is in response to ours and others’ concerns that while FriendFeed’s real-time commenting component is great for conversation, it also can fuel the mob mentality, and quickly get out [...]
FriendFeed Promises Penicillin For The “Syphilis” — We Sign Up Again
So. Maybe you read Michael’s rant about FriendFeed being like syphilis. His point was that its brilliant technology which facilitates real-time discussions is also perfect for mobs. Mobs that rally around hot topics, and get whipped up into saying fairly awful things about people they don’t really know. I’ve written similar things in the past [...]
Microsoft’s "Gazelle" browser detailed — it’s more of a research project
If you’re particularly attuned to tech gossip, you’ll know that Google’s Chrome OS announcement has prompted a lot of whispers about something called “Gazelle” being cooked up in Microsoft’s labs. Part browser, part OS, the word on the street is that Gazelle will be announced soon, and ultimately compete in some way with either Chrome [...]
Microsoft mystery announcement next week prompted Chrome announcement
Omnipresent Net personality Robert Scoble made his name working for Microsoft as a blogger. So it’s credible when Scoble claims that “Microsoft has a big announcement coming on Monday (I’m embargoed).” Google’s Chrome OS announcement did seem a bit odd, in a why-are-they-announcing-this-now sort of way. Let’s see if Microsoft can keep its secret until [...]
Microsoft May Announce Web-Based Office Monday [Rumors]
A TechCrunch blogger examined tech gadfly Robert Scoble’s FriendFeed chatter and determined that, between all the no-it’s-not-quite-that clues, Microsoft is probably rolling out the web-based aspects of its Office line. Further clues? Office.com announces that it won’t be available as of July 31, 2009—likely because somebody with enough cash to buy such a hot URL [...]
Why Chrome OS Now? Because Microsoft Office In The Cloud Comes Monday.
The timing of Google’s announcement of Chrome OS was curious. I don’t mean the fact that Google moved up the post on it by a day when some details leaked out, I mean the fact that they were announcing it on some seemingly random date in July, well before anything is actually ready to show [...]
