Newsweek.com | '08 Candidates Stump at Google Hidden within this Google-driven story sits a nugget of information regarding Barack Obama's digital campaign. (The story itself is well worth the read, by the way.) Positioning himself as a fresh alternative to established Democratic Party favorites such as Clinton, Obama has relied heavily on social-networking tools, such as YouTube [...]

Newsweek.com | '08 Candidates Stump at Google Hidden within this Google-driven story sits a nugget of information regarding Barack Obama's digital campaign. (The story itself is well worth the read, by the way.) Positioning himself as a fresh alternative to established Democratic Party favorites such as Clinton, Obama has relied heavily on social-networking tools, such as YouTube [...]

Despite our best intentions, I know we all miss the presidential debates. I always put them on my schedule but life inevitably gets in the way, so I miss seeing what the candidates are bickering about this week. So where do we go to find information outside of the 2.5 minute wrap up from Candy [...]

Papa Johns released their new text message ordering option at its 2,700 U.S. restaurants this week. Papa Johns is all about utilizing technology because in 2001, they introduced online ordering. Now, I am not sure if they were the first to do so, but they are sure setting a trend when it comes to ordering [...]

It's ironic how the Writer's Guild is using the Internet to spread word about their protest of ... the Internet. No, the argument really isn't against the Internet itself, but their efforts to gain support from Web video users requires them to use Web video. Much like Facebook News Feed protesters turned to Facebook to protest, [...]

If you haven't heard by now, Facebook is using a new method of advertising: they're allowing users to opt-in to share information about products and services they use, and Facebook turns that information around into targeted sponsored ads in the "news feed" feature of the social networking site. This is quite the innovative approach to targeted [...]

A few months ago, my boss and I were talking about different ringtone-download sites and the site 3Guppies.com became the topic of discussion. It is a fairly decent site to download "free" - well, not actually free ringtones because there are these little thing called "texting/SMS charges" (from your carrier) that must be [...]

While I do manage to catch my favorite programs randomly throughout the week, an atypical sick day this Wednesday allowed me unprecedented time to watch TV, and especially advertisements. On a usual evening, I watch TV with the roommates so commercial time is catch-up time. But sitting alone (and groggy) by myself allowed me time [...]

To celebrate the debut of their "year long worldwide investigation" Planet in Peril last month, CNN turned their CNN bug green all day. They said it was to demonstrate their commitment to raising awareness of saving the environment. I thought it was kind of a neat gimmick. But it was just a gimmick. Now, this week, NBC [...]

Apple has decided to stop <a href="http://www.smartphonetoday.com/articles/2007/10/2007-10-30-Apple-Says-No.html">accepting cash </a>for means of iPhone payment in order to better track iPhone sales.  In addition to tracking iPhone sales, Apple hopes to use this new policy to prevent future unlocking and reselling of the popular product by tracking and limiting purchases.  Currently around a quarter of the million iPhones sold are not connected to the AT&amp;T network causing monetary loss for both AT&amp;T and Apple.  Apple's decision to go paperless is a good example of the shift towards a paperless currency.  As in Apple's case where the risk of product alteration …