Sports fans have one more place to rant and rave about their favorite teams online. Last night, Yahoo! launched The Post Game, an online sports magazine that hopes to provide further analysis (and argue) about your favorite pastimes. Magazine length and style article’s like “Tom Brady’s Guru,” seem to be what this new outlet hopes its …
Apps & Web
Condé Nast Unveils New Approach To Magazine Apps
Condé Nast may have tried to break the iPad app market before, but a new release may suggest a new way of doing things for the well-known publisher. Instead of being a digital version of an existing print publication, new app Best of Italy: Condé Nast Traveler combines existing articles on Italy into a new, digital-only $4.99 …
Viral Videos Get Hubbed At Dailymotion
Dailymotion has decided that it isn’t going to wait for you to decide what to search for anymore. The video site has announced the launch of what it’s calling “on-demand, curated content hubs” collecting videos based around news stories and search trends on the site, with the intent of making it easier for users to find what they’re …
Google TV Jailbroken For $500 Reward
Google may not have opened up software development tools for its Google TV platform yet, but that doesn’t mean that others haven’t decided to take the matter into their own hands. A group calling itself GTVHacker Dev Team has already cracked the code – in part through physically cracking the TV itself and soldering wires together – in …
First Full-Length “Grand Theft Auto 4” Machinima Movie Created
Machinima – the art of taking real time graphics, usually from video game play, and dubbing it over to create a computer animated movie – has been used to create web series like Red vs. Blue and other comedic spoofs. The style of filmmaking reached broad audiences when featured in South Park’s episode “Make Love Not Warcraft”. (Warning: …
Viral Videos: “Everyday” Project Turns 11 Years Old
Happy Birthday, Everyday. Noah Kalina’s online photo project where he took a picture of himself every day is still on going, but it’s reaching a special milestone today January 11, 2011. (1-11-11: Get it?)
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The viral video that ensued shows the first six years of the …
Study: Video Games May Help Treat ADHD, Too
Chalk up another point for video gaming’s health benefits. This time, a new study suggests that kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have shown symptom relief after engaging in a five-week working memory-training program revolving around “game-like” software.
The study, published in The Journal of Clinical …
App Of The Week: Kindle For Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 owners finally have access to Amazon’s popular Kindle e-book reading app. It’s a free download from the Zune Marketplace.
The app features Amazon’s Whispersync technology to synchronize the page of the book you’re reading with other Kindle apps, the Kindle desktop software and the Kindle hardware reader if you have …
Joint Venture 107: 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 …
All Networks Pass On Wonder Woman TV Show
Maybe we should begin to call it a curse. After years of failed attempts to bring DC Comics’ Wonder Woman to the movies – including one by Buffy‘s Joss Whedon, who was then snapped up by competitors Marvel to helm their flagship movie The Avengers – the character’s latest bid for TV greatness seems to have fallen at the first hurdle: No …
Analyzing the 2010 Comics Charts
Diamond Comic Distributors–the company from which virtually every comics specialty store in America buys the bulk of their stock–has released their charts for the bestselling comic books and graphic novels of 2010 (for copies sold through them, which is to say it doesn’t include many bookstore sales). They list the top 500 in each …
Tomorrow Is Final Day For 600 MySpace Employees
MySpace has released the date for its long-feared cull of more than half of its employees: January 11th. The once-popular social network site is expected to lay off between 550-600 of its 1000 employees tomorrow, and is said to be finalizing the figure today.
The cuts are said to be being made internationally, with MySpace China …