The conflict between television networks and cable providers over whether or not existing contracts allow for iPad and VoD distribution is about to get a lot more interesting. Following network complaints about Time Warner Cable’s new iPad app, which gives TWC subscribers access to 32 channels on the device, TWC launched a new website …
Apps & Web
If You Use Twitter, You’re Probably One of These Dots
If you have a Twitter account, there’s a very good chance that you are one of the millions of tiny dots on this chart.
That’s because Rob Weir has been watching Twitter’s publicly available data since 2009, patiently aggregating it so he had a huge dataset to work with.
Then he began making graphs, plotting individual Twitter …
68% of Facebook Users Don’t Think Suspicious Links Are Suspicious
Last week, we reported on an experiment that proved how bad social networks like Facebook and Twitter were at protecting their users from malware, but it turns out user error might be just as big a problem. A new study claims that a majority of users are unaware that suspicious posts on Facebook could pose a security risk–and that most …
Captain America: All the Anniversaries
Fake ‘Cloud Girlfriend’ Will Post Messages to Your Facebook Wall
The cloud? Good. No girlfriend? Bad. A cloud-based girlfriend? Better than no girlfriend, apparently.
The idea behind Cloud Girlfriend is simple: You pay a yet-to-be-determined price to have your ideal (yet not for real) girlfriend leave you loving messages on your Facebook Wall for all to see.
It’s an easy four-step process, says …
The Twittersphere is Dominated By Less than One Percent of Twitter Users
A Yahoo Research study found that only 20,000 people are pretty much responsible for half of all tweets on Twitter. How many of those people actually make up Twitter’s user base? Less than one percent.
Over a billion tweets pass through Twitter each week, but the study only analyzed a select sample of 260 million tweets. Half of …
From OK Go to Google: Syyn Labs’ Rube Goldberg Machines
Do you remember the music video for This Too Shall Pass by OK Go? It’s basically three and a half minutes of an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine captured in a single shot—no small feat whatsoever.
The company behind the contraption, Syyn Labs, was recently approached by Google to devise a Rube Goldberg machine to kick off the opening …
Review: Kevin Cannon’s Far Arden
On the stiff, lightly plaited, coral-red rear cover of Top Shelf’s Far Arden, Carl Hays of Booklist describes writer/author Kevin Cannon as “one of the comics world’s most energetic storytellers.” That, in so many words, sums up Far Arden, a kind of glorious pulp throwback so enthusiastically exuberant it may have just punched, …
Review: Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP
The unexpected game success of the week is a five-dollar app called Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. When it was released last Thursday for the iPad, only hardcore gaming heads had heard of it (or its Toronto-based studio, Capybara Games). Now, basically on the strength of word of mouth, it’s already hit third place on the paid iPad …
Firefox Coming to Android Tuesday; No Flash
The final version of Mozilla’s Firefox browser is en route to the Android Market on Tuesday morning, but for now it’s giving the cold shoulder to Adobe Flash.
Mozilla confirmed to Computerworld that Flash won’t be part of mobile Firefox, at least for now.
“For us, HTML5 and the open Web video standards are most important right …
Will You Webcast Your Funeral?
That question was phrased poorly.
You won’t be doing much of anything at your funeral. But would you want your funeral to be webcast for those who can’t attend? The practice is growing in popularity, according to a recent USA Today article.
The benefits, of course, are that those who live too far away, have no drivers license, …
Warner Bros Adds Five More Movies to Facebook
With The Dark Knight‘s Facebook trial being deemed a success, Warner Bros have released five more movies to stream from the social network, and this time they’re going outside of the nerd demographic. As originally announced, Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan’s Inception is now available to stream on the movie’s official Facebook …