Archive for December, 2010

Why Yahoo Sucks at Social When They Should Have Led the Charge

Dec 16 by JD Rucker | 2 comments

May Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, and MyBlogLog rest in peace. You likely won’t be missed, but your collective unrealized potentials will go down in Internet history as examples of how to take greatness and run it into the grave. A leaked screenshot of an all-hands meeting for the Yahoo product team has prompted (confirmed) speculations that many of Yahoo’s more »

First Kinect Sex Game Announced - And Yes, We Have a Video

Dec 16 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Hands-free just got hands-on, as Microsoft’s would-be Wii-killer, Kinect, is the first to get its own sex game. Though the game (which at time of writing, is still nameless), produced by adult videogame developer ThriXXX, is not an official port – you need a PC running Windows 7 – it… sorta looks more »

New iMac Could Be Sensibly Priced - An Apple First!

Dec 16 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

Digitimes is reporting that Apple is apparently working on a new MacBook Pro and iMac to launch in the first half of 2G’s+11. The piece claims a new MacBook chassis design, but perhaps most intriguing is an alleged lower price point for the iMac. I love Macs, and swear by their overall superiority in certain more »

The Price of Creativity: How Designers are Being Cheapened By the Internet

Dec 16 by James Mowery | 12 comments

There is a bit of a conundrum going on in the creative professional community. The problem? The Internet is seemingly cheapening the efforts of high-profile designers, programmers, and other similar jobs on the Web. It’s a global issue, and it is likely only to get worse! What really sparked this more »

Japanese Robot Can (Almost) Run - We Are So Doomed

Dec 15 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Am I the only one who finds this terrifying? Like, sure, it’s not quite as immediately scary as Boston Dynamics’ BigDog, but imagine what it’ll look like a couple decades from now when several of these things are sprinting over a hill at you with guns for heads after the military buys them up? Can you say Judgment more »

Tron Legacy Keeps the Internet At Bay

Dec 15 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Welp, Tron: Legacy is out on Friday, and if you currently exist, chances are you’re going to see it. In the event you don’t exist, there’s probably a hypothetical quantum world where your un-self will see it anyway. This movie’s moistening the loins of geeks the world over, and I’d be hard pressed more »

Zuckerberg Nabs Person of the Year - Does He Deserve It?

Dec 15 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Perhaps Mark Z has to be given some props – after all, Facebook is a little popular.  But is he deserving of the title ‘person of the year’? According to TIME, for sure. And they’ve got good reason: as well as being The Facebook Guy, Zuckerberg has been spending his time of late being philanthropic more »

Three Tech Trends From 2010 We Could Live Without

Dec 15 by Navneet Alang | 5 comments

2010 was, even more so than most, a rollercoaster year for tech. From the glossy newness of the iPad, to the frenzy surrounding Wikileaks, to the rise of Android, to the continuing explosion of Facebook and Twitter, it seemed the pace of change just kept on accelerating. Still, like any year, not more »

Coffee Printer Takes Latte Art to the Next Level

Dec 15 by JD Rucker | 6 comments

One could argue that it takes latte art up five levels. In this video by rnzohar, the concept of putting drinkable images on the foam of your latte or cappuccino goes well beyond flowers and seashells. While not the first mechanical “java printer” it is definitely the most detailed that we’ve seen. For non-coffee-drinkers, more »

Americans Spent As Much Time On The Internet As They Did On Television In 2010

Dec 15 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

Newspapers are not dead, despite every effort by many (including newspaper publishers) to kill them. That may have been the biggest surprise in a recent report by Forrester regarding the way Americans spend their media-consumption time during the last 6 years. For the first time ever, Internet usage equaled more »

Tr-iAd: Tron Lands First iAd on the iPad

Dec 14 by JD Rucker | add comment

The first iAd on the iPad will be for the upcoming movie “Tron Legacy“. A Tr-iAd. And thus, the era of app-based tablet advertising is officially launched. This full-screen iAd will be the only one we will see on the iPad in 2010 and is loaded with rich graphics, touch navigation and nearly 10-minutes of video native more »

Google Demo Slam Makes Tech Demos Personal

Dec 14 by James Mowery | add comment

Maybe tech demos are your most favorite thing in the world, but even if they are not, Google Demo Slam is trying to make them, at the very least, interesting and personal. The site, which had a soft launch nearly a month ago, appears to be growing, and it is getting special treatment on Google’s front more »

The Evolution of the Blogger

Dec 14 by JD Rucker | 10 comments

What started as an online diary for lonely people to express their thoughts to nobody in particular (or in some cases, nobody at all) has grown into one of the most powerful aspects of the Internet. For many, it’s where we get our news rather than from mainstream media. For others, it’s become a full-time more »

Android Ad Impressions Come to A Screeching Halt

Dec 14 by James Mowery | add comment

If there is one thing that Android really needs to have happen, it is that advertising needs to remain positive on the platform. This it true for two reasons: it gives developers incentive to develop for the platform and it provides developers income, from which they might not be getting from application more »