5 days ago

mashable Greetings, music fans! It’s another Free Music Monday for your listening pleasure. If you’ve been with us for past episodes, you’ll know we’re celebrating the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter.We pick 10 tracks, albums or playlists from around the web and offer you links to the downloads or embedded streams when possible. L (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

Mashable! After the dust from the Snow Leopard and Windows 7 launch has settled, we have another important OS launch: the new version of one of the most popular Linux distributions, Ubuntu 9.10, is available for download. Named Karmic Koala, the new Ubuntu – as always – promises to be faster and easier to use, bringing version 2.6.31 (Read More)

Oct 21, 2009

readwriteweb Comcast sees the writing on the wall: cable-based TV will not survive the next decade. Its value is fast eroding because it can't compete with on-demand, Internet-delivered TV across all screens. Unlike their music counterparts, TV executives have pulled their heads out of the sand in time and are working hard to survive th (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Barnes and Noble will launch its rumored Nook eBook reader later today at an event in New York City. Thanks to an early leak of the device on the B&N Web site, however, we already know most of the details about the Nook. We can now confirm, for example, the the Nook will retail for $259 and that it will feature two screens: (Read More)

Oct 18, 2009

Mashable! On Thursday  WolframAlpha launched its developer API, which should allow large and small developers (as well as businesses and educational institutions) to harness the power of the computational knowledge engine to enhance their own applications or products. Today, the WolframAlpha iPhone app (iTunes link) — which was built (Read More)

Oct 08, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Travel comparison site Kayak just opened access to its search data. Best known for aggregating travel deals on roundtrip flights, hotels and rental cars, Kayak is now offering the public a look under the hood. The company is laying bare its most popular destinations and searches via a new trends page. The site offers users (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

readwriteweb The phrase "real-time web" may make you think about Twitter, Facebook, or perhaps real-time stock market trading, but there are actually hundreds of companies all around the world working on building and leveraging different types of real-time delivery of data online. In preparation for this week's ReadWrite Real-Time Web (Read More)

Oct 12, 2009

ReadWriteWeb The iPhone hacker George Hotz, (aka geohot on Twitter) has done it again. Earlier this year, he made a name for himself in the hacking community as being the first to provide a usable iPhone 3GS jailbreak, which he then followed up by releasing a "better" unlock tool for the same device. Now he's again beaten the iPhone Dev (Read More)

Oct 16, 2009

TechCrunch Digg founder Kevin Rose launched a side project called WeFollow, a Twitter directory, earlier this year. Twitter users can go to the site and add themselves under a specific category. Without much in the way of marketing, the site has grown to 654,000 Twitter users, all of which went to the site and added themselves. And no (Read More)

Oct 14, 2009

mashable Some people wonder if all this social networking is really making us more social — we’re just sitting in front of our computers, after all. But Facebook, the web’s largest social network, plays host to 3 million event listings each month. And these are offline events, ranging in size from small, friendly get-togethers, to (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

mashable The WikiReader is a small handheld device about the size of a stack of Post-It notes that exists to serve one function and one function only: access to Wikipedia from the palm of your hand.The device embodies simplicity with a monochrome touchscreen and 3 simple buttons: Search, History, and Random. It runs on two AAA batte (Read More)

Oct 10, 2009

mashable Would you post your love-making locations on the web? Thousands of people are happy to, it seems, on a quirky site called I Just Made Love.It’s a simple idea: right click on a Google Map to post the location of your passionate moments, select “Indoor” or “Outdoor” and choose from one of 4 positions, as illustrated by the s (Read More)

Oct 12, 2009

mashable Great viral videos are hard to come by, but Volkswagen (or rather ad agency DDB Stockholm) appears to have hit the bullseye. Their new campaign “The Fun Theory” is a series of experiments, captured on video, to find out if making the world more fun can improve people’s behavior. The top video, Piano Stairs, has achieved o (Read More)

Oct 10, 2009

TechCrunch Wow. T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidary that makes the Sidekick, has just announced that they’ve likely lost all user data that was being stored on Microsoft’s servers due to a server failure. That means that any contacts, photos, calendars, or to-do lists that haven’t been locally backed up are gone. App (Read More)

Oct 07, 2009

Mashable! We’ve known this was coming for a while (some of you shared your GeoCities memories back in April), but Yahoo today sent out a final closure notice with the date of GeoCities’ demise: October 26.Back in the proverbial day, GeoCities was the place where many a modern-day internet nerd cut his or her teeth. After a spectacula (Read More)

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