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This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Douglas Wolk, Matt Peckham and Graeme McMillan talk about the Jimmy Olsen one-shot and the first issue of Butcher Baker, the Righteous Maker.
Tennis fan? Video gamer? Home-exercise buff? You want 2K Games’ Top Spin 4. Whether you’re squaring off against the computer or reaching for shots from a virtual pitcher, 2K’s pro-simulation gives you the most realistic tennis experience you’ll find off the clay, grass, or concrete.
Crowdsourcing–outsourcing using crowds–has been employed to tackle all kinds of problems, from helping SETI probe radio signals for alien life to establishing where the best burger in town can be found. But, according to a presentation from Stanford University professor Jennifer Lynn Aaker at the Web 2.0 Expo, it can also have much more important, [...]
So much for the personalized news magazine. Zite, an iPad app that launched earlier this month promising to take information about your likes and dislikes from your Twitter account or Google Reader and turn out a “magazine” filled with content aimed specifically at you, has been hit with a cease-and-desist letter from legal counsel for [...]
Is there just a little too much internet out there for you? Trust me, I know the feeling: I can barely keep up with my Twitter feed, never mind everything else that’s out there. That’s why Summify seems like a good – if not exactly original – idea. Following the lead of apps like Flipboard [...]
QR, is already time to say goodbye? We hardly knew you!
The people have spoken, prompting Twitter to remove the QuickBar from its official iPhone app.
It’s pockmarked, looks a bit like a color-leeched bowling ball, and if you didn’t know better, you might call it “the Moon.”
Google is reportedly taking drastic measures to keep Android phone makers in line, which is either good or bad news depending on how you look at it.
You founded a leading Internet domain registrar, you ran some racy Super Bowl spots, and on vacation in Zimbabwe, you shoot bull elephants. Why? Because they cause crop damage, and you wanted to take out the “problem” animals.
“No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.”
