Social check-in network Foursquare is getting in to details. With its new iPhone app, users will now be able to add photos and comments to their activities.
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From now on, users will be asked to add photos upon check-in that will be visible to their Foursquare friends as …
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Motorola TN20 GPS system two-pack: $99 at Walmart (today only)
Two GPS systems for people who have two cars for $99? And the rich get richer.
The deal is good today only. Walmart throws in a dashboard mounting apparatus for good measure, too, but only for one of the GPS systems.
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Any year that finds movies like Inception and The Social Network being tossed about as serious Oscar contenders is a good year for the film nerds. That would be guys like me, who could parse Blade Runner, analyze The Fountain and diagram Primer all day long. For us cinephile geeks, it was a very good year, filled with visions both bold …
Last night, it seemed as if social bookmarking site Delicious was to be shuttered by Yahoo, and the blogs lit up with the usual pomp and circumstance – but it wasn’t true. At least, not exactly. After a steep round of layoffs, Yahoo is looking to drop Delicious, but will cut it loose to stand alone instead, a stay of execution for …
Getting to direct TRON: Legacy, the highly anticipated sequel to the cult classic computer programmer movie TRON, as your first major motion picture is the task that most fan boys and girls would do anything for. While you do have to worry about angering half of the nerd world if you screw up, the fact that you get to play out your own …
If you’ve seen Google ads for a book called Queers In History, then count yourself lucky. According to author Keith Stern, Google is about to suspend ads for the book – a collection of 900 biographies of gay and lesbian historical figures – claiming that it isn’t “family safe” despite the book containing no graphic sexual content. Is …
The internet is killing journalism – but tablet culture may save it. Or, at least, that’s the view of Mike McCue, chief executive of Flipboard (Apple’s App of The Year) and new board member for Twitter, who told the LA Times that he thinks that the reading experience of the internet is detrimental to… well, reading:
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act may have been created to combat internet piracy, but does it unfairly penalize those with reading difficulties? That’s the question at the heart of a lawsuit filed against Viacom, News Corp., MTV Corporation and Google (amongst others) by Montana-based investigative reporter Todd Ouellette. Ouellette, …
Don’t you hate when you’re traversing the hills of Ouagadougou and you come across that sign that you just can’t read. Alas, if you had only known that it was warning you about the blood thirsty pigmy goats, life would be so different. Fear no more: Word Lens will translate anything for you, as long as you can fit it in your iPhone …
Fledgling social gaming company play140 wants to make your microblogging habit into addictive game play.
No doubt attempting to recreate the success of social gaming giant Zynga, the creator of online juggernaut Farmville, play140 is trying to jumpstart gaming a la tweets. And the company will make its attempt with very little …
Soon, you can have PlayStation news on your smartphone. According to the official PlayStation blog, developers are finishing touches on the Android and iPhone apps for the gaming company. The app will be compatible with iPhones and iPod Touches with a minimum OS 4 and most Android phones OS 1.6 and above. The first version will be …
There’s scarcely a black line to be found in the Belgian cartoonist Brecht Evens’ graphic novel The Wrong Place, which is a little bit startling. It’s almost entirely executed in watercolors and ink-wash–blobs of color floating in space. There are no panel borders: some panels just sort of fade into the page, others end at a particular …
