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Four Useful Tools for Social Networkers

What do the services Pixelpipe.com, Etherpad.com, Tr.im and namechk.com have in common? All four are tools that I can't live without...

The Good and Evil of Proxy Servers

Proxy servers have been in the news as of late, both as a result of the Iran putative election...

Google Wave: Faster Response Times

For those of you that feel good about yourselves because you are IM'ing and Tweeting, your online life is...

Facebook and Twitter: When to Friend and Defriend

When I was growing up as a nerdy teen on Long Island, needless to say I wasn't one of...

Buying a Cheap PC With 8 GB RAM: Shopping Tips

What is the cheapest PC you can buy that can sport 8GB of RAM? You would think this was...

Virtualization: VMware vs. Microsoft vs. Xen, 2009

It is time once again for our annual look at what has happened and will happen in...

Keeping Your Network Secure in Insecure Times

This isn't any April fool's story, but a rather depressing one about how easy it is to compromise a...

Five Social Networking Apps Worth Using

In preparation for a keynote speech that I am giving next month, I took some time to look at...

Four Alternatives to Google Docs

If you are looking for something better than Google Docs to work on a document or a presentation with...

Web Traffic Building: the Tortoise Wins

While many of us marvel at those Web sites and "viral videos" that take the Internets by storm and quickly...