Instant History

Found via BingThere are a lot of things not like about Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, but children getting access to porn through its video preview shouldn’t be on the list. [Read More]

Update: The comments have an alternative method that works without installing anything and is retroactive. Unfortunately, that doesn't pull all Facebook chats, just the most recent ones [Read More]

Brian Morrissey, an editor at AdWeek and, since I joined the service, one of my favorite Twittering journalists (not to mention his homonymical last name to mine!), tackled shortcut-taking Twitter contests in a blog post of his own last week, and unsurprisingly he does a better job than yours truly,... [Read More]

For years, I’ve been telling people I want to get away from Google, but I keep finding myself using more and more Google products: Gmail, GoogleTalk, Gchat, Google Analytics, Google Docs, Picasa … The list goes on and on. Oh yeah, and Google search. [Read More]

After my posts on how to fix the Facebook virus after an attack, I've noticed a number of searchers looking for information on how to find a particular message in your Facebook message history. I've put together a Facebook message search guide to help just these people, including some bad... [Read More]