Don’t look now, there’s another social network lurking, and with Twitter’s best and brightest pulling the strings, it already has all the proper buzz-wordy tags. “Interesting,” check. “Unlocking human potential,” check. “Positive reinforcement,” check and—wait a second, positive reinforcement? What are we, a Pavlovian …
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Shocker: Piracy Rises After Fox Delays Hulu Shows
When Fox announced that it would withhold its TV shows from Hulu and its own website until eight days after their original air date, a lot of people assumed that piracy would increase as a result. Now, TorrentFreak claims to have proof.
The site tracked BitTorrent downloads for two Fox shows — Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen and …
The 9/11 Memorial App Will Only Be Available on the iPad
Who can forget where they were on September 11th? In a few weeks from now, it will be the event’s 10th anniversary, and there will be an exclusive iPad app to commemorate it.
The upcoming “9/11 Memorial: Past, Present and Future” app will be filled with photographs and videos detailing the event, and the creation of the World Trade …
Facebook Adds New Google Plus-like Privacy Features
Well, that didn’t take long.
In a blog post that went up earlier today, Facebook announced that they were adding several new privacy features, many of which are eerily reminiscent of Google Plus.
Their goal is to make who you share your content with more straightforward, thus saving you the embarrassment of having to explain why …
Custom ‘Portal 2’ Video Game Level Built for Marriage Proposal
Since Valve introduced co-op play to Portal 2, it’s fair to say that the mind-bending physics puzzler’s brought people together. But Gary Hudston had something even more permanent in mind.
As he tells it on Twitter, Hudston says that his girlfriend Stephanie isn’t a big gamer but really got into Portal 2‘s co-operative …
Miramax Embraces ‘Digital Locker’ Concept with New Miramax App [Updated]
Former Disney studio Miramax is following those two companies onto Facebook with the launch of a Miramax app – the Miramax eXperience – for the social networking giant that will allow Facebook users to rent, and eventually buy, movies through the site.
According to Miramax, there are more than 50 million Facebook users who either …
Google+ Posts Creep into Gmail
Slowly, Google+ is working its way into other Google services. Earlier today we reported on the ability to start Google+ hangouts directly from YouTube, and now Gmail is getting the Google+ treatment.
If the sender of an e-mail has shared any Google+ posts with you, a link to the most recent post will appear in Gmail’s “people …
God Said Knock You Out: ‘El Shaddai’ Review
In 2011, the Rapture was supposed to come. It didn’t. Instead, we get a video game based on the Bible. Well, sort of.
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron takes its inspiration from the Book of Enoch, an apocryphal text authored centuries before the birth of Christ. Even though it isn’t considered canonical in most Judeo-Christian …
Man Uses Twitter to Get Free Morton’s Steak Dinner Delivered to Airport
If you’ve ever suspected that maybe, just perhaps, you’re not really doing social media right, here’s something that might reinforce that feeling for you: A man got a free steak dinner delivered to him as he disembarked a plane following a long flight, and all because of one cheeky tweet.
Social media consultant Peter Shankman—who …
Watch YouTube Videos with Others Using Google+ Hangouts
If you’ve ever dreamed of watching a YouTube video of a kitty playing with a ball of yarn with your best friend a thousand miles away, the Google+ “Hangouts” feature is the answer.
No, I don’t mean I’m going to send you a link, and then you click on it, and we both watch it at different times. The Google+ Hangouts feature as …
Top Five Monday Tech Deals
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Free iPhone 3GS with AT&T contract at Best Buy (today only)
Free iPhone! No catch! Oh, wait: double catch.
You’ll need to actually go to a Best Buy store to get it and you’ll have to sign a two-year AT&T contract. Aside from all that, though: Free iPhone!
The deal is good …
Where to (Try to) Find the $99 HP TouchPad Tablet
Did you hear the news? HP’s new TouchPad tablet has been discounted to $99 in the midst of the company’s hasty exit from the tablet and smartphone game. It’s not going to be easy to get your hands on one, but here’s a list of places you can try if you’re willing to commit to some serious bargain hunting.
(MORE: HP’s WebOS Failure …