I saw this on the language log a few days ago - I had a chuckle....

This past weekend I was giving Google Latitude a second chance. When I used it the first time around it had a bit of a hard time finding my location. While technically I was within that big giant circle (I guess that was where the cell tower was), I do have an iPhone IIIgs which does have a built in GPS.In other apps that use my location (like the maps app) it finds my location precisely, switch over

You've probably already seen the video of the Zune HD interface.I think it doesn't look all that bad (on video anyway). What I am interested in seeing in the Zune development world is to see if there is going to be an AppStore and if there are going to be many applications like on Windows Mobile and the iPhone. I wonder how many WinMo developers make the jump...The Zune HD also begs the question, will

Well, it seems that Yahoo has a new way of advertising their Homepage redesign - by offering to analyze your twitter mojo. Generally I find that these things are good for a good chuckle so I temporarily unprotected my twitter feed (yes, it's protected) to see what my mojo is.I don't know what's funnier, the little Sherlock Holmes like bird, or the fact that I was classified as a private eye.If you

I was reading this article on Mashable over the weekened and this little statistical tidbit raised an eyebrow. According to a new study by Proofpoint, an Internet security firm, of companies with 1,000 or more employees, 17 percent report having issues with employee’s use of social media. And, 8 percent of those companies report having actually dismissed someone for their behavior on sites like Facebook

A number of years ago I had written a post about how ungodly complicated Microsoft's presentations seems to be in comparison with Steve Job's keynote addresses. This past week I came across (as did many others), the Windows 7 upgrade chart, official from Microsoft themselves.Now, a few years have passed since that last blog post on simplicity in presentations, and it appears that Microsoft has yet

I alithia einai pos oloi μας γράφουμε pou kai poy sta greeklish. Σε πολλά φόρουμ αν γράφω greeklish πολλοί παρακαλάνε να γράφουμε με ελληνικούς χαρακτήρες, και άμα τους αγνοούμε το παίξουν ανώτεροι και μας πάνε με το κακό.Τις προάλλες διάβαζα αυτό

I was reading this article recently and a couple of things caught my eye.The top three reported challenges were:Rapidly changing technologyLack of staff support or interestLack of curriculum resourceI get lack of curriculum resources and lack of staff support or interest. What I don't get is the rapidly changing technology aspect. When I was in high school doing computer science, I learned computer

Έχω καιρό να γράψω ένα στάτους ποστ για την ιστοσελίδα - μου θυμίζει τις παλιές καλές μέρες που το μπλόγκ είχε λίγα προσωπικά και αρκετά version updates. Τελικά στην κεντρική σελίδα έβγαλα πια στον σύνδεσμο για το «είμαι φοβερός

When I saw this presentation on another blog I was thinking to myself "yet another one of these...jeez..."The truth though is that the presentation was quite well done :-)What the F**K is Social Media: One Year LaterView more documents from Marta Kagan.