Y’know how some of us keep saying the Silicon Valley agenda is not progressive and that it’s anti-copyright (think labor rights) positions are not in any way about YOU the users of its wondrous TUBES? Well, welcome to the real face of Google, which may start to look a lot more like a portrait of Grover Norquist than its progressive ...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been rightly taken to task in this Vanity Fair article by Alyssa Bereznak for his recent declaration of outrage that the NSA has been spying on his company. The collective spit-take could be heard clearly around the blogosphere. Despite Schmidt’s own efforts to keep his private life private, the CEO is among the leading voices who ...
The Illusion of Search Casey Chan at Gizmodo.com suggests in this brief post that Google.com “barely shows real search results” on an initial results page, devoting a lot of screen real estate instead to Google services. According to the linked study at Tutorspree, the problem is only exacerbated on smaller screens, and searching for products and services appears to put ...
Okay, I haven’t seen The Internship yet, and it’ll be a small miracle if I find the time. Certainly if it were not for this blog, I wouldn’t have any interest. But if the sampling of viewer responses on Rotten Tomatoes is any indication, it’s a safe bet that this particular Vaughn/Wilson vehicle has all the appeal of a driverless Porsche. ...
There are few companies on the planet that can pony up a half-billion dollar fine for criminal behavior and shrug it off like an overpriced night on the town. And there are probably even fewer companies that can pay such a fine and continue to get away with the very same behavior. But then, not every company is a as ...
