Inexperienced users and even some experienced users have troubles identifying fake emails from legit ones. It is sometimes hard to tell if the email that just arrived in your mail inbox came from a legit company like eBay, Amazon or Citibank or if it is just another phishing attempt. There are some ...

AOL CEO Randy Falco has presented a list of goals to achieve for 2009.  Over the last decade, AOL has been transitioning from an ISP to a content production company powered by advertising.  AOL’s revenue has been hit hard as their it has dropped 23% in the 4th quarter. AOL had to also lay of...

james: South Africa wants to bank with us. Y/N?co-worker: Maybe, only if they can promise us winning the lotto along with a snuggie.james: And the Mt. Shasta ski reportjames: And some c1a71s or v1agrAco-worker: only if it mentions G_djames: http://i43.tinypic.com/24v3dro.jpg did we already see this ...

Back in the BBS days, I was on some BBS that was connected to a POD, like FidoNet or something. The one BBS had a setting for "Real name" vs. "Online handle." For most PODs, it was apropos to have your real name listed, but the sysop of this BBS didn't have the bit flipped, so my online handle, "Pun...

So, many years ago, I had an office at AOL. I knew it was special when I had it, and I never took it for granted. At first, I shared it with stodgycat , but his work had him up in the wardialing lab so much, I pretty much had the office to myself. Then I got another office that was for a single pers...

Welcome! You've got layoffs: A preparation guide for AOL employees. Welcome, soon-to-be-former AOL employee! I'm Joe Loong, graduate of the AOL Layoff Class of October, 2007, and I'm here to offer you a few bits of advice gleaned from my own personal layoff experience. I hope that these items will h...

A front-page article in the February 10 issue of the Wall Street Journal detailed the disintegrating business model of local television stations. The story titled “Local TV Stations Face a Fuzzy Future� by Sam Schechner and Rebecca Dana was insightful, thoroughly researched, and well written. Bu...

Last week Meebo and Facebook teamed to launch the first integration of Facebook Connect + Chat, allowing Meebo users to chat with their Facebook friends from the popular web-based IM service. The feature has had a rocky history: Meebo used an unsanctioned method to integrate Facebook Chat in Decembe...

As I’ve been talking about all over this blog, traditional media is on the decline (here and here). Papers are on their way out and everyone knows it.  Ever since i was a kid, I’ve always loved the local sports pages but one thing I’ve been doing for the past few years is reading ...

Here are a bunch of things I'm looking at over the next few months. I say this in spite of the fact that I passed on tonight's Over the Rhine show at Birchmere (so very tired). And this may not include events that I can't talk about, should they exist: * Tonight, Feb 9, 7:30pm: DC area Tweetup, Indi...