Ever wanted to get the benefits of communal television viewing without having to actually spend time around other people? Well in that case, the iPhone and Android app “SocialGuide” is the app you’ve been dreaming of.
SocialGuide is based around what CEO Sean Casey calls the “two-screen experience”:
“More and more, TV watching is
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Netflix hopes you weren’t using both its DVD-by-mail and instant streaming options for the low, low price of just $10 per month.
Come September, you’ll have to opt for an $8 streaming plan or an $8 DVD plan—if you want both, you’ll have to pay for both. If my math is to be trusted, that’s $16 per month. For members new to Netflix, …
When you think about it, Harry Potter video games were simply born under a bad sign. The stuff that video games can do well when inspired–incredible world-building, the explication of a fantasy construct and its rules–were all done to genius levels in the rich imaginings of J.K. Rowling’s writing. And then, the eight movies that …
Imagine hurtling downward at nerve-fraying speeds while shooting slightly backwards before curving into a perfect vertical drop and out again, sort of like surfing the inside bottom-half of the letter ‘s’.
That’s how the world’s steepest rollercoaster brings it, and if you were silly enough to scarf down a plate of nachos and maybe a …
If it seems as if Twitter has a large application eco-system, that’s because… well, it does. So large, in fact, that the company has just announced its one millionth registered application.
According to Twitter, more than $500 million has been invested in Twitter apps since December 2010, with more than a billion dollars being paid …
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Best Buy’s daily deals site, CowBoom.com is selling refurbished iPhone 3G handsets for $120 with no need for a two-year AT&T contract.
“Why the crap would I buy this, Jerk?” you may be asking. Excuse me for living! I just thought that maybe if you wanted to see what all the iPhone fuss is about without breaking or …
How many people are using Google+? The scales should tip at around 10 million users today, according to Ancestry.com founder—and Google+ user, of course—Paul Allen. This Paul Allen is not to be confused with the Paul Allen that co-founded Microsoft, though. But I digress…
Allen’s been crunching some numbers lately, with his …
It’s the natural pairing that just isn’t going to happen. Multiple sources are now reporting that Netflix is not one of the companies looking at buying online video company Hulu.
But that might be a good thing; sources also claim that Hulu’s current ownership “didn’t want to sell to Netflix either.” Because, of course, these types of …
If you’re desperate to get on to Google+ but are still awaiting your invite, stay calm: Google’s new social network is growing incredibly fast, according to one unofficial study. So your chance to join in the Circle-dancing fun on G+ can’t be far off.
According to G+ user Paul Allen (not the Paul Allen that co-founded Microsoft, …
Hear that jangling, flushing sound? That’s your bank account, linked to your Apple App Store wallet, draining incrementally faster—or at least the hypothetical sound it’ll make as those once-but-not-future 99-cent apps metamorphose into pricier versions on average.
That’s what Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster found, anyway, …
A few weeks ago our friends at NewsFeed dubbed Dear Photograph their “Tumblr of the Week” — and for good reason.
Its premise, like most good things, is incredibly simple: Someone snaps a modern-day photo in the exact place where a memorable photo had been taken years earlier. The images are then presented side by side.
The result …
