4 posts and columns on email addresses

The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords

in News on December 14, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Readers of Gizmodo, Lifehacker and other Gawker Media sites may be among the savviest on the Web, but the most common password for logging into those sites is embarrassingly easy to guess: “123456.” So is the runner-up: “password.”

Videos of the Three Best Sessions at the Web 2.0 Summit

in Social on November 18, 2010 at 7:08 pm PT

I spent the first half of the week at and around the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. This year’s edition felt a bit smaller than before, but it still attracted some of the key characters on and off the Web. If you weren’t there or didn’t tune in to the event’s first-ever full livestream, and want to catch up, here are some of the highlights, which have already been posted to the O’Reilly YouTube account.

’til Email Do Us Part: Sharing Online Accounts With Your Spouse

in News on October 8, 2009 at 4:46 pm PT

Earlier this week, my colleague Elizabeth Bernstein wrote a Bonds column about people getting in touch with old flames online, especially via the magic of Facebook. In the piece, she describes how some couples have devised new rules governing their online activities, like promising to inform their spouses when they contact an ex online or limiting their online “friends” to people of the same sex.

Transferring Data to an iPhone

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on February 25, 2009 at 5:00 pm PT

Walt answers questions about transferring information from a Palm Treo to an iPhone, the best graphics cards for Vista, and services for switching email providers.