Oscar Red Carpet Streamed Live Over Livestream

The NYC based live streaming startup Livestream just partnered up with the massive newswire service Associated Press to run all of the AP’s live video streams, streams until this point I had no idea existed. The first event to be covered under the new Livestream/AP partnership? The Oscars! Look, I could give two craps about [...more]

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Mar 06 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Google Takes Page From Microsoft Photosynth

Google Maps is taking a note from Microsoft’s Photosynth and tapping into user photos to create street views of places that street view doesn’t reach. Google released a video of the new addition in action, and it looks almost exactly like Photosynth. It basically uses location data and algorithms to combine photographs into [...more]

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Mar 05 2010
By Nick Upton

Email Your Files Into The Cloud With SugarSync

The advent of cloud-based file storage is one of my personal favorite technological advances of recent years. I once lost several years of writing when my computer’s hard drive failed because I was bad about backing it up on discs, but now I’ll never have to worry about that again. Every file I save is [...more]

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Feb 28 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss

MySpace Launches New Slogan, It’s Not “Please Love Us”

MySpace, a service which we used to  like but now do not like, has announced a new slogan: “Discover & Be Discovered.” The slogan fits in line with MySpace’s new user experience philosophy, which will be to bombard you with new and unexpected content the moment you hit the website. And what will you be bombarded [...more]

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Feb 27 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

CODEORGAN Turns Web Sites Into Techno

A new site designed to waste your time shows you just what any Web site would sound like. I spent far, far too long plugging in every Web site. I must say, Techomaly.com is the best! [Via Codeorgan] [...more]

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Feb 25 2010
By Nick Upton

Google Makes Nearly $500 Million Off Typos

A couple of Harvard boys took a survey of typosquatting web sites — sites that take advantage of common misspellings — and found nearly 1 million sites taking advantage of the top 3,264. All those sites mean a whopping $497 million in ad revenue for Google. To the researchers, Google’s funding and ad [...more]

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Feb 25 2010
By Nick Upton

US Web Users Watched 33 Billion Online Videos in December

More and more evidence is rolling out to prove that the internet is the greatest time-waster mankind has ever created. In the month of December 2009, 178 million internet users in the US watched 33 billion online videos. Of those 33 billion videos, 40% or 13 billion were on YouTube, making it by far the [...more]

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Feb 16 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss

Google Buzz Hits 9 Million Posts & Comments

What the hell is Google Buzz anyway? A BBS embedded in Gmail? A Twitter-killer? The death of Facebook? Well whatever it is, it’s got over 9 million posts and comments since its launch on Tuesday. That’s over 160,000 comments & posts per hour, and 200 posts per minute by mobile device. That’s incredible for a service [...more]

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Feb 12 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Netflix Instant Streaming Adding 5.1 Surround Sound and Captions

Netflix’s instant streaming feature is becoming an increasingly popular part of the service, to the point that actually having to open an envelope can sometimes feel like an inconvenience. Fortunately, along with an ever-expanding library, Netflix is adding a couple upgrades to the feature this year. At an unspecified time in the coming months, Netflix’s [...more]

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Feb 11 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss

Google Buzz-ing With New Social Perks

Google is taking direct aim at Twitter and Facebook, and putting the whole mess on Google Maps and Gmail. Google has integrated Buzz into Gmail so users can keep up with their entire network of friends on Gmail without finding all their friends all over again. This could be huge for Google’s [...more]

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Feb 09 2010
By Nick Upton