Facebook’s List Team announced changes to the website’s friend lists last night. As usual with Facebook, the results are, well, let’s just call them mixed. The Good: Smarter lists are a welcome sign. Rather than having to populate the lists yourself (definitely a first world problem), Facebook automatically does that based on similarities in alma […]
Somehow I missed the news in May that Yahoo had sold the Delicious brand to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. After Sunday’s New York Times article on their plans for the once-preeminent online bookmarking service, I’m positively stoked. When the men heard about Yahoo’s plans to close Delicious, their ears perked up, and […]
With Flatter World, Inc.’s release of their new Flat Stanley iPhone app, the story of Flat Stanley has finally made its way into the 21st century. Yes, that’s right. Our beloved Stanley Lambchop has been digitized into the worldwide mainframe. Let’s first take a whirl back in time. The original Flat Stanley was a children’s […]
If you haven’t noticed, Twitter’s a big deal. As a result, Twitter news is a big deal. So, when Twitter co-founders, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, publicly release their support for a new venture, people generally pay attention. Under the umbrella of the The Obvious Corporation, Stone and Williams released this vague statement to announce […]
Ever log onto Facebook and find that someone has tagged a photo of you that you’d rather not be in your newsfeed? Or maybe they’ve tagged you to get your attention for some reason? Either way, Facebook now has you covered with a ton of privacy-related updates. While most sites are praising the ability to […]
Like the various uprisings of the Arab Spring, the London riots have led to a surprising amount of talk about the technology people use when operating en mass against the government. Text messages, Facebook, Twitter, and now Blackberry Messenger have all been targeted by governments as the sources of uprising.
The last week has brought a series of astonishing events to the streets of London. Looting, burning, at least 5 people are dead, thousands are in jail, and there has been over $350 million in property damage. It’s not the kind of scene you see every day, especially in a modern western democracy like the […]
Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today’s free app is Trip Journal by iQuest Technologies SRL, which ordinarily […]
Can we find immortality? It looks like technology might be catching up to this long sought-after goal of not kicking on to the afterlife (or absence of one).
One look at the official Facebook page for the English Defence League (EDL) would give most people more than just pause. “I see the bbc [sic] have removed all non white faces from there coverage and just show burnt cars now,” says one commenter of the riots consuming parts of London and Manchester as of […]
