Matt Kapko

Brand loyalty or fear of change?

There's a lot to be said about the fear of change. Barack Obama recently described some people's reluctance to his healthcare plan in these terms: "The devil you know is better than the devil you don...

Yahoo's new look isn't very new at all

I'm no visual expert, but I sure hope Yahoo has bigger plans for its site redesign. The beta for Yahoo's revamped homepage definitely doesn't pack the punch that Yahoo should be going after with its...

A new low for social media and privacy

Here's one right out of George Orwell's "1984." And, of all places, it comes out of Bozeman, Mont. Applicants for jobs with the city are being asked to give up their usernames and passwords for any...

Facebook deserves to beat MySpace

Was it pure coincidence that MySpace cut nearly 30 percent of its staff the same day news came out about Facebook trumping MySpace's traffic in the United States for the first time ever...

Twitter on collision course with FAIL

A bug similar to the Y2K bug is set to unleash on Twitter at 2 p.m. on the West Coast, TechCrunch reports. Many third-party Twitter clients are expected to crash soon. The reason for the oncoming...