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Author Archives: Nathan Lyle

Nathan has been tinkering with computers since the days of the Apple II (and still has a working one in the office). Though born in Livonia, Nathan has lived in the U.P. since he was two (his first memory is breaking into the house because his parents forgot the key) and he wouldn’t trade the snow for anything. When he’s not in front of a computer or chasing one of his four kids around, he likes to write and perform music on any instrument he can get his hands on. His interests include reading and watching science fiction, books on theoretical physics and astronomy, and artificial intelligence.

The Mobile Web

Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley has been quoted (quite frequently) as predicting that within the next five years “more users will connect to the Internet over mobile devices than desktop PCs.” Should this come to pass I can’t say that I will be surprised. When the first smart phones were letting people browser the Web [...]

Facebook after death

What happens to your Facebook profile when you die?  In the ever increasing world of social media, this question is more likely to be asked. Interestingly enough, since about May of 2007 Facebook has had a policy of memorializing the pages of members who have died, hiding some features like the status updates, and locking [...]

Google’s Mark of the Beast

No, it’s not a screen shot from an old Atari video game. Google has sent out stickers to hundreds of thousands of businesses, with Google’s QR code encoded with the URL to Google’s Place page, along with a healthy dose of Google branding. The way it works is that a person with a cell phone [...]