We've reached the end of my Yahoo! Tech sojourn. I'll be focusing next on a series of events that I'm developing with the Consumer Electronics Association. One event, Kids@Play, grew out of a project I helped found last year called The Sandbox Summit. It will focus on raising kids in the digital world.

 

Sometimes the answer is not to go out and buy another gizmo or gadget. Here are some new uses for everyday things that can help you get out of a jam.

Parents and grandparents are going to breathe a sigh of relief this year, at least if Toy Fair is any indication of what's to come. My theory is that the toy safety scare put a little fear into toy manufacturers and that they've all focused on making fewer, better toys instead of more and "let's see if we can get one to stick."

The FBI estimates that a burglary occurs in the U.S. every 15 seconds and that the average loss to homeowners in a single burglary is more than $1,300. Busy schedules, second homes, and travel make "people of a certain age" targets. Until recently, home security was an expensive installation coupled with high monthly fees. Now, it's a weekend project for the technically inclined.

I love it when big companies vie for first place. You know who the winner is, don't you? That would be us.

The other day I sat down to lunch with Anna Post, Emily's great-granddaughter and charming author/lecturer/podcaster, to discuss etiquette in the information age. Post was on tour with Skype to discuss proper etiquette in everyday emails, speakerphones, social networks, and general cubicle life.

Nintendo’s Wii is the Barak Obama of the video game world. Nintendo preached that if you give families a game that’s fun for the whole family, then they will come. Change will happen. And so, we came and enjoyed ourselves as the Wii transcended age and gender barriers.

If you look to the heavens tonight (weather permitting), you're going to have a chance to feast your eyes on the last lunar eclipse until 2010.

Whether it's an email, a printed document, or a web site, the typeface you choose says a lot about the type of person you are. To begin with, anyone who makes a conscious effort to choose a typeface instead of just going with the default is showing that they care about detail.