May 2009

Google Quietly Takes Ideas From Cuil

by Jeff Weisbein May 29, 2009

Cuil, the search engine which launched last July, brought a few new ideas to the world of search including larger text descriptions, timelines, categorically related searches, and streamlined video results. A couple of weeks ago Google introduced Google Search Options which can be found on the top left underneath the search bar (right under blue [...]

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Microsoft Officially Announces Bing

by Jeff Weisbein May 28, 2009

In an official blog post on the Live Search blog (and tweet – see below) today Microsoft announced that they are in fact dropping Live and opening up Bing. Microsoft says Bing will allow users to more easily find what it is they are truly looking for with new tools and an improved search engine. [...]

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Part 1: Malwarebytes vs SuperAntiSpyware

by Jeff Weisbein May 27, 2009

Note: This is going to be a two part post. This post focuses on user interface, speed, compatibility and updates. The next part will focus on removal and protection. The Internet today is running rampant with malware – it’s just not safe to surf with the web without some kind of anti-malware application on your [...]

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Bing – Microsoft’s New Search Engine

by Jeff Weisbein May 26, 2009

When you search something on the web (supposedly using Google) you “Google it”, but will you be willing to “Bing it”? Well, Microsoft is hoping so. Microsoft will be launching a new search engine sometime this week called Bing and they are going to put a 100 million dollar advertising campaign behind it. I’m personally [...]

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iPhone vs Palm Pre: Why Apple Shouldn’t Worry

by Jeff Weisbein May 23, 2009

The Palm Pre will be available on June 6th (two days before WWDC when Apple is excpected to announce a new iPhone) for $199. Should Apple be worried? Is the iPhone in grave danger? I really don’t think so. Forget the features and functionality in both devices for a second. If you ask me, I [...]

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Chirpio Attempts To Stop Twitter Spam

by Jeff Weisbein May 22, 2009

Chirpio is a new web service which is aiming to stop the twitter spam problem. The idea behind the service is to allow twitter users to rate the people they follow or just mark them as spam completely. It uses the twitter authorization API to allow access to your account so they are not storing [...]

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The Twitter Spam Problem

by Jeff Weisbein May 19, 2009

Twitter has a spam problem on their hands and it’s not going away. Spam which is generally a pretty clear cut subject especially when it comes to email spam, people spamming web forums, blog comment spam, etc. does not appear as clear cut when it comes to Twitter. What gives? Lately, the majority of my [...]

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TechCrunch: I’m Calling You Out – The Race To 1 Million Posts

by Jeff Weisbein May 14, 2009

This is it! It’s the 300th post on BestTechie.net! I’m now approximately 12,060 posts behind TechCrunch which according to my math has 12,360 (give or take). Currently, TechCrunch is sporting 618 pages of posts with 20 posts per page – if I did my math correctly (and I hope I did since I even double [...]

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Google Chrome Adds Plugin Functionality

by Jeff Weisbein May 14, 2009

Google Chrome is slowly but surely inching closer and closer to becoming a serious Mozilla Firefox competitor. In recent developer builds of the browser new APIs have been found to allow for true browser extensions (or add-ons). In the latest developer releases of Chrome it offers some improved APIs and tools for developers who would [...]

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Amazon Kindle Publishing System Flaw

by Jeff Weisbein May 14, 2009

Earlier this week Amazon opened its Kindle publishing platform to all blogs allowing bloggers to create a feed for their blog in the Amazon system. This allows bloggers to setup a RSS feed which they can charge Kindle subscribers to download and read. However, there within lies one small problem – anyone can claim your [...]

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