Archive for November, 2011

Can Frugalo single-handedly fix the floundering daily deals phenomenon?

Nov 30 by Scarlett Madison | 4 comments

The only thing certain about the future of daily deals is that the industry’s future is uncertain. It’s not a play on words or a failed attempt at sounding clever. If you ask 10 people where daily deals will be a year from now, you’ll probably get 10 completely different responses. The truth is, nobody more »

Who is really using Google+?

Nov 30 by Rocco Penn | 2 comments

Google+ is the Facebook killer. Google+ is a fad. Google+ will break records. Google+ will fall flat. These and many other opinions are floating around and, depending on who you ask, fall under the category of personal preference and level of trust in Google and/or Facebook. In other words, nobody more »

The Facebook Phone (Comic)

Nov 29 by Connor Livingston | 5 comments

In Mark Zuckerberg’s response to the FTC, we learned that Facebook is being forced to be more transparent, more privacy-oriented, and to get permission across the board for any changes they make both by users, the FTC, and anyone else who cares. This is a real blow, not because it hampers their ability to make money with the site but because more »

If you invested in Groupon's IPO, the good news is you've only lost half of your money

Nov 28 by Scarlett Madison | 6 comments

In less than a month, Groupon’s highly-lauded stocks have plummeted from their IPO sale price of $28 closing today at $15.24, down 46% since their November 4th initial public offering. That’s the good news. The bad news is that recovery, if any, will be short-lived. We anticipated bad times, declaring more »

Skyrim's Doublerain Bow

Nov 28 by Scarlett Madison | add comment

Skyrim is, of course, a hugely popular game. It’s immense in scope and the manhours it took to put it together will only be eclipsed by the hours the players will put into discovering its many secrets and fulfilling its plethora of tasks and quests. Call it an Easter egg. Call it a clever play on words. Call more »

Can STEM fix America?

Nov 28 by JD Rucker | 5 comments

Two trends in American culture contradict each other. On one hand, technological and scientific fields are struggling to find qualified people to fill jobs. On the other hand, the education system are not focusing on producing more STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) enriched students. more »

Google describes the history and evolution of search

Nov 28 by Rocco Penn | 3 comments

Google has always kept their search algorithms close to the vest, but in recent weeks they’ve opened up a bit more than usually and given glimpses of what they do and how they do it. In August, they revealed a bit under the hood of Google search. Now they put together a 6-minute video that details what has happened more »

Will 2012 be a rebound year for IPOs?

Nov 27 by Connor Livingston | 2 comments

2010 was a good year for the economy in terms of the number of initial public offerings (IPO). 2011 is trending to be slower overall with 76 as of October 25th versus 152 in 2010. It was still a strong year compared to the start of the recession in 2008 and 2009 when there were 78 combined for both years. more »

Google+ television ads are pointing people in the wrong direction

Nov 25 by JD Rucker | 12 comments

When I heard that Google had put out their first Google+ television commercial, I was both impressed and a little excited. “Finally,” I thought, “they’re going to make a push to bring Google+ into mainstream consciousness.” I watched the commercial and immediately facepalmed. Despite clear more »

Visualizing biotechnology advancements and investments around the world

Nov 24 by JD Rucker | add comment

The biotechnology industry has been booming for decades in the United States, Europe, and Japan, but recent advancements in both science and economic situations have the industry hitting a tipping point around the world. Australia, China, and South Korea have made tremendous strides in this more »

Visualizing SOPA, the internet blacklist bill

Nov 24 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

After last week’s high-energy American Censorship Day flew through with amazing responses from websites everywhere, much of the buzz has faded in the last few days. That simply cannot happen. SOPA, the bill that would grant power to the US government to censor websites, punish users, and have unprecedented control more »

In the Open Source Community, the Platform Rarely Matters Anymore

Nov 23 by Amy Vernon | 1 comment

In the not-too-distant past, Macs were a relative rarity in the laptop bags of those attending open source conferences. Not so anymore. I recently had the chance to go through some download data from SourceForge for an article on the site’s blog and talk to Community Hacker Rich Bowen about what the data meant. more »

5 Ways Online Education May Improve Your Social Life

Nov 22 by Greg Voakes | 6 comments

Among the perks of attending an online college is the flexible schedule and leftover time to hang out, read, play video games, or even socialize. Socializing is becoming more and more archaic as the Internet seeps into every nook and cranny of our lives; we prefer to online date, text, email, or more »

Apple protects brand from porn by taking over domains

Nov 22 by Scarlett Madison | 4 comments

When you have a brand like Apple, you’re always going to be a target. They have people watching for trademark violations and infringements of intellectual property who are constantly on alert, but many get pushed aside as minor and not worth pursuing. When it comes to porn, Apple doesn’t push it more »