The New York Times is reporting that YouTube may be attempting to acquire Next New Networks, a company that owns 25 episodic video networks operating within the all-encompassing Next New Networks brand.
Some of the videos to emerge from under Next New Networks’ banner have gone on to become incredibly popular. Two of them—Bed …
YouTube is getting into the forecast business.
With new analytics hub YouTube Trends, user-generated is getting a long awaited ranking system. Intended a zeigeist of viral videos, Trends will essentially function as a blog that highlights YouTube uploads with viral potential – not unlike the hundreds of feeds doing just that on a …
It’s one of the quintessential Christmas movies – although most of us often forget about it on our annual lists. Home Alone captivated a generation of young children who often dreamed about having the run of their houses, minus the burglars of course. Since you can’t pop in the tape at work to watch the movie again and relive some good …
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg has been named Person of the Year. At age 26, Zuckerberg is the second youngest person to receive the honors—Charles Lindbergh was the youngest at 25.
Runners up this year:
4. Hamid Karzai
5. The Chilean …
A posted list of frequently used passwords revealed by the Gawker Media hack as determined by the Wall Street Journal reveals that 123456 is the most popular. Seriously, users couldn’t come up with something more creative than that? Second runner-up was password, followed by 12345678, which brings up the scary point that most of us don’t …
Were you affected by the big Gawker hack that broke out over the weekend? Me too, man. Me too. It is what it is (and other comforting remarks).
Slate has created a handy tool to see if your Gawker password is among the 185,000+ out there for the whole world to see. Simply enter your e-mail address and you may or may not get the …
With all the attention being paid to WikiLeaks lately, organizations supporting similar goals are bound to start showing up in droves over the coming months. One in particular, called OpenLeaks, may start up operations as soon as next week, according to Forbes.
What makes OpenLeaks unique is the fact that it’s being run by several …
Swedish internet service provider Bahnhof houses its servers inside a former World War II bunker located inside a mountain and 100 feet below the surface of the earth. Secure, no? It’d better be, seeing that the company currently lists WikiLeaks as one of its clients.
And while several high-profile companies have been distancing …
December 10, 2010-
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Gamers are just so much cooler now than when I was a kid.
According to this map of social networks of the world as of December 2010 by Vincos, …
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Free iPhone 3GS at Best Buy
Source: @BestBuy_Deals Twitter
The deal’s good today only and you’ll have to actually go to one of the brick and mortar locations to get it, but Best Buy’s giving away free 8GB iPhone 3GS models “to qualified customers” (read: …
Strangely enough, although it seems that everyone and their mother has a Twitter account, a recent study by PEW Internet and Life Project discovered that only eight percent of people online admitted having a Twitter account, with two percent saying they use it every day. Twenty-four percent of people surveyed did say they used some sort …
As “Operation Payback” continues to exact revenge on the opponents of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — from shutting down Mastercard’s website after it suspended donations to Assange’s organization to targeting high-profile right-wing politicians like Sarah Palin — interest has grown in
