Tumblr's Updated Terms Of Service Possess An Alien Beauty
They’ve always been funny, but Tumblr hasn’t always been owned by Yahoo. Tumblr officially acknowledges its hero: BBC / Via giphy.com Tumblr just updated its Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and...
View ArticleWhat Happened To The New Internet?
The movement to make a cleaner, quieter, more beautiful and exclusive web. And what’s left of it. They were desperate times online, the mid-2012s. Facebook had cashed in. Twitter was sending app...
View ArticleThe Return Of Gaming's Greatest Storyteller
Tim Schafer made some of the best-loved computer games of the 1990s. Now he’s going back to the genre he helped define. Via cdn.dualshockers.com If there is a universally-beloved human in the world of...
View ArticleFacebook Is Now A Very Profitable Mobile Advertising Company
More than half of Facebook’s advertising revenue comes from mobile advertising. And it’s a big reason the company beat earnings expectations today. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters When Facebook went public...
View ArticleMedia Reporting's Blind Spot
Tech isn’t just a talking point, it’s the media’s new context. Via youtube.com If you want to understand Ezra Klein's departure from the Washington Post to Vox Media, as well as the context of the...
View ArticleGlorious Images Of A Bunch Of Obliterated Google Data Servers
Artists Sebastian Schmieg and Johannes Osterhoff sent away for a box of destroyed google servers and now it’s in a museum. Enjoy your life. Behold: the wild beauty of a bunch of jacked up server bits...
View ArticleIs Zynga Breaking Its Facebook Addiction?
The once-mighty social game company bought a mobile game developer for half a billion bucks . Here’s what it means. Zynga, more than any other company, is synonymous with the kind of social, browser...
View ArticleEverything You Need To Know About That Insane Online Space Battle That Cost...
Two days in the wild and wonky world of EVE Online . EVE Online is a massively multiplayer online science fiction role-playing game. It's been around since 2003, and boasts more than 500,000...
View ArticleHere's A Stunning First-Person View Of A Free-Fall From Space
New footage of Felix Baumgartner’s space jump is probably the best use of a GoPro camera you’ve ever seen. Via youtube.com If you've been on the internet in the last 18 months, you've probably seen at...
View Article12 Times "Flappy Bird" Drove Human Beings Into A Black Maw Of Existential...
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View ArticleHere's Delightful Evidence Facebook Was Around In 1902
This fragment from the Western Times was just surfaced by the British Newspaper Archive . The Edwardian version sounds a lot more fun. Via blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk The latest novelty for...
View ArticleFacebook's Nuclear Advantage
How Facebook spent over $100 million to keep the next big smartphone apps a secret. Robert Galbraith / Reuters / Reuters By Mark Zuckerberg's own admission, Facebook is now a mobile company. It used...
View ArticleThe 21 Most Triumphant Moments Of Facebook's 10 Years
Facebook turns 10 years old today, and I’m so proud of us all. Thanks to r/Facepalm and Old People Facebook . The moment when Facebook's ad targeting was explained reddit.com The time someone...
View ArticleWelcome Back To The Age Of The News Portal
Facebook celebrates its 10th anniversary by turning the clock back 16 years. While the internet’s biggest websites try to figure out what comes next, they’re retracing their ancestors’ steps. Via...
View ArticleMeet Microsoft's New CEO
The company has picked Satya Nadella, an insider, to run the company. That’s after about half a year of deliberations over who would run Microsoft. Microsoft / Reuters Microsoft has selected an...
View ArticleTwitter: The Console War Is A Sad Stalemate
Further proof the “console war” is currently a tepid pillowfight. The ongoing "console war" between Xbox One and Playstation 4 is so far a pillow fight between two presently toothless expensive...
View ArticleThe 42 Ways To Type Laughter, Defined
Here’s what your typed and texted LOL-ing REALLY means. 1. haha = I'm acknowledging that you've said something you perceive to be funny, though I don't find it particularly funny myself.2. haha. = I...
View ArticleInside The Mind Of The Man Who Broke Madden
How Jon Bois’ delightfully impish series became an internet sensation. All images and video courtesy of Jon Bois and SB Nation Once in an unbearably long while, a person produces a thing on the...
View ArticleThe Search For The Internet's Next Top Weather Nerd
Why everyone is trying to hire the next great meteorologist. John Gara/BuzzFeed The local TV meteorologist is dying, but it's never been a better time to be a weatherperson.One month into 2014, a year...
View ArticleAre The Big Social Networks Saturated?
Social networks are still growing, but only slightly. And they’re more profitable than ever. Twitter revealed its first earnings report today announcing, among other things, that the social network...
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