Being a YouTube star is one thing, but if you’re going to be really good at it, you’re going to have to go to camp. The site has decided on the 45 video creators it believes in so much that it’s willing to put its money where its mouth is, enlisting them in Creator Camp or inviting them to be part of the YouTube Creator …
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Village Voice Apologizes (a Lot) for SEO Fail
It’s like a lesson in how not to use social media. Village Voice Media, looking for more hits for their various web properties, hires some “social media experts” to drive more traffic to their sites. Said experts start spamming Reddit, and then get caught doing so.
Unsurprisingly, VVM decided to apologize… Well, kind of:
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TiVo, Dish Network Reach $500,000 Settlement over DVR Patent Suit
Dish Network and former parent company EchoStar have settled their long-running patent lawsuit with TiVo by agreeing to pay the company $500 million for unlawful infringement of TiVo’s “Time Warp” DVR technology.
The settlement follows a costly legal battle that’s not only seen Dish faced with a court order to shut down all its DVRs …
This Is the Gear Likely Used in the Raid of Osama’s Compound
Most expected Osama bin Laden’s death — if he were to be caught at all — to come at the hands of a stealthy predator drone blast. But when details began emerging that a super-elite team of military operatives infiltrated the terrorist leader’s high-walled compound in Pakistan, the nation’s imagination became ensnared by action-hero …
How to Wipe Twitter Clean of the Royal Wedding
The big event itself may be over – and, hey, the internet is still apparently standing after all! – but that doesn’t mean that Royal Wedding fever isn’t going to continue all through the rest of the day on your social media of choice (That dress isn’t going to discuss itself, people).
Science Invents Artificial, Cancer-Sniffing Nose
The nose knows, you know. After years of suspecting that animals with better senses of smell can detect illness in odor, scientists in Israel have gone ahead and built an artificial nose capable of sniffing out whether or not you have cancer.
The Nanoscale Artificial NOSE (or NA-NOSE for short) was built by Professor Hossam Haick and …
Vevo CEO: We’re Not Buying MySpace
Despite reports to the contrary, Vevo is not in talks to buy MySpace from News Corp. So says the one person who ought to know: Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff.
“It’s not something I can really talk about,” Caraeff told PaidContent when asked about MySpace, “I’ve seen that reported. Our strategy is to focus on growing organically, building a …
AOL To Add 8000 Unpaid Bloggers In 8 Days?
Yes, it was just a few weeks back that AOL was laying off writers and publicly grappling with class action lawsuits filed against it for exploitation of unpaid bloggers, but such concerns are apparently a thing of the past. Now, it’s all about growth – and trying to recruit as many as 8,000 new bloggers over the next eight days. (None of …
Now, Robots Can Save You from Baldness… As Long As You’re Not Blond
Finally, technology has come up with something that is actually useful to me. Oh, sure; various communication technologies, modes of transport, and alternative forms of energy collection are fine, I guess, but when you put them next to a robot that harvests your hair for hair transplant surgery to cure baldness, then there’s really no …
Soon, Your In-Flight Movie Could Be in 3D
Crying babies, recycled air, inedible food… but do you know what would instantly make air travel much better? 3D movies. Or, at least, that’s the hope of MasterImage 3D, which is apparently close to sealing deals to put glasses-free 3D on planes and in cars.
MasterImage EVP Roy Taylor is playing coy about which airlines are in …
Sony Announces Two Android Tablets, Including a Dual-Screen Device
Hot on the heels of Lenovo’s leaked Honeycomb tablet, Sony has announced two versions of their own. The S1 and S2 don’t look all of those other tablets rolling off the assembly machine these days – the S2 even has a dual screen.
The S1 follows the traditional slate form factor with a 9.4-inch screen. CrunchGear expects the …
Lenovo to Debut Honeycomb ThinkPad Tablet This Summer
Lenovo’s joining the tablet party this summer by launching its own tablet. To boot, it comes with its own custom, Lenovo-flavored version of Honeycomb. Over the weekend, This Is My Next got their hands on a document detailing the Thinkpad device. Also somewhere, a Lenovo PR rep is crying.
Lenovo’s 10.1-inch tablet comes with a …