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| 28.01.2024 | DJI Unveils FlyCart 30: A Heavy-Duty Drone with Intelligent Features for Precision Deliveries | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 28 January 2024, 07:01 pm |
| 20.07.2023 | Giant LED Spherical Screens Amaze the World, Unilumin Ignited Riyadh Season in Saudi Arabia | RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The MSG Sphere, the world's largest spherical entertainment venue, lit up its spectacular LED screens for the first time at its Fourth of July celebration in 2023. It is reported that Unil... |
| 22.02.2023 | Mark Zuckerberg's MMA fighting and Bill Gates' pickleball: 20 tech billionaires and executives and the sports they play | Mark Zuckerberg enjoys MMA fighting and Bill Gates once battled Jeff Bezos on the tennis court. Instagram and Jeff Vinnick/Allsport/Getty Images
Tech founders and billionaires don't spend all their time in the office.
From skiing to BASE ju... |
| 24.02.2022 | NFTs Are the Latest Crypto Tax Events Nobody Understands | For over a year now, major tech companies and venture capital firms have been rallying behind non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as the next big thing in online commerce.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has said the company’s new NFT business could be... |
| 09.12.2021 | This Hoodie with Pouch for Cats Keeps Pets Close While Gaming, Working | Teejay Boris, Tech Times 09 December 2021, 02:12 am
(Photo : Photo by David McNew/Getty Images.) HAWTHORNE, CA - JULY 16: A cat sits in its crate before the southern California maiden voyage of Pet Airways on July 16, 2009 in the Los Angele... |
| 11.08.2017 | Weekly News Roundup: August 11th 2017 | Weekly News Roundup – August 11th 2017 Scottish Tech News
Scottish Sports app Find A Player secures £100,000 investment
Faraday Grid, a disruptive electricity transaction platform, which allows users to buy and sell electricity from/to each... |
| 16.08.2016 | Univision buys Gawker Media for $135 million | Scott Beale / Laughing Squid reader comments 111 with 75 posters participating
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| 16.11.2015 | Community Speaker Series Ignite Gets A Reboot | Ignite, the original speaker series held in hundreds of cities throughout the world, is making a comeback. The original co-founder and head of Highway 1, Brady Forrest, has reacquired Ignite from O’Reilly Media and is relaunching it today a... |
| 12.08.2015 | iReligion: How Apple fanaticism turned tech into a cult | As someone who is always on the prowl for new podcast material to enjoy, I recently came across one which is hosted by a name familiar to many in the States. Joe Rogan -- currently best known for being lead color commentator on most large U... |
| 13.07.2015 | GameIn30 – A Fun New Way to Interact with Friends | There are multiple ways to keep in touch with friends: meet them for a coffee, call them by phone, VoIP app, comment on their Facebook pics, etc. How about challenging them to a quick game? Don't think about lengthy strategic games. Ask you... |
| 10.07.2015 | The Cutest Video of a 200-Strong Village of Foxes You’ll See Today | Travel can give you the opportunity to experience many things. A deeper understanding of your fellow human beings. A recognition of hidden strengths that might have lain dormant for years. Or, the chance to hang out with 200 tame foxes.
Up ... |
| 30.06.2015 | Cisco Wants To Buy OpenDNS Because The Intranet Is Dead | When I dropped in last month on David Ulevitch, the CEO of OpenDNS, he was cheerily bounding around the rapidly expanding home base of his Internet security empire in San Francisco’s SoMa district. He’d taken over the other side of the buil... |
| 20.08.2014 | Ghostbusters Gets A Pop Culture Remix In Stop-Motion Lego Tribute | MonsieurCaron (aka Marc-Andre Caron)— the master builder behind such Lego-themed Internet hits as the brick-ified Simpsons couch gag and the JuraBrick Park stop-motion dinosaurs—has struck again, this time delving into the paranormal world ... |
| 28.07.2014 | Amazon starts a 3D printing shop with customizable products | So far, Amazon's contribution to the great wide world of 3D printing, where you are limited only by your imagination and stash of printing filament, is bobbleheads. reader comments 19 with 18 posters participating
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| 23.07.2014 | We Talked to Tim Wu About Net Neutrality and Taking on Corrupt Politicians | New York lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Tim Wu on the stump. Photo by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid via Flickr It's not very often that you get to vote for the smartest person in the room. But Tim Wu, the Columbia Law School professor who ... |
| 05.06.2014 | Test Driving The ‘Drone Selfie’ With Photojojo’s New Rental Program (Video) | Cave drawings, reflective pools of water, daguerreotypes, Instagram. If there’s one thing that humans have loved throughout history, it’s finding new ways to look at themselves, and photo technology that helps us do that just keeps getting ... |
| 04.04.2014 | Watch A Projection-Mapped Music Video Shot In One Take | Pomplamoose is the happy-go-lucky music duo of Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn who got YouTube famous with looped covers of "Single Ladies" and "My Favorite Things." Now, they’re making DIY projection-mapped music videos in w... |
| 28.03.2014 | Best Of The Rest: Penny-Sized Nature Drawings, Family Photo Hauntings, And "Twin Peaks" Gets The Simpsons Treatment | This week we met the world's coolest special effects-enabled dad, learned how to make microscopic sand castles, and saw a concept design for a skyscraper that could save the Amazon rainforest. Here's a look at the best of the rest in creati... |
| 24.03.2014 | Wes Anderson 'Centered' Gets Kaleidoscopic | Wes Anderson // Kaleidoscoped from Luis Enrique Rayas on Vimeo.
A Wes Anderson supercut is easy to love, even when it’s an undulating kaleidoscope of Bill Murray’s face and the villainous rat from The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Using the shots from... |
| 04.03.2014 | Gwen O’Toole and Megan Luscombe, founders of The Ideas Library | In 2013 event industry professionals Megan Luscombe and Gwen O’Toole teamed up to launch The Ideas Library, a boutique communications and event company helping Australians make their ideas happen.
O’Toole moved to Australia from the USA in ... |
| 11.11.2013 | Around Asia: Bloomberg News quashes China story | Bloomberg News has reportedly crumpled an investigative report into alleged ties between one of the richest men in China and the families of top Chinese officials.
Four journalists accused Bloomberg of bowing down to Chinese censorship afte... |
| 30.10.2013 | Calvin And Hobbes Dance Over At YouTube | There’s little arguing when it comes to the position of Calvin and Hobbes in the annals of entertainment history; that is, right at the top. The revered comic strip is still fawned over by fans, even though there hasn’t been any new content... |
| 29.10.2013 | Booting Up: #Underboob Is Now Researchable On Instagram | Apple’s savior. (Photo: Apple)
Buoyed by strong iPhone sales, Apple reported a $7.5 billion profit on $37.5 billion of revenue in the fourth quarter. [TechCrunch]
Instagram has un-banned racy hashtags #thinspo, #underboob and #dildo. Sadly,... |
| 24.10.2013 | SA 100 2013: The Coolest People In New York Tech
Check out the 2012 Silicon Alley 100 list | Business Insider / Mike Nudelman
Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr really put New York tech on the map this year.
But over the past few years, New York City has become a tech hotspot. Scroll through this year's Silicon Alley 100 &g... |
| 04.10.2013 | These Are Brooklyn's Hottest Tech Startups
The Weird, Awesome Hobbies of 13 Tech Execs > | Bre Pettis, founder at MakerBot Kevin Smith/Business Insider
The tech scene is booming in Brooklyn.
Over the summer, 3D printing company Stratasys acquired MakerBot, the hot 3D printing startup, in a $400 million deal.
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| 16.09.2013 | “That’s The Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Heard Of.” | When Twitter broke the news last week about its forthcoming IPO, I got a bit sentimental. In 2006, when Twitter was entering the world as a side project of the podcasting startup Odeo, I had just left my first “career” in the film industry ... |
| 18.08.2013 | Deleting zombie photos from iPhoto | Not photos of zombies, but photos that just won't die off your harddrive.
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| 13.08.2013 | Sweet, Sweet Stasis: Lazyglasses Let You Watch TV While Lying Flat on Your Back | Hehe (Photo: Thinkgeek.com)
Do you ever wake up with a terrible stiffness in your neck because you spent half the night prior propped up on your elbow marathoning a Netflix show? A simple pair of glasses retailing at Think Geek promises to ... |
| 26.07.2013 | Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Will Take The Stage At Disrupt SF | Twitter CEO Dick Costolo wears many hats. Not only is he helping lead Twitter into its possible future as a public company, Costolo is a master at improv from his days as a professional comedian, and is a serial entrepreneurs who has sold c... |
| 15.07.2013 | Reddit Demonstrates Power Of Social Media, Sends Pizza To Children’s Hospital | For the uninitiated, Reddit may seem like a collection of video gaming porn freaks who like cat images, and while that’s certainly a component of the site, it doesn’t begin to encompass the entire Reddit population, a group that is referred... |
| 03.07.2013 | Why are trailers so easy to spoof? An interview with the director of the hilarious Honest Trailers series | There are those times when you’re sitting in the movie theater, digging your hands into the armrest in bitter frustration, spewing popcorn spittles of rage as you scream at the screen about just how downright dumb that movie is getting. Lik... |
| 10.06.2013 | iRobot And Cisco Build A Roving Telepresence Rig So Remote Workers Can Still Roam The Office | It’s no secret that iRobot’s domestic cleaning machines can carry some interesting things while they putter around and wipe up your floors, and iRobot and Cisco have taken that notion to its next logical step. The two companies have just an... |
| 03.06.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Personal Democracy Forum, GoRuCo, SXSW V2V, Queens Tech Forum, MakerFaire Townhall, FinTech, EnterpriseTech) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 07.05.2013 | 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... |
| 18.03.2013 | Gary Sharma’s Highlights from SXSW 2013 (Grumpy Cat, Elon Musk, Shaq, BBQ Pool Parties, Angry Birds & more!) | Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun, singer/songwriter Tori Kelly, IRL Productions’ Emily Gannett and billionaire / Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban at Conduit Corner @ SXSW 2013 (photo by Erica Gannett)
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| 13.10.2012 | Book Review: Makers By Chris Anderson | I took two flights across the country this week so in addition to a lot of catching up on email, I read a book. It is called Makers and it was written by Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson. This is the third book that I've read by Chris. ... |
| 08.10.2012 | Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos! | I’m at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco – and it reminds me a lot of the Web 2.0 Conferences of 2006-07. The second coming of the Web, coined “Web 2.0” by Tim O’Reilly and his company, was entering its peak around 2006. If I ever ... |
| 23.09.2012 | Inside The Brand New Makerbot Retail Store | The handsomest man in the world, Bre Pettis, gives the second handsomest man in the world, Phil Torrone, a nice visit to the Makerbot Store in Manhattan. The store is now selling Makerbots, filament, and pre-made items like watches and toys... |
| 29.07.2012 | NYC Vs. SF Tech: Above And Beyond The “Company Town” | It didn’t start with a monkey, or a tiger. Or even a million-dollar blowout with Snoop performing in a hazy fog. For me, it started with schwag. Lots and lots of schwag. So much, in fact, that in 2006 a group of enterprising tech folks at R... |
| 20.06.2012 | A Look Inside Twitter Headquarters | Last month we brought you some photos from Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park. Now we have found some of their social network “rival”, Twitter.
This is the fourth separate headquarters they have moved into, and is located in the Mid Market... |
| 06.06.2012 | Applebee’s Social Media Marketing Efforts Are Condescending | The marketing geniuses hired by Applebee’s really wants you ladies to get off of Facebook and Twitter, round up your best girlfriends and get your behinds down to your local Applebee’s for some “Life is Better Shared” fun. In fact, that’s t... |
| 24.05.2012 | Wozniak, Circa 2004: Google’s Value Is “Not Likely to Appreciate” | Steve Wozniak, two years later
It’s been fun to watch the normally exuberant tech press go through the rationalization process of what went wrong with Facebook’s IPO, starting with claims that Friday’s flat opening meant the IPO was perfect... |
| 23.05.2012 | Adrian Grenier and his beer startup Churchkey crack open morning brews | It’s fairly common for drinks to be had at tech conferences, but this morning beer startup Churchkey got things started a little earlier than usual by cracking open brews on-stage at 10:30 a.m.
Churchkey Can was started by actor Adrian Gren... |
| 22.05.2012 | Gary Sharma’s 16th Annual Webby Awards Highlights (Steve Jobs Tribute, Richard Dreyfuss, Bjork, Patton Oswalt, Cat Memes and More) | Justin Long, Richard Dreyfuss and John Hodgman at the 16th Annual Webby Awards.
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), Founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white s... |
| 21.05.2012 | Gary Sharma’s Internet Week 2012 Highlights (Nerd Proms, Rooftop Parties, Will Arnett DJ’ing, Michael Stipe Sightings ‘n more!) | Aol’s Andrea Hong, GroupMe/Skype’s Steve Cheney, TechStars’ Justin Overdorff, Shelby.tv’s Chris Kurdziel and Lauren Appelwick, American Express’ Meghan Paul, Acquaintable’s Joel Rodriguez and Greycroft Partners’ Alisa Richter posing at the ... |
| 22.03.2012 | Antique Music Box Gets A Digital Update | If you find yourself wandering around an antique store, looking longingly at the splendid craftsmanship of artisanal products from yesteryear, just remember that even though the devices you’re looking at might be obsolete, it doesn’t mean t... |
| 15.03.2012 | Gary Sharma’s SXSW 2012 Highlights: Jay-Z, Leo DiCaprio, Pool Parties, Grilled Cheese Eating Contests & More | Storyful's Erica Berger, ABC News' Maya Baratz, The Today Show's Rina Raphael and Fashism's Ashley Granata & Brooke Moreland hanging out at TheDaily's now epic Pool Party @ SXSW 2012. (Photo: Nick McGlynn)
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| 28.02.2012 | Betabeat Had a Party Last Night to Celebrate ‘The Pitch’ | Umami's new "Dishboard"
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| 29.12.2011 | Creativity Comes From Such Strange Sources | Aaron DeOliveira points us to an amusing Christmas to New Year’s week diversion in the story of the song, WTF?! I Wanted An iPhone!!! (warning, potentially NSFW, if your work place doesn’t like people singing curses). Beyond being entertain... |
| 20.09.2011 | Instrumenti Takes A Lo-Fi Approach To Sound Visualization | Latvian electro-pop band Instrumenti is known for their eccentric stage presence—the duo first turned heads for wearing oversized panda heads while performing at SXSW in 2010. Now Shipsi and Reynsi, the talents behind this outfit, are takin... |
| 21.08.2011 | Future Microsoft division Skype makes buy of its own, striking a deal for GroupMe | GroupMe founders Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci. Photo by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid
Skype, in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for $8.5 billion, this afternoon got more company on the road to Redmond — announcing a deal to acquir... |
| 15.07.2011 | BillGuard | I love it when entrepreneurs take a trick from one market and apply it to another. The founders of BillGuard have done that with credit card fraud. They took the lessons from the anti-virus and anti-spam markets and apply it to your credit ... |
| 20.06.2011 | Peanuts Rights Holder Shuts Down Peanutweeter, Pisses Off Fans For No Reason At All | You may recall, a few years back, all the attention received by a site called Garfield Minus Garfield, in which a guy, Dan Walsh, took Garfield comic strips and “removed” Garfield, creating existentially weird comic strips in their place. W... |
| 02.06.2011 | Digitize Your Eye Makeup | Thanks to pioneering fashion designers like Diana Dew, LEDs started infiltrating the clothing market as early as the 1960s. Even though the trend took a while to take off, thanks to celebrities like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Fergie—who con... |
| 18.04.2011 | Zynga’s Mark Pincus: The ethical founder? | The social era of computing has produced three multi-billion dollar companies: Facebook, Twitter and Zynga. As light is increasingly shed on the formation myths of Facebook and Twitter, a lot of new information casts doubt on the ethics and... |
| 12.03.2011 | How To “Win” SXSW: Hint – It’s The Same Answer Every Year | photo © 2006 Liz Henry | more info (via: Wylio)Editor’s Note: René Pinnell is CEO and Co-Founder of Hurricane Party, a free iPhone app that makes it easy and fun to create spontaneous events with your friends. He has lived in Austin for the... |
| 31.01.2011 | Can Facebook keep its cool urban culture if it moves to Sun’s old headquarters? | 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!
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| 31.01.2011 | Can Facebook keep its cool urban culture if it moves to Sun’s old headquarters? | Facebook has made moves toward buying the former campus of Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park — just up the road from its current location, but at the same time, a world away from its roots.
If Facebook moves from its current location in a form... |
| 13.01.2011 | Twitter Considers Moving Its Headquarters. To Brisbane, CA? | The San Francisco Business Times is reporting that San Francisco-based microblogging darling Twitter is looking into a real estate purchase in Brisbane California, specifically the 200,000 square foot current home of Walmart.com at the Sier... |
| 04.11.2010 | Finally, A Song I Can Relate To | Posted without comment.
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| 19.10.2010 | The Revolution May Or May Not Be Tweeted | “Social networks are effective at increasing participation—by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires. The Facebook page of the Save Darfur Coalition has 1,282,339 members, who have donated an average of nine cents api... |
| 11.10.2010 | Fox Pulls Down Banksy 'Simpsons' Video From YouTube | “I haven’t met him, I don’t even know what he looks like, except what the Internet suggests.” — Simpsons producer Al Jean on Banksy
In case you haven’t been reading Twitter at all in the past day or so, last night “Banksy” was both the sixt... |
| 05.10.2010 | Never Compromise On Fart Jokes | The 1975 movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail has an honored place on my dusty DVD shelf, along with every other Monty Python Movie, Caddyshack, Fletch and a variety of other movies that shaped my childhood and helped me get through many e... |
| 03.09.2010 | Twee Altoids Tin BBQ Grill For Micro-Cookouts | This is a fun idea; get a few of these together and you can have a sort of Western Sukiyaki party, with everyone cooking cocktail wienies in their own little heated dishes. All you need is an Altoids tin, some computer fan grills, and a lit... |
| 31.08.2010 | Very Clever: USB Porto | If only computers came with four or five of these standard…
Technically a “dessert zinfandel” (only certain Portuguese varieties can be called Porto), the USB features a chocolatey nose with hints of ruby cherry and spice. Or so they say.
T... |
| 20.08.2010 | Tapi, So You Don't Have To Drink From The Faucet Like A Cat | What can be said? Tapi is a little rubber dongle you put on your faucet to make it into a water fountain. Do you drink from the faucet all the time, but secretly feel that you’re not being fancy enough? This object is for you, my friend.
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| 06.08.2010 | Facebook, YouTube, Skype, 'Mad Men' Style | Because it’s Friday; Brazilian ad agency Moma has created the above ’60s style ads for web services Facebook, YouTube and Skype. Part of the “Everything Ages Fast” campaign for Maximidia Seminars, the ads are visually stunning and the copy ... |
| 28.07.2010 | Can Google Challenge Facebook in Social? Key Industry Thinkers Say… Maybe | It’s becoming clear that Google is getting ready to launch a social networking platform to challenge Facebook. Most recently, The Wall Street Journal reported last night that the big social gaming companies that dominate Facebook are in tal... |
| 27.05.2010 | Exploded Andy: A t-shirt for Android fans | Are you totally into Android? Then you’re totally in luck. The folks who brought you Exploded iPad and Exploded iPhone present Exploded Andy, the Android android cut down to his component parts, including a fat, fleshy brain.
You can pick u... |
| 14.05.2010 | Apple Responds To Adobe [Humor] | We covered Adobe’s message to Apple, so we wanted to get the other side’s angle as well. Behold, Apple’s message to Adobe:
Okay, okay, this is already all over the web. And (obviously) not real. But it’s too damn funny to pass up.
[thanks O... |
| 06.04.2010 | The iPad is designed so even a 2-year old can use it | Apple knows people are idiots and didn’t want its consumers to learn another interface. So the iPad rocks the iPhone OS. That way anyone familiar with the other system can easily pick up and instantly use the iPad — like the 2.5-year old da... |
| 15.03.2010 | Twitter Expected To Take The Wraps Off Its Advertising Platform Today | Later today, Twitter CEO Evan Williams will be interviewed by Umair Haque of the Havas Media Lab at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. We’ll of course be covering any announcements that will be made by Williams on stage, but we expect th... |
| 10.03.2010 | Now you can find the creeps with ChatRouletteMap | Hopefully, this doesn’t herald the end of the ChatRoulette party.
A mashup called ChatRouletteMap pins screenshots of the site’s users to a map. This doesn’t collect data on every single one of ChatRoulette’s users. ChatRouletteMap’s develo... |
| 25.02.2010 | Location Will Be This Year's Twitter At SXSW | We’re two weeks away from the SXSW Interactive, a drinking festival with a side of tech that takes place each year in Austin, Texas (before the larger SXSW film and music portions). While the conference itself is interesting, more interesti... |
| 08.02.2010 | Is TechCrunch doomed by payola scandal? | Late last week, tech biz bloggers were shocked — and a few were cruelly happy — to read that TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington had fired 17-year-old intern, entrepreneur and Internet fameball Daniel Brusilovsky. Arrington said the teenage o... |
| 09.01.2010 | The Crunchies Photo Gallery | The third annual Crunchies Awards last night were a smashing success, bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, startups, and other members of the tech community to honor the top in their class and enjoy an evening with friends. Thanks to... |
| 30.12.2009 | 4600 Polaroid photos make for a hell of a video journal | http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8302692&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1
A good idea if you can afford the cartridges: Mark Tasman took a picture of himself... |
| 23.11.2009 | Event Highlights for November 23–29, 2009 | Can we vote right now that Thanksgiving is the best holiday of the year? Food, family, football and no gift pressure make it an ideal combination for a (relatively) stress free holiday. But what’s good for your stomach isn’t necessarily goo... |
| 05.10.2009 | Foursquare's Impressive Roster Of Angels Continue To Be Revealed. Latest: Kevin Rose | There was a lot of action surrounding the first seed round of funding for Foursquare, the location-based social network. From what we’ve heard, there were a number of investors upset that they couldn’t get in on the round, which was relativ... |
| 19.08.2009 | Crimespotting: Crime Has Never Looked So Good | There’s nothing cool about crime, but Stamen Design comes pretty damn close to making it cool with the new site it built and designed, San Francisco Crimespotting, that launched today. The site offers a visual representation of reported cri... |
| 20.07.2009 | The Web Is Shooting For The Moon With Apollo 11 Tributes | Just in case you haven’t read anything on the web yet today, it is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 spacecraft landing on the Moon. Neil Armstrong’s “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” seems to reverberate as much tod... |
| 13.07.2009 | The Original Ecto-1 Ghostbusters Car is on eBay | Oh my. You want this car. Just think how rad it would be to have this as your wedding limo. Or prom ride. No, no, your hearse! The uses are endless for this movie legend. As of writing, the bidding is at $40k but it will probably fetch a bi... |
| 06.07.2009 | If Your Tribute To Pez Gets Too Much Attention, Pez Might Sue | ChurchHatesTucker alerts us to the news that Pez, makers of the famous candy that comes in dispensers with the breakaway heads, is suing a Pez Memorabilia museum. The original article says it’s for copyright violations, but I believe that’s... |
| 20.05.2009 | More Artists Recognizing The New Business Model: Sell The Scarcity | Laughing Squid, in talking about how Eminem is the latest artist to embrace the tiered selling structure (though, I think he got the model wrong — the music is priced way too high), calls our attention to a short article by famed musician B... |
| 15.05.2009 | Roundup: Has Della got its groove back? Hulu, Google, etc. | Here’s the latest action:
Dell revises “Della,” its netbook marketing web site targeting women, after allegations of sexism — As Jezebel covers.
The once and future Valleywag — Owen Thomas (pictured right) is leaving to become editorial dir... |
| 14.05.2009 | Fake photography licenses for when someone says "you can't take pictures here" | As an excellent end note to ATMgate at REI and its satisfying repercussions, check out these awesome IDs mocked up by Matthew Williams Design. They’re completely fake, of course, and would be illegal to use in any situation where you actual... |
| 06.05.2009 | There's one too many sites on the internet | Maybe You Shouldn’t Buy That is a blog about ridiculous objects, devices, and modifications that nobody in their right mind would pay for. Uh, sorry Internet — there’s already a site that does that. It’s called CrunchGear.
Oh, it’s so on.
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| 05.05.2009 | Video: Hover Scooter, a 60's hybrid motorbike/hovercraft | Is it the greatest form of transportation of all time? Tentatively, I’m going to say yes. Does it have the best instrument panel of all time? Undoubtedly. The Hover Scooter was an awkward cross between a scooter and a hovercraft. Not the mo... |
| 21.04.2009 | SF Mayor Gavin Newsom Tweets His Way Into The Race For California Governor | Remember when the hippest way to blaze onto the campaign trail was an appearance on The Daily Show? No more.
This morning San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom announced his bid for California Governor via Twitter, instantly sending his new camp... |
| 14.04.2009 | Birdhouse: The CMS For Twitter You Don't Need — But Watch The Video | While a lot of people may mostly be using their iPhones to check the weather, the apps I use most frequently are the ones that connect to Twitter. Twitter’s mobile web experience is pretty awful and SMS is a complete and utter rip-off. But ... |
| 14.02.2009 | The Death Of "Web 2.0" | I’m not going to discuss the economic meltdown and its devastating effect on technology companies and internet startups in this post, but rather something that crossed my mind earlier this morning: “Web 2.0” seems to become more and more a ... |
| 12.02.2009 | Techmeme’s New Editor: An Interview with Megan McCarthy | Techmeme is a semi-automated site that tracks the hottest conversations among tech blogs each day, with updates every five minutes. It’s one of the most innovative efforts in news gathering today. In December, Techmeme hired its first human... |
| 22.01.2009 | FeedBurner is too broken for its biggest fan | Update: See this comment from Feedburner co-founder Dick Costolo for more on the progress the service is making.
Before Jason Shellen left Google and started Plinky (which launched earlier today), he helped develop products like Blogger and... |
| 13.01.2009 | Watch the 10 best performances on Smule’s Ocarina | Smule — the startup behind iPhone application Ocarina, which transforms your phone into a musical instrument — just announced the winners of “This Contest Blows,” who will receive $1,000 each for delivering the best Ocarina performances and... |
| 23.12.2008 | How to write a Mike Arrington blog post | As we “work” our way through the holiday (or winter break as the school system calls it) we are once again reminded of Mike Arrington’s skill at dominating the trainwreck formerly known as The Conversation. I’ve watched Mike at close range ... |
| 12.08.2008 | Blogging Is Not A Crime | I found this arresting chart on Swivel. It plots the number of bloggers who have been incarcerated over the past few years, based on data collected by the World Information Access project. The number of incidents it tracks went from five ar... |
| 10.08.2008 | Vote For SXSW Panels | South By Southwest (SXSW) is the one conference I consistently hear great things about. I have never been because it comes at a particularly difficult time of the year for me, right as our family is getting ready to go on our kid’s spring b... |
| 26.06.2008 | Intricately detailed Quake III map of the Simpsons' house | NERD ALERT
I find it hard to believe someone could have such an obsessive love of both The Simpsons and Quake III, that they would feel it necessary to make something like this. I wonder how it plays. How have I not seen this before?
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| 05.06.2008 | Startup2Startup: Dinners for new entrepreneurs, like what they did back in the old days | Dave McClure: You can’t spend much time socializing in the Silicon Valley web scene and not know who this sometimes irreverent, garish-T-shirt-clad geek is. The entrepreneur/angel investor/social media enthusiast has been around since 1994:... |
| 28.04.2008 | Definitely Web 2.0? Maybe. | Accosted by a man with a video camera who asks you what Web 2.0 is all about during Web 2 Expo, I had a crack a the subject in a few pithy sentences. The video by SocialTNT is below, but if you don’t have 5 minutes (for the whole video) the... |
