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Now you don’t have to give up your Crackberry habit to get your ‘Kindle On!’ Amazon has launched a Kindle Application for Blackberry owners so they too can purchase and read eBooks from the Kindle Library, with just a tap from the finger.

If you’re like me and have become disenchanted with the social bookmarking site Digg, ever since they did away with their “shout” function last year, apparently we are not alone. While Digg’s unique visitors ended 2009 at 27 million, by December, this was a marked decline from its it 32 unique visitors in September.

If you can’t get that crazy song out of your head since 62-yr old ‘General’ Larry Platt first sang it on American mocking the contemporary street fashion of wearing your pants at half-(m)ass – you are not alone!

Hey, if the economy can receive bail-outs, why can the LOVE department?

In a recent blog, titled “The Secret Wars of Google & Apple…” there was inference that both Google and Apple were being secretive about their soon-to-be launched tablet and netbook this Spring. The term ‘war’ was used loosely to highlight how the two companies fight hard to keep their products under wraps before releasing any news to the public.

Now that Microsoft is reportedly going to show off their own slate/tablet computing device, the eReader vs Multimedia device “game” is on! eReaders like Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook and Sony’s Readers are fine for ‘reading,’ but if you want to multi-task, you’ll find they come up short every time. Apple’s soon-to-be released iSlate/ tablet and Google’s reported launch of a netbook, coupled with Microsoft, could initiate a technological shift as to which type of device is going to take center stage.

Google and other search engines have been caught in the cross-hairs of Rupert Murdoch’s vitriolic attacks regarding content control. In the age of citizen journalism that is slowly melding into semantic technology before our very eyes, Murdoch’s posturing is pure theatrics and his business model is outdated. The era of legacy of newspapers is waning and the titan of the tabloids needs to take heed.

Companies and research firms may eventually transition most of their high-level computing tasks to a global network of servers known as “clouds.” This top ten list notes the pioneers who are positioned to dominate that field.

Companies and research firms may eventually transition most of their high-level computing tasks to a global network of servers known as “clouds.” This top ten list notes the pioneers who are positioned to dominate that field.

In a very humorous rapid-fire delivery on YouTube, Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of the popular social voting news Web site Reddit tells a story how one humpback whale became Internet famous. See how “Greenpeace,” became the Captain Ahab in pursuit of a new name for Moby Dick on the Social Media High Seas!