Submitted by Brendan McNulty
Since two people I know are now professional iPhone developers, I've taken a bit of a closer look at the App Store, the iPhone and marketing of applications. There are a few things I find interesting:
1) It's essent...
The social media buzz is barely dying down as more and more mainstream companies jump on the well-oiled bandwagon that has been created in the last couple of years. There is, however, one problem the social media gurus never told us -- harnessing the...
Jerry Yang will be stepping down as Yahoo! CEO in the near future; as soon as they find a capable replacement. In an email to the employees, he says the decision to step down was taken jointly with the board. In translation: the board gave a vote of ...
I've promised myself never to go on too much about social apps, but there is one app that I've fallen in love with, and I'd love to share it. I signed up to Geni purely by chance -- I think it was to check out the flash tree visualisation -- and my a...
In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit.(it.jhu.edu/glossary/mno.html)
This is a less-confusing name for what is also called 'free software'. It...
I've been covering IT, and its newer acronym, ICT, for nearly ten years. In that time I've had the joy of watching the trends go around, and around. I've watched hype become reality, usually in a far longer time period than the vendors would like, an...
Have I allowed myself to become outdated, irrelevant, inconsequential and stuck in a dark corner of the early 2000s? Has technology passed me by and been handed on to a younger generation of smart, happening geeks?
My friend Vincent called me up s...
Ever used Google? How about the Firefox browser? Or maybe you are Facebook fan? Enjoy reading Thought Leader?
Or maybe you have something against using free stuff?
Chances are, you love free stuff. And that is a good thing. But it is a problem...
I always wanted to be like Siener Van Rensburg, except without the beard, male-pattern baldness and crazy right-wing followers. Predicting the future seems to be a pretty easy gig -- if people find out you are wrong on something you simply make up so...
Not a day goes by that I am not amazed by the power of Google, the functionality of its products and the amazingly easy to use tools that are at my disposal. But when I speak to friends, family and colleagues about these cool tools, I discover that ...
