Dan Zarrella:
As you may or may not know, I’ve been working on a book for a while. Well, its finally done and in-stock on Amazon and should be in stores this week. The whole process has been very exciting and a lot of work (I had a ton of help from a great editor, Laurel as well as a whole bunch of other people who are mentioned in the b (Read More)
Mashable!:
A quick check of Twitter confirms it: Facebook is down. The world’s largest social network is having some type of uptime issue that is affecting at least a large swath of users. According to our tests (which involved clicking “refresh” many times), Facebook.com will sometimes load after multiple attempts, but there’s clear (Read More)
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For the last month and a half, AT&T and Verizon have been at war. Verizon launched ads tearing down AT&T’s 3G coverage, AT&T countered with a lawsuit and ads starring Luke Wilson. Hell, even Apple is getting involved in this messy affair.With the two largest mobile networks making headlines, we thought it would be appropr (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
At the White House today, President Obama talked robots, hung out with the guys from MythBusters, and launched a campaign designed to create smarter, techier American kids."Reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation is essential to meeting the chal (Read More)
Submitted by Frinsen
from Google Reader:
Rupert Murdoch has taken aim at Google for “stealing his content”. Google has riposted by saying that news content “is not a big part of how we generate revenue”. Observers have argued that Murdoch doesn’t get the Internet and will destroy his own business. But maybe he just gets it better than we do.Murdoch’s News Corp and (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
Can you spot the difference between these two sample display ads? Of course you can. However, the most important difference is not discernible to the naked eye.The lower ad was customized and chosen from thousands of different creative elements, automatically and in real-time, by machine-learning algorithms developed by Ter (Read More)
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YouTube and the web have provided a new and powerful medium for video and TV commercials. The great ones can go viral, resulting in millions upon millions of views. MSI’s Acrobuttocks commercial, Microsoft’s MEGAWOOSH and Windows 7 ads, and Evian’s Roller Babies immediately come to mind.Out of the thousands of commercials (Read More)
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Think Twitter’s flattening growth might lead the company to consider selling out to the likes of Google or Microsoft? Think again. Speaking at an event at Oxford University, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told reporters that “We are definitely not interested in selling the company.” Instead, he suggested the microblogging (Read More)
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There have been several high profile hackings of Twitter accounts, with the likes of Britney Spears and even Barack Obama having their accounts compromised (with bizarre tweets sent from them) for at least a few minutes.But what happens when your average NFL football player gets their account hacked? Apparently, not much. (Read More)
Submitted by Funkyboy
from Google Reader:
When word hit the street that popular virtual assistant service I Want Sandy was shutting down, many people were shocked and well, saddened. Sandy was a well built application with a nice dash of personality.And so many people were left looking for a replacement — another web based application that could offer similar funct (Read More)
Submitted by Mhocter
from Google Reader:
The Publish Services feature of the new Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta is very similar to the Export function in previous versions of Lightroom. In LR2, I actually have a plug-in that allows me to export my images directly to Flickr but in Beta 3 there is no need for any plug-in because Adobe has worked with Flickr and built the (Read More)
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Verizon opened up total war against AT&T in October when it unleashed its “There’s a Map for That” ad campaign, slamming AT&T’s 3G coverage using the iPhone commercial catchphrase “there’s a map for that.”Since then, both sides have relentlessly attacked each other. First AT&T sued Verizon, Verizon fired back with holiday (Read More)
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Welcome, music fans! Today marks another installment of Free Music Monday for your listening pleasure. We’re celebrating the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter with 10 tracks, albums, or playlists from around the web. Last week we ran a special . (Read More)
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Hulu houses one of the most extensive legal video content libraries on the web. Backed equally by Disney, NBC Universal, and Fox and with plenty of content partnerships with other studios and providers, US-based users have access to thousands of episodes of TV shows and movies, plus even more clips.Although Hulu’s search fu (Read More)
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With such strong competition from Mozilla and Microsoft, the only thing Opera can do to stay competitive is to innovate. And one has to hand it to them: although it doesn’t have a huge user base in the desktop web browser space, Opera is always one step ahead of the rest, for better or for worse. With version 10.10, Opera h (Read More)