So, for my latest sociological peek into something not intended for me but about which I was curious—see also AshleyMadison.com—I’m fresh off having a week-long look at Yik Yak. It’s an anonymous social network on which you “yak” and reply to everyone who’s paying attention within a 10-mile radius about whatever’s on your mind (in … Read more
Excepting my illustrious Usenet career, this is what my first sustained online presence looked like. This is the Play page. I would like to show you the front page, but I may not have it anymore. It’s not anywhere easy to find, anyway. I put that site up in 1999 and updated it a time … Read more
Amazon.com debuted its first smartphone a month and a half ago. The Fire phone is a robust piece of hardware running Amazon.com’s forked and highly modified Android operating system. It has cool features like Dynamic Perspective, Amazon.com’s near-instant video customer service Mayday, and of course very tight integration with the entire Amazon.com ecosystem. It bowed … Read more