Google Plus Ate My Blog, Find Me There…
I will no longer post to this blog and you can find me on Google Plus instead. I won’t write a long goodbye because this isn’t really a goodbye. Google Plus is a better platform for disseminating ideas and discussing items of interest. As of today, I’m up to an impressive 7,200+ followers on Google Plus [Read More...]
Google wants to kill your amateur blog… but that’s OK.
I believe Google wants to kill off as many hosted blogs as possible. Why? To make more money but that’s OK with me. I know that sounds strange coming from a blogger on hosted site but allow me to explain. Hosted blogs are typically funded through advertising, often Google Adsense advertising. When a blog visitor [Read More...]
Proto Podcast Mini: What do I think of Google+?
What do I think of Google+? Listen to my thoughts. Sorry about the extremely low volume. Thaddeus Preston – Proto Podcast Mini: What do I think of Google+? on Flipzu
Google Plus: Stealth Mode to Instant Competitor?
Google’s super secret social networking endeavor, Google Plus, was released this week as a “Field Test.” Many from the Google Buzz crowd and FOGs (Friends of Google) were invited along and within 48 hours it opened up to a much wider group. It is estimated (albeit unscientifically) that several thousand people now have access. I’d [Read More...]
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ThunderBolt™ by HTC Available Beginning March 17 BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Verizon Wireless and HTC today announced that the ThunderBolt™ by HTC, exclusively from Verizon Wireless, is available on March 17 in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com for $249.99 with a new two-year customer agreement. Powered by Android™ 2.2, the ThunderBolt by HTC [Read More...]
Originally posted on Blogs@RelativeProgress on March 12, 2011 We need to start thinking about the web as an interwoven fabric of three conceptual layers. First, the conventional web, or as I define it the ‘compute web’, what we define today as Web 2.0, constitutes the cloud computing paradigm allowing execution of instructions across distributed network [Read More...]
Xoom, Verizon and Motorola’s Honeycomb Tablet
I was able to kick the tires on the Xoom this past week. I found it to be a very good tablet and Android 3.0 Honeycomb is clearly a step in the right direction for Android. This product almost deserves two full separate reviews of the hardware and software but I’ll keep the review concise. [Read More...]
Google’s super secret social networking endeavor, Google Plus, was released this week as a “Field Test.” Many from the Google Buzz crowd and FOGs (Friends of Google) were invited along and within 48 hours it opened up to a much wider group. It is estimated (albeit unscientifically) that several thousand people now have access. I’d [Read More...]
As a high schooler, I often have to deal with the annoying technologies that the school uses. These technologies often are outdated and are hard to deal with. For our login and file use, we use Novell NetWare 6. Yes, version 6, the version that was released in 2001. In addition we use Windows XP, [Read More...]
Admittedly, it’s been a long, long time since I last updated the Tech Bottle blog. It’s not that I’ve fallen months behind on technology. I have been reading and interacting with tech enthusiasts but I haven’t been posting here. A New Years resolution is to keep the blog updated on at least a semi-regular basis. [Read More...]
When I started this blog in November 2009, I wrote a post entitled, “Dear Google, Please Allow Users to Merge Accounts or Build Account Switching into Chrome.” Well, chances are good that nobody read it because the blog was new. However, it appears that others had similar wishes. Google is now testing a system that [Read More...]
You may have noticed that I have been blogging less often. Before I was averaging around two posts a day and now I’m down to a few per week. (During this slow down, page views and unique visitors have held steady. Thank you, Google.) The topic I covered the most frequently was mobile devices (mostly [Read More...]
By now, you’ve probably seen that unlimited data plans on U.S. carriers are about to go the way of the dinosaur. Recently, Verizon’s CFO confirmed the inevitable: We will probably need to change the design of our pricing where it will not be totally unlimited, flat rate. This spawned a flurry of blog posts and [Read More...]
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CNet is reporting that Google’s Music service could launch this Fall. This comes just days after TechCrunch reported that URL manipulation revealed that the service will be called… I’ll give you three guesses… “Google Music.” In my 2009 year end post on this blog, I cited several ways Google and Apple would lock horns in 2010. [Read More...]
One of the best sources for rumors about upcoming phones is The Boy Genius Report. Boy Genius and his team of bloggers seem to get their hands and cameras on everything mobile first, long before traditional media does. The shroud of secrecy surrounding the person behind the blog was lifted in late April when the [Read More...]
Some notable blogs are setting up a false dichotomy between “social” and “search” for finding and consuming information. They suggest that Facebook is the “social” alternative to Google’s “search.” This is fundamentally wrong, I argue below. Instead, what we have is a war between two “platforms” neither one of which really fits purely into one of those [Read More...]
In terms of the interwebs, the last decade could aptly be described as the search decade. Google ruled the day. As newbies came online Google was the launchpad where they all began. The company grew to a massive $170 billion market cap. It fended off competitors and, in the process, put more than a few out [Read More...]
What’s Facebook up to with all this “like” stuff? I’ll begin by assuming that you are as confused as I was about this idea. Basically, Facebook is attempting to get every website to implement a Facebook “Like” button. When you click a Like button, your Facebook profile will be updated to include your new Like. [Read More...]
I started Tech Bottle six months ago and I find myself now blogging about blogging. I did a quick Google search for reasons to write a blog and it returned 44.2 million hits. I’ve opted to write about my own experience and not parrot back what others have suggested. Blogging was once seen as a [Read More...]
The Apple “lock-down” on the iPad is bad for consumers. The closed App Store that Apple rules with an iron fist is not the future model of computing that I would like to see. I’ve been reading a lot about the iPad, primarily because that’s all there is to read in the tech world at [Read More...]
This is a follow-up post to one I wrote two weeks ago entitled, “Bad News for Blackberry [Survey].” I use a Blackberry Tour and I have been less than satisfied with it. Both the hardware and software disappoint. I have been quite open about my disappointment. Nonetheless, I don’t really have a dog in the [Read More...]
Versatility could be Android’s greatest strength but also its greatest weakness. At this point, Android has only Apple as a significant competitor. Blackberry, Palm and Nokia’s platforms are significantly lagging in app development and mass appeal. All the hype coming out of CTIA revolves around Android and Android alone. As of mid-February, 60,000 Android handsets [Read More...]
