The Only Post You Need To Read About Google's Big Day
Google's building its own tablet. It's sending an orb into your living room. It knows what you want. And its Project Glass glasses just got scary real. There's a Google Tablet - It's called the Nexus...
View ArticleBrilliant Multi-Exposure Photography
By superimposing several digital camera images taken at different exposure settings, Chris Relander creates this interesting arrangement of multiple exposure photography. (via thisiscolossal.com )...
View ArticleThe Sledgehammer Of Usage-Based Billing
A point worth reiterating in the debate about metered vs. unlimited data: “The major cable distributors can charge whatever they want, however they want, for whatever services they define. There is no...
View ArticleSpeaking In Hashtags
The New Republic's John McWhorter argues that Twitter's linguistic influence is far “less insidious than it seems,” as cringeworthy as hashtag colloquialisms may be. The verbal hashtag trend simply...
View ArticleOh God: TED Makes A Book
Even if you never watched a TED talk, the explosive #fivewordTEDtalks hashtag perfectly captured the zeitgeist of TED and the growing backlash against its occasionally absurd breed of...
View ArticleFixing Apple's Most Miserable Product
The most awful thing Apple makes is iTunes. What started out as a simple jukebox application has been grown over the last decade into something otherworldly in its hulking ungainliness. This may...
View ArticleThe Day The .Music Died?
New domain names will be controlled by private companies —which could suck for the rest of us. The crowd at the Simple Minds concert at the 29. 'Donauinselfest' (Danubeislandfestival), a three-day...
View ArticleThe Problem With Chrome For iOS
Don't get me wrong, I would love Chrome on my iPhone and iPad. But Chrome for iOS isn't really Chrome — it's a much slower version of Mobile Safari. Facebook revealed yesterday that it is finally...
View ArticleFacebook Is Normalizing Creepy Behavior
Social surveillance — simultaneously stalking and being stalked — is changing how we feel about being watched. Via: wordpress.morningside.edu This weekend I saw a man diligently snapping photos of...
View ArticleThe End Of BlackBerry
RIM, the BlackBerry company, cut a few thousand jobs last week; now, it's cutting 5,000 more, or a third of its remaining workforce. It's kind of stunning, really: RIM had the right mobile business...
View ArticleHow The Media Avoids Getting Celebrity Death News Wrong
CNN's major gaffe with the supreme court health care ruling and premature reports about Nora Ephron's death are a reminder that especially when it comes to the internet, you can't always believe what...
View Article11 Dead Social Networks
Remember when there was a social network in every niche and cranny? Even for fake boobs? A walk through some of the wilder ghost towns left on the web. LetsTalkAboutPep.com Then: Let's Talk About Pep,...
View Article7 Best Facebook Easter Eggs
On the way to becoming an unstoppable social media behemoth, Facebook slipped a lot of wacky stuff onto its website. These are the best tricks Facebook has pulled, past and present. Upside-Down...
View ArticleSuper Mario 3D Chalk Art
Give this man ALL the coins! Artist Chris Carlson creates a 3D sidewalk chalk masterpiece in this time-lapse video. Source: chriscarlsonco / via: youtube.com
View ArticleFacebook Is Testing A "Want" Button
Inside Facebook stumbled onto a new addition to Facebook's toolkit: a “want” tag to work alongside the “like” and “share” buttons. No word on when or if it'll roll out, but it's definitely a step in...
View ArticleHow To Break Up With Somebody Over The Internet
Because sometimes there's no other way. What are the rules for breaking up over the Internet? Let’s just state for the record something that you know that I know that you know: you don’t ever break up...
View Article53 Things That've Changed Since The iPhone Came Out
The first iPhone came out five years ago today . That's a pretty long time, it turns out. Apple is the largest company in the world Which made a lot of rich people much richer Image by Chris Hondros /...
View ArticleTalib Kweli Goes Deep On Tech
“In the information age, kids and people of this generation are coming up with their own ways to worship and ways to practice religion because they have access to so many more facts,” the rapper told...
View ArticleThe Most Awesomely American Movies On Netflix For Fourth Of July
Feeling a little less than patriotic this Fourth of July? These films should get you back into the spirit and put the pop back in your fireworks. If you're in the mood for a chunk of awesome from the...
View ArticleYou Like Me. You Really, Really Like Me.
A lovely visual poem about Facebook, Twitter, and Jeff Van Gundy. LINK: You Like Me. You Really, Really Like Me. A lovely visual poem about Facebook, Twitter, and Jeff Van Gundy.
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