Aug 27, 2009

Submitted by Mohall: Users of social networking websites could face higher insurance premiums because burglars are using them to 'shop' for victims' personal details.Experts from leading insurer Legal & General warn that parents could eventually see their premiums rise even if only their children are members of popular sites such as Facebook an (Read More)

Jun 15, 2009

The Next Web With an ever-increasing number of places to publish content online, keeping track of it all can be difficult. Pulling it all together and presenting it all in visually pleasing way is a surprisingly difficult task. Quite a few ‘Lifestreaming’ solutions have sprung up in the last couple of years, allowing you to turn your we (Read More)

Jun 15, 2009

Submitted by Mohall: It's been four years this month since Apple announced it would drop the PowerPC architecture and switch to Intel's x86 design. One person involved in the back-and-forth between Apple and IBM at the time provides some insight into why it happened. (Read More)

May 08, 2009

TechCrunch We all know about Twitter’s downtime today. It was a scheduled maintenance service that was supposed to last for about an hour. Sure enough, after about an hour, Twitter came back, but only partially. Over the past hour since it’s been back it’s been up and down, but mostly down. And now there’s another problem, FriendFeed (Read More)

Apr 19, 2009

Submitted by Mohall: Checking: YouTube - Homeland Security Report Upsets Veterans > http://bit.ly/1zdAq - Napolitano regrets “politicization” of report. (Read More)

Apr 18, 2009

Submitted by Mohall: Sharing: Teen Twitter worm writer gets job, spreads new worm (Michael Mooney, aka "Mikeyy") [CNET News] > http://htxt.it/ZOSc. (Read More)

Mar 20, 2009

ReadWriteWeb So you've joined Twitter and have finally started to get the hang of things. You know to put an "@" sign in front of usernames for public replies and you know how to send private messages with a "d." You filled out your profile and have mastered the art of TinyURLs. You even found some interesting people to follow and have (Read More)

Feb 19, 2009

MakeUseOf.com One of the most powerful and popular online classified ad websites is clearly Craigslist. In Google Trends, search patterns for Craigslist far surpass those for other free ad services such as Kijiji or USFreeAds.Much of the power of the multitude of Craigslists are that while they certainly cover local communities, the lis (Read More)

Jan 28, 2009

Submitted by Mohall: House Republicans have defeated the bill to extend the DTV switch by a vote of 258-168 (less than two-thirds). In their view, a delay would confuse customers and financially burden television stations.So, for now, end game is still happening on February 17th and not June 12th as the Obama administration had hoped. With the (Read More)

Jan 27, 2009

Mashable! We’re living in tricky commenting times, where your blog content can (and will) receive comments across multiple sites and platforms. It gets to be rather messy, especially if you’re an active FriendFeed user. Now, in an effort to straighten up the comment mess, FriendFeeders who use Disqus for comment management can check (Read More)

Jan 24, 2009

TwitLinks What does a Twitter meltdown look like? Probably something like the above, in which the user @astrospace loses his cool and goes on the attack. While there are some rumors about the account possibly being hacked (I’m looking into those - please comment if you know more), the dominant theory remains that the account (Read More)

Jan 23, 2009

Lifestream Blog Two months ago I wrote a post about how the big boys are starting their Lifestreaming initiatives. At the time Yahoo had just rolled out their new profile pages and they really seemed to be these isolated outposts without any functionality worth mentioning.Well the other day they finally added the ability to provide a Lifes (Read More)

Jan 23, 2009

ReadWriteWeb If you want to stay current on the latest updates from U.S. government agencies, you can now find a central repository of RSS feeds with the latest breaking news from these agencies on the newly designed news.USA.gov, the U.S. government's official online portal. The site now hosts a selection of RSS feeds with updates abou (Read More)

Jan 22, 2009

TechCrunch UK-based Tweetdeck, probably the best desktop application to date for tracking your Twitter feeds, has completed the funding round hinted at recently. The funding will come it at just under $500,000. As expected, Betaworks is leading the investment into Tweetdeck. The other participants are a mix of London and New-York base (Read More)

Jan 20, 2009

Mashable! Open Wi-Fi network WeFi doesn’t shy from using social media and web services for promotion; they launched a Twitter mashup and a Facebook application last year.Now, they have a free directory up with over one million Wi-Fi hotspots, available over at wefi.com. An online directory is nice, but much more important is the phon (Read More)

Mo Hall

Ex-soldier, Vietnam Vet, x-Specialist. Lovin' Mac, Social Media, Travel, Photography, Technology, E-gadgets & more. Reflections of old school, exploring the new.