It has easy enough to be skeptical about Twitter's influence and staying power--I do it all the time. But there's no denying that it has become a powerful driver of Web traffic. Just ask the New York Times, which says Twitter is about to become one of the top 10 referral sources to the paper's site. Impressive. But what exactly does this mean? Full story...
Imagine that for $33 a month you could buy Internet service twice as fast as what you get from Verizon or Comcast, bundled with digital high-definition television, unlimited long distance and international calling to 70 countries and wireless Internet connectivity for your laptop or smartphone throughout much of the country.
GDC 2010 is now in the books, and it will be a hard one to forget because the whole conference seemed to be obsessed with one thing, which I summed up in this tweet.
Updated: I enjoy a good debate about media-related topics pretty much any time, even when I’m supposed to be on vacation with the family in Florida.
Earlier this week, Hitwise put out stats suggesting that Facebook is beating Google and Twitter when it comes to driving traffic to news sites.
BoomTown traveled to Washington, D.C. this week for festivities surrounding the 25th anniversary of the registration of the first .
When BoomTown went to Washington, D.C. last week to visit the Federal Communications Commission on the occasion of its release of the National Broadband Plan, I was actually given a paper version in a giant binder.
The NCAA basketball tournament, with its array of games played at conflicting times during the workday, has long been discussed as an ideal sporting event for online coverage.
The next app gold rush is on. Moments ago, Apple invited developers writing applications for its forthcoming iPad tablet to begin submitting them to the App Store for approval.
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.