April 21, 2009

Hackers Breach the Pentagon “Fighter Program”


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The Pentagon got pwned.

The U.S. Government has been hacked many times in the past. This time by a group of unknown hackers (they point their big finger at China (as usual, but have no real proof.) However the risk is increasingly signifigant, as talent is no longer for sale. The people with real talent, “hack the planet” to create anarchy. Or to get attention, either way I respect it. Why? Because the government deserves it, and I am not anti-america, but I am for darwinism.

If only the Founding Fathers, who started this wonderful country could see what a shambles the political system has become. The United States Government is un-oficially in the deadpool (and on notice!) It is not smarter than the millions of computer uber geeks across the world. Seriously the revolution will not be televised, it will be digitalised, and who will give it to you? The rebal army, kids that drop out of school or work to live technology. They already rule the world now Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Arrington, Sergey Brin, etc. These people are free thinkers, that created their own cult, and abandoned their traditional eduction. Traditional education is a disease, it infects people with drive to succumb to the United States’ “teet.” Politics in general is a disease, like religion, and should be banned from facebook’s description options… lol.

However I digress (this is a tech blog after all) the hackers managed to get access to a $300 billion dollar fighter program. The type of information billions of tax payer dollars are used to protect our defenses. Yet they cannot put up a decent firewall?

The hackers probably communicated their plan on the popular image board 4chan, who’s followers recently managed to get 4chan’s founder Christopher Poole a.k.a. “moot” to the top of the TIME100.

April 15, 2009

Snapnames Migrates their Registrars to Moniker Services


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Oversee.net currently reigns over Moniker, Snapnames, RevenueDirect, and DomainSponsor

Oversee.net currently reigns over Moniker, Snapnames, RevenueDirect, and DomainSponsor

I got this after recently following DomainSponsor’s Twitter account.

Important Changes To Your SnapNames Registrar Account

SnapNames has been working to revise and enhance the system we provide you to access and manage your domain names across multiple registrar accounts. Our new system launches today, and we want to explain how the new system works and provide you details on the transition.

The new system is hosted by and accessed through our sister company, Moniker. This arrangement provides you a wider range of options for managing, protecting and monetizing your names, all backed up by our industry-leading support team.

It’s important to note your names have not been transferred from their current registrars to the Moniker registrar. The new system is merely hosted by Moniker, so going forward, you will access your account via the Moniker website.

How will this transition work?

1. Within the next 24 hours, a new Moniker account under your name will be automatically created for you. Access to your SnapNames registrar accounts via the usual interface will then be discontinued.

2. As soon as your account at Moniker is created, you will receive a confirmation e-mail from Moniker, followed by a second email containing additional instructions. For security reasons, these e-mails will NOT contain your password. (If you don’t see an e-mail from Moniker, please check your Spam or Junk folder.)

3. Follow the instructions in the second e-mail to request a password from Moniker.

4. After you receive your new password, you can login to your new account at www.moniker.com at anytime.

5. If you already have an account at Moniker, you can choose to consolidate all accounts under one account for ease of use (See the FAQ).

What this means is all the registrars that were accessed from your manage.snapnames.com account will now be held at moniker. This may stir up some controversy with long term snaps users, as Moniker is a more known registrar. Which will most likely cause more complaints from the people who let their domains expire directed to Moniker. However will cause much less confusion with people that have their snapnames auction wins at various sub-accounts. Having a central hub for all my registrations will save me time and money, so all-in-all a positive upgrade for oversee.net

April 6, 2009

5 Must Have Apps for the iPhone


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I see a few of these “must have apps for the iphone” posts pop up, but none of them seem to really nail it when it comes to picking the right apps. I wan’t to share the best apps, that are sometimes harder to find, but I am a perfectionist that expects quality over quanity. Here are some of my must have apps, and hopefully I can nail it for some of you.

1. Facebook - This app is the best there is, developed in-house by facebook, and it is the epitome of what app design should be. The interface is clean, and no one would dare try and make a clone to compete with such a perfect app. It displays photos w/ tags so well, and honestly is my favorite app to use on the iPhone. In fact I wasn’t really a heavy facebook user until I downloaded this app, and it has connected me on so many levels. The only thing I could ask for would be a search friends function, but that is it!

2. Twitterrific - I’ve tried them all; tweetie, twittelator, twitterfan, whrrl, and tweetsville (which is my second choice.) The reason I like Twitterrific so much is the sleek interface, it works well with the iPhone, and I have no problem viewing my timeline and sending out new tweets. The premium version is better, but I’m not sure it is worth the $9.99 price tag. Although if you are a heavy tweeter then I would recommend it. All twitter apps are lacking something, and none of them seem to be perfect. For instance it is impossible to find new trends in twitterrific, but tweetsville does it wonderfully. I would definitely suggest installing both apps, and skipping on the premium price tag of Twitterrific, which is still a terrific app.

3. Mint (financial) - The mint.com app is certainly one of the best budget apps for the iPhone, and it is completely free. I see loads of expensive money management apps out there, and they have less features than mint does and again mint is free! It tracks your spending, and sends you email notifications if your bank charges you a fee. Even if you have low funds (under $50) in your account you will be notified, saving you cold hard cash from those overdraft fees the banks love to dish out. Of course you need to sign up to their website, which is alos free, and set up your account from there. However the app is missing the ability to naively categorize purchases in real-time. It is still wonderful for keeping track of multiple accounts and seeing your spending reports with a very easy to understand interface. Mint can learn over time what you spend on certain things like; gas, groceries, entertainment, etc. and categorize them to let you know how much money you have left for each category as to not exceed your normal spending.

4. Gazette - This RSS feed reader app that has the ability to sync with Google reader. There are quite a few RSS apps that are simular, but this one is the best, and only has a pricetag of $1.99. It has a very familiar interface that is seamlessly designed for the iPhone, an offline mode, and superb organization. It took me a while to find this gem since it is not what you get when you type in RSS reader in the appstore.

5. ego - The ego app developed by Garrett Murray is absolutely essential to web developers, web gurus, and people who have influence on the web 2.0 netscape. It lets you track visitors from Google analytics in a very simplistic fashion that delivers a no-nonsense experience. It let’s you see how many people are following your twitter accounts, I believe you can add unlimited sites and accounts. You can also track your mint web traffic statistics, and see your FeedBurner stats. This is not really for the average app user, but I had to mention it because whenever I have some free time I can load this app, and basically restore my ego to normal. Since of course nothing is more satisfying than having tons of traffic and thousands of followers on your twitter account.

Why Twitter Should Abandon Links to URL Shorteners


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url shortening cuts the fat, but it's gross!

url shortening cuts the fat, but it's gross!

If you type a long URL in to twitter, it will either shorten the URL for you, or force you to use one of the tens of URL shortening services that will turn your long URL in to something like http://bit.ly/1yz8Ap or http://tinyurl.com/db7p9g. Essentially what this does as pointed out on joshua schachter’s blog in a post titled  where he states most importantly ”The publisher’s problems are milder. It’s possible that the redirection steps steals search juice — I don’t know how search engines handle these kinds of redirects. It certainly makes it harder to track down links to the published site if the publisher ever needs to reach their authors. And the publisher may lose information about the source of its traffic.”

Also noteworthy tech blog TechCrunch also mentions that this URL shortening boom is directly related to Twitter. This is where I agree 100%, if it wasn’t for Twitter than there would be almost no surge in URL shortening services. Forums and blogs alike automatically cut lengthy links by adding a … after so many characters but effectively does not redirect to a different URL. The problem with URL shortening is that those URLs are hi-jacked, and instead of feeding your SEO, who knows what happens to your linkbacks and trackbacks.

The only positive side of this is that huge trackback lists aren’t noted at the end of a blog post, because those twitter users are using URL shorteners and wordpress just doesn’t count that as a trackback. But there are more effective ways around this, and I think the bad outweighs the good. So long story short (no pun intended) I agree that URL shortening sites are a menace, and Twitter should shorten URLs automatically without taking away from the original link.

Web Trends Map Displays the 333 Most Influential Domains


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The Interwebs most influential sites and moguls.

The Interwebs most influential sites and moguls.

 

In an interesting article posted on TechCrunch earlier today. This forth version of the web trends map series is really kickass work. It has some great moguls, and gurus alike all lined up next to their dominant web properties. Of course Michael Arrington is one of the trend setters, and I’m sure scored them some points when getting this thing “crunched.” It is essentially the framework of web 2.0, and the people who stand behind it.

Check out the full sized image easily scaled and viewable on Zoomarama. If you want to order your printed copy only 1,000 will be distributed so you better hurry before they sell out.

This image itself is gorgeously displayed, with a very creative flow of interconnected that humorously shows Yahoo as being a brand of Google.  Here you can see the list of all the companies mentioned via plain text.

Web Sites and Networks: 163.com, 1UP, 24 Gi, 2ch.net, 4chan, 4shared, 56.com , 6.cn , A List Apart, ABC, About.com, Adaptive Path, AdBrite, Adobe, AIGA, AIM, Al-Jazeera, Alexa, Alibaba, Amazon, Amazon Japan, Amazon.de, Ameblo, Ancestry.com, Android, Answers.com, AOL, Apple, Ars Technica, Ask.com, Badongo, Baidu, BBC, Bebo, Beppegrillo, Bigpoint, Blogger, Bloomberg, BoingBoing, Boxes and Arrows, Brandchannel, BuzzMachine, Cisco, CNET, CNET Downloads, CNN, COLOURlovers, Comcast, Comedy Central, Compete, Coudal Partners, Craigslist, Creative Commons, Crooks & Liars, Crunchbase, Crunchyroll, CSS Beauty, CSS Mania, Cyworld, Daily Kos, Dailymotion, Daring Fireball, DataPortability, Dave Winer, del.icio.us, Deposit Files, Der Spiegel, Design Observer, Design Shack, Designers Republic, deviantART, DevX, Die Zeit, Digg, Discuss , Disney, Doodle, Double Click, dpreview.com, Drudge Report, Drupal, DZone, Eastmoney , Easy Share, eBay, eBay Germany, eBay UK, eBuddy, eHarmony, El Mundo, El País, Engadget, ESPN, Expedia, Facebook, FactCheck, FARK, FC2, Federated Media, FeedBurner, FileFactory, Firefox, Fireworks, Flickr, Fotolog, FOX, Friendster, Frog Design, GameFAQs, GameSpot, Gawker, Getty Images, Gizmodo, Globo, Go Fug Yourself, goo, Google, Google AdSense, Google Syndication, Google Analytics, Google Image Search, Google Maps, Gmail, Google Reader, Google News, Google Video, Google Books, Picasa, Google Groups, Google Docs, Google Earth, Google Apps, Google Finance, Google Adwords, Google Answer, Google Checkout, Google Calendar, Google Blogsearch, Picasa, AdSense, Google China, Google Espana, Google France, Google Germany, Google India, Google Indonesia, Google Italy, Google Japan, Google Mexico, Google Netherlands, Google Poland, Google Russia, Google Saudi Arabia, Google Thailand, Google Turkey, Google UK, Gutenberg, Hatena, Heise, Hi5, HowStuffWorks, Huffington Post, Hulu, ICQ, IDEO, iG, IGN, ImageShack, ImageVenue, IMDb, IMEEM, Internet Archive, isoHunt, iTunes, IXDA, Jabber, Joox, Kotaku, kottke, La Repubblica, Last.fm, Le Monde, LinkedIn, Linux, Live Messenger, Live Search, Livedoor, LiveJournal, Mail.ru, Match.com, Media Matters, MediaFire, Meebo, MegaUpload, Megavideo, Metacafe, metroFLOG, Microsoft, Migente, Miniclip, Mininova, Mixi, Monster, MOO, Mop.com, MovableType, MSN, Multiply, MyBlogLog, MySpace, MySQL, MyVideo, Naver, Netflix, Netlog, Netvibes, New York Times, Newsnetz, Newsvine, Nicovideo, Ning, NZZ, O’Reilly, Odnoklassniki, OhMyNews, Opensecrets, Opera, Orkut, Pandora, PartyPoker, PayPal, PChome.net, PDF, Peachpit, PerezHilton, Photobucket, PHP, PingMag, Plaxo, Podcast Alley, PokerStars, Python, QBN, QQ, Rakuten, RapidShare, Reddit, Rivva, Ruby, sapo, Scobleizer, Sendspace, Sina, Skype, Skyrock, Slashdot, Slate, Smashing Magazine, Snap Shots, Snarf-It, Softonic, Sohu, Something Awful, SourceForge, Starware, StatCounter, Studiverzeichnis, StumbleUpon, Subtraction, swissmiss, T-Online, Tagged, Taobao, Techcrunch, Techmeme, Technorati, Terra, The Consumerist, The Daily Show, The Economist, The Onion, The Pirate Bay, The Register, TheGuardian, ThinkGeek, TOM.COM, TorrentMatrix, TorrentReactor, Torrents, Torrentz, Tudou, Twitter, Typepad, U9, Universo Online, USA Today, UseIt, UserCash, Uwants, V Kontakte, Valleywag, Veoh, Versiontracker, Vimeo, Vnet.cn, VOX, W3C, W3Schools, Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, WebMD, Wikipedia, Wikileaks, Wired News, Wonkette, Wordpress, WRETCH, Xanga, XING, Xunlei , Yahoo!, Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Japan, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yandex, Y Combinator, Youku, YourFileHost, YouTube, ZeFrank, Zeldman, zShare

Web Entrepreneurs and Trendsetters: Akash Garg, Alex Welch, Alexis Ohanian, Allen Blue, Anca-Alina Seghedi, Angelo Sotira, Arianna Huffington, Avinash Kaushik, Aza Raskin, Benjamin Bejbaum, Beppe Grillo, Bill Gates, Biz Stone, Bobby Chang, Brewster Kahle, Brian L. Roberts, Bruce D. Smith, Challis Hodge, Charles Geschke, Chris Anderson, Chris DeWolfe, Chris Hughes , Dalton Caldwell, Dan Nye, Darren Crystal, Dave Silfry, Dave Winer, David Heller, David Plotz, David Tokheim, Dmitry Shapiro, Drew Curtis, Elaine Wherry, Eric Boyd, Eric Schmidt, Evan Williams, Eyal Hertzog, Felix Miller, Gabe Rivera, Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, George Bodenheimer, Gina Bianchini, Greg Forgatch, Hiroyuki Nishino, Hosea Jan Frank, Ian Anderson, Iggy Fanlo, Jason Calacanis, Jack and Alexander Levin, Jack Dorsey, Jack Ma, Jakob Lodwick, Jakob Nielsen, Janus Friis, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Jeff “CJayC” Veasey, Jeff Bezos, Jeff Jarvis, Jeffery Zeldman, Jesse James Garrett, Jim Buckmaster, Jim Coudal, Jim Jarrett, Jim Safka, Jimmy Wales, John Amato, John Battelle, John Gruber, John T. Chambers, John Warnock, Joi Ito, Jon Stewart, Jonah Peretti, Justin LaFrance, Ken Lerer, Kenji Kasahara, Kevin Rose, Khoi Vinh, Larry Page, Larry Sanger, Loic Le Meur, Marc Andreessen, Marissa Mayer, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, Markos Moulitsas, Martin Stiksel, Matt Drudge, Matt Mullenweg, Matthew Stephens, Meg Whitman, Michael Arrington, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Dell, Mitchell Baker, Mike Jones, Neil Clark Warren, Olivier Poitrey, Paul Graham, Perez Hilton, Pete Cashmore, Pete Deemer, Peter Rojas, Ramu Yalamanchi, Reed Hastings, Rick Cecil, Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda, Robert Scoble, Robert Small, Rupert Murdoch, Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg, Scott Jarkoff, Sean Parker, Sergey Brin, Seth Godin, Sheryl Sandberg, Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Stewart Butterfield, Thomas Enraght-Moony, Tihan Presbie, Tim Berners-Lee, Tim Brown, Tim O’Reilly, Tim Sullivan, Tina Roth Eisenberg, Tom Anderson, Toni Schneider, Vince Broady, Vint Cerf

Kudos to all those who made it in to this interpreted web hall of fame, and all the creators of the artwork that took so much time and effort to show everyone how the web REALLY works.

The Direct Navigation Cold War


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Google is an unstoppable Machine, and I only see the big G getting bigger as the years of the present future roll on. What they bring to the Internet is a form of globalisation, a trend that will be realized as world leaders unite. However as much as Google wants you to believe they are not evil, at least until recently, but it is an inevitable fact they will reap what they promised would never sew.

As a domainist, a web developer, and an online consumer I have personal experience dealing with Google from all aspects. I use Google to find what I need, and I am usually satisfied. It is like going to Wal*Mart, but on the web (that is what scares me.) As I am satisfied as a consumer, as a business owner I am very displeased. The people I want to reach are in control by Google, they see everything the way Google does, and the only control I have is in the free Internet. Which is a phrase Frank Schillng coined as direct navigation traffic in his 2007 post similarly title “The Cold War Against Direct Navigation” This is traffic which comes from users typing in a domain name in to the browser URL bar. It is a practice Google is trying to eliminate, and it is obvious by the design of their own browser Chrome.

Why is this bad? Heck I use Chrome myself, it is a great browser. But let me give you an example of just how powerful Google is. Syndicate companies like Sedo, DomainSponsor, and NameDrive all use the Google feed. It is estimated that these parking companies including Adsense for domains (G’s own parking service) generate at least 5% of Google’s income, which is an insane amount of money, and fuels most of the domainer economy.

Now why would Google try so hard to eliminate direct navigation? A practice that generates them so much revenue each year? Because by eliminating URLs they are eliminating the free Internet. They will make more money eliminating the domain industry than by helping it. If everyone uses Google then all alternatives of Google will be killed. There are tons of other search engines available but only few are known. It is because Google is big brother, and they control your eyeballs.

Is this the end of the world? Of course not. Google will always have one flaw, and that is it is subject to type in value itself. In fact Google used to rely solely on type ins until search bars were created, and that seems like ancient history. If everything turns in to a search bar then domains would be worthless, and only rankings in Google would matter. Unfortunately this theory could become a reality. It is what Google wants, and if fulfilled could potentially destroy the Internet itself. It is hard to stomach that Google is out to ruin the web, but it is their unintentional intention. As they are do no evil, control is evil, and the free Internet goes against Google’s business model.

There really is no solution to this problem, other than the rise of a new search engine that can retain at least 50% of the market share. A competitor that can boost ad payouts to publishers could help save the Internet. The only possible contender at the moment is Twitter, and Google is doing everything it can to try and buy them out before they figure out the power that they have. As Google has every web page. Twitter has every humans status, and the power of immediate information will always triumph. Don’t have too much faith in Twitter though, as it still has the potential to turn sour, cluttered and useful as myspace has over time.

However I digress. There really is no Google killer out there, as there is no Wal*Mart killer either. It is the change that Obama ran on, but the inevitable change is a shift to globalization. It is hard to argue that it is a bad thing, but it is so easily shown through the wealth of the few largest corporations and banks. Capitalism still exists, but the final frontier is (or shall i say was) the Internet. Trust me on this, there isn’t going to be anything bigger for possibly the end of man kind and eternity.

So as this post falls on deaf ears, and offers no resolution, or real solution. Perhaps I can inspire an uprising. A revolution against consolidation. To end our bee-hivesque future, and incinerate the views of corporations who only want control. A beginning to new business that is open and free. What the early exciting days of web 1.0 had to offer, and the now mundane cookie cutter-ness of web 2.0 perpetuates. All we want is prosperity, but our own conservativeness and fear holds us in and locks us in shackles to a corporate whore mongering society.

April 2, 2009

The G20 Summit, Government Bailouts and Why You Should Be Scared


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Today the world powers held a financial G20 Summit to raise money to regulate a global economy. What people don’t understand about a global economy is that it essentially does what walmart did to small business. Instead of having many financial institutions to lend to people cash, everything will be subsidized and grouped in mass to offer lower interest rates. Which to the average Joe sounds good, right? Well actually that is the plan, but if you have ever played the board game monopoly when 1 player takes over your properties you are out of the game — and that is what will be happening to a lot of small lenders. Less jobs, which equals less opportunity and less wealth spread to the upper middle class, to then serve the lower middle class to form a new serf system. 

When big government gets involved in finances it is the end of monetary freedom. Essentially the world powers are going to take over hard working class business, and distribute wealth via world communism.

 

US President Barack Obama (R) and US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner

US President Barack Obama (R) and US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner

Also going on in the United States Senate; A 7 billion dollar bailout for banks, so basically the fed will increase their stake in central banks and begin their own takeover of our funds. As the United States gains power over the financial system they will basically be printing out the worlds money. So therefor might as well pollute the streams of cash flow as they strive to create a world currency. All of this is bad, and no one will see any of it coming because government transparency will never exist. Obama has a big agenda, and as much as I like his persona I think what he is doing fiscally is manifestly an act to serve the governmental bureaucracy. I am an independent that leans towards the liberal side of things, and Obama scares me big time especially as a business oriented individual. Mainly because I can see him trying to get in every ones pocket. That is not what a president should be doing. Let capitalism work itself out, stay out of business and protect and serve. When government becomes involved in business it just shows how greedy the government is. Why have there not been huge layoffs of state officials, and big government players? Why is it that companies are being hurt, and the government is getting stronger? Because that is indeed what is happening here. 

 

The government acts as a giant police for everything under the sun and the people have no say in any matter because they are uneducated and driven like cattle. It’s right here in The US Treasury Fact Sheet:

“For most of our nation’s history, individual taxpayers rarely had any significant contact with Federal tax authorities as most of the Federal government’s tax revenues were derived from excise taxes, tariffs, and customs duties. Before the Revolutionary War, the colonial government had only a limited need for revenue, while each of the colonies had greater responsibilities and thus greater revenue needs, which they met with different types of taxes.”

History will repeat itself this recession as it has in the past. The extremely rich will create loopholes and end up screwing the upper middle class and hard working people. Think about the quote above when individual taxes didn’t exist in the early 1900s, and the middle class were asked to vote to pass a tax system only on the wealthy tariffs. What do you think happened? The rich created tax loopholes like corporations, and put all the burden on the people who voted for it. The people who complain and are desperate are just setting themselves up because they don’t control money, and never will.

As everyone is outraged at banks being unregulated, do you really want greedy politicians to control the monetary system? Having no control or privacy over your own wealth? We owe the Chinese money, lots of money! This is all about the government getting their hands on your tax dollars. That’s it, plain and simple, and it’s all right in front of you. They cover it up making it seem like banks are evil, but banks just take the icing on the top and give it to the top tier employees. The government will take that icing, and make cake to feed debt and world power. My only point here is who is regulating the government? And why is everyone just sitting idle while they are losing control of every aspect of what this country was founded on, freedom and capitalism.

April 1, 2009

April 1st aka “April Fools” is Epic Fail


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_jester__by_orenji_kunI am not a party pooper and I don’t want to rain on every ones parade today, or anything like that. But I feel like bashing holidays to be a big jerk and get publicity (well just this holiday, which is technically not a holiday but what else would you call it besides a really stupid day.) It doesn’t matter, I just need to touch on a really not so touchy “holiday” on which everyone spends a lot of time thinking up really really not funny pranks.

I live in the 21st century! I have an iPhone that I turn on almost every morning, and it tells me what day it is. Since yesterday was March 31st unless the world got sucked in to a black hole it is April fools day. A day where all the web-savvy companies that have enough money to have a worthless staff of employees (I call them employdont’s) spend an entire week coming up with ideas that will be really surprising and maybe get them some notoriety. But in fact this practice is actually really really really really ANNOYING.

Google has like 10 different April fools jokes, and some for different countries (why??) They have a 3D Google Chrome browser and Auto Pilot for GmailYoutube is upside down what they were going for was “OMG how wacky.” but my reaction was “WTF meh pls stop.” Then they decided to release something called CADIE which stands for Cognitive Autoheuristic (spelled wrong it’s Auto Heuristic) Distributed-Intelligence Entity. LAAMMEEE. Then there is a gBall which I guess is for Australians, but I wasn’t sure if that country had computers yet. Then there’s Google Brain SearchGoogle Books Monograph (wtf seriously!!) Last year they had Google TiSP, and it was sort of funny because it didn’t try to hard and probobly spent their dev team like 10 mins.

My point here is that Google needs to have MASSIVE layoffs. at least 90% of their workforce should be cut. They obviously have nothing better to do than try and scare the pants of retards by flipping youtube upside down. Google is a company that is run by computers, you don’t need luxury cafeterias, or really cool green ball bean bag chairs. You need 3 nerds, and maybe a really crap cubical to run Google. That goes to all web 2.0 companies that made really tedious efforts to try and fool your user base. Don’t waste your time writing fake not funny articles to try and trick people to get listed on TechCrunch’s April fools hall of fame.

April fools used to be funny when people didn’t know what the date was. Now that we have really advanced technology to let us know the date and time, trying to play a prank on a day when pranks are pulled is a catch-22. If you are expecting to be prankedWTF IS THE PRANK. April 1st = FAIL.

March 30, 2009

Dinosaurs Will Get Eaten in Technology Driven Era


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Some people don’t get it, and let me explain. We know them as dinosaurs, they are people that have no web presence or even a twitter account. They are still among us, running for elections, setting up coffee shops, and running law firms. What they all don’t know is they are as good as the dinosaurs that used to roam the earth (dead.)

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What they all don’t know is they are as good as the dinosaurs that used to roam the earth (dead.)

Plain and simple, if you are not harnessing the power of the Internet and new technologies you are only hindering yourself. My girlfriend asks me all the time, “Why is it so important to have twitter, I don’t get it I’d rather read the paper.” I say “listen reading the paper is fine, if you want to get your news 2 days late.” She doesn’t seem to care, but I do. If I am not getting my news directly from the source or a nearby source within 2-3 hours it is not news, it is now trash.

What really matters is the people who are actually running businesses, and still have no desire to create a web site. Let’s not even get started on the fact that most people that even run sites don’t know how to optimize, use archaic design techniques, and will never rank in Googles listings ever. At least they are showing some effort. Geeze I am so sick of hearing someone try and sell me something at my front door, and I tell these solicitors “I am busy guy, just give me your website, and I’ll check it out.” And when they tell me “We don’t have a website we feel it is best to go door to door.” And I say “whaa huh? Stop right there buddy, you think WHAA?” These people are MORONS, and will get their business nowhere. Big companies may have gotten somewhere going door to door in the 50’s, but in the 21st century if you want to play with the big dawgs you better get your ass in gear and turn on your computer.

At the very least sign your business up for facebook and redirect your domain there. I could really care less, as long as you do something. Business cards don’t cut it anymore people, unless that card has your e-mail address, website, twitter account, and maybe your cell number I am not impressed. When I see a business or individual running for office that has covered all aspects of the web then I will be engaged with what you are trying to sell me. If you do not meet my qualifications, and I have nowhere to give you my feedback. Well you will be dust friend, and I hope you will one day see the light.

March 29, 2009

Why the OS debate is Completely Irrelevant


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From the beginning of time, or at least the beginning of time as the future will know it. We know it as the conception of the Internet. An argument has been longstanding, and an ongoing debate still continues to arise. The debate of which computer OS is better, and why. Here is a brief summary that my technomeme robot has gathered from the interwebs.

Unix: I am elite, and you can all suck my b@lls.

Windows: I don’t want to offend anybody, but my windows XP runs fine.

Mac: I have a very expensive computer. If I don’t talk about how much I love it, and make everyone else feel inferior I might create a black hole. 

This debate has been beaten to death, but now it can all end because the operating system is about to become obsolete. It is already happening, and new platforms are being engineered. New languages are being conceived, and new code is being written. The death of the OS, and the rise of the Internet browser.

 

Michael Arrington got me thinking about this a few months back in his highly disputed article “Meet Chrome, Google’s Windows Killer” He was repeatedly flamed, and as many people agreed with him, most disagreed and said he had no idea what an OS was. These people were closed minded, and had no idea what Arrington was trying to point out. The fact that 90% of what most of us do on the computer is within a web browser. For me it is even more like 99%. I use Google chrome myself, and if I can avoid downloading apps that work on my OS that work internally in my web browser you can bet I am there.

Considering there are so many different operating systems available, keep in mind mobile and handheld devices, there will have to be a uniform solution. And that is within the web browser. Sure games will remain developed for the OS. But everything else will be ran on the Internet. Spreadsheets will no longer needed to be downloaded and saved, there are already web apps available that will have live versions of a spreadsheet multiple users can update. No more need to email back and forth what changes and revisions have been done, all of that can be done away with stronger web apps.

This of course doesn’t mean an end to the ongoing “which browser is better debate.” But I hope in the future less web forums are littered with why a mac is better than a PC, and instead filled with what is the best uniform application that works on every OS and mobile phone and can be accessed from any computer in the world. We are finally at a point of true Internet realisation, and inter connectivity will progress us further than we have ever dreamed in the past.