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Snow Fail: The New York Times And Its Misunderstanding Of Copyright

The New York Times spent months and had an entire team working on the creation of Snow Fall, and it shows. But what if I told you that you could recreate the same interactive experience in just about...
The Saturday Evening Post Finally Comes To iOS, With Help From Yudu

The Saturday Evening Post has a prominent spot in the history of American magazines. It's where artist Norman Rockwell made a name for himself, and it has published classic American authors like Edgar...
Basho Co-Founder Raises $3M To Launch Orchestrate.io, A Twilio For Databases

Basho Co-Founder Antony Falco has raised $3 million for Orchestrate.io, a database API similar to Twilio in its capability to ease the complexity of adding features to mobile and web applications. Tru...
The Former Flickr Employee Guide To Tumblr Yahoo Survival

Editor's note: Kakul Srivastava is CEO and co-founder of Tomfoolery, Inc. She was General Manager for Flickr from 2004 - 2009 and helped the product grow from 37,000 users to over 60 million. Simon...
OK Go's Damian Kulash Explains Why His Band Built Its Own Mobile Game

OK Go (the band behind hit music videos like "This Too Shall Pass" and "Here It Goes Again") launched its very own game for iOS and Android earlier this month. Titled Say The Same Thing, you play the...

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The devil you know: entrepreneurs prefer current ventures to new ones

Entrepreneurs are subject to many of the same biases that cause people to persist with their investments, and don’t necessarily behave to always maximize outcomes when presented with lucrative new o...
pC LIVE Podcast: How to monetize digital content: Advertising or paywall?

From paidContent LIVE 2013, a re-broadcast of our panel featuring MLB Advanced Media, News Corp., Atlantic Media and ProPublica discussing digital monetization strategies. ...
Faster & faster! The US now has 82.4 million broadband connections

A resurgent housing market and stronger economy, along with our growing need for speed and connectivity is the reason why demand for US broadband is booming. Here are some numbers to give you an idea...
Say those magic words: Xbox One, Google Glass and the rise of the always-on microphone

Microsoft's new Xbox One is listening to every word uttered in your living room. But it's only interested in very few of them . ...
Boost Mobile applies a unique spin on the mobile wallet

The Sprint prepaid brand is testing out a financial services app that allows you to pay bills, transfer funds and cash checks within a mobile app. For physical transactions, Boost is supplying a prepa...

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The New Flickr: Everything You Need to Know

Yahoo unveiled a brand new Flickr experience for its desktop and Android users on Monday SEE ALSO: Yahoo Unveils 'Awesome' New Look for Flickr There are plenty of changes to take in, but no need to f...
Chanel Leads Luxury Fashion Brands on Pinterest: Study

Chanel doesn't even have an active account on Pinterest, but that didn't stop the Paris-based fashion house from ranking first in a study of luxury fashion brands on the platform. Software developer P...
Extreme Solar Storm May Cause Widespread Disruptions on Earth

If an extreme solar storm aimed at the Earth hits in just the right way, it could put interconnected electrical grids around the world at serious risk, experts say. In addition to creating beautiful a...
Adorable Little Girl Is a Marvel Superhero Expert

Think you know the Marvel Universe? Well, your trivia knowledge probably can't match that of this four-year-old girl. From the God of Thunder's common name to the substance that makes Captain America'...
Xbox One’s New Controller: Hands On

In the run-up to Tuesday’s big Microsoft Xbox One reveal, many pondered the fate of the beloved Xbox 360 controller, perhaps the best gaming controller in the business. Would Microsoft make it r...

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pC LIVE Podcast: How to monetize digital content: Advertising or paywall?

From paidContent LIVE 2013, a re-broadcast of our panel featuring MLB Advanced Media, News Corp., Atlantic Media and ProPublica discussing digital monetization strategies. ...
Yahoo swears it isn’t going to screw up Tumblr — but how realistic is that promise?

Fans of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer say she shouldn't be blamed for the company's history of failed acquisitions -- but there are plenty of other reasons to be skeptical about Yahoo's $1.1-billion Tumblr...
From Cronkite to Couric: Internet Archive gets $1 million to expand TV news collection

The Internet Archive recently launched an ambitious project to collect and index all broadcasts since the start of television. This week it got a major boost. ...
Brow.si wants to make mobile websites behave like native apps

The platform could give publishers a new tool in their quest to monetize online content. Not only does it let mobile websites issue push notifications, but it also introduces new real estate for ads.&...
Six finalists in the book discovery Publishing Hackathon; winner to be announced at BEA

The six finalists of the Publishing Hackathon held over the weekend in New York focus on discovering books in new ways -- whether it's by browsing book jackets or getting recommendations based on your...

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Xbox One Photo Gallery: A Close-Up Look At Microsoft's Shiny, Shiny Future Of Gaming

Today in Redmond, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, its vision for the future of home entertainment. The Xbox One will expand Microsoft's Xbox agenda well beyond gaming, blurring the boundaries of gami...
Xbox One: Microsoft's Big Bid To Pwn The Living Room

It's not every day one of the big three gaming powerhouses announces a new console. In fact, we've been waiting a solid eight years. In an event on its Redmond, Washington home turf today, Microsoft a...
Sorry, Internet: Tumblr Founder David Karp Is Not A Billionaire

On Monday, Yahoo announced it was buying Tumblr, the blog network, for $1.1 billion. And then the tweets started, with people declaring that Tumblr founder David Karp was now a billionaire. The c...
Who's Got Big Brands? Tech's Got The Biggest Brands Of Them All

According to the 2013 BrandZ Top 100 report, tech companies hold the top three slots in this year's list of top global brands — Apple, Google and IBM leading the pack in that order. Microsoft r...
New Opera For Android Makes Switch From Presto To WebKit

Browser maker Opera just released a new version for Android with a slew of new features, an upgraded design and better performance. And, for the first time for Opera, it is not running on its own Pres...

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Reclaim.fm

Reclaim.fm Take back control of everything you create, curate and share on the internet. (↬ wirres) | | |...
WIP Videos

Wip Videos A new way to share and review work-in-progress videos (↬ pandodaily) | | |...
Unicode Character Table

Unicode Character Table ❤ ☀ ★ ☂ ☻ ♞ ☯ ☭ ☢ € → ☎ ❄ ♫ ✂ ▶ ✇ ♎ ⇧ ☮ ♻ ⌘ ⌛ ☘ ✈ ☊ ♔ ♕ ♖ ☦ ✝ ❖ ➎ ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ ♂ ♀ ❂ ❃ ✒...
kloudless

kloudless Kloudless offers a simple, secure way to move attachments between your email inbox and other cloud storage services. (↬ techcrunch) | @kloudless | | |...
ShotClip

ShotClip Create and share a cool video (↬ wwwhatsnew) | | |...

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This Cloud Startup That Mobile Developers Love Is Now Going After Enterprises That Build Their Own Apps

Appcelerator, which makes a popular free mobile app development platform called Titanium, is now setting its sight on enterprises that build their own mobile apps for workers. On Tuesday, Appcelerator...
AWESOME PLACES TO WORK: These Startups Have Better Perks Than Free Food Or Beers On Tap

The difference between a job you love and a job you hate is usually one thing: the company's culture. These days, lots of tech startups have adopted cultural perks like free food, pool table/games, an...
21 Ways Switching To Apple Made My Life Harder (AAPL)

I recently switched from using a Windows PC and Android phones to all-Apple products, all the time. My new iPhone 5 and MacBook Pro are definitely really cool. But when I was a PC/Android user (with a...
Early Tumblr Investor Slams Report About How Much Everyone Made On Yahoo Deal As 'Complete Garbage And Incorrect'

There's a report floating around claiming that early Tumblr investor Union Square Ventures (USV) netted a 5,000X return when Yahoo paid $1.1 billion for the social-blogging site. The same report, whic...
BI INTELLIGENCE FORECAST: Google Glass Will Be An $11 Billion Market By 2018

Google Glass is an attempt to bring smart eyewear to the masses. Google is aiming for an early to mid-2014 debut of the gadget to the general public. Despite the clunkiness and aw...

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Microsoft talks about Xbox One’s internals, while disclosing nothing

Eight cores, six operations per CPU cycle, 200GB of bandwidth. But does it mean anything?
This is cool: Qualcomm shows off its Mirasol display

It could be the power efficient display that smartwatches and e-readers are looking for.
Hands-on (and on camera) with Xbox One’s new controller and Kinect

Rumbling triggers, infrared night-vision, and a creepy visual heartbeat monitor.
Prenda blows sanctions deadline, ordered to pay an extra $1,000 per day

Today's the deadline to pay $81,000 in sanctions, and Prenda missed it.
New Opera for Android looks like Opera, tastes like Chrome

Hands-on with the new mobile version of the world's fifth-favorite browser.

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Native Advertising Event

This Thursday from 1pm to 6pm, our portfolio company Zemanta is co-hosting a summit on native advertising here in NYC. I've written and spoken a fair bit about native advertising so regular readers wi...
Success Has A Thousand Fathers

Back in the early days of AVC, I did a thing called VC Cliche Of The Week. There was an RSS feed of all of them powered by Delicious, but it is broken and most likely can't be fixed. You...
Congratulations Indiana

We talk a lot of NBA basketball in the comments but I don't post about it. This blog is supposed to be about startups and tech, for the most part. But the Knicks lost last night in Indiana and my...
Video Of The Week: SNL's Take On Google Glass

This is pretty funny.
Fun Friday: Morning Joe

It feels like its been a while since we did a fun friday around here. So here goes. How do you like your morning cup of coffee? I go with the Cortado, ideally in a shot glass. Here's one from...

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HTC in disarray: staff departures, 'disastrous' First, and production problems cloud company's future (Chris Ziegler/The Verge)

Chris Ziegler / The Verge: HTC in disarray: staff departures, ‘disastrous’ First, and production problems cloud company's future — Internal upheaval comes at a bad time f...
Xbox One has non-replaceable hard drive, external storage is supported (Tim Stevens/Engadget)

Tim Stevens / Engadget: Xbox One has non-replaceable hard drive, external storage is supported — We had the opportunity to chat with Albert Penello, senior director of product planni...
EA Developing Wii U Games After All (Audrey Drake/IGN)

Audrey Drake / IGN: EA Developing Wii U Games After All — Looks like a certain company needs to get its story straight. — Oh EA, just make up your mind already, wou...
As Immigration Reform Bill Heads to the Senate Floor, the ZuckerPAC Gets a Win (Mike Isaac/AllThingsD)

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: As Immigration Reform Bill Heads to the Senate Floor, the ZuckerPAC Gets a Win — Chalk up a win for tech industry talent-seekers. — In a bi...
Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes — webTV returns to Redmond... with a vengeance — “For the...

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The Two Flavors of a ‘One Web’ Approach: Responsive vs. Adaptive

[Editor's note: The following is a guest post from Igor Faletski, CEO of Mobify, which provides tools for adapting web sites for smartphones and tablets.] You’ve probably heard people say we&...
Internet Explorer 10 Doubles Its Desktop Market Share

That's great news for web developers, but sadly, according to NetMarketShare's browser stats, IE 10 use still trails behind the 12-year-old IE 6.
WebRTC, Online Code Editor Team Up for Real-Time Coding

WebRTC is still in its infancy, but developers are already building cool apps around WebRTC's real-time video chat. Codassium is one such app that combines WebRTC video chat with a code editor for bet...
Video: What Does 10 Petabytes of Data Look Like?

The Internet Archive is on a mission to archive the web. All of it. Filmmaker Jonathan Minard's documentary, Internet Archive, takes a behind the scenes look at how (and why) the Internet Archive's ef...
The Very First Website Returns to the Web

CERN has resurrected the very first webpage that Tim Berners-Lee and the WWW team ever put online, offering a hands-on look at the proto-web.

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Wikipedia losing contributors, to streamline editing

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the user-generated encyclopedia is losing volunteer contributors, and must simplify its editing procedures. Originally posted at News - Digital Media...
See what's new in Thunderbird

As Thunderbird joins Mozilla's rapid-release program, the e-mail client reorients itself for a new road map. But where's it going? See what the Outlook alternative offers in this new First Look video.
Twitter revamping mobile site for iPad users

The company is tweaking its mobile twitter.com site using HTML5 to make it more user-friendly for iPad users. Originally posted at News - Digital Media...
How to tweet like a man

Sociolinguistics gives us the keys to more masculine or feminine tweeting. Hint, guys: Google my jeep my ni$$@, http it up, bro. 4 sale. need $. Originally posted at Crave...
Gmail voice calling offering lower international rates

Accessible through Gmail, Google's phone call feature is being rolled out in 38 new languages with cheaper rates across more than 150 countries. Originally posted at News - Digital Media...

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Gadgetwise Blog: App Adds Smartphone Features to a GPS

Garmin’s Nuvi GPS now links to the iPhone using an app to add functions to the GPS. But some of those added functions cost extra, and some may not be worth the expense. ...
Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Protecting Your Mail Account

A few simple precautions can help keep your e-mail account safer from intruders. ...
Gadgetwise Blog: Power and Protection in One Case

MyCharge has introduced the Freedom 2000, a battery case for the iPhone 5 that provides power via a tethered Lightning connector. ...
Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Getting Passes for Passbook

You do not need a special iOS app to get coupons, tickets and other digital documents that work with Apple’s Passbook electronic wallet. ...
Gadgetwise Blog: Skullcandy Cuts the Cord, and Offers Better Sound

At $180, the Plyr1 wireless gaming headset from Skullcandy is more expensive than rivals, but it does offer a few advantages. ...

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Today’s Scuttlebot: Spherical Amazon and Teenage Exodus

The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. For Tuesday, selections include the merger of online food delivery sites in Chicago and New Y...
An Honor for the Creator of the GIF

Steve Wilhite, who invented the enduring GIF file format in 1987, will receive a lifetime achievement Webby Award.
The New Flickr Is Pretty, but Is It Social?

Flickr unveiled its new Web site design, showing off high-resolution rectangular photos and a free terabyte of space for users. But the new Flickr still feels like it's missing something.
Bucks: A $2,400 Fine for an Airbnb Host

A New York man who rented his room in a two-bedroom apartment on Airbnb must pay a $2,400 fine for violating the city’s administrative code, a judge has ruled.
Google: Let a Billion Supercomputers Bloom

The search giant is adapting its old playbook to compete in cloud computing: enlist small developers around the world and hope some of them create something huge. One hazard: Amazon and Microsoft are...

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Yahoo! And Tumblr: It’s About Display, Streams & Native at Scale

The post Yahoo! And Tumblr: It’s About Display, Streams & Native at Scale appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.The world is atwitter about Tumblr’s big exit to Yahoo!, a...
Behind the Banner, A Visualization of the Adtech Ecosystem

The post Behind the Banner, A Visualization of the Adtech Ecosystem appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.I’m very proud to announce “Behind the Banner“, a visualization...
These Companies Are Denting the Universe In NY

The post These Companies Are Denting the Universe In NY appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.OpenCo NY is just ten or so days away – the opening plenary (for Backstage pass holders...
On Google Glass and OpenCo NYC

The post On Google Glass and OpenCo NYC appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.In case you have any interest, here’s a short clip of me opining on Google Glass and the upcoming OpenC...
Hold Hands or Die Apart

The post Hold Hands or Die Apart appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.I’ve been a bit slow to update this site lately, as my return to Federated Media, and preparation for the CM S...

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Induction powered LED lit engagement ring

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Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job

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Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github

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Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more

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Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 released

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Intuit Q3 earnings: beats on EPS, revenue in line

The U.S. business software company reports its financial results for the fiscal third quarter.
NetApp hovers around fiscal Q4 revenue target; cutting 900 jobs

UPDATED: NetApp's CEO discusses with ZDNet more about 2014 goals and cost-cutting measures -- including approximately 900 layoffs worldwide.
Reports: Intel planning new devices unit led by former Apple exec

Rumors are swirling about what could be the first major move for Intel's brand new CEO.
IBM taps Watson for commerce push

Fresh out of medical school, Big Blue's smart supercomputer pivots to marketing -- and takes up residence inside the customer service call center.
VMware intros vCloud Hybrid Service to bridge cloud with datacenters

"Seamlessness starts with the software-defined datacenter," according to VMware's CEO.

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The web responds to the untimely death of hacker-activist Aaron Swartz

The open web and freedom of information in general lost one of their most passionate proponents yesterday, with the death of early Reddit staffer and Demand Progress founder Aaron Swartz, who committe...
The pros and cons of newspaper paywalls — a Storify conversation

Having a debate about the merits and/or disadvantages of newspaper paywalls is nothing new — one seems to break out whenever two or more journalists are in a room together — but not all of...
Wikipedia, Instagram and real-time news

I realize that RSS feeds are kind of passé (sorry, Dave) and so some readers may have missed some of my recent posts over at GigaOM — so I have collected some of them here in case you want to c...
The space shuttle, the future of media and a Twitter town hall

Inspired by my friend @om — who has collected some of his recent posts on his Om.is.me blog — I thought I would do the same and put together a list of some of the things I wrote during the...
Why Do We Link in News Stories? A Discussion

You wouldn't think that in 2011, we would still be having debates about the value of linking to things in news stories or blog posts, but it seems that we are. Blogging veteran Doc Searls got the late...

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sterkly Unveils 2013 Event Calendar

Engage with the sterkly team during several worldwide industry events San Diego, CA , February 26, 2013 — sterkly has announced their presence at five of the biggest upcoming industry events hel...
15 Alternatives to Gmail

15 Alternatives to Gmail Gmail, for many, has become the go-to email solution due its advanced options, including an integrated chat function and access to other Google features that help you k...
Amazon Black Friday Deals

As Blackfriday Rolls around – Amazon has some great deals on Black Friday that we highly suggest you check out. Could save yourself a ton of money and time but not going to the store. Click here...
Small Business Guide to Accepting Credit Cards

Congratulations! Starting a small business is a great achievement. You’ve invested time, effort and money to make your dream come alive. You’ve turned your dream of owning a small business i...
The Small Business Guide to Domain and Web site Registration

Are you considering a website as a part of your business? The internet changed business forever by creating an immediate way to market your products and services to millions of customers all around...

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YouTube Search Experiments

YouTube experiments with some new search features. When you click a video from the list of YouTube search results, there's a red progress bar displayed at the top of the page until the video page load...
Create Google Now Reminders in Google Search

Reminders are a new feature in the latest version of the Google Search app for Android. You can create reminders using voice search and Google Now will show notifications.Now you can also create remin...
Google Cross-Language Search, No Longer Available

Google removed yet another advanced search tool: cross-language search. It was available in the "Search tools" menu as "translated foreign pages" and it allowed you to find pages written in other lang...
Google Checkout Discontinued

Google likes to discontinue products without waiting until it launches some proper replacements. Lately, Google closed products that were used by millions of people. There's a race to destroy everythi...
Google+ Hangouts and Phone Numbers

There's an interesting Google Settings page for phone numbers. By default, the page only includes a message that says: "No phone numbers associated with this setting."A help center page explains that...

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Chief Product Officer Kouji Kodera Among Several Exits at Troubled Phone Maker HTC

Product chief Kouji Kodera is among those who have left the Taiwanese phone maker in recent days.
As Immigration Reform Bill Heads to the Senate Floor, the ZuckerPAC Gets a Win

In a small victory for Mark Zuckerberg's political group, a bill that could greatly benefit tech company talent-seekers makes it through the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Windows Version of Quicken on the Mac

Walt answers a reader's question on using a Windows version of Quicken on the Mac.
Apple Tax Bill Overstated to Investors

Apple Inc.'s real tax bill isn't as big as the one it reports to its investors. Among the findings of an investigation by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations are figures that show Ap...
The Kids Love Twitter; Facebook, Not So Much

Teens want a drama-free social network. Twitter looks to be that network.

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Siri’s contextual sister, Tempo, blows away Apple’s iPhone calendar

Tweet This is the year of increased productivity, particularly on mobile. Just a week ago we saw the highly-hyped launch of Mailbox. That is a really nice email replacement app that’s a lot nice...
Age of Context book is now funded, latest news

Tweet Shel Israel just announced that we have raised $100,000 to fund the development of our book, “Age of Context.” If you haven’t heard that we’re working on a book, we are,...
The Contextual, Sensual CES2013

TweetIt’s been a week now since the Consumer Electronics Show closed. I wanted to take that time to read all the reports and get rid of any overhype I picked up because of all those big screens...
The contextual and exponential future of Facebook

Tweet Rocky Barbanica and I visited Facebook’s headquarters today and interviewed a bunch of people for the book “Age of Context” that I’m writing with Shel Israel. What’...
eBay talks about a contextual future for its mobile efforts; update on our book “Age of Context”

Tweet eBay sells billions of dollars of things on mobile. Cars. Boats. Jewelry. Clothes. Gadgets. And more. Here Steve Yankovich, VP of mobile and platform at eBay, tells me how eBay is competing with...

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If you're developing web apps, you're nuts if you aren't using Font Awesome. Seriously.

Our users love icons. I guess most users do, but people who write in outliners need a little more graphic relief because our work is totally text and structure. Adding a bit of graphics is like addin...
Scripting News: Hacker News is depressing.

Yesterday someone at Hacker News thought to point to my piece about Marissa Mayer. It was a story I wrote in about 15 minutes. The point was at the end of the piece. As a preamble, I told a couple of...
Scripting News: I tried Google Glass.

I went to dinner last night with the two Scobles, Robert and Patrick. Robert is famous for the picture of him wearing a Google Glass while in the shower. Last night, he was wearing the glasses most o...
Scripting News: My one talk with Marissa Mayer.

It was 2003. Google had just bought Blogger. On the acquisition, they said they wouldn't do anything to tilt the table in favor of Blogger. There was concern in the wider blogging community that Googl...
Scripting News: Google is the new MSM.

Last night watching the NBA on TNT, new commercials for the YouTube comedy fest. The production was distinctly not YouTube. It was professional in every way. Nothing amateur about it. Google is now MS...

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Farewell, Internet

Well, here we are. More than four years after launching, Switched and DownloadSquad are unfortunately being closed. I've been thrilled to work at these two sites that have expanded tech coverage beyon...
Angry Birds Rio for Symbian lands in Nokia's Ovi Store

Angry Birds is one franchise that sure gives new meaning to the word cross-platform. Angry Birds Rio, the latest installment in the bird-slinging series from Rovio Mobile, is now available in Nokia's...
Kindlebility sends Web pages from your computer to your Kindle

Kindlebility is a bookmarklet that can send any Web page you're viewing to your Kindle. Kindlebility will format the websites so that viewing them on the Kindle isn't a pain. Once you've set it up (mo...
Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.2 gets smarter, faster

Auslogics Disk Defrag has been part of my system maintenance toolkit for quite some time. With the release of version 3.2, it's now even better at tidying up and optimizing your system's hard disk dri...
Windows 8 App Store images leaked?

Windows 8 images continue to leak onto the Internet, despite Microsoft's wallpaper-based pleas to those with access to the early releases. Today's installment courtesy CNBeta shows the upcoming Window...

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Funding Daily: Silicon Valley Is Burning

We saw huge deal volume today on the Peninsula; the numbers these companies posted were pretty sickening, too. No tea, no shade, but if the New York/Austin/L.A./Boulder scenes want to keep up, they. B...
Grownups speak to startups: We’re not into technology just because it’s cool

For entrepreneurs who want to engage users within hospital systems or the 50+ market (valued at $20 billion), it's imperative that they truly get to know their customers. ...
Keas partners with nutrition experts to encourage employee wellness

Keas announced at Healthbeat today new content partnerships with My Healthy Dish and Noshtopia that will help employees make wiser nutritional choices and save employers money on health care cost...
Microsoft Store offers $10 credit in return for Xbox One email signups

Sponsored Post Microsoft Store attempts to entice preorder demand on the Xbox One with a freebie $10 store-wide credit offer. ...
How Maslow’s hierarchy can help you build a great mobile checkout process

Guest Post Mobile shopping cart abandonment rates are around 97 percent. Does that stat hurt you where it counts? Here's how you can meet your users' needs, using one of the most famous motivation the...

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 21, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Where Have All The Linkers Gone? A unique combination of factor...
Where Have All The Linkers Gone?

A unique combination of factors is having a profound effect on the “link graph” being created today, with many implications for those of us in the content publicity/link building field. Fi...
Bing Ads Launches Traffic Quality Center

Microsoft announced the launch of The Bing Ads Traffic Quality Resource Center today, a website designed to give advertisers and publishers visibility into the traffic quality protection systems of th...
SPONSOR MESSAGE: A Marketing Analytics Framework for CMOs

This Gartner report provides: Nine measurement areas your CMO needs to understand Metrics your web analyst can use to inform the CMO Ways to align measurement technology with business needs Download n...
Hollywood Asks Google To Stop Listing Piracy Documentary, Claiming It’s Piracy Too

The recently released TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay – Away from Keyboard, a documentary that sympathizes with the founders of the infamous file sharing website The Pirate Bay, has become the target of...

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Tech 21 shows Impact Shield screen protector

The manufacturer of rugged smartphone cases shows a new screen protector at CTIA. [Read more] ...
Nokia brings LiveSight to Here Maps on Windows Phone 8

The latest Here Maps update for Windows Phone 8 devices adds augmented reality features. [Read more] ...
Power utilities claim 'daily' and 'constant' cyberattacks, says report

U.S. Congressmen Ed Markey and Henry Waxman pen a report outlining the increased hacks on power grid computer systems, saying that one utility receives about 10,000 attempted cyberattacks per month. [...
Google+ rolls out a redesign for mobile Web similar to desktop

Switching up its mobile interface to look more like its desktop design, the Web giant adds "cards," cover photos, and larger tap targets. [Read more] ...
Teens: Facebook is just, like, too much drama

In a new Pew Report on teens and their social-networking habits, Twitter appears to be offering a resurgence, while Facebook may be losing impact. Because Facebook is just, well, too much. [Read more]...

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