Somebody needs to keep track of Santa Claus as he makes his way around the globe Christmas Eve, and, once again, NORAD has stepped up to the plate. This year they’re providing radar coverage and up-to-the-minute info on his every move.
Volunteer military personnel work into the wee hours of the night tracking St. Nick on [...]

Digital Inspiration is an oft-linked blog here at Lifehacker, and its author is a very savvy digital worker. That said, Amit Agarwal learned a lot about safety precautions when both his Gmail and Google Apps accounts were hacked into.
Agarwal’s not entirely sure about how his accounts were broken into, given that he had strong passwords [...]

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December 14, 2009

My answers to 5 Twitter FAQs

Those of us who spend significant percentages of our public time talking about Twitter and social media, often hear the [...]

Five video game buying tips for parents

Just as there are movies, TV shows and books that are inappropriate for young eyes, not all video games are ideal for players of all ages.
Granted, you already know this, thanks to widespread media coverage of many “Mature”-rated video games, such as the Grand Theft Auto series. I don’t [...]

Paris-based entrepreneur Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is covering the Le Web conference for us this year. Follow him on Twitter for more updates.
More cool startups from Le Web:
Stribe was the winner of the startup competition at Le Web. You may already know them from TechCrunch50, where they presented.
Stribe is a social network for [...]

Christine Mason McCaull is one of several entrepreneurs Portfolio.com is following as part of the series The Great Global Adventure. All of the entrepreneurs will be blogging about their experiences. This is the third in the series of blogs from entrepreneurs.
When we started our most recent business, ClickMarkets (in shared office space with a decent [...]

Everyone seems to be getting sucked into social media. At the same time a large percentage of companies are using it wrong or using it without defining clear objectives.
Stephen Baker writes in Business Week: Beware Social Media Snake Oil
“As millions of people flock to these [...]

The case in brief:
For more than 30 years, Black controlled the publishing conglomerate Hollinger International, which owned among other newspapers the Chicago Sun-Times and the UK’s Daily Telegraph. At its peak in 1999, Hollinger’s revenues were $2.1 billion.
In the late 1990s, Black advised Hollinger to start selling its [...]

Is Apple’s iPhone-without-a-phone the McDonald’s Happy Meal of mobile communications?

Click to enlarge. Source: Flurry Analytics

Peter Farago of the mobile analytics firm Flurry uses data from its November report to make the case that Apple (AAPL) is quietly — and successfully — using the iPod touch to lock in a loyal base of under-age users [...]

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong

Tim Armstrong, the ex-Google advertising sales chief now in charge of Time Warner’s AOL division, got a laugh when he spoke in September at an interactive media conference in New York. If only that was what he intended.
A tall, dark-haired 38-year-old, Armstrong looks a bit like the actor Jon Hamm [...]