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| Mar 30, 2017 | Upcoming.org founder relaunches site 4 years after Yahoo shut it down | Before events were posted on Facebook, the place to find social activities on the internet (back in the early 2000s) was Upcoming.org. Founded by Andy Baio, the site combined an event calendar with social networking, and everything was prim... |
| Jan 10, 2014 | IBM’s Watson Fails To Compute In A World Of Open-Source Hadoop | IBM’s supercomputer Watson knows almost everything there is to know—except how to generate a lot of revenue, that is.
Watson has accounted for just $100 million in IBM’s revenue over the last three years, according to The Wall Street Journa... |
| Aug 29, 2013 | PayPal announces Customer First, a sweeping plan to ‘catch more sharks and fewer dolphins’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Two weeks ago, Indiegogo project GlassUp raised o... |
| Aug 29, 2013 | PayPal announces Customer First, a sweeping plan to ‘catch more sharks and fewer dolphins’ | Two weeks ago, Indiegogo project GlassUp raised over $100,000 only to be told that PayPal would not release the funds — leaving the project in the tough circumstance of having led a successful crowdfunding campaign but being unable to pay f... |
| Aug 28, 2013 | Miley Cyrus’ Performance Helps Twerking Complete Its Crossover | While the trend following twerking has been building long before the VMAs, thanks to Miley Cyrus’ going-down-in-history (???) performance that no one can seem to stop talking about, it has firmly crossed over to the mainstream, regardless o... |
| Aug 22, 2013 | Suspect Busted When He ‘Likes,’ Shares the Cops’ Facebook Photo of Him | Cooling. (Photo: Facebook)
Last month, attendees at the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, California got a little out of control, by which we mean they threw a full-scale riot complete with knocked-over porta-potties. (Harsh the vib... |
| Aug 5, 2013 | Google Reader Alternative Feedly Sells Out Of Newly Launched Pro Accounts, More Arriving This Fall | Barely a day after Google Reader replacement Feedly began offering a paid version of its service, the company has sold out of the limited number of premium accounts it was making available. Feedly co-founders Edwin Khodabakchian and Cyril M... |
| Jul 23, 2013 | Stop Trying To Make Proximity-Based Social Networking Happen | Turn back the dial to 2009, and proximity social networking was buzzing, thanks to the launch of Google Latitude and the hype and oxygen burning around check-in services like Foursquare and Gowalla. Such services promised that we were all g... |
| Jul 21, 2013 | Chipotle’s Twitter Account Hacked By Someone Looking For Avocados | In the wake of all of these hacked Twitter accounts, it’s hard not to wonder what kind of weak passwords these social media managers are using. It’s really not that hard to create a string of characters others won’t be able to figure out. I... |
| May 7, 2013 | WordPress’ Share Of The World’s Top Blogs Increases | The majority of the world’s top 100 blogs are using WordPress, according to a new report from Pingdom, and the content management system’s share of these blogs is on the rise.
According to the firm, 52% of these blogs are using WordPress, u... |
| May 5, 2013 | Startups, here’s your idiot’s guide to video | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This is a guest post by entrepreneur Adam Peterso... |
| May 5, 2013 | Startups, here’s your idiot’s guide to video | This is a guest post by entrepreneur Adam Peterson, CEO of video-sharing platform VipeCloud.
Do startups need a video strategy? I’ve been in and around the “video for business” industry for the last six years and I get asked this question b... |
| Jan 17, 2013 | NRA: Games To Blame For Violence! Also, Here's A Shooting Game For 4-Year-Olds! | Attention readers of this article! This is important to realize: I do not hate guns, the NRA, or freedom. While this is not the forum for any of us to discuss our personal philosophy regarding firearms or the 2nd amendment, let’s just say m... |
| Aug 29, 2012 | The Terminator Potential Of Google’s Latest Patent | Google has been granted a patent for “Automatic large scale video object recognition“. The technology described would enable Google to recognize objects (not just faces) in videos.
The abstract explains:
An object recognition system perform... |
| Aug 14, 2012 | Война с пиратами: понарошку или всерьез? | Anonymous 14 августа 2012, 17:31 Война с пиратами: понарошку или всерьез?
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| Aug 2, 2012 | Facebook Likely Has 83 Million Fake Users | If you picked any Facebook user at random, there is nearly a 1 in 10 chance that the user you picked isn’t real. Maybe it’s a duplicate, maybe it’s a spam account – but either way, it’s a fake Facebook user.
How do we know this? From Facebo... |
| Jul 16, 2012 | New Teaser for M. Night Shyamalan’s “After Earth” Channels Facebook Timeline | After blasting onto the movie scene and captivating audiences with his now-often-ridiculed plot twists, director M. Night Shyamalan has seen a pretty substantial dip is the amount of buzz his new releases generate. After blowing up the box ... |
| May 23, 2012 | A Handy Guide To Playing Google Bob Moog Doodle | The synthesizer doodle is all the rage today. Even Reddit is getting in on the fun with its “Everyone On Google Today” thread. You can probably imagine where that link goes–if you guessed an animated gif derivative of Keyboard Cat, you’re o... |
| Mar 25, 2012 | Sony preparing Chrome OS laptop, Google working on UI overhaul | The Sony VAIO Chromebook
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| Feb 28, 2012 | Why the Internet Needs Horse_ebooks | Whether you consider it brilliant machine-curated poetry or the incoherent by-product of an overseas Internet scam, there is no denying the allure of Horse_ebooks. The mysterious equestrian Twitter account would just be another spambot, wer... |
| Nov 29, 2011 | Dan Abrams’ Mogulite To Rebrand As TheJaneDough; Will Focus On Women In Business | Earlier this year, Mogulite launched as the seventh site in Dan Abrams’ Media Metwork, which includes Mediaite, Geekosystem, Styleite, Sportsgrid, and The Mary Sue. At launch Mogulitefocused on chronicling the lives of moguls from the profe... |
| Nov 17, 2011 | Shapeways Plans to Build a New York Production Facility With that $5.1 M. It Just Picked Up | Meta!
If adulation for Brooklyn’s own Bre Pettis from sources like Time magazine and Stephen Colbert is any indication, 3D printing has found its way into the cultural ether. Who doesn’t like the idea of a machine that spits out a product b... |
| Oct 4, 2011 | Adult Swim, Cartoon Network Piss Off Fans By Removing Free iPad Streams; Now Only For Cable Subscribers | It’s amazing how frequently legacy entertainment industry companies look to screw up a good thing. Cartoon Network and its alter ego Adult Swim launched iOS apps in the last year that received a ton of praise for offering full streams of sh... |
| Aug 6, 2011 | Welcome To The Panopticon | And so it begins. Carnegie Mellon researchers recently combined Facebook profile pictures and PittPatt‘s facial recognition software to identify supposedly-anonymous pictures from a dating site. Now they’re planning to demo a smartphone app... |
| Apr 25, 2011 | Dan Abrams' Media Empire Unveils Its Seventh Site, The Mogul-Focused Mogulite | Mogulite, the seventh site in Dan Abrams’ Media Metwork goes live today at 6am EST. In the same family as Mediaite, Geekosystem and The Mary Sue, Mogulite will focus on chronicling the lives of moguls of all stripes, ranging from Mark Cuban... |
| Mar 1, 2011 | Pure Genius: The Dogbrella | If you have a dog, you likely know the dread that enters your heart when it comes time to walk the mutt and it’s pouring rain outside. Sure, you can bring an umbrella for yourself, or wear a hat, but when you bring the beast back in, it’s g... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Abrams Media Network Launches "The Mary Sue," New Site For Nerd Girls | Let’s just face it, being a geek girl on the Internet sucks. Even if you’re relatively smart and a woman your lot in online life is basically relegated to this unless you’re Oprah. My point is that there’s never really been a successful and... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Nintendo 3DS Will Launch in March, But Strategy Needs Revamp Now | Nintendo (NTYDO) announced details for its 3DS yesterday, with the slick 3D handheld launching in March, available for a competitive $249 price, and coming with two dozen games in the first couple months. The Japanese preorder lines are inc... |
| Aug 16, 2010 | Blizzard Awarded $88M Default Judgment Against Unauthorized World Of Warcraft Host | Slashdot points us to the news that Blizzard/Activision have won a default judgment against the person behind Scapegaming, which ran an unauthorized World of Warcraft server for profit. The court ordered the site’s owner to pay “$3,053,339 ... |
| May 14, 2010 | Roundup: Flash vs. HTML5, a peek at the BlackBerry tablet and more | Here’s the latest action:
AdMob serves 200 billionth ad — Less than a year after hitting the 100 billion milestone, the advertising network has doubled its count, in addition to announcing its sale to Google, and releasing several other upg... |
| May 12, 2010 | Steam for OS X is available right now | So yeah, you can download OS X’s Steam client right now, and play Team Fortress 2 (or Portal) right now with a quick little workaround. Nice, eh? Real gaming on Macs. Amazing. [Steam via Geekosystem via Gizmodo |
| Mar 15, 2010 | Dan Abrams Expands Mediaite Empire With Fashion News And Culture Site Styleite | Media and legal news pundit Dan Abrams is expanding his Mediaite, mini-empire today with the launch of fashion news site Styleite. Abrams announced late last year that he has a definitive plan for expanding to other verticals, and most rece... |
| Mar 5, 2010 | Shatner Shills MyOuterSpace.com: A Social Network For Sci-Fi Geeks | William Shatner will shill almost anything, and we love him for it. Now he is putting his promotional talents to work for Myouterspace.com, a social network for sci-fi geeks, gamers, animators, writers, and actors. In other words, people wh... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | Microsoft Uses DMCA To Force Cryptome Offline | You may recall late last year we wrote about how Yahoo got upset about the security website Cryptome publishing their “surveillance guide,” which details the process (and prices) for law enforcement to request information from Yahoo. Yahoo ... |
| Feb 24, 2010 | Microsoft Kills Watchdog Website Due to Leaked Documents | Due to Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaints filed by Microsoft, whistleblower website Cryptome [link to a backup version of the site] has been disabled by its ISP, Network Solutions.
The complaints were due to the fact that Cr... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Dan Abrams Expands Mediaite Empire With Geek Culture News Site Geekosystem | When I interviewed Dan Abrams last year about his new media news and analysis blog, Mediaite, he indicated that he has ambitions of building a Mediaite mini-empire by expanding to other verticals. Abrams announced late last year that he has... |
| Infográfico mostra o que acontece no mundo das ofertas diárias | O leitor Kaluan Bernardo encontrou e compartilhou um infográfico – feito pelo Lab42 e publicado pelo Geekosystem – com resultados de um estudo sobre os sites de compra coletiva com ofertas diárias. Infelizmente o mercado brasileiro não está... |