Like a corporate career, web work can also be prone to seemingly irreparable damages. Whether it’s personal problems that affect the quality of your work,...

Time Warner Cable and AT&T are busy trying to force their vision of the metered Internet on the consumers, taking small but vital steps towards a time when all data...

Or perhaps that should be “what is down with MobileMe?” Apparently, for some customers, the answer is that email is down, and has been that way for up to four...

Last week saw the launch of a curious web-service that isn’t an obvious web worker tool, but may just prove to be a useful communication feature amongst other...

The bedouin-style web worker may get plenty of exercise thanks to a lifestyle of hopping from coffeeshop to co-working site. But the sad reality is that most web workers...

It almost seems like an age of scarcity for web workers, but that’s only because two new resources have coincidentally hit the web at nearly the same time. On the...

“Gee, that looks complicated.” This was what I said when I looked through a friend’s project proposal, which included a mind map of madness. She...

We’ve all had them: days when, no matter how hard you try, nothing seems to get done. Fortunately, independent web workers tend to have more flexibility than some...

Many of us have been busy in recent weeks tuning up our new installations of the Firefox 3 browser from Mozilla. If you’ve been busy adding extensions to your...

The following is also my column in Advertising Age next week. As I write this column, all the talk is about the recession. There were nearly 40,000 stories in Google...

Teleworkers who miss the networking and collaboration that happens in a typical corporate environment have resorted to coworking. Because of this trend, several...

The bedouin-style web worker may get plenty of exercise thanks to a lifestyle of hopping from coffeeshop to co-working site. But the sad reality is that most web workers...

Zeer is a social networking site built around a special focus: food. Their key asset appears to be a database of over 100,000 food items, searchable by UPC code (it...

It’s no secret that on today’s computers, the amount of memory you have is at least as important as which CPU you’re running–often more important....

Whether you want to take your web working career into a different direction or you simply want a refreshing distraction from your regular web work, it’s likely that...

Clever founders always eke the most out of every buck. But economic conditions being what they are, even the best bootstrappers could use a little extra help. By now...

Today we launched a new update to Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta. This version includes a few new features along with bug fixes, stability and speed improvements, plus some...