What if it was easier to leak documents to news organizations? The New York Times is pondering that very question and considering how worthwhile it would be to create an online portal allowing leakers to cut out controversial middlemen like Wikileaks’ Julian Assange, allowing the paper to grab some more glory for itself in the …
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A Brief History of Dead Members of the Fantastic Four
It’s not exactly a secret any more who dies in this week’s issue of Fantastic Four (although if you haven’t been exposed to any media at all today and are waltzing into a comic book store wondering what’s going to happen, don’t scroll down). It’s also not the first time one of Marvel Comics’ flagship superhero team has apparently bitten …
Facebook Makes It Easier For Your Friends To Work For Advertisers
Your Facebook friends are going to start trying to sell you things. The social media giant is rolling out a new format called “Sponsored Stories” that it describes as “a way for marketers to sponsor activities that happen throughout the News Feed,” allowing statuses to be turned into four different types of featured stories for …
Netflix Eyeing Warner Bros., HBO As Content Partners
For Netflix instant streaming customers, good news: Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos said that the company will make a big push to try and buy HBO’s pay TV output deal with Warner Bros. before it expires in 2014. It’s not that they’re against the premium cable channel: He added that the company also has plans to try and woo …
bln.kr Helps Bands Track Their Tracks
Gone are the days when spreading the word about a new band meant handing out homemade CDs. With the growing importance of social media marketing in the music world, bln.kr wants to help emerging and amateur bands share their tracks and manage their social media profiles.
Think of bln.kr as the musical cousin of link shortener bit.ly …
A Lego Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away: Star Wars To Be Featured in Legoland
Many people might say that Legoland is just for kids, but there’s often awesome exhibits that people of all ages can enjoy. The new Star Wars feature, opening on March 31 in Legoland California, is something that your whole family can peruse. Featuring animated scenes from the movies and the Clone Wars series, the exhibit took eight …
App Of The Week: Microsoft OneNote For iPhone
Microsoft’s popular note-taking software, OneNote, is now available as an iPhone app. You can use it to create notes and to-do lists while on the go and it’ll automatically synchronize your data online, where it can then be pulled into the OneNote application on your computer.
Likewise, the notes you’ve created on your computer can be …
‘Inception’ Wins Big at the Oscar Nominations: A ‘Dark Knight’ Apology?
I’m surely not the only one who remembers the bitter aftertaste of January, 2009, when Christopher Nolan’s bleak, brilliant The Dark Knight was snubbed an Oscar nomination. One of the most popular and critically lauded films of the year, all but ignored on nomination morning, there was something of an open revolt online: How could the …
Joint Venture 109: The Venture Bros. from the Very Beginning
Here at Techland, only one television program manages to tie into so many of our geeky obsessions all at once. Superheroes, mythical creatures, action figures and barely believeable sci-fi all flop onto each other on the glorious cavalcade that is The Venture Bros. Cartoon Network’s just started airing the series from the start and …
BBC Online Facing Drastic Cuts To Make It To 2013
The BBC is to massively overhaul its online presence over the next two years, cutting 360 positions and cutting its spending by a quarter, as part of the corporation’s new cost-cutting strategy, “Putting Quality First.”
The new BBC Online will be split into 10 products: News, Sport, Weather, CBeebies and CBBC (Both aimed at children), …
The Pirate Bay To Return With The Music Bay?
The Pirate Bay seems to be staging a comeback – and they promise to be more sneaky in their illegal file sharing methods with their new venture. The Music Bay, a domain purchased by the company as a way to look into different methods of distributing music online under the radar according to Torrent Freak, has recently shown some activity …
Twitter Expected To More Than Triple Revenue In 2011
Rumors of the demise of the Age of Twitter have, it seems, been greatly exaggerated. The social networking site is expected to earn around $150 million in revenue this year, up significantly from 2010’s revenue of $45 million, and expected to rise even further in 2012, to $250 million.
The revenue bump, predicted by eMarketer, is …