Online Dating's Icky "Yellow Fever" Fetishists
Are you not-white and on the internet dating tip? Prepare for some skeevy racial fetishizers. Read More ›
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Are you not-white and on the internet dating tip? Prepare for some skeevy racial fetishizers. Read More ›
The online retailer is pouring money into its new Gilt-esque division that specializes in high fashion clothing. Despite being better known for selling everything from gardening tools to cat trees, it has the fashion industry on edge. Read More ›
James Bandler with Doris Burke exhaustively chronicle the last year or so of HP — and the downfall of the biggest computer maker in the world is appropriately breathtaking in scope.
Social reading is the future. So how did the current crop of social readers become so reviled? Read More ›
If you're a regular tumblr user, chances are youv'e already seen some of these massively popular, science fiction-looking .gifs floating around. For those unfamiliar, meet Mr. Div, otherwise known as motion graphics designer Matthew DiVito. Read More ›
Kicksaver is basically a Kickstarter for endangered Kickstarter projects. Which means it is thisclose to tearing apart spacetime or spacespace or timetime or maybe just some nylon trackpants. Perhaps we should begin investigating the possibility of a Kickstarter for, like, humanity though. (via)
I just wanted to buy a single share of Facebook. After all, shouldn't every user be able to own a little chunk of Facebook? Read More ›
There is already an Instagram of photography. So the race is on to create the "Instagram of video." The problem, which even investors admit, is that because of "bandwidth-hogging nature of video, high wireless data costs from carriers and different mobile video habits suggest their engagement and growth may not be as viral as Instagram." Also, you should never try to be the ________ of ________. JUST BE YOURSELF.
You might've heard that hip-hop site Dajaz1.com was wrongfully seized for a year by the government. This memo by the site's lawyer explains just how wrong that was — and it's worth reading, if only for its reference to the seizure as a "digital Guantanamo." Scary. (via)
Unfortunately, there's no solution for this girl's epic duckface — whether she's smart or not. Read More ›
Meanwhile, in Sweden…The first wedding ceremony by Sweden's officially recognized religion based on file-sharing happened recently at a tech conference. On the religion's site, it wishes the happy couple well: “Hopefully, they will copy and remix some DNA-cells and create a new human being.” (via usnews.com) Read More ›
Are you annoyed by all those automatic Facebook news apps? Apparently you're not alone. They're falling off a cliff right now. Read More ›
So in case you missed our piece last week, I called it a Big Mac. (Not to be confused the iPhone burrito.)
MIT Tech Review's Jason Pontin (a charming guy) on iPad magazine apps: "We wasted $124,000 on outsourced software development. We fought amongst ourselves, and people left the company. There was untold expense of spirit. I hated every moment of our experiment with apps, because it tried to impose something closed, old, and printlike on something open, new, and digital."
Best Buy needs us to to believe we have too many good choices when it comes to phones, and that we're too stupid to make them. We don't and we aren't. Read More ›
Spoiler alert: it's probably in the middle of the ocean. Find out where you'd end up and post it in the comments. Read More ›
How piracy hurts, but intellectual property theft might actually help the movie industry. Cheezburger Network's Ben Huh gets serious about copyright law. Read More ›
Okay so one might consider everything Robert Scoble says to be a form of human spam. But a comment of his being inadvertently blocked by Facebook for "seem[ing] irrelevant or inappropriate" does raise hard questions about the broader issue what it means to communicate so extensively through a platform that uses machine algorithms to determine the relevancy of speech. Are you and what you have to say relevant, person?
Henry Blodget of Business Insider on the maturation of Facebook and its CEO has some interesting tidbits: "One quirk of Mark Zuckerberg that frustrates colleagues is that he often doesn’t appear to be listening to them. But he is."
In virtually the same breath, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says his "only regret" about the iPhone is offering it with unlimited data (now capped at 3GB per month) and that he "lie[s] awake" at night worrying about things like iMessage, which is "disruptive to our messaging revenue stream." I suppose if your staggeringly profitable revenue stream was in danger, you would lie awake at night. Ugh.
Think of your favorite gif. Now imagine that gif filling your entire screen, like a movie. BLISS, right? That's what Maxgif does. Read More ›
True Grit was not Jeff Bridges' first grim Western. Plus: A movie where an entire room full of porn-watching mobsters are blown up with a grenade launcher. (Yes!) Read More ›
The New York Times wrote up the latest Twitter battle, the conservative take-over of yet another Obama hashtag, #julia. Hugh, in Pennsylvania, thinks the media is making too much of it. Read More ›
It's the iron law of social networks: For every redesign, there is an equal and opposite backlash. To put things in perspective, we've made a timeline of the site's most memorable uprisings. As an actual Facebook Timeline. Read More ›
If someone takes several hours responding to text messages, what does it mean? Plus, when to Gchat somebody (and when to, um, not). Read More ›
Facebook made a nice intro video for investors, but it was waayyy too long. Here it is with just the creepy parts. Read More ›
Typing — well, editing — on an iPad can be really annoying! This is better. Read More ›
We are sort of philosophically opposed to both iPad keyboards and even more so to iPad keyboard covers — we like to think that the iPad is the first computer you can have in bed. But if you must, all-around-ace-keyboard-maker Logitech's Ultrathin is probably your best shot.
Your next Android phone is going to be like this, one way or another. Read More ›
