Harry Potter — the series Americans, Brits, and the world alike have been enamored with for the past 14 years — is finally available in ebook form on J.K Rowling’s own Pottermore website. At times, it seemed as if the Harry Potter books were as much in the past as the wizards and witches in […]
A start-up company has recently come out of stealth-mode and its technology is going to change how companies think about cloud-computing. Numecent announced new technology they’re calling cloudpaging. It allows companies to turn software, any software, into a cloud app and rent the apps out for whatever length of time they want. The first step […]
Zynga, Zynga, Zynga. How many hours of my life have I lost to you, Zynga? Zynga is one of those companies people love to hate. Some of their biggest games, measures in active players and revenue, were concepts copied from other companies. Farmville, released in June 2009, was the most popular game on Facebook for […]
It looks like Instagram is finally making an appearance on Android, but there’s not yet a clear date on when that will occur. For now, the popular app only has a registration page and no further information available. Currently, Instagram has over 27 million registered users and that’s sure to skyrocket when the app reaches […]
Not to be outdone by startup company Square, Inc.’s popular credit card processing service for the masses, PayPal introduces PayPal Here. The new service, announced just last week, reports over 1,000 new signups per hour. Unlike Square’s service, which requires a plastic cube-shaped dongle to swipe credit cards through (with an option of manually keying […]
Some people never learn, which is why I’m writing this PSA. You can consider it a freebie, this time. Here’s the deal: the internet is a very public place. Veeeerrrryyyyy public. It may even be the most public experience possible, because it’s not just people you know or even just people you want to know. […]
There are times when my outrage is so great that I lose the ability to adequately express it. Such has been the case this week after news broke that British advertising company BBH labs had the mind-bogglingly offensive idea to use homeless people as WiFi hotspots last weekend during the SXSW festival in Austin, TX. […]
Every now and then, someone on the Facebook team gives us another reminder that users are not their primary customers. Tuesday, it was project manager Austin Haugen’s turn when he announced a landmark for third party timeline apps. Some of the most innovative companies are launching new timeline apps this week at SXSW in Austin, […]
Every year at SXSW, a new social media platform becomes the darling of the hipster/techie set. This year, the app blowing up in Austin is Highlight, a location-based social media friend finder. Think of it like Grindr, but without the inherent gay dating aspect. Or like Blendr, except without the ick factor of every media […]
For the past week, Marvel Comics’s new initiative, Infinite Comics, has been the biggest secret this side of Daredevil’s secret identity (which if that’s too much of an in-joke for you, you really should be reading Mark Waid’s excellent Daredevil series). Today, at SXSW Interactive’ s ScreenBurn Arcade, the company that brought you the X-Men, Spider-Man, […]
