January 31, 2010

Tasty Tidbits on the Tech Front

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Will you take me so I can text? The traditional quest to get a driver's license at 16 is on the wane, as a generation hooked on texting,...
January 27, 2010

I'll Say It Again: Big Brother Really is Watching You

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"How do you feel about the federal government's spying on everything you do online, every call you make, every trip you take?"...
January 20, 2010

New: TXT MSGing Helps Develop Spelling

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This just in: Text messaging is found to help develop rather than damage spelling. A new study reported by the BBC found that children who r...
January 19, 2010

Hi from Silicon Valley, time for a little laugh!

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It's a new year, you got a new job, and you're moving to a new city? It's all part of the American experience. If you haven'...
January 11, 2010

It's the Largest List of Text & Chat Acronyms

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Now in print! It's outrageous, it's fun, it's a great gift. Our new book " NetLingo: The List " is both a handy deskto...
January 1, 2010

OMG, that is so last century...

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Do you remember the days when a family would sit together and chat as they ate breakfast? How about the time when adults would read the news...
December 30, 2009

NetLingo Top 10 Internet Words of 2009

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NetLingo.com announces the Top 10 Internet Words of 2009! Listed in alphabetical order and chosen for their popularity, here are the Top 10 ...
December 7, 2009

Erin named Top 25 Women in Tech to Watch

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Erin Jansen, founder of NetLingo.com, has been named to the first annual AlwaysOn "Top 25 Women in Tech to Watch" List. This year...
December 3, 2009

I had an affair with Tiger Woods

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That's the punchline my girlfriend is using these days, she even wants to get t-shirts made. But despite all of the viral jokes about Ti...
December 1, 2009

It's Outrageous, it's Fun, it's a Great Gift!

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The new NetLingo book is a handy guide of every text abbreviation and chat acronym you'll ever need to know! Just in time for the holida...
November 25, 2009

Tasty Tidbits from the Tech Front

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Reduce your carbon footprint with the best holiday gift I've seen! Consumers obsessed with the "need to upgrade " are floodin...
November 24, 2009

Generation Gaps at Work: A Look at Gen Y

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Twenty-something workers may often seem to be in a "constant whir of socializing," said Jeffrey Zaslow in The Wall Street Journal ...
November 17, 2009

2009 Word of the Year: unfriend

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Unfriend has been named the "2009 Word of the Year" by the New Oxford American Dictionary , chosen from a list of finalists with ...

Americans send 4 billion texts each day

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Twice a year, the organization representing the wireless industry puts out facts and figures on how much we're using our cell phones in ...
November 3, 2009

Trick or Tweet: Tidbits from the Tech Front

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Facebook plans to keep profiles of the dead. Death doesn't erase the digital footprints that people leave in life and Facebook has anno...
October 31, 2009

Google fast flip makes news reading fun

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The newspaper industry is in trouble. Fewer people are subscribing to newspapers because instead we're getting our news online . It'...
October 19, 2009

Trouble for Teens: Harassment, Predator

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A 16-year-old girl has been arrested for online harassment in Texas. A new law that went into effect September 1, 2009 criminalizes online h...
October 9, 2009

Teenage 'sexting' Trend Keeps Growing

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Police, parents and children’s organizations are alarmed at the growing trend of “ sexting ”, where young people send explicit and indecent ...
October 6, 2009

This one's for you Martha ;-)

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Wow, what a week! I just got back from NYC where I taped a segment on The Martha Stewart Show! Can you believe it? OMG, Martha is so high-te...
September 24, 2009

The List: Text & Chat Acronyms

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It's here! NetLingo has a new iPhone app and it's called: The List: Text & Chat Acronyms (this link will launch iTunes) Whether...