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First Week with A Kindle Fire
“Honey, I went to Target for paper towels and came home with a tablet.” Well, that wasn’t exactly how it happened, but it was close enough. After mulling for a few months over whether to get a tablet,...
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Idea: A YouTube Hub for Crowdsourcing Translations
So, I’m in trouble with Google. Kind of. On Saturday, I got the following e-mail about a video clip on my YouTube account: Your video “Lin Chong kills Wang Lun”, may have content that is owned or...
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Chromecast Review: Exceeding Expectations After 60 Minutes
I ordered Google’s Chromecast on the second day after its unveiling, by which time the video-streaming device was already sold out. After waiting almost a month, I finally got my Chromecast today. I’ve...
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Life with a Chromebook: Living in the Browser
Last month, I got an Acer C720 Chromebook as a present. I had been looking to replace my old netbook for a while, and the idea of a Chromebook intrigued me. How well can I get by with a computer that...
View ArticleFirst Look’s Non-Problem Problems
Vanity Fair has a long piece on the troubles at First Look Media. That, coupled with other reports about the media startup’s recent turbulence, makes it sound like part of the problem is a clash of...
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Death to Embed Codes with Script Tags
Recently, while putting together a story for a website at work, I wanted to include a collection of tweets as part of the story. No problem, right? Twitter has an “Embed Tweet” function specifically...
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Facebook’s Non-apology Apology
After Facebook has been taking a PR pounding over the last few weeks over its privacy-control issues, its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has finally given a public response. He wrote in a column in the...
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How Higher Ed Is Like Newspapers, and How It’s Not
Bill Gates’ recent prediction about the Internet becoming the best single source of education in five years and that the university education will be five times less important touched on something...
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Testing Google Translate’s New iPhone App
Google has released a Google Translate app for the iPhone that includes a feature that allows you to speak in one language and have the app translate your words into another. I was curious to see how...
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Alexa, What’s A Narrative That Never Goes Out of Fashion?
Businessweek published a big cover story about “eavesdropping” smart speakers last week, complete with a WTF video illustration. I thought the story seemed kind of familiar, so I went digging through...
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