66 percent of all Americans believe there to be a general lack of civility. Moreover, 72 percent think that bad behavior has gotten worse in recent years. 75 percent of those surveyed think that the financial crisis and recession have lessened the level of American civility.

In the never-ending quest to ‘app’ize the world, developers' creativity certainly seem to know no bounds. As of this past Friday, there’s now an iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch app that focuses on the up sides of facial plastic surgery.

Apple announces it's 1 millionth iPad sold in just 28 days, and David Perry streams WoW to an iPad.

The StevieFTW podcast officially launched yesterday, March 31st, and will air every Wednesday. Her initial guest, none other than gaming industry icon Cliff Bleszinski of Epic Games.

Pirates have been an unseen driver of technology since the dawn of the digital age. Here's why we need to have a love/hate relationship with them.

Thousands of South Carolinian's are expected to capitalize on and use the power of social networking tools to stage an online rally aimed at voicing their opinions to state legislators.

Google officially admitted yesterday that it’s testing procedure surrounding their new offering Buzz was less than sufficient. Since it’s February 9th appearance, Google has had to do some serious retooling of the product, amid privacy concerns that sprang up almost immediately. Google says that they’re working “extremely hard” to fix the problem. "We're very early in this space. This was one of our first big attempts," Todd Jackson, Buzz product manager, told BBC News.

Culling through listings of which Olympic events are happening when can be a bit tedious. To this end, I created this mind map to illustrate the flexibility of MindMeister's mind mapping solution.

According to a report compiled by researchers at several research facilities at the University of Illinois, human propensity for talent in video games can now be determined by measuring three key areas of the brain. Kirk Erickson, a professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, and first author of the study remarks, “This is the first time that we’ve been able to take a real-world task like a video game and show that the size of specific brain regions is predictive of performance and learning rates on this video game.” Erickson’s article first appeared in the professional journal Cerebral Cortex. He has since been joined by researchers from MIT, Florida State (which is also currently conducting a study on consumers’ virtual goods buying habits), and the University of Illinois.

Updates on what I've been working on with MindMeister, fatfoogoo, and Talespin.

I'm happy to announce that I'm now working with a Vienna, Austria/Feldkirchen, Germany based SaaS, MindMeister.com. I'll be working on marketing and promotion projects with them, and am truly excited about this software.

Leading market research firm, The NPD Group has recently released a report from their Gaming Device Profiles sub-unit, stating that 41 percent of all gamers rely on word of mouth as a source of their video game information. The survey includes data sampled from owners of a variety of gaming platforms, including portable gaming devices, and consequently this word of mouth data varies from owner to owner.

For iPhone owners, the amount and scope of available applications is simply staggering.  Just before a recent trans-Austria/German/Switzerland/Liechtenstein roadtrip, I ... Read More

How much do you know about the origins of Labor Day? Here’s ten interesting facts that just might help you out on Jeopardy or the next family Trivial Pursuit game night.

Kick back and spend approximately 9 minutes with one of the most respected and literally "Been there, done that" journalists in America today. If last week's Bill Maher interview with Bill Moyers doesn't bring up some serious "Hmm...now that's something to think about," issues...well, I guess there's not really much hope for you.

Just about everywhere you go these days, someone’s trying to make it easier for you to pay. Obviously, the driving force behind this is to ultimately make the sale by facilitating the consumers option to pay. And while the internet has seen it’s fair share, some successful, others not, of ways to pay, there is a constant stream of improvements to the method making their way to market everyday. But let’s face it, when it comes down to paying for something via the internet, without a direct credit card charge, my guesstimate would be that 85% of the average internet surfing/shopping consumer could name only one: PayPal.