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One thing you can say about the Flickr team - there's some fight in 'em. They apparently were not super pleased with our coverage of their annual (and unofficial) Grant-Pattishall Award given each year to the Yahoo engineer who “who breaks Flickr in the most spectacular way.” I'm not sure why, I think the award is fun.
So now they have a new award, called the Bogan-Martin Award: "The Bogan-Martin Award is given yearly to the Flickr staff member who inadvertently generates the most spectacul...
With more than 200 deals since 2005, Y Combinator's Paul Graham knows how to size up a young team of entrepreneurs. However, he didn't get it right from day one.
On Friday, we got a chance to talk to Graham after his morning panel with SV Angel's Ron Conway. He discussed how his strategy has evolved over the past five years and why the balance of power is shifting in Silicon Valley. See videos ahead.
Grammy award winning artist Chamillionaire (a.k.a Hakeem Seriki) has become a regular at tech conferences, perhaps because the hustle and flow culture of the rap business and the hustle and flow culture of the tech business are surprisingly similar. His stories of struggles between artists and music labels are resonant to anyone who's experienced the relationship intricacies of startups and VCs.
Perhaps you've heard: social games maker Playdom was acquired by Disney a few days ago for a deal potentially worth north of $750 million. Playdom CEO John Pleasants took the stage today at our Social Currency CrunchUp in Palo Alto, to talk a bit about the deal and the future.
Pleasants says that he's not exactly sure what his title at Disney will be yet, but he thinks he'll be the General Manager of Playdom. He's also not sure if Tapulous (another gaming company just acquired by Disney) wil...
Smart window startup Soladigm announced today its plans to build a factory in Olive Branch, Mississippi. The Khosla Ventures and Sigma Partners backed company makes dynamic glass windows that can be tinted on demand to block excess light and heat.
Founded in 2007, Soladigm has been operating in stealth until now. The company employs about 50 people in its Milpitas, California headquarters, and plans to hire about 300 employees over the next few years for the Mississippi plant.
Criticising Valleywag in 2010 is something of a pointless exercise, like offering diplomatic counsel to the Ottoman Empire ten years after the Treaty of Lausanne. More pointless still, attacking the site’s titular editor Ryan Tate is like appealing to the guy responsible for writing parking tickets in Constantinople.
I mean, I get that.
And yet despite the irrelevance of Gawker’s saddest sub-domain and the tragic impotence of its editor, the influence of its parent means that when a Valleyw...
Online monetization platform gWallet, which offers social gaming developers a variety of ways to monetize their apps and boost engagement, is looking to put its money where its mouth is: the company is launching a $20,000 cash guarantee to any social gaming publishers that don't generate more revenue when they switch from their current monetization platform to gWallet.
To participate, publishers are being asked to implement a simultaneous, head-to-head test over the span of thirty days (you ...
Tomorrow night, July 31, Twitter has announced they are having some planned downtime. Beginning at 11 PM PT, Twitter will likely be down on and off for up to 5 hours, Twitter warns.
The reason for the downtime? NTT America, Twitter's hosting provider is upgrading a part of the internal network. This is interesting because Twitter is in the process of opening their own data center in Utah later this year. Despite the new tweet digs, they've said they'll keep working with NTT America, so this ...
It’s takes a certain type of person to get excited about a work productivity tool. Mark Nielsen and Patrick Carmitchel, unsatisfied with 37Signals' Basecamp, have decided to disrupt the productivity software industry, says Nielsen “We decided we’d rather not see the light of day for awhile than have to live with knowing that with just a little bit of creative, a pinch of logic and a dash of sexy, we could revive the productivity software world with a tool that would even make Apple cry.”
Today at our Social Currency CrunchUp in Palo Alto, CA, James Lamberti, VP of Global Research and Marketing for InMobi, sat down with our Michael Arrington to tell us a bit about mobile advertising.
InMobi is the largest independent mobile ad network in the world. Overall, they're number two behind Google's AdMob. That earned them an $8 million investment from Kleiner Perkins and Sherpalo Ventures a couple weeks ago. But what's particularly interesting about InMobi is how well they're doing ...
Today during our Social Currency CrunchUp, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and John Hanke, a Google VP of Product Management, took the stage. Given that the two companies seem to be at odds with one another recently (following a failed acquisition), it was a little tense.
Specifically, Google's strong moves into local with their new Places push seem to be going right at Yelp's core. Sure's it's potentially about more than just local venue reviews, but that's a huge part of it. And that's what Yel...
Social gaming company Zynga is growing at a rapid clip. More importantly, their revenue is growing at a rapid clip. And they need a big gun to handle that. They believe they've just got him: Dave Wehner, formerly a managing director at Allen & Company LLC.
Wehner is stepping in for current CFO Mark Vranesh, who is becoming chief accountant of Zynga. While they obviously won't say it, it should be fairly clear what this shuffling is all about: it's not CFO, it's another three-letter acronym, ...
Last month, we noted that Twitter was testing a "You both follow" feature, showing users you and another user both follow. That's interesting, but not particularly useful. Today, they've begun to roll out a new "Suggestions for You" feature which looks at who you follow, and who the people you follow follow, and suggests new people for you to follow. Yes, just like Facebook does. This is very useful.
In fact, this is arguably the most useful social graph feature that Twitter has rolled out y...
Sorry, BlackBerry fanboys, the BlackPad -- or whatever it will be called -- is going to flop in a monumental way. Remember how RIM's last iDevice clone, the Storm, failed in such a public way? Yep, it's going to happen all over again. RIM has no business making a consumer tablet.
We all need to give major props to Research In Motion. They were really the first major player to make smartphones relevant by offering a nearly-bulletproof mobile emailing system to business. Eventually RIM started...
It's no secret that loyalty programs — like those hole-punch cards that give you a free Slurpee every ten visits — are a great, cheap way to keep customers coming back to your business. Thing is, running these programs isn't always as easy as it seems, especially if a business wants to do something more complex than the basic "buy ten get one free". PlacePop is a new startup looking to make these loyalty programs accessible to any business: the startup has built a self-serve platform based ar...
Social search site OneRiot just announced layoffs and staff restructuring on its company blog, in a post entitled "Welcome to the future, it's coming fast."
Now, being agile also necessitates making some tough decisions too, if they are the right thing for the company right now. Unfortunately, today, we have had to let a handful of well respected colleagues go. This is a pragmatic decision based on a strategically focused go-forward plan for the company. It’s in no way a reflection of the tal...
Today at our Social Currency CrunchUp (which is currently being livestreamed here), Blekko founder and CEO Rich Skrenta gave the first live demo of the startup's innovative search engine (be sure to check out our initial review). To mark the occasion, Blekko is giving out an invite to 500 lucky TechCrunch readers — just be one of the first people to email a message requesting an invite to techcrunch@blekko.com.
GM is banking large on the Chevy Volt and apparently feels confident about its success. The auto maker just issued a statement, which conveniently coincides while President Obama is touring the assembly plant, detailing the increased production estimate for 2012. The Detroit-Hamtramck facility will now pump out 50% more than previously detailed, an increase to 45,000 from 30,000.
Chances are this production bump is dependent on a successful roll-out of the first 10,000 vehicles slated to hit...
According to GroupOn CEO Andrew Mason who is on stage right now at Social Currency CrunchUp, GroupOn was originally a side project Mason started in order to make money, "We tried a zillion things" Mason said.
Including selling slippers with flashlights, which Mason describes as "act of desperation, pretty impressive considering that the company is currently making $365 million in revenues, a million a day according to our sources. Mason gave no thought whatsoever as to whether or not it woul...
Today, during our Social Currency CrunchUp, angel investor Ron Conway had some interesting data to share for the first time. Conway says that his company, SV Angel, has recently done an audit on the over 500 companies they've invested in over the past 12 years. And he was surprised with the results.
Conway expected it would show that about one-third of companies fail, one-third get investors their money back, and one-third bring a 2x to Google-x return (Conway invested in Google early on). B...
Today at our Social Currency CrunchUp in Palo Alto, CA, Michael Arrington sat down with investors Ron Conway and Paul Graham. Obviously, these are two of the biggest names in early-stage investing (with SV Angel and Y Combinator, respectively).
Both Conway and Graham had some interesting data to share. Conway, in particular, was able to give some great numbers because he's recently done an audit on the over 500 companies he's invested in over the past 12 years.
Google has been cleared of any wrongdoing relating to Wi-Fi snooping in the UK. Well, partially cleared. The country’s Information Commissioner's Office, whose job is to “uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals,” has said that “it is unlikely that Google will have captured significant amounts of personal data” during its Street View mappings.
Google has added weather data to its Google Earth application. As of now, the new feature only supports locations in North America and parts of Europe.
In January, we broke the news that prolific Silicon Valley angel investor Dave McClure was to set up its own venture capital fund.
Yesterday, the man filed for the fund with the SEC, providing us with more details (hat tip to FormDs.com). The name will be 500 Startups - McClure has long called himself the master of 500 hats - and the initial fund will amount to max. $30 million according to the filing.
Apple’s earnings and revenue growth in mobile have been awe-inspiring to witness. From zero presence three years ago, Apple is now the most profitable cell phone maker in the world.
Apple’s success in this compressed period has helped it become an enormous buyer of components. In fact iSuppli projects that next year Apple will become the second-largest semiconductor buyer worldwide and may edge out HP in 2012 to become the world’s largest.
Though this scale presents Apple with enormous barg...
A House investigative panel has decided to charge Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California with ethics violations, raising the possibility of a second high-profile trial with political implications for Democrats this fall.
- Bradley Manning, the prime suspect in the leaking of the Afghan war files, raged against his Army employers and "society at large" on his Facebook page in the days before he allegedly downloaded thousands of secret memos, a U.K. newspaper reported Saturday.
- Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., plans to go through a House trial to contest charges of misusing her office, NBC News confirmed Friday night.
No. 1 overall draft pick Sam Bradford agreed to a six-year, $78 million contract with the St. Louis Rams on Friday night, with $50 million in guaranteed money.
Aubrey Huff hit a go-ahead two-run double in the third inning and added a solo homer and the San Francisco Giants held off a late rally to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-5 on Friday night.
Brendan Ryan's broken-bat infield hit in the 10th inning drove in the game's lone run and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 on Friday night.
"Jersey Shore" cast member Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi has been arrested in the New Jersey beach town where the MTV show is based.
Juan Rivera homered and drove in four runs, Erick Aybar also went deep, and the Los Angeles Angels handed Tommy Hunter his first loss of the season with a 9-7 victory over the AL West-leading Texas Rangers on Friday night.
Cody Ross and Gaby Sanchez homered off Wade LeBlanc and the Florida Marlins had just five hits in beating NL West-leading San Diego 4-2 on Friday night in Miguel Tejada's first game with the Padres.
Carlos Gonzalez, Ian Stewart and Dexter Fowler homered and the Colorado Rockies used a record-setting 12-run eighth inning to rout the Chicago Cubs 17-2 on Friday night.
Two men carrying Mexican flags ran into the outfield during the seventh inning of the New York Mets' game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night at Citi Field.
Swin Cash had 16 points to lead five players in double figures as the Seattle Storm beat the Chicago Sky 80-60 Friday night for their 13th consecutive win.
Good morning, passengers, and welcome aboard. We're expecting clear skies today, but we're out of pilots.
A person with knowledge of the situation says the Los Angeles Dodgers are exploring a trade with the Chicago Cubs to acquire left-hander Ted Lilly.
An explosion ripped through a workers' dormitory area and killed at least 15 people Saturday at a coal mine in a city in northern China notorious for mining disasters.
Matt Capps worked a scoreless ninth inning for a save in his first appearance with the Minnesota Twins, preserving a 5-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.
The case of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the massage therapist has been closed.
Jhonny Peralta hit two homers in his first game since being traded and the struggling Detroit Tigers withstood a grand slam by David Ortiz in the ninth inning and beat the Boston Red Sox 6-5 on Friday night.
Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies arrested a man who passed out while allegedly trying to break into a mobile home where an 82-year-old woman was calling 911, crowbar in hand. Deputies said 24-year-old Derrick Gauthreaux of Denham Springs was checked at a hospital Thursday, then booked into the parish jail on one count of attempted burglary.
Jason Heyward doubled home two runs with two outs in the 10th inning Friday night, rallying the Atlanta Braves to 6-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds that restored a little of their rapidly vanishing lead in the NL East.
Kelly Johnson and Miguel Montero homered in a five-run sixth inning, and the Arizona Diamondbacks stopped a seven-game losing streak with a 9-6 victory over the New York Mets on Friday night.
When Lucas Harrell woke up in the morning, he was preparing to make a start for Triple-A Charlotte. He ended the day with his first major league victory.
J.A. Happ allowed two hits over six innings in his Houston debut and the Astros beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-0 on Friday night.
Becky Hammon scored 22 points to lead the San Antonio Silvers to a 101-85 victory over the Tulsa Shock on Friday night.
Eric Berry's tweet was true.
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clipper's remarks: Mugs copy is gone off Flikr, so I'm reposting this for all us romantics. It's so beautiful, one day I'll get it for my wall!
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clipper's remarks: Mr Sarkozy, whose hardline stance helped him win the 2007 election, has promised to crack down on urban violence.
But the conservative leader has failed to reduce violent crime despite tougher policing following widespread riots in 2005. Neighbourhoods remain stricken by high youth unemployment, poor public services, drug trafficking and a rise in gun crime.
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A hen in China appears to be suffering from some kind of identity crisis, apparently believing that it's a penguin.
Clip Source: img.metro.co.ukClip Source: www.metro.co.ukAwkwardly described as a 'peng-hen', the hen doesn't walk like a normal chicken - instead, it waddles upright with its wings tucked behind its back.
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Clip Source: www.bbc.co.ukPicking up Penguins for 75 years
Tales of the man who founded Penguin 75 years ago, conjure up the image of an eccentric character from one of the publisher's books.
Sir Allen Lane was the man who used a fairground slide to drop deliveries to his company (then based in a crypt) and came up with the Penguincubator - a vending machine for the firm's books to be installed on train platforms.
Stories differ as to whether this machine was ever made, w...
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Clip Source: groups.yahoo.comThese remarkable pictures show how beluga whales help human visitors to swim under the thick ice.
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dive teams drill through the frozen surface of the White Sea off the
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clipper's remarks: I don't remember the Romans going that far out, but yeah, history is repeating.
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clipper's remarks: It is better to be Christ than be a Christian. It is better to be Buddha than a Buddhist.
Clip Source: blog.beliefnet.comOn her official website she posted the following announcement via her facebook feed this afternoon:"I quit being a Christian. I'm out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse...
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The global population of a marine algae called phytoplankton has declined by 50 percent since the middle of the last century, threatening marine creatures that depend on the microscopic plant for food. Scientists blame global warming for the trend.
they form the base of the entire marine ecosystem.
they are the food for everything -- from little zooplankton up to the big whales,
rising ocean surface temperatures, due to global warming,...
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Clip Source: news.discovery.comOcean's Most Abundant Food Source Disappearing
July 28, 2010 -- Phytoplankton make up half of all plant matter around the globe. Its disappearance threatens the stability of climate, the well-being of fisheries and the overall health of the oceans. Read More
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Linkin Park provided only about minute of the vocals and a few other tracks. I only used the vocals and preformed, programed, produced and mixed the music with a new arrangement. Of course I never heard the original arrangement, so I guess it's new. Enjoy !
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clipper's remarks: That happened in Panama when Noriega was in power there.And that is happening once again in Colombia.
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Report Suggests 'Correlation' between U.S. Aid and Army Killings
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Clip Source: news.discovery.comDance of the Planets Gets IntimateThis cosmic ballet is reshaping what astronomers thought was possible in solar systems beyond our own.
Astronomers find a dying star that has two massive planets orbiting as close as about 33 million miles apart.
How the planets managed to survive and settle into their unexpected but stable orbits is a mystery.
Study is under way to probe 450 similar targets for planetary systems.
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Hello there, weary travelers, winding your way — LOTR-like — toward the glimmering horizon that is the weekend. Isn’t this is thing we call life one, big adventure? Nah, we didn’t think so. That’s why we’ve decided to make this…
BlackBerry tablet rumors continue to gain momentum, with a new report indicating that the device, possibly to be called the BlackPad, is set to hit stores this November.
According to Bloomberg, Research in Motion, the company behind the…
A veritable treasure trove of documents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show some of the different ways that Apple is looking to integrate location, travel and commerce into future versions of iOS.
Patently Apple has uncovered some…
You know a viral video has truly made it into the zeitgeist when it gets the remix treatment, which can itself go viral; so meta.
For your viewing pleasure we’ve hit up YouTube for 10 of the best…
Mashable is excited to announce that in honor of Lady Gaga’s upcoming new remix album, we’re giving away a prize pack with some exclusive merchandise for this week’s #WinWeekend Weekly Sweepstakes in partnership with Live Nation. Last weekend,…
Twitter is in the midst of rolling out a new feature called “Suggestions for You” that offers up personalized recommendations of users that you might want to follow on the microblogging service. You’ll find the new feature under the “Find…
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When you first saw that iconic commercial for the Snuggie, didn’t you think to yourself: “I wish I had come up with such a genius piece of cinematic showmanship?” Well, good news, weekend YouTube warriors, Snuggie is looking for the…
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Online video continues to be an area with huge growth and expansion for…
Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital have released what they are calling their first-ever “enhanced e-book,” Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, via Apple’s iBookstore application.
The enhanced e-book [iTunes link] includes an original interview with the author and 27 historic…
Mashable has released new iOS4 updates to our iPhone application, now available for download on iTunes. The updates include iOS multitasking, iPhone 4 retina display support, improved Twitter web posting as well as several other enhancements.
We’d love…
Following in the footsteps of the New England Patriots, who recently employed SCVNGR to get fans involved in location-based, pre-season festivities, the Minnesota Vikings will be treating their fans to a training camp trek hosted on the platform.
Mankato,…
Good news for any New Yorker who hates interacting with others during their daily commute (read: all New Yorkers): Wi-Fi and mobile service are coming to a subway near you. Yup, now even the Mole People won’t be…
Samsung has just confirmed that it will be bringing the Android 2.2 update — also known as Froyo — to its Galaxy S devices this September.
The confirmation came via Samsung UK’s Twitter account, which says…
Rob Howard is the CTO/founder of enterprise collaboration software company Telligent.
A 2008 Gartner study on social software noted that “about 70 percent of the community typically fails to coalesce.” While the measurement and the statistics…
What’s next for marketers in the realm of social media, mobile, location and digital video?
That’s what a room full of PepsiCo executives, digital strategists and brand managers tried to figure out earlier this week at the company’s headquarters…
We’ve seen the poster, theatrical teaser and the first official trailer; now a brand new 60-second TV spot for David Fincher’s The Social Network has hit the web.
The film, which arrives in theaters…
Mashable’s Spark of Genius series highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, see details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.
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When we think of banks, we think of the brick-and-mortar financial institutions we turn to to keep our money safe. Even though in recent years we’ve seen reputable banks crumble and interest rates tumble, most of us would never think…
Just when we thought that the “Double Rainbow” meme river had gone dry, Jimmy Fallon has gone and opened the floodgates once more. The other night, Fallon performed a cover of the now-iconic viral video — in the character of…
The best selling book The Zombie Survival Guide now has its own iPhone app. The Zombie Survival Guide Scanner [iTunes link] is a free application that lets you “scan” your friends to test their level of “zombification.”
The…
The latest version of Google’s 3D map application, Google Earth, now has the ability to display real-time rain and snow in certain parts of the world.
To see it, you must first enable the clouds layer, and…
For those of us living in the U.S., it was nearly impossible to avoid the hype surrounding last night’s season two premiere of MTV’s Jersey Shore. Lucky us, we were even gifted with Snook-ified iPhone and Facebook applications to…
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Facebook may postpone its initial public offering until 2012, Bloomberg has learned from three sources familiar with the matter.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has always been very careful on the subject. “At some point along the path,…
Anything you can get your hands on can become a weapon. ANYTHING. Including nearby animals.
Why not swing on by and take a second look at things you might have missed?
By suggesting that mass, time, and length can be converted into one another as the universe evolves, Wun-Yi Shu has proposed a new class of cosmological models that may fit observations of the universe better than the current big bang model. What this means specifically is that the ...
The executive producer and writer of the Force Unleashed videogame series, Haden Blackman, has resigned from LucasArts today after spending 13 years with the studio.
In comes a brand new Twitter feature (Tweature!). Starting today, Twitter will extend a hand by offering tailored suggestions of whom to follow.
Whether you aspire to be male-female duo sprinkled with sexual tension or one dude with some cheap '80s synths and lots of effects boxes, here are five easy recipes for certain indie-rock fame.
There are so many software available out there that can make your windows PC performs better, getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing few great freeware tools for you to make your lives easier than ever. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.
Seven locals, ranging in age from 23 to 60, are accused of setting three fires that caused close to $1 million in property damage in order to collect a few thousand from a Texas chapter of the American Red Cross.
On Wednesday, as U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel charged the jury, Patti Blagojevich knitted in the courtroom, while her husband, disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, and his brother Robert, the co-indictees in the corruption case, leaned back in their chairs and watched.
A new audio tour in Klingon will guide Trekkers through the spelunking frontier of Australia's Jenolan Caves. The Star Trek-inspired Klingon alien language can now direct cave visitors through a self-guided tour.
Twitter Will Now Suggest People You Might Be Interested In StalkingIt can be tough to find fascinating people to follow on Twitter, but now and then you'll find someone whose tweets perfectly match your interests and you'll wish there were more people like that. Well, now Twitter will help you find those folks—if they exist.
As he sits in the Bell County Jail, accused of the Nov. 5 Fort Hood shooting that left 13 dead, Maj. Nidal Hasan continues to receive his monthly U.S. Army paycheck, which based on his rank and experience is probably more than $6,000. Bank of America closed his account and no area bank so far has agreed to open an account for the Army psychiatrist.
Sure credit cards are just one of the things that got the world into a financial mess, but if you know what you’re doing they can also take you on that dream vacation. Bonuses and promotions can pay for your airfare, but don’t charge an infinite amount of umbrella drinks to your hotel room thinking you’re just paying for the next trip.
NOAA has released an annual report detailing the state of the climate for the past twenty years. Each year, the message is the same. The world is warming. This past year was no different.
If you ever wanted a job smoking marijuana, you'll want to read this.
Some researchers are becoming convinced that calcium supplements not only provide no benefit for post-menopausal women, but that they can even be harmful, increasing the risk of heart attacks by nearly a third.
Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) was abruptly torn away from a live radio interview Friday when a policeman pulled him over and told him to hang up the phone.
Earlier this month, Toyota applied to renew its long-expired trademark on the Supra name in the United States. Although the company is mostly mum on the subject, an easy-to-reach conclusion would suggest that Toyota could revive the historic badge for its upcoming FT-86 sports car.
Gov. Chris Christie said today he was surprised that Rutgers University turned down an opportunity to be the lone grower of the state's medical marijuana crop ....
A Defcon contest that invites contestants to trick employees at U.S. corporations into revealing not-so-sensitive data has rattled some nerves.
The cast and crew of Mad Men do a great job of transporting viewers to another time and place. But what influence has Jon Hamm's Golden Globe winning character Don Draper had on your working style?
Microsoft today disclosed that version nine of its Internet Explorer Web browser will have a beta release in September.
President Barack Obama is going to the heart of the U.S. auto industry to push an important election-year claim: his administration's unpopular auto industry bailout has turned into an economic good-news story.
College students do care about Facebook privacy, it turns out, and their use of the service's privacy settings has skyrocketed between 2009 and 2010, according to two researchers.
Lightning strike captured on high-speed video at 9000 frames per second.
Press Hop is entertaining and addictive, thank you to stupid athlete quotes
The mere thought of Christina Henricks in the bath renders this news anchor incapable of forming complete sentences.
Did Old Spice hit or miss the mark with their bathroom campaign?
If you want something from someone else, you have to show an interest in them first.
This is about two Indian business experts appointed as heads of two prestigious business schools in U.S, is a proud factor for all Indians.
SEC report suggest life settlements be treated as securities. Unfortunately, brokers will suffer.
Popular social networking games can open company networks to security attacks
Regular exercise prompts natural weight loss and increases life span by up to 25%.
Amazon.com jumping on the social web bandwagon and allowing users to integrate Facebook into their experience
On July 28, Federal District Court Judge Susan Bolton issued an injunction (link to pdf of court order) blocking several portions of the recent immigration bill SB1070, which was passed on April 23. (Previously on Metafilter.)
Among other provisions, the bill would have allowed Arizona police officers to demand proof of immigration status of people suspected of being in the country illegally pursuant to a legal police stop.
Most importantly, the federal ruling blocked the portion of the la...
"Charity degrades and demoralizes." The latest RSA Animate adapts a lecture by Slavoj Zizek. Previously. Previously.
The CIA is watching him. He's been addressed directly by powerful people all across the United States government.
And earlier today on his website and across the internet, the same man has placed a 1.4 gigabyte encrypted file labeled "insurance."
So, you always wanted to be a musician, but your pops wouldn't send you to music school? And you can't afford a decent instrument? Aw, quit yer whining and go get a garden hose.
ProPublica now has a tumblelog.
102 Alternatives to the Default Facebook Profile Picture.
"Flower Warfare - Psychedelic Action Scene" by Freddie Wong (previously). Behind the scenes.
The Wall Street Journal investigates web snoops. The 50 sites installed a total of 3,180 tracking files on a test computer used to conduct the study. Only one site, the encyclopedia Wikipedia.org, installed none. Twelve sites, including IAC/InterActive Corp.'s Dictionary.com, Comcast Corp.'s Comcast.net and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN.com, installed more than 100 tracking tools apiece in the course of the Journal's test.
More from the WSJ project:
The Web's New Goldmine
How to Avoid the Prying Ey...
Misery Bear: Goes to London - Celebrates Christmas - Has a day off - Gets a Valentine's card - Looks forward to the World Cup
Strange Cargo: Taryn Simon took over 1,000 photographs of items seized or detained at JFK Airport. Here is a sampling. Here is some information about the project.
Is the alpha-dog method of training, as promoted by Cesar Millan, a myth? Rival trainer Victoria Stilwell thinks so and has launched a competitive assault on Cesar's Dog Whisperer by starring on It's Me or the Dog and spreading her system of positive-reinforcement training.
From the Time article:"The debate has its roots in 1940s studies of captive wolves gathered from various places that, when forced to live together, naturally competed for status. Acclaimed animal behaviorist Rudolph Schen...
Alexis Soyer lived quite an an amazing life. According to his wiki, he "was a French chef who became the most celebrated cook in Victorian England" who also "during the Great Irish Famine in April 1847, ... invented the soup kitchen and was asked by the Government to go to Ireland to implement his idea. This was opened in Dublin and his "famine soup" was served to thousands of the poor for free. Whilst in Ireland he wrote Soyer's Charitable Cookery. He gave the proceeds of the book to various...
Faces, a short animation by Lei Lei (雷磊), an independent Chinese animator and designer. He's put most of his works on Vimeo, including a short TEDxShanghai talk he gave several months ago.
Cartoon Brew profile, with an embedded video profiling Lei Lei.
He was also recently at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, where he rapped with Dan Silverman of Simpson's fame providing accompaniment on the tuba.
Via Anipages Daily
Arron Diaz of Dresden Codak (previously previously previously) shows us how he makes his colorful comic pages at Indistinguishable From Magic, an art/instruction blog about Character Design, Hands In Storytelling, and Batman.
Free music downloads without committing piracy! Freegal is a new service that libraries around the country are now offering to library card holders (up to 20 per week per library card). Freegal offers DRM-free mp3 downloads with no third-party application involved from Sony's massive music catalog.
Some say libraries who use this service are subsidizing public music purchases. Others love it.
Acousmata is a unique music blog devoted to "idiosyncratic research in electronic and experimental music, sound and acoustics, mysticism and technology" with special focus on the early history of electronic music.
The Adam and Joe show ran on Channel 4 during the 90s. There are many marvellous memories from the late-night lo-fi bedroom fest, but most fondly rememberered are their re-enactments of popular films and shows using toys. Kids. This Life.
Toytanic.
Shine.
Se7en.
American Beautoy.
Saving Private Lion.
Furends.
The Toy Patient.
ToyTrainspotting.
The Joking Computer: an algorithm that writes jokes. Have it make you a joke or learn how it works.
Noted literary agent Andrew Wylie has made a deal with several of his authors - including Saul Bellow, John Updike and Phillip Roth - to release their e-books exclusively on Amazon. Macmillan's John Sargent and Tyler Cowen react.
It has applications in Economics, Biology, Pharmaceuticals, and is rooted in State Space Modeling, which with Kalman Filtering (paper, breakdown [warning: long]) was used in the Apollo program. Dynamic Linear Models are gaining in popularity. There exists an R package, and both a short doc and a really great (read: worth buying) book (sorry, not a download, but here's chapter 2) by Giovanni Petris, Sonia Petrone, and Patrizia Campagnoli with its own little website.
This is what it looked like then... Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov takes old WWII photos and go to exactly the same place it was taken, then combines the two. Some of my favorites
Correctional Services Canada and the Harper Administration say they will close the Frontenac Institution prison farm. A group called Save Our Prison Farms in Kingston Ontario says they won't. Conflict at 11.
Save Our Prison Farms has done everything it can think of to stop CSC and the Harper Administration from closing the prison farm program at Frontenac Institution. Petitions, letters, public rallies (one in June featured noted Canadian author Margaret Atwood and 1,000 friends) and a peace...
Final Kodachrome produced and processed. 13 months after (previous
MeFi thread) Kodak announced they were discontinuing production of Kodachrome, the final Kodachrome
roll made by Kodak has been processed by Dwayne's Photo Service, in Parsons,
Kansas—the only Kodachrome processor left in the world. It
was given to and shot by (NPR interview) Steve McCurry, of "Afghan
Girl" fame, around New York City for a documentary by National
Geographic. Just a reminder: you only have until Dec...
It should be any entrepreneur's dream come true. But for some startups, a sudden, overnight explosion in growth can nearly bring the operation to its knees.
Such was the recent experience of Blank Label, a Web-based company that sells custom-made, user-designed dress shirts for men. After launching in October 2009, Blank Label enjoyed some modest initial success, selling a few hundred shirts in the first few months of business.
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The online buzz generated by the startup's u...
Imagine you were a robot who only knew how to describe the world in four ways: self, other, time, and object. Now imagine you were struck by a bolt of lightning and found your robot brain aware of a whole new column in the spreadsheet...Place. You'd feel like a whole new robot and you'd probably sing a very happy robot song.
That's what the social web is going through right now, with the rise of location data and services as a viable pivot point for developers to work their magic with. Ne...
This spring at Twitter's first developer conference Chirp the big splash was a forthcoming feature called Annotations. The feature will allow publishing software to annotate Tweets with a wide open variety of metadata, which could then be read and analyzed by other software. Annotations are going to be big, if and when they launch.
At Chirp it was said that the Annotations feature would launch in the second or third quarter of this year. Now the company's developer advocate, Taylor Sing...
London-based communications SaaS provider Mimecast has announced the results of its second annual Cloud Adoption Survey. The survey, conducted by independent research firm Loudhouse, assessed the attitudes of IT decision-makers in the U.S. and UK about cloud computing.
And the results are unsurprising, echoing the findings from elsewhere: the majority of organizations are now using some sort of cloud service, or considering moving to the cloud. Concerns about security and cost are cited as ...
The design and user experience of a site is often a make or break experience. Users, company hires and investors are heavily swayed not only by how neat a site looks, but how well thought out it is. Simply put, if your site is bad on the experience or design front, it makes it look like your team can't execute, which is about the worst thing you can say about a startup.
Finding the right people to do this is incredibly hard. Agencies generally are way out of the startup budget and can hav...
Many news outlets, including ReadWriteWeb reported yesterday that the first piece of Android malware may have been discovered in the wild. It now appears that we were mistaken. In an interview with Android Tapp Jackeey Wu, the developer of the wallpaper app in question, denied malicious intent. He said he was gathering device information to take advantage of favoriting features in Android.
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In my applications I collected some device data, not user data.
I collected the screen size to...
The architectural style of a data center is not what you would think as being unique.
But data centers can have a certain style as illustrated in a recent post on Data Center Knowledge, which put together a collection that shows a level of creativity in how data centers are being designed.
Rob Snevely is the author of Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology. He says the primary function of building a data center is in the detailed mechanical process of laying out the building for maxi...
Most of the talk surrounding immigration reform in the U.S. these days is coming from my home state of Arizona where controversial laws like Senate Bill 1070 have the nation divided. For entrepreneurs, there are other laws - mainly those surrounding work visas and green card acquisition - that are in dire need of reform if the nation is going to rebound on the back of innovation. Thursday night, the tech community was again reminded of this need when Robert Scoble posted a blog and video inte...
This week's roundtable was organized in collaboration with my partner MAD Incubator, a technology incubator in Malaysia that is dedicated to giving technopreneurs a chance to succeed and make a difference.
First up was Max Teoh presenting GetToDo, a real-time, vicinity-based sales and promotions solution for the Malaysian lifestyle market. It enables retailers and brands to promote their products to consumers interested in lifestyle products through Internet and mobile channels. In terms of ...
Over the past year, Facebook and privacy are two topics that have become practically joined at the hip. The site has changed its privacy settings again and again and last winter CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared the death of privacy. One of the leading arguments behind all of this has been that we live in a new era, beyond the "age of privacy", and the new social norm for the next generation is to share, freely and without regard for such antiquated concerns as privacy.
New research released toda...
Taylor Swift has nothing on Boulder software startup Occipital. The pop star has been seen recently in an ad for the Sony TX7 Cyber-shot whose selling-point is the ability to create a panoramic image by sweeping the camera once from side-to-side. Occipital, makers of the popular RedLaser app (which eBay recently purchased from the startup), has brought this very same functionality one of the best selling cameras on the market today - the iPhone. Launching today in the AppStore, 360 Panorama (...
International management, I.T. consulting and technology firm PA Consulting Group claims that the so-called "iPhone death grip" (the method of holding the iPhone 4 to degrade antenna performance) is a problem unique to the new iPhone. After performing tests, the firm confirms that the phone's wireless performance was generally in the same range as other smartphones except when held in the "death grip" - then, it performed significantly worse than its competitors.
According to Simon Tonks, t...
In Cisco's Mid-Year Security Report, the company cites research finding that 50% of end users admitted to accessing social media tools at work, in spite of company rules, at least once a week. Another 27% have changed the settings on a company device to access prohibited sites or applications. The report notes the security risks, and potential for lost productivity, Facebook and other social media sites present, but doesn't recommend enterprises block social media sites entirely.
Citing bo...
Three new patent applications that just became public on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website reveal that Apple is now patenting ideas for mobile applications. Specifically, these patents applications describe iPhone apps that would aid in making travel arrangements, booking hotels and shopping.
The patent applications were uncovered this morning by wireless news site Unwired, which called the development "scary" and equated Apple to a patent troll. If granted, these apps wo...
While we certainly don't expect you'll begin planning your days around the new feature, Google has added a new layer to Google Earth that makes it feel even more like you're taking a live, real-time look at the earth from a satellite above - real-time weather.
Just added to the latest version of Google Earth, the feature offers a live view of the weather, from radar to raindrops.
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Weather has been available in Google Earth since 2007, but now "the latest version projects images of ra...
There is this concept of virtual currency in the cloud that we explored back in May. It came from IBM and its use of tokens as a virtual currency for customers to use software in the cloud.
The concept draws on the fundamental belief communities work in a social manner. Each member of the community participates through the exchange of currency that has a specific unit of value.
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Now, according to IEEE Spectrum, a group of researchers is advancing the concept of a "social cloud" whic...
Content farms have been in the spotlight over the past year. They're companies that generate hundreds or thousands of new pieces of content on a daily basis. Much of their traffic comes from Google search, so the aim of content farms is to rake in the money with online advertising. Demand Media has been the most ambitious of these companies, but even the big portals are doing it nowadays. Yahoo! recently acquired Associated Content and AOL launched an initiative earlier this year disingenious...
As our professional lives increasingly happen in the cloud and on the go, one decidedly old school aspect of networking that remains prevalent is the paper-based business card. Dozens of Web and mobile apps have attempted to recreate the business card for a digital world, some more effectively than others. Here are three that look promising.
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Rather than try to replace paper business cards all together, ScanBizCards simply digitizes them and makes them a bit more ...
A few months ago we wrote about how big-name companies are starting to talk about the Internet of Things - a term for the network formed by real-world objects connected to the Internet - indicating that the idea is picking up speed.
Today Chief Futurist for Cisco Systems Dave Evans appeared on the company's netcast, Talk2Cisco, to answer questions about the next 50 years and beyond via email and Twitter. Turns out one of the world's biggest technology companies is betting the Internet of Thi...
Google has begun opening up access to a new Application Programming Interface (API) called the Places API. Developers building apps that include a "check in at this place" feature can use the Places API to search across all the places users might check in for basic information like business name, address, phone number and other descriptive information. That information will be editable by the businesses listed and no caching of data is allowed, so apps will have to ping Places regularly for...
Throughout the spring, we covered the financial reform legislation as it wound its way through committee and Congress. The final version - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act - was signed into effect by President Obama on July 21. And while some of the provisions that were most troubling in earlier versions were axed before the final bill was passed, there is still a sense that the repercussions from the legislation might dampen investment, particularly at the early st...
Death threats aimed at Iranian atheist blogger, Fariboz Shamshiri.
"One electronic threat was that someone would 'cut his throat.' In another message they wrote 'the death is coming to you soon soon.' He says he still doesn't know who send these messages (they're all anonymous), but he suspects -- based on past experience -- range from Basij militia, Revolutionary Guards Corps Cyber Affairs Division and/or some mullahs or students of seminary schools."
His main blog is Rotten Gods and he i...
In a recent survey by Evans Data, Google gets accolades for its public cloud. IBM gets top marks from developers for its private cloud.
But what do developers want the most? They want the cloud to be simple to use. They want it to be as as easy to get your data in as easy it is to get the data out. And they want it to be secure.
Evans Data survey took a look at the whole gamut of issues related to cloud computing in an annual survey, and its conclusions focus on the dichotomies between pr...
A Google Web site that monitors access in China is reporting that Google Web search, which was fully or mostly accessible yesterday in mainland China is being completely blocked. But the company is now saying that service is fine.
The company's stock had slipped nearly 2% in after-hours trading as of 6 p.m. EST.
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Google.cn has been blocked multiple times in China, most recently a month ago, before China chose to renew the company's Internet Content Provider license.
Google had been...
10:15pm MST Title says it all. I GeoIP'ed the ip address and it is somewhere in Denver which is an hour or two away from my house. Ideas? I've never wanted to hit the front page more in my entire life.
10:45pm MST Update 1: Keylogger installed.
11:10pm MST Update 2: Computer has been turned off, I hope he turns it back on. I wonder if the Wake-on-LAN feature is enabled?
12:15am MST Update 3: Señor PoopFace appears to have disabled the keylogger. We are having power outages and this might be t...
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The other evening I took my Asian ladyfriend Karen out for a candlelit dinner at one of Newport, Rhode Island's finest restaurants. The wine was earthy, the pheasant was succulent, and naturally I gladly took care of all the expenses.
…..ok, we actually went to the bar at Olive Garden because Karen wanted to see how many endless breadsticks as she could shove down her gullet, and I wanted to get drunk. She also footed the bill.
As I sat there enjoying the slow embrace of inebriation, I notice...
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There's been plenty of debate about whether small VCs are better than large ones, but angel investor Dave McClure says that the big problem isn't size. He argues that most VCs, big or small, are simply approaching the consumer Internet market in completely the wrong way.
The Discovery Channel's Shark Week has been a tradition of the cable broadcaster, first running a week of specials devoted to selachimorpha in 1987. On August 1, seven glorious days of shark-related programming begins -- but what are your online viewing options?
If Facebook's IPO is one of the most hotly-awaited events in the technology world, what are some of the others? We've come up with our own list, some serious and some not -- you be the judge. And then add your own.
Last night a group of M&A gurus from the corporate development teams at top tech acquirers Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco, Facebook and Twitter gave advice to group of startups. Each has a bit of a different style, and a bit of a different target acquisition.
One of the first disappointments a brand new iPad owner often faces is the fact they simply can't use their magic new toy right out of the box. To setup an iOS device, you need a computer running a compatible version of iTunes. But why?
Everyone talks about texting while driving, but what about something I think may be even more distracting -- snapping while driving --as in taking photographs? In the last few weeks, I've seen several cases of drivers whipping camera phones out and taking pictures while in traffic.
At their genesis, bike-sharing networks were low on tech and heavy on grassroots. But the systems rolling out today for managing thousands of bicycles in cities from Milan to San Antonio are of another generation -- one built upon mobile access and GPS chips.
Is there room in the world for an Apple-like mobile software store comprised of web apps? One person thinks so and just launched an iPhone app to gather up web-based applications, making it easier for both consumers and developers to find and sell Internet wares.
The battle between Time Warner Cable and Disney over retransmission fees required to carry ABC and ESPN channels is heating up, with both companies already appealing to the public through websites designed to sway opinion in their favor. But where does online video fit in?
Facebook was initially rumored to be going public in 2010, and then in 2011. News reports suggest that the company now wants to wait until at least 2012 to show revenue growth. Is it such a smart move by the company to wait?
The reality for anyone who does most of their work online is that information is endless, and keeping up with the most important information without becoming overwhelmed can be quite a challenge.
Samsung will introduce a slate device running Google's Android operating system this quarter, but a few key challenges could hold back the 7-inch tablet from widespread success. The hardware might be ready, but the software isn't for at least two reasons. Samsung might want to wait.
Y Combinator put on a tour de force Thursday in Mountain View, Calif. After five impressive years' worth of molding fresh batches of startups, it packed 150-odd people with money into a room and schooled them in the art of giving its companies funding.
If there is one clear beneficiary of the rise of mobile devices - iPads, Androids and iPhones - it is British chip technology company, ARM Holdings. With its stock rising and profits soaring, the low-power chip company is now ready to take on Intel's server chips.
The power grid is so dumb that a decades-old networking technology, which has disappeared from pretty much all other industries and has 8,000 times less bandwidth of current average networks, is still one of the most common choices for digitally connecting parts of the power grid.
The most interesting thing about WikiLeaks and its release of 90,000 secret Afghan documents earlier this week isn't the details of the U.S.-backed war in Afghanistan -- it's what the incident says about the evolution of a truly distributed and Internet-enabled new media ecosystem.
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