BEYOND FACEBOOK

If Facebook doesn’t feel private enough, there are other social networks out there. — Posterous, formerly a blogging site, has reinvented… Read more

YOUR PHONE WILL BE YOUR WALLET

We remember when people who weren’t paying cash, wrote checks at the grocery store. Some still write checks and hold up everybody in line. Most… Read more

JUST HANGING OUT

GPhangouts.com has public places where you can hang out with others on Google Plus in a group video chat. We met a travel writer there, some business… Read more

OUTSMARTING GOOGLE

“Outsmarting Google,” by Evan and Bradley Bailyn, $25 from quepublishing.com. Evan Bailyn’s websites have been visited by more than 50… Read more

BACK TO THE CLOUD

We were impressed when we heard from a small business owner who saved $640 a month on online calendar sharing, file sharing and email archiving by… Read more

TWEAKING GMAIL

Joy has 53,914 saved emails in her Gmail account, going back to 2005. That’s about two-thirds of the seven gigabytes of free storage allowed by… Read more

GOOGLE + SOCIAL

Now that 20 million people have visited the new “Google+” social network, we’re ready to add our two cents. (Yes, we know: half the journalists… Read more

DIGITIZING THE BRITISH LIBRARY

Google ran into copyright trouble trying to digitize every American book, but they’re steaming ahead with an opening group of 250,000 out-of-print… Read more

YOUR OWN SEARCH SCREEN

ShinySearch.com used to be called “PimpMySearch.com.” What it does is change the look of your Google search page. Put your own name at the top,… Read more

FREE IMAGES FOR YOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO

YouTube.com/editor is where you can edit your videos. They’ve just added a “creative commons” feature. CreativeCommons.org has free videos… Read more