August 8th, 2008
Filipina blogger Issai just tried to install Norton Internet Security on her son’s computer. Apparently, it will be done in 4,294,967,295 minutes. That’s just over eight thousand years.
What’s so special about the number 4,294,967,295? Read More
Tags: funny, Norton, Software, Symantec
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August 8th, 2008
The Hitler parody subtitles meme, which has been around the block so many times it actually iterated on itself, now gets applied to Twitter.
From Xbox to HDDVD to Twitter, this meme seems to work particularly well on just about any tech topic. Clearly, there’s a lot to rage about in tech. Wait ’til he hears that 4chan’s down.
Tags: funny, Hitler, Microblogging, parody, Twitter
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August 8th, 2008
The tech IPOs are back, baby. Rackspace has a longstanding reputation as the luxury hosting company, the one you get before your business grows into needing a CDN. They were actually YouTube’s first hosting company: just two years ago, Chad and Steve had over a hundred servers there. Their IPO this morning is an overnight success ten years in the making. Read More
Tags: Business, Hosting, Investment, IPO, NYSE, Rackspace
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August 8th, 2008
For a time, the iPhone store carried a $999 app called I Am Rich, which does absolutely nothing but show that you can afford to spend $999 on something that does absolutely nothing. Read More
Tags: Apple, I Am Rich, iPhone, Mobile
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By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment
July 21st, 2008
If it weren’t for all the drama he stirred up, that sick and greedy corporate raider Carl Icahn would never have made the Yahoo board. The guy knows nothing of tech.
Nevertheless, it’s better than the proxy board Icahn was pushing for: a bunch of yes-men who would tear Yahoo apart and sell it to Microsoft.
You have to wonder how Yahoo customers and shareholders must feel about this compromise, though. Read More
Tags: Icahn, Yahoo
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July 21st, 2008
She knows her geek culture, she knows her social media, she knows her technology, and she knows her gaming. And she’s totally cool about it all. Happy birthday to tech videoblogging queen Veronica Belmont!
Tags: Babes, Blogging, Gaming, Veronica Belmont, Video
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By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment
July 20th, 2008
Twitter avatars, blog images, and SmugMug photos are all vanishing because Amazon S3 is down.
Hackers? Alas, Amazon probably can’t put the blame on them. They say the problem is internal: Read More
Tags: Amazon, S3
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By Mike Abundo -- 2 comments
July 20th, 2008

A-list bloggers can do miracles. Literally.
Tags: Blogging, funny, Scoble
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July 20th, 2008
Ionut Alex Chitu posts an great review of the new iGoogle. You really should try it for yourself. Here’s the trick to unlock the new features: Read More
Tags: AJAX, Google, iGoogle
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