I just can’t get enough of these.
Google’s annual Doodle 4 Google contest is upon us, with this year’s them set as “If I could do anything I would…” and we were happy to see so many aspiring nerds among us. (Chemists! Comic artists! Time travelers!) Google received more than 33,000 entries from students in grades K-12 from 20,000 …
Today, Microsoft unveiled its big Hotmail upgrade, followed by a resounding, “About time.” Among its new features, the revamped Hotmail will use cloud-based data storage, enable you to edit Microsoft docs directly within the email and will filter messages into four different “buckets:” mail from your contacts, mail from social networks, …
We can’t go anywhere without hearing gripes about Facebook’s new terms of use. How do you feel about all of this Facebook backlash? Are you searching for delete instructions as I type, or “Liking” everything in sight? We’re curious.
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File under “Inexplicable legal actions seemingly born of laziness”: Time Warner Cable is asking a US court to quash legal action against online piracy, because it doesn’t have the bandwidth to look up more than 28 IP addresses a month.
According to the Hollywood Reporter’s THR, Esq. blog, TWC has filed a third party motion to quash a …
YouTube entered beta testing five years ago this month, and to celebrate, we’re listing our personal favorite YouTube hits. Now for the last time, leave Britney alone and don’t you dare tase me, bro.
(More on Techland: YouTube Friday: 99-Year-Old Woman Gets Her First Computer)
Peter Ha: Kittens Inspired By …
Because I’m a Trekkie now, this matters to me.
As part of its new site redesign, Wikipedia unveiled a new, altered logo. Turns out they’ve swapped out the Vulcan character for puny “actual language” Amharic. (New logo is on the left.) The audacity…
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Oh, the transcendent wisdom of Betty White.
Saturday, Betty White nailed her part as host of Saturday Night Live. (Seriously, she killed it.) After a Facebook campaign of 500,000 plus supporters to get the 88-year-old comedian on the show, White made sure to thank them for their help, all while eschewing social networking in the …
It seems pretty fitting that a year of personal triumph for Roger Ebert should include being honored as the Webby Awards’ Person of the Year.
His recent thoughts on video games aside, Ebert has used the Internet to supplement the loss of his voice, transforming a blog and a Twitter account into something more than a just …
I’m one fed up Hotmail user – and a Hotmail user who writes for a web site. So I get to make my rant public. Bear with me, I’m just the culture guy here –
Somewhere around 3 a.m. last Thursday, my e-mail account was closed. Deleted. Destroyed. Assassinated. Presumably by Hotmail administrators. Without any notice to me. I’ve …
Word came down from the hilltop last week that lala.com would be closing up shop at the end of this month. The whole of the Internet and its gaggle of pundits were quick to jump on the ‘iTunes.com is coming!’ bandwagon. I, for one, thought the same thing. Why else would Apple have purchased lala in the first place? But now I’m not …
In less time than we’d probably like to imagine, there will be only a few people left on earth who remember life without the Internet. Those early computing days will be remembered as a novelty, full of 8-bit integers and pin feed paper and – oh, who could forget – the reign of Solitaire.
New blog How I Met Your Motherboard is …
I think it was John Wayne who once remarked, ‘you never really know a man till you’ve seen his bar.’ Or maybe that was just me talking in a John Wayne voice. If so it was a pretty good John Wayne voice.
My point is, your bookmark bar boils crap down to the bare essentials. To the extent that you are what you surf, the bar is who you …
