Monthly Archive: December 2012

An Interview With Technology’s “Kingmaker”- Walter Mossberg

Technology moves so fast, and no one has done a better job of explaining every new technology to consumers than Walter Mossberg, founder of the popular technology blog AllthingsD, and creator of the personal technology column in The Wall Street Journal. Mossberg has interviewed everyone from Bill Gates, to Mark Zuckerberg, to Steve Jobs. Mossberg’s writing has brought him numerous awards and given him...

7 Most Groundbreaking Apps For Breaking News Junkies

Perhaps no market has more completely unique apps than the news category. There are so many different news apps for iPhone that it can be overwhelming to find good ones so today I’m making it easy. Ten unique tried-and-tested apps that will get you the news you want. Google Currents (free): Google Current is basically a personalized newspaper app. Currents has thousands of “channels”...

Tales of Caring Sandy Hook Principal Who Lost Life Told Through Social Media

Today the Sandy Hook tragedy shocked the world just less than twenty miles from where I write this post, and we’re starting to get a picture of some of the wonderful people whose lives were so tragically taken. One of those people was the Newtown Elementary School’s principal Dawn Hochsprung, an active tweeter on education. Just look at what her tweets revealed about how...

Sorry. No Post Until Tonight. Fixing Our Tech Issues Took Hours

My apologies for not putting out a post in time for our newsletter. We were trying to fix a problem which ended up bringing the whole site down and it took two hours to fix. We’ll hopefully have something up tonight but we’re back. For those who want to know more: When testing configurations, we used a corrupt theme which then crashed the whole...

Maker Network Refuses To Release Property To Ray William Johnson- Who is this Feud Hurting More?

Two years ago Ray William Johnson signed his channel on to the Maker Network in good faith, believing that for the agreed upon terms they would help him grow his channel and raise more from advertising. When Maker tried to sleazily change the terms in the middle of the contract, he wanted out. Or at least that’s the story he’s telling. Make Network on the other...