When Greg Grunberg of Heroes fame announced this morning that he was starting an online coupon business with friends he met on Twitter, I got a little jealous. The service targets the iPhone but I have a Blackberry through Verizon Wireless. Since when did the Blackberry become the bastard child of mobile devices? Answer: when the iPhone was released, I suppose. I’d love an iPhone… but...

Everybody love a good video… Here’s one that pokes a little fun at the revival of the internet boom and the inevidable crash that will result as investors eagerly over-hype anything with an internet presence. It’s very well done!  Check it out.

Today is a historic day in Washington D.C.!  It marks the first day of our new President’s blog on Whitehouse.gov.  The first post was fascinating because it was the introduction of the Director of New Media for the Whitehouse.  It’s definitely a showing of evolution and our leaders’ willingness to embrace new technology — new technology, mind you, that we’ve been trying...

TechCrunch has a fantastic article on former Google employees and their gripes in a private Google group. The well known search firm that moves the Internet is like any other corporate culture apparently, with questionable managers, flawed hiring processes, unsatisfactory pay rates, and the typical work related complaints. Says Issara, formerly of Google’s Singapore branch: I was hired to work...

One of my favorite episodes of South Park was the episode where the kids get addicted to World of Warcraft and then are recruited by the software company that created the game to rid the network of a powerful player. I first watched the episode with someone who enjoys playing the game regularly and he insisted that the online behavior was pretty darn close to being right on, which amused me even more. The...