July 2010

140 Stories

Twenty Billion Tweets Can’t Be Wrong

Twenty Billion Tweets Can’t Be Wrong

About an hour ago, Twitter just hit the big two-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. For those of you who would rather not be confused,...

Google Wants To Know Where You At

Google Wants To Know Where You At

As if Google didn't know enough about you (and serve up ads accordingly), Google AdWords is now offering a feature...

Video Artist Fills His Scanner With Ants – What Are You Doing With YOUR Weekend?

Video Artist Fills His Scanner With Ants – What Are You Doing With YOUR Weekend?

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/13703448[/vimeo] Straight outta the wish-I'd-thought-of-that department comes FranƧois Vautier, a video artist unafraid to sully precious technology with soil and...

48ers.com New Real Time Social Search Engine

48ers.com New Real Time Social Search Engine

There are a lot of these real time social search engines cropping up to unseat the Scooplers and OneRiots of...

Weather Now Available in Google Earth

Weather Now Available in Google Earth

Weather-obsessed people like pilots and surf bums will now be able to see the latest weather maps on Google Earth....

iPhone Captain’s Log App, Stardate July 30 2010

iPhone Captain’s Log App, Stardate July 30 2010

Both closeted and outed Star Trek geeks can now enjoy the Star Trek Captain's Log app for the iPhone 4....

Reddit Introduces Gold Service to Keep Site Running Smoothly

Reddit Introduces Gold Service to Keep Site Running Smoothly

If you love Reddit as much as Reddit users love Reddit, the thought of the popular social bookmarking site shutting...

RIM Planning to Release iPad Competitor Blackpad in November

RIM Planning to Release iPad Competitor Blackpad in November

Blackberry is hoping to get all up in the iPad's business with a new tablet device being released in November,...

Five Websites That Will Make You A Better, Smarter Geek

Five Websites That Will Make You A Better, Smarter Geek

Let's face it, internet chums. For all the wealth of incredible, mind-expanding content there is online, we spend a lot...

The Myth and Reality of Kevin Mitnick

The Myth and Reality of Kevin Mitnick

Kevin Mitnick became notorious for his use of social engineering - the act of manipulating people into divulging information, rather...

When Panasonic Gets Creative, It Doesn’t Hit A Sour Note

When Panasonic Gets Creative, It Doesn’t Hit A Sour Note

Today is a great day for tech and design coming together. This one's a bit of advertising. You're already looking...

When Digital Distribution Becomes Art

When Digital Distribution Becomes Art

You know what's too cool? This is. In an exploration of digital content delivery, record label Ghostly International is debuting...

Facebook Questions Launches, Tide of Ignorance Begins

Facebook Questions Launches, Tide of Ignorance Begins

If you've ever used Yahoo Answers, you're painfully aware of the human wastelands that populate the internet, and the unfortunate...

DisgraceTime – Adult Industry Has Eyes For iPhone 4

DisgraceTime – Adult Industry Has Eyes For iPhone 4

I have a feeling Apple's FaceTime is going to play out just fine. How can I be sure? Because now,...

All That Cool Stuff What Apple Done Released Yesterday

All That Cool Stuff What Apple Done Released Yesterday

Oh, hi there. You okay? You look a little red. Y'know what, that's probably the burning desire you have to...

Are The Economics of the Web Making Us Stupid?

Are The Economics of the Web Making Us Stupid?

Whenever someone talks about how the internet is making us stupid, I tend to get a little skeptical.After all, for...

Eric Schmidt: The Last Man On Earth Denying Google Me

Eric Schmidt: The Last Man On Earth Denying Google Me

Eric Schmidt (guy who runs Google, if you're new to this 'inter-net' thing) was quoted this week as saying that...

Apple Peel Transforms Your iPod Touch Into An iPhone… Assuming It Exists

Apple Peel Transforms Your iPod Touch Into An iPhone… Assuming It Exists

Isn't the iPod Touch the worst, guys? It's an iPhone for all intents and purposes, save the notable exception of,...

Rushin’ Roulette – Ternovskiy Brings Down the Chathammer

Rushin’ Roulette – Ternovskiy Brings Down the Chathammer

"I believe that Chatroulette was great in the first honeymoon days after it was launched," says Andrey Ternovskiy, the founder...

Free Bird: No One Would Pay for Twitter, Study Shows

Free Bird: No One Would Pay for Twitter, Study Shows

A study by the Center for the Digital Future at USC has done us a great service. Polling a selection...