I’m not a hug beach fan by no means. I hate the sand in my toes. I hate it when sand gets into my sneakers. Overall, you feel like a big salty mess when you’re at the beach. However, since we are there often with the kids, I’ve come to enjoy it really.

The feedback was good, but some folks wanted parts of the old Google News back.

Yes, you read the last item correctly – ant traps. Just bear with me for a second.

During the winter months in New England, when we are huddled up in our snuggies keeping away the chill of Jack Frost, we tend to bottle up our conversations and thoughts for when our minds have defrosted.

As flowers bloom in spring and grass grows to resemble a plush green carpet during the summer, neighborhoods come alive with activity, sparked by conversations around the most random of things, including ant traps.

Recently, Whrrl announced some pretty decent news that flew under the radar, but could nudge their competitors to step up their game.

The company launched Society Rewards – a social loyalty program designed to close the gap between a brand’s online social media presence and real-world physical presence.

LeBron and his PR flack

The King tweeted.

Yes, you read that right, LeBron James, the media-dubbed King of the NBA, has joined Twitter and sent out his first tweet:

Hello World, the Real King James is in the Building "Finally". My Brother @oneandonlycp3 gas'd me up to jump on board so I'm here. Haaaa

The confirmation that the tweet was from THE LeBron James comes way of his PR flack, Keith Estabrook.

Me and the fam on July 3rd

We didn't do anything too crazy nor was what the family and I experienced out of the ordinary.

Our Fourth festivities always starts with the annual Point of Pines block party. PoP as we call it, is a little neighborhood in Revere, MA where my mother has a house that comes deeded with a portion of Revere Beach (a private section that she technically owns). The PoP block party is always on the third of July. As a result, we call it PoP03.

Think about it in an old school journalism way. On tight deadlines, reporters would call the copy desk and call their stories in so they could meet their deadlines and not hold up production of the paper.

The WordPress concept is just like that, only there's no one else on the other end of the phone, just some cool technology.

Yesterday, the company announced that they are putting a little more muscle behind tagging.

In a blog post, the company wrote that they are testing technology that would automatically recognize faces in your photos to help ease the process of tagging pics.

The once small start-up that was an acquisition rumor of Facebook and Yahoo, is now valued at $95 million, according to reports.

The fusion of cash proves that Foursquare is leading the location-based services pack by a big margin. However, now that it appears that an acquisition is out of the question, where does Foursquare go from here?

Here are 20 million thoughts (well, maybe just a few) as to the current state of the service and its future.

After the Celtics lost to the Lakers in an epic game 7 of the 2009-10 NBA finals, there were boat loads of questions that team president, Danny Ainge, had to address. One of them was whether or not Paul Pierce was going to opt out of his final year of his contract.

The program is really easy to use and has a Mac-like interface. It cleans out the unnecessary data that your Mac might store and really does a good job in tidying up things like old binaries, cache, duplicate files, unnecessary stuff from language packages, data logs and old files.