Archive for October, 2009

1 minute and 16 seconds for Google Reader to start up and load 1,500 friends is too long. Well holy shit, a minute (don’t forget the sixteen seconds) for a web application to load in your browser and at the same time load all the multitude of feed data that comes along with having 1,500 friends is too long. Full story

People that fake death reports are not high on my favorite people’s list at the moment. I have no clue why there has been an uptick in fake reports of celebrity deaths as of late, but it has gotten to the point of being annoying, and it certainly isn’t funny. The other day I wrote up a SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Celeberity Death Hoaxes", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2009/10/31/celeberity-death-hoaxes/" });Post from: ... Full story

Are you on any Twitter lists? Have you had your ego stroked by seeing the number of Twitter lists you are on climb? What the hell are Twitter lists you ask. Well my obviously social media deficient friend these lists are the new digerati’s A-List. It is how you are now going to be able to measure Full story

Ever run in to a Web site that you know for sure started loading a virus on to your computer? Why not do your part to keep the Internet safe and report them? Last night I encountered a virus attempting to load itself on to my system.  This was not a nefarious site, and one Article originally published by StarterTech.comHow To Report A ... Full story

News flash: the Internet is not always a nice place to hang your hat. However it seems that with the meteoric rise of social media and all the services that live in that realm such as Twitter some folks may not realize that not everything is sweetness and light. As much as the mavens of social media Full story

Music download site BlueBeat is offering up a treat this Halloween weekend, but we suspect it will be getting a trick come Monday morning. The tale of how The Beatles have not licensed their catalog for digital download Full story

Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards! For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "CobWEBs Daily Edition – Come on Microsoft, quit ... Full story

In a little bit of a departure from our normal cynicism over daily events in the tech world Sean and I delve into a conversation about something sure to make Apple fans laugh out loud and point fingers at us as delusional Microsoft fanboys (like they aren’t). Full story

Google learned a valuable lesson today about always making sure your PDF documents are always properly formatted, otherwise you may reveal more about your operations than you intended. In the continuing investigation of Google’s phone routing service, Google Full story

The real time web is showing up just about everywhere these days. Regardless of whether there is any merit of Google, and Bing, incorporating Twitter into their search results it appears that Google could be making a major shift in how it indexes the freshest content available. According to an excellent post by Sarah Perez at Full story