It seems everyone and their dog is coming out with a netbook. Verizon and AT&T are the latest entrants in the race to produce the itsy-bitsiest, teeny-weeniest, underpoweredest laptop on Continue reading »

If you're anything like me - and if you're reading this, chances are you are - you have a lot of online identities to juggle. LinkedIn, FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, Google Continue reading »

I'm not at SXSW this year, but I might as well be. True, I don't get to run into my friends and colleagues in person, and I'm not rubbing elbows Continue reading »

The kerfuffle over Verizon's charming 45-day opt-out period is one more in a long, long chain of incidents that explain why privacy advocates' foreheads have such distinctive brick-wall scarring on Continue reading »

Okay - have we all had a good long laugh at the digital cognoscenti who managed to get themselves infected by that Google Worm last week? Are we done yet? Continue reading »

Between the iTunes Genius Sidebar, Amazon's recommender system and Pandora's virtual DJ, recommender systems are now getting close to knowing my tastes better than I do. There's a certain seductive Continue reading »

My inbox is jammed with memes: messages that ask you to disclose ndeeply-held (or completely trivial) secrets about yourself, and then to tag n people who have to do the Continue reading »

Google Latitude is out, giving your friends the ability to tell where you are (or at least where your mobile phone is) 24/7. You can, of course, opt out in Continue reading »

It dawned on me this week: I'm cautious as hell about my Twitter credentials. Paranoid about my Facebook activity stream... And yet all you have to do is tell me Continue reading »

So apparently we've walked through the Foyer of Financial Fiasco and plunked ourselves down right in the centre of the Living Room of Economic Doom (settling into the Sofa of Continue reading »