(Speech begins at 09:30 mark) “Geek culture transcends national culture.” So says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who notes that the geeks who are prepared to spend their time editing the online encyclopedia are generally “really sweet people.” Wales was speaking in my hometown of Bristol (England) as part of a series of events marking the […]
Twitter can be coo. Twitter can also be koo. But which it is depends on where you live. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have been using the microblogging site to learn more about regional slang. They analyzed 380,000 messages from the site during a one-week period from last March, an estimated 15% of the daily US […]
Apple and Microsoft have both suffered embarrassing starts to the new year, with iPhone alarms failing to go off and entire Hotmail accounts disappearing for several days. Microsoft says it has now solved a problem that began on New Year’s Eve with users finding their e-mail accounts partially or completely empty. There seems to have […]
This inspiring rendition of Queen’s head bangingly awesome anthem was performed by Joe Edmonds, enjoy!
Last week we introduced the Google Books Ngram viewer, which shows how often particular phrases were mentioned in books over time. Now we’re bringing you some more attempts to see what history can tell us. Star Wars vs. Star Trek First up, we have “Star Wars” vs “Star Trek” (1975-2008), which tells us three things. […]
The story of the nativity as told though Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, GMail, Foursquare and Amazon. Enjoy! Thanks Nicolas!
Skype says it has restored service to around 10 million customers, leaving up to 15 million more still unable to sign in. The company notes that even those who do get back online may find that it takes time after signing to show up as “online”, and instant messaging might not be quite so instant. […]
WikiLeaks is at it again. No playground is safe this Christmas.
A simple step by step guide to making yourself a really cool Facebook profile!