So that’s exactly how much time I spend on Facebook per day at work? Kidding. Cumulatively, Americans spend more time on Facebook than on any other website. In the month of May alone, Nielsen estimates that the whole population spent a total of 53.5 billion minutes on the social network. That’s also about the equivalent of 100,000 …
Yoko Ono Is Following You (and 692,318 Other People)
Yoko Ono is more interested in the lives of strangers than you are.
In fact, you might be able to make the argument that she’s more interested in the lives of strangers than anyone else, as she’s currently following 692,318 people on Twitter (as I type these words), more than any other account on the social media service. The next …
Addictive Blooms: ‘Fractal’ Review
Like any watershed work of art, 1984’s Tetris sired lots of offspring, some more bastardly than others. And it’s been fascinating to see the way the falling block puzzle genre has transformed that since the Russian-born game made the Game Boy a must-have device. Time limits, RPG elements, multiple colors and a plethora of shapes have …
Class Action Repeat: Groupon Sued by Its Own Employees
Things aren’t going well for Groupon these days. Not only is the daily deals business facing a downturn with Yelp cutting back the frequency of its deal service and Facebook dropping its service altogether, but now Groupon is facing its second class action lawsuit in two months—and this one comes from its own employees.
A lawsuit …
Ask Techland: How Can I Use Google Maps to Find My Next Apartment?
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Question: My lease is up at the end of the month and I’d ideally like to relocate closer to my job. Craigslist is great, but I really wish there was a website that could help me picture where my new apartment would be in …
AT&T Announces Three New Windows Phones for the Fall
AT&T will be one of the first carriers out of the gate with phones running the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system—Windows Phone 7.5, also known by the codename “Mango”.
The nation’s second-largest wireless carrier announced that the Samsung Focus S, the HTC Titan, and the Samsung Focus Flash will all be available …
Microsoft ‘Build’ Conference: 5 Things to Watch For
Microsoft’s got a big week ahead at its Build conference, where the company is expected to drop lots of new details about Windows 8. Ostensibly, the conference is a place for application developers to learn about Microsoft’s new software, but for the rest of us, it’ll hopefully be a place to get some key details and hands-on time with …
AOL and The Huffington Post’s New Unpaid Blogging Army? Underage Kids
When is child labor not child labor? The answer, according to AOL-owned blog The Huffington Post, may be “When teenagers are producing content for the Internet for free.”
HuffPost has been criticized in the past for exploiting writers by not paying them for their work, but any debate over whether or not such treatment is fair is about …
Steve Jobs Is Not Dead, Unlike CBS’ Relationship to the Show that Said He Was
Steve Jobs is alive and well—but the same, sadly, can’t be said for CBS News’ relationship with the web show that told the world that Jobs had died last week.
CBS has cut off all ties with What’s Trending, a web series focusing on news and current events from an online perspective, after the show announced the death of Jobs last …
Bullfrog’s ‘Syndicate’ Reimagined as First-Person Shooter, Coming ‘Early 2012’
Remember Syndicate, the PC-based neo-noir cyberpunk-strategy game from long-ago developer Bullfrog, the game studio captained by Peter “Fable” Molyneux? To paraphrase Stephen King, sometimes this stuff comes back…as a first-person shooter. It’s practically a truism for contemporary remakes. Take 2K Marin’s XCOM, for …
Goodbye, Career: Machines Can Now Write Like Journalists
They can already play soccer and beat us at Jeopardy—I just didn’t think this day would come so soon.
Narrative Sciences, a start-up in Evanston, Illinois, has developed a sophisticated program that can write articles—typically sports summaries—in under 60 seconds according to the New York Times. Previous iterations of the …
Top Five Monday Tech Deals
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
“Laptop Super Sale”: Prices vary at CowBoom.com (today only)
Best Buy-owned CowBoom.com is currently holding a “Laptop Super Sale,” with many of the machines selling out almost instantly. Most of them (maybe all of them) are pre-owned and don’t come with any software …