Solution In Need Of A Problem is an irregular feature, where a Techcitement writer looks at an announced feature or product and tries to decide what the actual point is. AT&T showed off some upcoming products Tuesday at a private press event, including the Touchpad 4G and their version of the Sony Xperia Play (aka […]
We all know there’s a lot of hype around Google+. The success or failure of social networks has never been about chatter, it’s about one thing and one thing only: how many people are on it? Now, estimates are saying that Google+ is growing at a record-breaking rate. Google walked in the door facing some […]
Voice of Objectivity is an ongoing column meant to temper the tendency of the Techcited to run away with the most exciting or controversial ideas in technology’s near future. The opinions presented here do not necessarily represent the views of Techcitement or this writer. Someone’s got to keep a cool head around here. I guess […]
Google+ had its first major glitch on Saturday, and many users learned why Google is calling its slow, ongoing roll-out of the service a “field trial”. It seems even Google can run out of hard drive space, and Google+’s early high levels of activity surprised the search giant. It seems that the disk that was […]
Google has a tendency to create a product, then let the people figure out how to use it. I think that is a lot of the reason for the ultimate failure of Google Wave, because I still don’t know exactly what it was for. They seem to be continuing this trend with Google+. For the […]
In a live event this afternoon, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a set of “awesome” new features centered on chat. He broke the announcement down into three areas: group chat, the chat interface, and video chat. Facebook has had groups available for a year, and in that time, 50 percent of its users have become […]
According to Ben Parr at Mashable, Google intends to rebrand several of their popular products, including the Picasa photo manager software and their Blogger product. Picasa will become “Google Photos”, while Blogger gets renamed “Google Blogs”. The word is other products will be renamed as well, but Google intends to leave YouTube alone. (They already […]
If there’s one job that’s been tweaked time and again by new technologies, it’s the President of the United States. Now, the Obama Administration takes the townhall model of interacting with the public to Twitter with the first ever Twitter @Townhall. While the actual White House uses lots of archaic tech, past administrations have embraced […]
The definition of the word techcitement really came to life for me this weekend while attending Anime Expo in Los Angeles. One of the booths, Nico Nico, hosted a live web broadcast. That in itself wasn’t so interesting. What was different was as the show went on, messages sent in from viewers around the world would […]
Google doesn’t have the best history when it comes to their attempts at social networking. There was Orkut, a social network that never took off, which actually predates Facebook, and was designed as a competitor to Friendster. Then, there was the disastrous launch of Buzz. I was never quite sure which was more fatal to this […]
