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So, eBay continues to evolve as the World’s Largest Group Therapy Meeting. Latest case in point: Some Australian lady is auctioning off her emotional baggage in the form of some other lady’s underpants …or at least a photograph of said underpants, as eBay does not allow the sale of used undergarments. And much like those adorable paring knives that bonus with your Ginsu, the winning bidder also receives a used, empty condom package, "size small."
He is the baby-faced everyman caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare of credit score woes. A troubadour of the American masses, his songs reflect the far-reaching effects of the housing crisis, predatory lending, skyrocketing gas prices and the economic downturn — or maybe he’s just one in former John McCain advisor Phil Gramm’s nation of “whiners” suffering a “mental depression.”
“Do you really know who people are?” That’s the slogan for pay site PeopleFinders.com's freshly launched (and totally free!) companion site, CriminalSearches.com. Do you want to know? Everybody has something to hide — so the cliché goes. That’s where comes in.
You ever watch that A&E show, “Intervention”? It’s cool if you don’t. It’s fairly unpleasant, even by reality show standards, and every episode is pretty much the same. Angry and concerned family and friends confront an addict, who in turn blames the family and friends for his or her inability to rehab and/or score.
Ian Usher isn’t the first guy to do it. When it comes to the grand gesture of attempting to auction your life on eBay, he’s even too late to make the second wave of emotional e-commerce pioneers. Still, he certainly is .
The Associated Press took a grandiose Facebook-style faceplant last week when it attempted to impose strict guidelines on the blogosphere.
Here in New York City, we bid a fond farewell to Internet Week, a seven-day plus celebration of panel discussions, cocktail mixers and the 12th annual Webby Awards ceremony honoring the best and brightest of the World Wide Web, as deemed by the The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Is anybody else creeped out by that AT&T GoPhone commercial starring chart-topping American rock singer Meat Loaf? You know, the one where he’s out working in the garage or something and actor Adam Cagley (in the role of Meat Loaf’s beefy teenage son) starts whining about wanting a GoPhone.
Contrary to what this one episode of “Mythbusters ” pretty much disproved, you can shoot fish in barrel. Nobody said there had to be water! Case in point, www.TomCruise.com , the official fan site for Tom Cruise by Tom Cruise’s number one fan, Tom Cruise. So grab your rifle, we’re about catch us some flounder.
This just in: A bunch of people don’t think you should be hanging out on Facebook on your company’s dime (and/or server). At least that’s the predominant opinion gleaned from reader responses regarding a recent Netiquette.
By the end of 2007, more than 50 percent of American households owned a digital television, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
Tania Derveaux is young and beautiful and she wants your attention. And thanks to her first two attributes, odds are she won’t have a tough time getting it. But just to make sure, she’s posing nearly nude online and making an offer to those less-experienced Internet enthusiasts of the world.
It doesn’t help that you bear a passing resemblance to Heather Mills. Or that you’re vehemently trashing a printed collection of information (and its collector) you previously praised when it existed only in cyberspace. Or that you cried on the witness stand while doing so.
Apparently, YouTube and MySpace totally kicked the crud out of a Florida cheerleader. Adding insult to injury, these notoriously wicked Web sites also filmed their beatdown and uploaded the 30-minute slugfest to the completely compliant Internet for all to see.
Cops finally busted the culprits behind yet another Craigslist-instigated ransacking of a Pacific Northwest domicile. And in some kind of completely unpredictable “Law & Order” plot twist, neither allegedly-guilty party turned out to be Craigslist itself. Who saw that coming?
Things don't bode well for Sweet Potato. Ever since all this “Save the children!” hysteria started over Miss Bimbo, the online game site where she resides, the poor virtual paper doll hasn’t had a thing to eat. Not that she eats much anyway.
An icy wind blew through hell just now, but tech nerds and business wonks are pretty much the only kids catching a chill. For the Net-surfing majority, Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo! barely registers beneath the din of the police motorcade escorting Britney Spears to the loony bin — even if they’re using either media company’s products to access such information.
Joel Johnson, gadgets editor for the tech/science site boing boing, pulled a Harvey Pekar during his recent guest appearance on the online AT&T Tech Channel’s “Hugh Thompson Show.”
Way back in the day when students still got suspended for coming to school with purple hair and black fingernails, I was this weird esoteric kid into the Who, David Bowie, Nina Hagen and Alice Cooper. I didn't have many friends.
Jill Duman: Anonymous 'flaming' is a cold approach Back in the day, just a few years ago, people signed their name when they hacked up a hairball of vitriol and sent it off for publication. Happily for somebody, that is not now the case.
Abusive email accidentally sent to client goes viralAbbey Sherwell, an account manager who accidentally sent an angry email about a client to the client has been fired from her job at Entertainment Books in Melbourne, Australia.
'Hi Liz': The Story of an E-Mail Disaster For better or for worse, you have to feel for Elizabeth Becton, and for the assistant at a Washington lobbying group who made the mistake of calling her "Liz" in an e-mail.
Be careful what you tweet -- it could get you firedIf there's one thing we preach to people getting on Twitter, it's this: Think before you tweet!
Bad text messaging, e-mailing manners can be costly - e.g., NY legislator's career derailed because of Blackberry rudenessThen there's the risk of making someone really mad. In the New York state political coup, billionaire businessman Tom Golisano said he grew angry after meeting this spring with state Democratic majority leader Malcolm Smith, who paid more attention to his BlackBerry than to issu …
I love my friends. I love the sentiment behind a lot of the things they send me. I know that my friends and family with internet access care about me and would not dream of doing anything to me, and others in their e-mail address books that would put us at risk.
The internet as a whole is a wonderful innovation. Never have so many been able to share so much about such a variety of topics.
Do you remember the movie "Pumpkinhead" and the mountain witch that called Pumpkinhead up for revenge? Old witches are real popular mountain lore. May or may not be Kentucky mountain lore, I don't know. I'm just sayin'.
Chris Pirillo: How Can You be an Awesome Commenter?According to Monica, the Internet has some amazing things for news. One of the things it's done that is awesome is to make news about the conversation.
Sing it, FreeCreditReport.com guy!He is the baby-faced everyman caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare of credit score woes. He's the FreeCreditReport.com guy, and you are so totally in love with him you want to have like, 10 million of his babies.
Sing it, FreeCreditReport.com guy!He is the baby-faced everyman caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare of credit score woes. He's the FreeCreditReport.com guy, and you are so totally in love with him you want to have like, 10 million of his babies.
Can Cuil woo you from Google?I love Google. I just don't necessarily love some of the things Google does.
Scrabulous scrapped on FacebookDon't be surprised if overall productivity in the American work place makes a steep climb in the next 24 hours. It seems fans of very popular Facebook application Scrabulous will have to find another way to goof off - at least on the social networking site.
Do it! Do it! CriminalSearches.com your ex!"Do you really know who people are?" That's the slogan for pay site People Search's freshly launched (and totally free!) companion site, CriminalSearches.com. Do you want to know? Everybody has something to hide - so the cliche goes. That's where CriminalSearches.com comes in.
The 'iPocalypse' is at handIn a tragedy of Shakespearian proportions - at least for those technophiles and trendmeisters affected -the Apple iPhone update failed to deliver the Mac Nirvana foretold in our consumer scriptures.
Time for a YouTube interventionA judge ordered YouTube to provide Viacom with records of every video you and everyone else ever watched on the Google subsidiary site, plus when you watched it and how many times. This doesn't bode well for anyone's privacy.
Dude doesn't want his life, so why would you?Ian Usher isn't the first guy to do it. When it comes to the grand gesture of attempting to auction your life on eBay, he's even too late to make the second wave of emotional e-commerce pioneers. Still, he certainly is raking in the notoriety.
Canceling this Web site should be a crimeWhy do the birds go on singing? Why are there clouds in the sky? Don't they know it's the end of the world? Time Warner went and shut down CourtTV.com.
Facebook at work? Readers respondGiven Facebook's growing popularity, as well as our ballyhooed American " take stuff from work" entitlement, Netiquette asked readers to tell us what they think.
How to Comment About Your Company on Blogs, w/o Being SpammyThere are a number of ways that you can join in a conversation online, even though you have economic interests in it. You who work in the various sectors we cover often know far more about the products, people and trends at issue than we who cover a relatively broad beat do.
Even Tom Cruise can't escape the Internet - Netiquette- msnbc.comTom Cruise's new "official" Web site is presented as a 25-year-anniversary celebration of the release of "Risky Business," but it actually seems like a meticulously engineered attempt to reclaim the once-formidable Cruise persona violently deflated by Web 2.0 caprice.
Is It OK to Poke You? Once upon a time, before the Internet, calling after 9 p.m. was the most serious communication taboo. But with new technology comes new rules, and Facebook is no exception. Before your kids, co-workers or parents ask you "WTF?", read our guide to Facebook politesse.
Think before you send, the golden rule of emailIt's something most of us do without thinking, a dozen times a day. But an email, hastily sent, can destroy your career, wreck a relationship and make you a laughing stock. And that is why we need netiquette, according to the authors of a guide to good email manners.
Taming The Internet Beast In Us AllAs the internet becomes routine part of our life, our internet behavior must imitate our real life behavior.
Interview: Howard Rheingold : Keeping it real about virtual livingAmong those who study and write about online communities, few people are as well-regarded as Howard Rheingold.
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