Tech Town, NC

All sorts of blog posts about this apparently significant outage:
Suggestions of hacking - http://strennery.wordpress.com/
Bemused cynicism - http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/
Sympathy - http://mashable.com/

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Alexa adds Firefox toolbar - Officially. This should change the Alexa rankings of a lot of significant sites, as no one I know still uses IE unless they have to. I had been using the unofficial search status add-on for some time, which worked great, but I’ve added sparky anyway, just to make […]

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With the news this week that Business 2.0 may be shutting its doors after the September issue the tech community is starting to feel for the fortunes of the old guard of Print Publishers (Yes, in the tech community a 7 year old publication counts as the “old guard”). In these heady days of […]

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The ongoing YouTube experiment (financed by Google) continues as the buyer tries to find ways to monetize the content. Today, for the first time, I noticed a new sort of ad that appeared as a banner at the bottom of a video I was watching. The video happened to be one of the […]

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This week Google unveiled a new feature on the Google Maps platform. No, not My Maps, that was ages ago. No, not street view either. It’s user reviews for local businesses. Now when you search a business you can click a “more info” link to read user reviews (assuming someone has […]

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