Losing all faith in humanity [Graph]
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Jed Stoneham of Urlesque.com has created an awesome social media-themed remix of Daft Punk’s Technologic. Check it out, it’s quite catchy! Ok, now everone repeat after me: Tweet it, rate it, like it, star it, digg it, tag it, zip – email it Up it, down, it, vote it, link it, reddit, share it, quik […]
On April 7, 1969, RFC 1 was distributed on the spankin’-new ARPANET by Steve Crocker of UCLA. Today, the RFC is the official publication channel for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), theย Internet Architecture Board (IAB), and the global community of computer network researchers. ARPANET would later be incorporated with other networks to giveth life […]
Yep, that about sums it up! [Source: Shoeboxblog]
Can Twitter predict the stock market? So one PhD student believes. The BBC reports that Timm Sprenger of the Technical University of Munich found that buying and selling in response to an analysis of 250,000 tweets over six months would have produced a 15% return. Sprenger looked at comments that had been marked with the […]
A Canadian internet provider appears to have caused World of Warcraft players to fall victim to its attempts to target peer-to-peer filesharing. Rogers Communications says the effect was unintentional and has offered a workaround. The case is a classic example of mixing up the medium and the message: while there’s little dispute that most p2p […]
Don’t you just hate it when this kind of crap appears on people’s Facebook profile? [Source: Shoeboxblog]
On Tuesday I wrote about a problem with Google Chrome not (consistently) displaying Flash content since an upgrade to version 10. We don’t have a confirmed diagnosis or a cure, but we do have something of a workaround. Thanks to everyone who replied — there are certainly plenty of us experiencing the same problem — […]
Google’s attempts to settle its legal dispute with authors and publishers — and in the process, claim the rights to millions of out-of-print titles — have been dismissed by a federal judge. Judge Denny Chin said the proposed settlement would go too far in granting rights to Google and even said that if approved, it […]
Google has introduced a feature from Apple’s portable device range to the latest edition of the Chrome browser. Unfortunately, that feature is Flash not working… or at least, not working too well. Ever since the update to the 10th edition of the browser I — and it appears a lot of other people — have […]