In RetroTech: NetLingo Blog
Tracking tech trends and how the internet is changing our lives.
February 22, 2010
Can You Really Get "Addicted" to the Web?
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Apparently yes, you really can get "addicted" to the Web. And despite the many jokes about it, Web addiction is becoming more seri...
February 15, 2010
The iPad: Will it change your life?
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Fans of Apple's new iPad are predicting it will have a revoltuionary impact, changing the way people consume books, newspapers, and maga...
February 13, 2010
Can Facebook Affect Your Credit?
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It's become common practice for marketers to glean information from social networking sites. Now, like many campus admission boards and ...
February 6, 2010
Internet Terms for Word Lovers Worldwide
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Before he passed away, William Safire asked me to compile a list of new Internet terms that were both clever and relevant. Even though he re...
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'...
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