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| Nov 10, 2023 | Owner of Tumblr confirms site’s shift from “surging” to “small and focused” | Enlarge / "You'll never be bored again" is one of the more fitting slogans attached to Tumblr.
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| Jul 21, 2023 | As AI porn generators get better, the stakes get higher | As generative AI enters the mainstream, so, too, does AI-generated porn. And like its more respectable sibling, it’s improving.
When TechCrunch covered efforts to create AI porn generators nearly a year ago, the apps were nascent and relati... |
| Jul 5, 2023 | It Turns Out Elon Is Speedrunning The Enshittification Learning Curve, Not The Content Moderation One | Our most popular post last year was my post attempting to help Elon Musk “speedrun” the content moderation learning curve. People still talk to me about that post to this day. What’s been somewhat surprising to me, however, is that while ne... |
| Jun 2, 2023 | AI Will Never Fit Into A Licensing Regime | Yes I’m aware that Nvidia and Adobe have announced they will license training data. I don’t know what those agreements will look like, but I can’t imagine that they make any sense in terms of traditional licensing arrangements. Rather, I’m ... |
| Apr 30, 2023 | CryptoWatch: is Cryptocurrency Dead in the US? Bitcoin Whitepaper Disappears on macOS, Coinbase Sues SEC | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 30 April 2023, 10:04 pm
In the past week, CryptoWatch has seen many changes, developments, and experts that are weighing in on cryptocurrency's operations, with one significant report that centers on an investor t... |
| Apr 26, 2023 | Apple gets rid of hidden Bitcoin white paper in the latest macOS beta | After it became public knowledge that there was a copy of the Bitcoin (BTC) white paper deep inside the system files on all Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) devices running macOS Catalina or later, the technology giant is now reportedly removing the do... |
| Apr 26, 2023 | Apple will remove the bitcoin white paper from its computers in the next update to macOS, report says | Apple will likely remove the bitcoin white paper from its computer system, reports say.
A work ticket to remove the paper had already been submitted, a source at Apple told Andy Baio, who discovered the paper.
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| Apr 25, 2023 | Bitcoin Whitepaper Disappears From macOS 13 Beta Despite Saving Previous Versions | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 25 April 2023, 09:04 pm
The top cryptocurrency in the world started with a whitepaper, and it details information necessary to its existence that will encourage users to invest in it, but now it disappeared from t... |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Reddit will start charging AI models learning from its extremely human archives | Enlarge / Reddit, a site that is chock-full of humans being every kind of human possible, will start charging larger businesses that want to train their Large Language Model AIs on its data.
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| Apr 7, 2023 | Apple hiding a bitcoin manifesto in Macs is fueling theories that Steve Jobs was Satoshi Nakamoto, the crypto's mysterious inventor | Technologist Andy Baio wrote this week that he discovered a PDF of the original bitcoin white paper on his Mac.
The revelation fueled theories connecting Steve Jobs to the mysterious author of the paper, Satoshi Nakamoto.
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| Apr 7, 2023 | Apple Loop: iPhone 15 Pro Camera Details, Apple’s Hidden Bitcoin File, AirPods Case Could Get New Display | Taking a look back at another week of news and headlines from Cupertino, this week’s Apple Loop includes a disappointing iPhone 15 Pro camera leak, the new iPhone Action button, M2 production details, MacBook Pro delays, new AirPods display... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Apple's Homage to Satoshi: Bitcoin White Paper Hidden in macOS | In a surprising discovery, technology blogger Andy Baio has found that a copy of the groundbreaking Bitcoin white paper has been secretly included in Apple's macOS.
Baio confirmed the presence of the file in all versions of macOS since 2018... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | В macOS нашли скрытый PDF-документ от создателя биткоина Сатоши Накамото | Блогер Энди Байо рассказал, что он нашёл в macOS скрытый PDF-документ от создателя биткоина Сатоши Накамото. Он называется «Bitcoin: Децентрализованная электронная денежная система».
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| Apr 6, 2023 | Bitcoin white paper is hidden away in macOS’s system folder for some reason | Enlarge
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If you're using a Mac and want a refresher on the basics of Bitcoin, good news—blogger Andy Baio has discovered that... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Apple has hidden a bitcoin manifesto in every Mac since 2018, says a tech blogger who discovered it by accident | Technologist Andy Baio wrote in an April 5 blog post that he found a PDF of the original bitcoin white paper on his Macbook.
He said Apple has seemingly hid the original crypto manifesto in "every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018.&qu... |
| Jan 27, 2023 | Google created an AI that can generate music from text descriptions, but won’t release it | An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description. But the company, fearing the risks, has no immediate plans to release it.
Called MusicLM, Google’s certainly isn’t the first generative AI sys... |
| Jan 20, 2023 | Artists sue AI company for billions, alleging "parasite" app used their work for free | As AI-generated images proliferate across the internet, two lawsuits are seeking to rein in the potent technology as well as ensure the artists who unwittingly helped train the tools are financially compensated for their work.
The litigatio... |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Getty Images to Sue Stable Diffusion Developers Over Alleged Copyright Infringement | Trisha Kae Andrada, Tech Times 17 January 2023, 08:01 am
(Photo : Jackson Sophat on Unsplash)
Stability AI, makers of the widely used AI artwork tool Stable Diffusion, is being sued by Getty Images for allegedly infringing upon copyrighted ... |
| Jan 5, 2023 | Picsart’s AI-powered SketchAI app turns images and outlines into digital art | Riding the generative AI wave, Picsart, the developer behind various photo and video editing apps for the web and mobile devices, is introducing a new iOS app that transforms photos and drawings into digital art. Called SketchAI, the app le... |
| Dec 29, 2022 | Where Are the Pirated Movie Screeners This Year? | Screeners are advance copies of recent movies that are generally sent out to critics and awards voters for review.
These copies have regularly ended up in the hands of pirates after which they’re widely circulated online. That includes scre... |
| Dec 21, 2022 | Kickstarter shut down the campaign for AI porn group Unstable Diffusion amid changing guidelines | The group trying to monetize AI porn generation, Unstable Diffusion, raised more than $56,000 on Kickstarter from 867 backers. Now, as Kickstarter changes its thinking about what kind of AI-based projects it will allow, the crowdfunding pla... |
| Dec 20, 2022 | Man simulates time travel thanks to Stable Diffusion image synthesis | Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a fictional time traveler named Stelfie during the construction of the pyramids.
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| Dec 13, 2022 | Коллекция интерфейсных концепций и инструменты для работы с дизайн-системами: главное в продуктовом дизайне за ноябрь | Традиционный дайджест Юрия Ветрова.
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The Design System Guide
Интерактивная мини-книга по дизайн-системам от Romina Kavcic.
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| Dec 13, 2022 | Image-generating AI can copy and paste from training data, raising IP concerns | Image-generating AI models like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion can — and do — replicate aspects of images from their training data, researchers show in a new study, raising concerns as these services enter wide commercial use.
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| Dec 5, 2022 | Lensa AI, the app making ‘magic avatars,’ raises red flags for artists | If your Instagram is awash in algorithmically generated portraits of your friends, you aren’t alone. After adding a new avatar generation tool based on Stable Diffusion, the photo editing app Lensa AI went viral over the last few days, with... |
| Nov 22, 2022 | AI Art Is Eating The World, And We Need To Discuss Its Wonders And Dangers | After posting the following AI-generated images, I got private replies asking the same question: “Can you tell me how you made these?” So, here I will provide the background and “how to” of creating such AI portraits, but also describe the ... |
| Nov 17, 2022 | Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators | When Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI developed by startup Stability AI, was open sourced earlier this year, it didn’t take long for the internet to wield it for porn-creating purposes. Communities across Reddit and 4chan tapped the A... |
| Nov 11, 2022 | DeviantArt provides a way for artists to opt out of AI art generators | DeviantArt, the Wix-owned artist community, today announced a new protection for creators to disallow art-generating AI systems from being developed using their artwork. An option on the site will allow artists to preclude third parties fro... |
| Nov 8, 2022 | Генеративные нейросети и этика: появилась модель, копирующая стиль конкретного художника | Лишат ли генеративные нейросети типа DALL-E-2 и Midjourney работы художников и дизайнеров? Холивары на эту тему уже давненько гремят в сети. Кто-то говорит, что прогресс не остановить, а работники творческих профессий в ответ заявляют о без... |
| Oct 23, 2022 | Как описывать ошибки и рассчитывать окупаемость инвестиций в дизайн-системы: главное в продуктовом дизайне за сентябрь | Традиционный дайджест Юрия Ветрова.
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Designing Better Inline Validation UX
Отличная памятка по проектированию хорошей динамической валидации форм от Виталия Фридмана. Она часто срабатывают неправильно, поэтому л... |
| Oct 7, 2022 | AI music generators could be a boon for artists — but also problematic | It was only five years ago that electronic punk band YACHT entered the recording studio with a daunting task: They would train an AI on 14 years of their music, then synthesize the results into the album “Chain Tripping.”
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| Sep 21, 2022 | Fearing copyright issues, Getty Images bans AI-generated artwork | Enlarge / A selection of Stable Diffusion images with a strikeout through them.
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| Sep 16, 2022 | Artists begin selling AI-generated artwork on stock photography websites | Enlarge / A selection of AI-generated artwork that can be licensed through Shutterstock.
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| Sep 15, 2022 | Have AI image generators assimilated your art? New tool lets you check | Enlarge / An image of the "Have I Been Trained?" website featuring a search for one of its creators, Holly Herndon.
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| Sep 14, 2022 | Художники и дизайнеры выступили против использования нейросетей для создания контента в онлайн-галереях | MIT Computer Science and AI Laboratory / Google
Онлайн-сообщества художников начали запрещать или ограничивать распространение картин, созданных нейросетями. В их числе — сайты Newgrounds, Inkblot Art и Fur Affinity, пишет Waxy.
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| Sep 12, 2022 | Flooded with AI-generated images, some art communities ban them completely | Enlarge / An assortment of robot portraits generated by Stable Diffusion as found on the Lexica search engine.
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| Sep 2, 2022 | AI is getting better at generating porn. We might not be prepared for the consequences. | A red-headed woman stands on the moon, her face obscured. Her naked body looks like it belongs on a poster you’d find on a hormonal teenager’s bedroom wall — that is, until you reach her torso, where three arms spit out of her shoulders.
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| Apr 1, 2022 | “CODA” Piracy Skyrockets After Best Picture Oscar Win | The Oscars are the most anticipated movie awards show of the year, closely followed by hundreds of millions of movie fans around the world.
This year’s awards ceremony received plenty of attention as well, with most of the media focusing on... |
| Feb 12, 2022 | Pirated Oscar Screeners Have Become a Rare Breed | The Oscars are the most anticipated movie awards show of the year, closely followed by hundreds of millions of movie fans around the world.
It’s also a special event for movie pirates. Traditionally, the Oscar winners see a surge in unautho... |
| Jan 12, 2022 | Wordle is tech born of love that asks nothing in return | The internet loves an unlikely success story, and as we approached the new year, one came around the corner to delight us with a simple idea, and a short game to play it out: Wordle, where you guess a five-letter word in six tries, and then... |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Content Moderation Case Study: Friendster Battles Fakesters (2003) | Summary: While the social media/social networking space today is dominated by Facebook, it?s interesting to look at how Facebook?s predecessors dealt with content moderation challenges as well. One of the earliest social networks to reach m... |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Pirated Screener Leaks Drop to New Low as Release Windows Shorten | The coronavirus pandemic has changed the world over the past year and Hollywood is no exception.
Movies theaters had to close around the world, so studios started experimenting with shorter release windows or got rid of them entirely.
This ... |
| Apr 29, 2020 | Jay-Z Claims Copyright On Audio Deepfake Of Him Reciting Hamlet | Andy Baio always digs up the absolute best stories. His latest involves layers upon layers of fascinating issues and legal questions. The key part, though, is that Jay-Z and his company Roc Nation, were able to convince YouTube to remove tw... |
| Apr 29, 2020 | Jay-Z Claims Copyright On Audio Deepfake Of Him Reciting Hamlet | Andy Baio always digs up the absolute best stories. His latest involves layers upon layers of fascinating issues and legal questions. The key part, though, is that Jay-Z and his company Roc Nation, were able to convince YouTube to remove tw... |
| Jan 14, 2020 | Number of Pirated Screener Leaks Already Higher Than Last Year | Yesterday the contenders for the 2020 Oscars were announced.
‘Joker’ emerged as the main favorite with eleven nominations, closely followed by ‘1917’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ with ten each.
While Hollywood was buzzing with excite... |
| Nov 8, 2019 | Робохроники ИИ: анатомия дипфейка, ИИ под ключ и как алгоритмы добывают медь | Роботы из Redmadrobot Data Lab рассказывают про новости, кейсы и подходы в ИИ, которые можно переложить на нашу действительность и реально использовать.
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| Jul 31, 2019 | When Kickstarter was young: the early years | Kickstarter saw three projects get successfully funded on the platform in its first week
Our when they were young series is a look back at the modest days of startups, what traction they had in their first few years, and how they evolved. I... |
| Feb 26, 2019 | Oscars Screener Leaks Drop to All-Time Low | The Oscars is the most watched awards show of the year, closely followed by hundreds of millions of movie fans around the world.
On Sunday, Hollywood’s finest gathered at the red carpet once again. Bohemian Rhapsody, Black Panther, Green Bo... |
| May 24, 2018 | Take a look at your Twitter timeline 10 years ago | Here’s a fun thing for a Friday: go back and see what your Twitter timeline looked like 10 years ago.
Twitter has pretty powerful search settings, but Andy Baio — of Kickstarter fame and more — did the heavy-lifting for us all by sharing a ... |
| Mar 2, 2018 | All Oscar Contenders Leaked on Pirate Sites, Again | The Oscars are the most watched awards show of the year, closely followed by hundreds of millions of movie fans around the world.
This weekend Hollywood’s finest are gathering on the red carpet once again. While they associate the celebrati... |
| Apr 7, 2017 | Sketchy Copyright Takedown Kills Bad Lip Reading's Force Awakens Remix | If you haven’t ever seen a Bad Lip Reading video, you’ve been missing out. For many years, they’ve posted a ton of videos taking footage from basically anywhere, and overlaying new audio, matching what people are saying/singing with, well, ... |
| Mar 30, 2017 | Upcoming.org founder relaunches site 4 years after Yahoo shut it down | 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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| 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... |
| Mar 29, 2017 | The Deck ad network is shutting down | The Deck, an ad network whose founding members included Daring Fireball, Kottke and Waxy, announced today that it’s shutting down.
As a simple, clean ad network focused on independent websites, The Deck may have seemed like a bit of a throw... |
| Mar 21, 2017 | The one Yahoo meme that perfectly represents the faltering company | Know Your Meme reader comments 149 with 121 posters participating, including story author
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| Feb 25, 2017 | All Oscar Nominees Are Available on Pirate Sites | The Oscars is the most watched awards show of the year, closely followed by hundreds of millions of movie fans around the world.
This week Hollywood’s finest are gathering at the red carpet once again. While they associate the celebration w... |
| Dec 18, 2016 | ‘Screener Season’ is Here, But Where are the Piracy Leaks? | Pirated copies of the latest Hollywood movies leak all year round, often ripped from DVDs, Blu-rays or online streaming platforms.
Towards the end of the year, however, some real gems appear online in advance of their theatrical debut in wh... |
| Jun 5, 2015 | CustosTech wants to curb movie piracy using bitcoin | In January last year an illegal copy of the movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, was making its rounds on the internet. The situation became quite awkward as the early release copy was traced back to popular TV show host Ellen DeGeneres,... |
| Jun 5, 2015 | CustosTech wants to curb movie piracy using bitcoin | In January last year an illegal copy of the movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, was making its rounds on the internet. The situation became quite awkward as the early release copy was traced back to popular TV show host Ellen DeGeneres,... |
| Jan 28, 2015 | What Color Is Your Taste in Music? | Predominant.ly is a new site from design collective [Open Work](http://In the post-iTunes world of music streaming, finding new tunes tends to rely either on searching through stuff you already know for hidden gems, or leaving it all up to ... |
| Jan 16, 2015 | 95% Of Oscar Contenders Leaked on Pirate Sites Already | With help from Andy Baio, who has been collecting detailed piracy stats for the Oscar-nominees since 2003, we can also reveal how many of the films are already available along with some other interesting trends.
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| Oct 20, 2014 | CGI Test Footage Pits A Tiny Crowd Against A Massive Swinging Arm | A short piece of VFX crowd simulation footage makes for some hilarious and engaging viewing. Entitled, I've fallen, and I can't get up!, RealtimeUK senior VFX artist Dave Fothergill's animation features a crowd of virtual people trying to r... |
| May 20, 2014 | The Fourth Internet | Not very often do you read something online that gives you the chills. Today, I read two such things.
The first came from former Gizmodo, Buzzfeed and now Awl writer John Herrman, who wrote about the brutality of the mobile social (or for s... |
| Jan 10, 2014 | Ellen Degeneres: Pirate Enabler? Her Watermarked Copy Of 'Walter Mitty' Leaks Online | Each year, Andy Baio tracks the online leaking of various screeners for Oscar-nominated films. He apparently just noticed something interesting. On Thursday, a screener for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the new Ben Stiller flick, leaked ... |
| Jan 10, 2014 | Pirated DVD Screener Linked to Oscars Host Ellen DeGeneres | Over the past few weeks dozens of DVD screeners have leaked onto the Internet. This happens every year around the holiday season, when movie studios send out their entries for various awards, the Oscars included.
The pirated screeners are a... |
| Nov 26, 2013 | Myth Busting: Yes, An Advertisement Can Be Fair Use Parody | We’d already explained how commercial use can be fair use in the Goldieblox v. Beastie Boys case, but we’ve continued to see people attacking the idea that an advertisement could possibly be either parody or fair use. I was going to write u... |
| Apr 22, 2013 | Want To Help Archive Upcoming.org Before Yahoo Shuts It Down? Try This. | The Archive Team, the same group who once saved around 900 GB of Geocities content before Yahoo shut it down, later releasing it in torrent format, is now focusing on archiving content from another Yahoo property preparing to hit the choppi... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Andy Baio On The New Prohibition Created By Copyright | Andy Baio has an absolutely fantastic video presentation that he did recently for Creative Mornings/Portland on what he’s calling The New Prohibition. It’s half an hour long, but absolutely worth watching. |
| Sep 24, 2012 | Shuttle buses taking over Silicon Valley, awesome visualization shows | 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!
If you live in San Francisco and work at a tech c... |
| Dec 13, 2011 | No Copyright Intended: The Coming Generation Who Intrinsically Assumes Remix & Sharing Makes Sense | A whole bunch of folks sent over Andy Baio’s recent brilliant post entitled No Copyright Intended, after the exceptionally common phrase found all over YouTube, where uploaders (mostly young uploaders) declare that, or the slightly modified... |
| Oct 12, 2011 | Dylan’s Desk: Siri is the grandmother of Marvin the Paranoid Android | In Star Trek IV, Scotty picks up a computer mouse and speaks into it, trying to get the machine’s attention. “Computer! Computer!” When nothing happens, someone tells him to use the keyboard. “How quaint,” is his bemused response.
You might... |
| Oct 4, 2011 | Did Apple Spill The Beans On Its New Voice Assistant Product 24 Years Ago? | This one is just amusing — so please don’t try to pull any sort of “serious” statement out of it. Apple announced its voice activated Siri assistant feature, which is a bit more advanced than similar attempts at this kind of thing: |
| Oct 4, 2011 | Apple Predicted Voice-Assisted Tablet Computer With Facetime….In 1987 (VIDEO) | Artist and programmer Andy Baio wrote a post today that is kind of blowing our minds. It’s a promo video for Apple’s Knowledge Navigator. The striking thing? It presages almost all the developments Apple has brought to mobile computing in t... |
| Sep 3, 2011 | The Tragic Triumph Of The MBAs | “We’ve seen Mubarak fall,” said Salesforce’s Marc Benioff of the corporate need to focus on social networks at the recent Dreamforce conference. “We’ve seen Khadafy fall. When will the first CEO fall for the same reason?” What a fantastic c... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | Ones and Zeros: LulzSec Goes Pro, America Needs Weed | All the egregious developments fit to print.
One: LulzSec pulls a Wikileaks (Ars Technica)
Zero: Winkelvosses finally give up, because if they invented Facebook, they would have invented Facebook (NYT)
One: For the first time, the President... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | Kind Of Blue: Using Copyright To Make Hobby Artist Pay Up | A whole bunch of folks have been sending over Andy Baio’s tragic story of having to pay $32,500 to photographer Jay Maisel for his use of an image, which he still believes was fair use. There are all sorts of interesting things to consider ... |
| Feb 10, 2011 | Somehow Interesting: Fingerprint Patterns After Using iPad Apps | There are certainly more sophisticated ways of doing UI heat mapping and click tracking, but this lo-fi version is easier to relate to, and what’s more, you can do it at home! All George Kokkinidis at Design Language News did was clean the ... |
| Feb 7, 2011 | Why Rupert Murdoch is wrong and Arianna Huffington is right | Peter Yared is the vice president of apps at Webtrends, which acquired Transpond, a social-apps developer he founded. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.
In the past week, we saw two moguls splash out big money on online content. News ... |
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| Jan 28, 2011 | 2011 Oscars: Pirates Have to Wait Longer for Fewer Leaks | Waxy’s Andy Baio has been collecting detailed piracy stats for every Oscar-nominated movie since 2003, and this data is revealing some interesting trends.
The statistics for all 2011 nominees, excluding the documentary and foreign films cat... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Tracing The Origins Of Leaked Oscar Screeners | The Oscar nominations came out a few days ago, and like a bunch of dorks we’ve been discussing the merits of each movie in our little chatroom. So far we’ve unofficially given thumbs up to Winter’s Bone and Black Swan, while Devin and Greg ... |
| Jan 10, 2011 | Watch This Amazing GE Video Kind Of Explain Regenerative Train Braking | http://www.ge.com/thegeshow/swfs/genericGEShowVideoPlayer.swf?
This video may not exactly make clear what it is GE is doing to make locomotives more efficient, but it sure as hell is fun to watch. I’m guessing this isn’t one of those single... |
| Nov 12, 2010 | A Super-Geek Goes to Washington | Andy Baio is a man who gets things done, though his accomplishments are often quite unusual. Now he’s taking that attitude straight to the nation’s capital.
In 2008, Baio posted online, and refused to take down, the grainy video tape of Sar... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | Everyblock Launches Hyperlocal News Firehose API | Hyperlocal news aggregator Everyblock announced today that it is releasing a firehose API to integrate its data into large partner sites. Everyblock brings together real time and near real-time public records like 911 calls, restaurant heal... |
| Sep 3, 2010 | Why Is There A Pony In The Apple Store? | I can’t decide whether or not to believe this. Can you?
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| May 4, 2010 | Three JPEG moon T-shirt: meta meta meta ironic | We all know what the Three Wolf Moon shirt looks like, so I won’t link it here. But did you know that it was actually made up of not one, but four separate images? True fact is true!
Yes, it’s another clever little shirt from the chaps whos... |
| Feb 24, 2010 | Moral Panic: PleaseRobMe Is Today's Equivalent Of Freaking Out About Answering Machines In 1983 | For the last few weeks there’s been all this talk about some site called PleaseRobMe that uses Twitter’s API to post the Tweets of people (mainly using location “check-in” service Foursquare) announcing that they’re “not home.” The site cla... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Oscar Pirates, Fewer Films Leak Online This Year | Waxy’s Andy Baio has been collecting detailed piracy stats for every Oscar-nominated movie since 2003. Much to the delight of the MPAA, his most recent statistics show that, compared to previous years, fewer Oscar nominees have leaked onlin... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | Kind of Bloop: Kickstarter Gives Another Use Case with an 8-Bit Miles Davis Album | When we interviewed Kickstarter advisor (and now CTO) Andy Baio last month, he gave us a sample or two of what could be done with the social fundraising software.
Kickstarter operates on an all-or-nothing principle: users solicit pledges fr... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | Three Principles of Social Software Creation From Andy Baio | After Andy Baio co-founded and sold social events listing site Upcoming.org to Yahoo! he could have spent the rest of his days doing whatever he wanted. He spent a year and a half writing, but this month he decided to join another startup (... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | The Favorite iPhone Apps of Five Geek Rock Stars | Apps on the iPhone are a big deal, but there are so many of them that it can be hard to find the good ones. It’s fun to compare your own selections with favorites from friends and we thought it could be fun as well to see what some well kno... |
| Apr 29, 2009 | Kickstarter Launches Another Social Fundraising Platform | Andy Baio, blogger on Waxy.org and co-founder of Upcoming (acquired by Yahoo back in October 2005), yesterday evening announced the release of Kickstarter.
This is an online platform that enables just about anyone to raise funding from inte... |
| Feb 3, 2009 | Where do all those Oscar screeners come from? | The Oscars are in just a few short weeks, and plenty of movie buffs—I’m the furthest thing from a movie buff you’ll find in the West—are excited for some reason. Good for them. Pertinent to us here at CG is the phenomenon of movie piracy, s... |
| Jan 23, 2009 | Online Pirates vs MPAA – The 2009 Oscars | Last year we took a look at the excellent research carried out by Waxy’s Andy Baio, as he provided detailed piracy stats for every Oscar-nominated movie since 2003. Andy contacted us to announce that he’s been working hard again in 2009 – w... |
| Jan 8, 2009 | Dandelife’s Struggles Offer Lessons for Startups | Two year old life-story repository Dandelife seemed to have everything going for it. It launched to praise from some of the biggest tech blogs on the web, it built a wildly loyal user base and its company advisory board was stocked with som... |
| Oct 10, 2008 | Memorandum Colors: X-Ray Glasses for Political Bias in Blogs | Upcoming.org founder Andy Baio and Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter have released a project called Memeorandum Colors. It’s an easy-to-install Greasemonkey plug-in that shows the political bias of past linking behavior on blogs aggregat... |
| Oct 10, 2008 | Delicious, Upcoming Founders To Show You Political Bias Of News Sites | What has ex-Yahooer and Delicious founder Joshua Schachter been working on since leaving Yahoo last June? At least one project is a GreaseMonkey script that shows readers the political leanings of blogs and news sites on Memeorandum, a news... |
| Sep 21, 2008 | Roundup: The financial crisis explained, land line usage still dropping, and more | Still don’t understand the financial crisis? — Neither does anybody else, it seems, but The New York Times has a good write-up of various issues, in brief question-and-answer format.
Telephone land lines continue to get unplugged — More peo... |
| Sep 17, 2008 | So, This One Time, At Bandcamp, I Made It Easy To Offer Fans New Music | It’s definitely been cool to see various musicians embracing aspects of the business models that we discuss around here concerning using free music to improve your business model — but what would be even more exciting is seeing an ecosystem... |
