Clearly, Netflix subscribes to the “Get ‘Em While They’re Young” philosophy of brand loyalty, launching a new area of its website called the “Just For Kids.”
In the past 90 days, a full 50% of the 25 million North American Netflix members have used Watch Instantly to watch “at least” two movies or shows for kids. Now, “Just For Kids” …
Images of the new Apple “mothership” have landed.
Yes, Apple’s upcoming campus is circular. It won’t actually be done until 2015, but meanwhile Cupertino is assaulting the general public with a barrage of wonderfully rendered pictures of what it will look like. It’s probably not a guarantee that everyone will be so beautifully …
It’s not cheap offering the internet daily deals, it seems. The most popular daily deals site, Groupon, has suffered a $103 million loss for the second quarter of 2011 alone, according to financial statements the company has submitted to the SEC.
(More: Signpost: Like Groupon, Without the Stuff People Don’t Like About Groupon)
The …
You are not totally in control of your choice of Facebook friends. At least, that’s what Stanford University’s Jure Leskovec thinks, and he’s just received a fellowship from the Microsoft Research Faculty to help him prove it.
Leskovec believes that your online activity can be used to predict who you’ll add as a friend on Facebook. …
If you’re going to risk towing 7 million tons of ice across the Atlantic Ocean to quench the thirst of drought-stricken communities, you better have a plan. Enterprising engineer Georges Mougin, 86, is using digital imaging to map the best possible routes to get the massive freshwater deposits 3,400 miles from Newfoundland to the thirsty …
UPDATE (8:48PM EST): Fox News has made a few statements regarding the difficulties of moderating online comments to Yahoo’s The Cutline blog, which you can read here.
Just because a news network claims to be fair and balanced doesn’t mean its Facebook fans have to be. Following the appearance of Blair Scott, the Communications …
Hulu has one more suitor in its upcoming selloff… but this one is already playing hard-to-get.
On an earnings call yesterday, DirecTV CEO Mike White admitted that the satellite TV company was joining Apple, Google and many other potential buyers in looking through Hulu’s financial details to see whether a sale would make sense, but …
Swedish police have prevented what could either have been the birth of an outsider scientific genius or an unprecedented disaster.
My money, admittedly, is on the latter, with the arrest of 31-year-old Richard Handl, a science enthusiast who was trying to build the world’s first home-based nuclear reactor.
The arrest came after the …
Worried about your online privacy, and the simplicity with which your life can be uncovered from one stray thread of social media? If not, maybe you should be. British journalist Joanna Geary—a web development editor at the London Times—demonstrated just how easy it is to track down information about strangers online during a …
Britain is joining the rest of Europe in legalizing the copying of CDs and DVDs for personal use, following up on the recommendations of an institutional review on intellectual property framework carried out on behalf of the Prime Minister. In other words: The UK Government has finally decided that it’s legal for Brits to rip music that …
Finally, it’s been officially proven: Animals doing human things are better than humans pretending to be animals doing human things. To promote its travel search site, Hipmunk has released the viral video to end all viral videos, “Internet Memes Better with Cute Animals,” in which humans re-enact some (in)famous YouTube clips to prove …
One of the great things about social networking is that anyone can say what they want without fear of censorship… Well, in theory, at least. But according to Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall, that’s not always true in the real world, and he’s
