First, the background. Mahalo is a human-powered search engine launched sometime last year. If you’re not so into search engine technology, “human powered” simply means that unlike traditional search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search, Mahalo creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms. With the word [...]

Let me set the stage.
It’s a Saturday night. My wife and I are hanging out with another couple at our apartment. There’s wine involved. It’s 10:45pm. Alicia Keys comes over the speakers. My wife and her friend get the urge. Before you know it, the four of us are belting out [...]

Last week, Pizza Hut announced that it was joining Papa Johns and Dominos in the “text us your order from your mobile device” delivery service war.  After digesting the concept for a few days, it’s made me as gassy as the last time I downed a Supreme pie and some  cheese-injected breadsticks.

If you’re a professional Web scout, you’ve probably already stumbled across a burgeoning trend: Web sites that “welcome” you by having – to quote Zoolander – a ‘really, really, really good looking person’ introduce the site.

Since this blog is all about Web 2.0 and online communications, I have a question I’d like to ask our readers:
How does jury duty work in your neck of the woods?

If you are using Gmail (who doesn’t anyway?) and want to communicate online to a large group of people with common interests as you, the normal thing to do is to create a Google Groups and invite them to join in. Although this is an effective tool for sending messages to your Gmail contacts, [...]

We all have been attacked by spams/viruses through our web-based email accounts every once in awhile if not most of the time. In fact, email spams have become a prevalent issue that web-based email users might have already been immune to this and don’t mind it anymore.

By early 2009 there is a good chance you will stroll into your local Best Buy and be able to buy a Mac. The electronics retailer is planning to double the number of stores that sell Apple computers. While all of the chain’s stores sell iPods, Apple computers are currently available at only [...]

Today on AIM community blog I found an article that might be very useful to many AIM users so if you are one I definitely recommend you to check it out. I know from my experience that  nice organized contact list not only helps you faster find people you are looking for but also lets [...]

For those of us living in America, the race for the White House is in full swing.  It will be impossible to watch the news from this point forward without having politicians shoved in our faces.  In case you can’t get enough on the boob tube, there’s even more on the Web.  Growing at lightening [...]

You’ve got to give credit to the development in the mobile web industry for continually advancing the state of technology. What use to be a technically difficult task of creating mobile web site has now become an easy task. And with a user-friendly mobile creation site such as CellAdmin’s Jagango, creating your mobile web site [...]

Things are getting ugly in the low-cost laptop sector as Intel has bowed out of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program. Citing a “philosophical impasse” (aka, their competitor AMD is providing chips for the computers) the chip maker continues to work towards creating its own expensive laptop, the Classmate.
Sounds to me like some [...]