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 …
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Vimeo Increases Upload Length To Allow Full Length HD Features
Full-length feature makers have another venue to get their movies on the web. As announced at CES, Vimeo will allow up to 5 GB video (or about 2.5 hours of an HD movie), which allowing documentarians and feature filmmakers to put their whole project online without having to decide where to divide the movie into breaks. You can’t put your …
Groupon Raises Nearly A Billion Dollars
Groupon, the rapidly growing deals site, announced yesterday that it’s raised a whopping $950 million, which will be used to expand the company’s global network and to invest in technology.
The company, which is just over two years old, made a splash in December when it reportedly declined Google’s $6 billion buyout. And the $950 …
10 Things You Shouldn’t Do On Facebook
People often post offensive or insensitive things on their Facebook, and sometimes those updates and pictures can be downright criminal – literally.
Check out Techland’s list of things you shouldn’t do on Facebook, lest you want to face some sort of negative repercussions. Ranging from being convicted of a criminal offense to making …
What Went Viral This Week
January 7, 2011 –
Golden Voice Homeless Man Gets Happy Ending
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This “Awww”-Inspiring moment is brought to you by TIME’s Newsfeed.
Joe Biden Knows One Joke
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Did you hear that one about, …
Should Media Outlets Edit Their Unpaid Bloggers?
A recent blog post by the Lorain, Ohio Morning Journal’s editor Tom Skotch, in which he appealed to local writers to contribute to the newspaper’s blog for free, has brought up the controversial debate of “hiring” citizen journalists. While many comments from professionals claimed it devalued the work of journalists when a publication …
Track Mass Animal Deaths, Courtesy of Google Maps
First there was the birds that fell out of the sky. Then there was the schools of fish that washed up on shore. Then more birds. What is going on in the animal kingdom!?
It might be the sign of some impending doom, random events that just happened to occur around the same time or some disease that is inflicting the animals. Whatever …
Study: Internet Grows As America’s News Source While TV Decreases
According to a new survey by the PEW Center for the People and the Press, 44 percent of Americans get their news from the Internet with a little less than one-fifth of those questioned admitting that it is their main source. The web has become the second most popular place for world and local information, up 17 points from 2007. This …
Estonia Considers a Nerd Draft to Staff Cyber Army
In 2007, the Baltic republic of Estonia was blindsided by a series of large-scale cyber attacks, crippling the country’s government, financial and media online networks – the world’s first cyberwar. Eventually the origins of the denial of service (DDoS) assaults were traced to Russia, which has led the country to create a Cyber …
What Went Viral This Week
December 31, 2010 –
Last viral post of the year!
The Urkel Initiative
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Isn’t becoming Urkel not a bad thing since he gets the girl in the end?
The Price of A Cup of Coffee
What!? Due to the blizzard, they didn’t get a delivery of creamer? …
The Rise of The Web Show
Jon Chu’s idea to make a dance-based television show might not that seem unconventional, especially with the popularity of shows like So You Think You Can Dance? and Dancing With The Stars. His idea, however, was for a series called The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (The LXD), a show about people with special powers that battled …
New Year’s Resolution: Clean Up Your Google Search Results
Embarrassed by your Google search results? Old blogs and newspaper archives can be haunting, but cleaning up your search engine reputation is thorny. Google will only remove a search result from its queue if you can prove that the web page can be used for identity or credit card theft.
(More on Techland: New Year’s Resolution: Send …