Gmail Bolsters Emoticon Offering

Back in October, Google added a number of new emoticons for Gmail in a Gmail Lab. That round even went so far as to include a pile of feces complete with flies buzzing around it. I wish I was making this up.

Time to Put the Brakes On the Cybersecurity Act of 2009

What is essentially a federal government power grab combined with a giant money grab for industry is a real and perhaps unnecessary threat to your privacy and personal security. On top of that hole in your privacy, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 plants a big, potentially exploitable hole on the network.

Google News Comes To Twitter

Google began feeding news headlines to Twitter this week, but fewer Twitters seem to care about that than say, Oprah or Martha Stewart.

Nielsen: Twitter’s Audience Retention Rate Sucks

Getting someone's attention can be difficult these days; people have so many interests and so little time that convincing them to swing by a website can count as a real victory.  Unfortunately for Twitter, it's also important to keep people around, and in this respect, statistics indicate that the micro-blogging service is failing rather miserably.