Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year old co-founder of Diaspora*, died over the weekend. Police aren’t yet releasing details, pending the medical examiner’s investigation, but friends and family say it looks like he committed suicide. There is already conjecture about whether the stresses of creating Diaspora* in the public eye contributed to his death. Zhitomirskiy, Maxwell Salzburg, […]
In what has become an ongoing problem, a blogger has come forward with reports of troublesome information suppression on Facebook. Jeremy Ryan, of the site Addicting Info, recently reported continued reprimands he’s been getting from Facebook due to people submitting false abuse reports. Trolls are now having activists removed by filing fake Facebook complaints. That […]
For only the third time during his presidency so far, President Obama expects to veto upcoming legislation when he strikes down a bill that would otherwise dismantle the net neutrality provisions adopted by the FCC last year. The bill at the crux of the issue is Senate Journal Resolution 6, which states Congress disapproves of […]
Since the launch of Google+, the search giant has been on a mission to unify their major services with a common theme and user interface. The clean white pages with grey toolbars were first introduced to us in the young social network, but it quickly became clear that this was the new face of Google. […]
Attempts by police to involve civilians in crime prevention are nothing new, such as the various neighborhood watches. “If you see something, say something.” Now, Sheriff Al Lamberti of Broward County, Florida, has taken the traditional community outreach to Facebook. Besides event announcements, virtual campaigning, and routine PSAs, Sheriff Lamberti’s fan page posts information about […]
In the response to that New York Times article on Netflix’s recent woes, this short paragraph has gotten lost in all the Wall Street Sturm und Drang: Despite the decline in subscribers, the company did well financially in the [third] quarter. It reported net income of $62.5 million, or $1.16, a share, compared with $38 […]
We’re fairly fond of Samsung here at Techcitement. They make good products, are kind enough to send us review units, and invite us to events. However, what kind of blog would we be if we did not point out when companies we like do something stupid? No, we’re not talking about Ch@tOn, Samsung’s addition to […]
All’s been quiet on the Netflix front for a week or so, so it shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone when the company made an unexpected announcement early yesterday morning (emphasis mine): It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to […]
Yelp finally did what doctors and health education teachers all over the world couldn’t do. The search and review website has started the slow process of doing away with cancer and childhood obesity. Thank god I didn’t spend the money on medical school because it would have proven to be a waste. Really I should […]
Who doesn’t love DreamWorks Animation? Fools, that’s who. And so far, Netflix is no fool. Or at least not much of one. In the middle of all the bad hype that Netflix has managed to get recently, they signed an agreement that allows them to have exclusive internet video rights to stream film and television […]
