The dust has settled after my back to back Web conferences in Austin: WebmasterWorld’s Pubcon South, and South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, and I thought I’d take a minute to compare the two. I’ll start by saying that any such comparison is beyond apples & oranges… the two conferences ...

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Tired of high tech designs that look hopelessly dated in just a few years? Longing for a more Victorian sensibility? You may need to get up to speed with steampunk, a design movement whose participants hack new tech devices (and more) into steam-era exteriors. The photo is ...

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Verizon finally managed to push me into the arms of the competition. I was a fairly happy voice subscriber. I tested an XV6700 way back in March, and liked it. I decided to hold off, though, since the release of the XV6800 (pictured months earlier in various ...

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Apple’s not perfect - I just chronicled a couple of their miscues in Apple iPhone: Turning Off Fans. Despite that, Apple looks like a PR and branding genius compared to AT&T. Compare the introduction of Apple’s iPhone to the AT&T Tilt. Apple announced a launch date with ...

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No company in modern corporate history has developed a more cultlike, devoted customer base than Apple. I’ve often cited them as an example of what other firms strive for, or should strive for, in bonding with their customers. Now, Apple seems intent on turning the iPhone, which began ...

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The concept of crowdsourcing - letting a bunch your users create your product, or at least enhance it - is a staple of Web 2.0. Now, we see that European social networking site Mister Wong is crowdsourcing their corporate identity by holding a logo design contest. The contest ...

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The good news is that companies, even big ones, are waking up to the power of online communities, and that they are taking steps like starting their own communities for discussion, ratings, reviews, and social networking as well as participating at other sites. The bad news is that sometimes ...

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The tech world is buzzing with rumors about a Google phone. The Wall Street Journal ran an article today, quoted at SearchEngineLand, that provides some details of the development process. Apparently, Google is taking a two-pronged approach: developing their own handset, but at the same time opening up ...

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Even stupid criminals know how to use Google, according to a report from Colorado Springs: First, the burglars, dressed in black and with their faces covered, tried to disable a security camera by repeatedly spraying it with WD-40, only to have the lubricant clean the lens, police detective Chuck Ackerman said. ...

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The pageview is officially on its way out the door as a web site performance metric - Nielsen is dropping page view measurement in its Web traffic reporting. Instead, they will report the time visitors spend at sites. (more…)

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