How to get Millions of People to Read Your Website

Matthew Inman, the guy behind one of my favorite websites of all time, The Oatmeal, has recently given an awesome Ignite presentation titled “How to Get 5 Million People to Read Your Website.” We’ve created viral content on occasion here on geeks are sexy (such as the teapot blowing phenomenon, which ended up on BBC […]



Censorship victims get a Flickr of hope

Where do you go to get uncensored news stories? Google News? Wikileaks? Well, how about Flickr? Yes, that’s right, the photosharing site could soon be the place to go to read news stories without the detection of hostile governments. A system known as Collage, which will become publicly available on Friday, allows users to hide […]



Jailbreaking gets its own iPhone “app”

The crew behind the most prominent efforts to jailbreak Apple devices have come up with the most user-friendly way yet to jailbreak the iPhone. But the process has demonstrated some of the ironies of distributing such a technique. As we reported recently, officials have issued an official interpretation of copyright law which specifically says that […]

REVIEW: Soluto, Anti-Frustration Software

By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Last week we talked about Betterment, the “new age” investing site, which won TechCrunch’s “Best Startup in NY” award. This week we’ll talk about the overall “Best Startup” winner at TechCrunch Disrupt. Their name is Soluto and they sell themselves as “anti-frustration software.”  Then again, “selling themselves” probably isn’t the best […]