Crunch Gear
Dell has just teamed up with Vice Magazine, they of the Do’s & Don’ts, to create a new news site/blog/coolness injector called Motherboard.tv. After those strange, heady days of the Dell Dude, the company has fallen off the coolness radar. In an effort to right this wrong, Dell hired Vice to create a website and news source (Read More)
TechCrunch
It’s just weird.It’s weird that Justin Timberlake – he formerly of N*Sync and having sex with Britney Spears – is currently spending his days pretending to be the guy who founded Plaxo. It’s also just weird that – along with Shawn Fanning’s pivotal cameo in the blasphemous remake of the Italian Job – both of the founders of (Read More)
Lifehacker
Windows/Mac OS X: Hotspot Shield is a lot of people's go-to application for accessing U.S.-only content, including the popular video site Hulu—until Hulu blocked the app from working, that is. The latest update hopes to work with Hulu yet again. (Click the image above for a closer look.) According to tech weblog AddictiveTi (Read More)
TechCrunch
The Gmail blog has a post up right now that’s interesting for a few reasons. First, it was posted around midnight of a Friday (this is supposed to be my no-news quiet time, Google). Second, it’s written as a chat exchange between two Google employees. And third, it has a kick-ass new Nintendo-esque theme.Truth be told, the (Read More)
TechCrunch
This morning I wrote about NetBase Solutions’ healthBase, a semantic search engine that aggregates medical content from millions of authoritative health sites including WebMD, Wikipedia, and PubMed. But is it a semantic engine or an anti-semitic search engine?Several of our readers tested out the site and found that healthB (Read More)
Signal vs. Noise
Gizmodo ran a post saying ThinkGeek’s New Dreamcasts Aren’t Looking So New. According to one Destructoid tipster, that new stock of $100 Dreamcasts offered by ThinkGeek may not be so new after all. His console was “roughed up — the barcode has been scratched, the console’s plastic has gunk on it.” And here’s the thoughtful (Read More)
Lifehacker
It was only a matter of time before somebody used the classic Super Mario game as the basis for a system customization—like reader Ghostspirit's fun, retro Mario desktop. The desktop is very simple and doesn't take a lot of resources—consisting of nothing more than a number of GeekTool scripts to put system information on t (Read More)
netzwertig.com
Das Ergebnis einer Studie: Kostenlose PDFs können ganz wesentlich beim Marketing eines neuen Buchs helfen, und bereits im Handel erhältliche Bücher können durch ein kostenloses E-Book erneut Aufmerksamkeit bekommen.Führen illegale Downloads zu mehr oder weniger Verkäufen? An dieser Frage scheiden sich seit Jahren die Geiste (Read More)
netzwertig.com
Die tatsächliche Umsetzung der zunehmend von Lobbyisten der Contentindustrie in vielen Ländern beworbenen Three-Strikes-Idee könnte für die Musikfirmen zu teuer werden, wenn sie sich an den Kosten beteiligen müssen. Das Musicweek-Magazin hat diese Woche einen Artikel zu den Beratungen zur Gründung einer Digital Rights Agen (Read More)
Laughing Squid
A ridiculous comment thread on Flickr has been continuously evolving over the last week on the “Anger Is the Swiss Army Knife of Emotions” graphic that Mike Monteiro posted for his t-shirt that I talked him into making.The absurdity of comments have been graphically fueled by Blingee, a web service that helps yo (Read More)
chrisbrogan.com
I’ve written a lot about content marketing, about blogger relations, about the various projects I’ve done to learn how bloggers can make money and how companies can engage online media organizations. I wanted to just take a moment and talk about things I love that have nothing to do with that. Just because. BooksI love book (Read More)
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You spoke and we listened. You may have noticed that we launched a revamped version of the website a few days ago. We’d like to thank all our members for their feedback as it allowed us to cater the entire site to your needs and interests, while making your shopping experience more fun and pleasurable.So, what’s changed? De (Read More)
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New Technology Meetups > New York Dot Com Hatchery Tech entrepreneurs sharing techniques to launch faster & cheaper Entrepreneurs Forum: Ultra Light S.E.O. and S.E.M. Fee: http://ultralightstar... $5 advance, $20 at door Topics: * Principals of Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing * Practical (Read More)