Just a short post this morning to let you know about a little trick my pal Shea passed me over my Facebook feed this morning. Log in to Facebook Do this on your keyboard: UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A *ENTER* (Yeah, that’s the Konami Code) Now just scroll up and […]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Twitter has been a monetization puzzle for many because it possesses enormous popularity and “mindshare” among the internet savvy, but does not present any straightforward way to make money. Attempts have been made to market through tweets or through the background wallpapers, but neither of these have been very […]
By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] Steve Gillmor says that RSS is dead. As a member of the RSS Advisory Board, I feel compelled to inform Mr. Gillmor that his pronouncement is a bit premature. Gillmor’s point seems to be that people no longer directly consume RSS feeds through their feed readers – that […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] So Google is getting in on the whole “going green” thing by foregoing the “noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air” in favor of renting a bunch of goats to chew on the lawn at the company headquarters in Mountain View. Two hundred of them hang […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] As far as well-known authors embracing social networking go, Neil Gaiman has been right up there, a popular blogger since 2001 (and yes, I do rather love John Scalzi, who definitely beat him to the punch, but we’re talking pure star power here). Now he’s taking Twitter by storm, […]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Maybe you’ve heard about the recent controversy over the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. This device, probably the most complex machine ever devised by man, has been the focus of much debate because of its potential to do two things. Be an enormous waste of money Create a black […]
Most people who use Twitter will be gone within a month according to newly published figures. Number-crunchers say the trend means Twitter’s past growth rate will be unsustainable. The figures from web research firm Nielsen Media say that only 40% of people using the site during a month will still be using Twitter the following […]
Can you imagine this kind of thing happening for real on a large scale? If people would start doing this, I’d probably move as far away from civilization as I can, in a middle of a wood somewhere in the great Canadian north possibly. [Via TechEblog]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] Want to track the swine flu outbreaks on your desktop? A chap named “niman” has created a nifty Google Map of all the swine flu activity…ON EARTH! View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map Key: Pink markers are suspect Purple markers are confirmed Deaths lack a dot in marker […]
Oh, wait – writing on the Wall is a Facebook thing. But increasingly, so is MySpace’s business. The erstwhile king of social media sites has been deposed by Facebook, which now has over 200 million profiles. Everybody has a Facebook page – but who do you know who is still on MySpace but who isn’t […]