A filmmaker has accused Google of “fencing stolen goods.” It comes after reports that Google wants to charge the music industry for helping it track down online pirates. CNET reports that the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, and its US counterpart the Recording Industry Association of America, recently wrote to Google asking for more […]
Recently, the fine folks at Improv Everywhere asked Internet users to participate in their 7th MP3 experiment project; over 3000 people volunteered! All participants were asked to download an MP3 file and then press play at a designated time and place to receive instructions on specific things they should all do simultaneously. Check it out. […]
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You may think of Japan as a hive of digital activity, but it turns out users there have the lowest number of friends on social networks. Instead it’s Malaysia where online activity is most frenetic. The findings come from TNS, which has carried out the first in what’s planned to be annual series of studies […]
Punctuation can be a beautiful thing, and a wonderful tool in the battle to achieve clarity in communications. But now it appears it can be a tool for evil, as well. Security firm Symantec reports that spammers are now using a particular type of hyphen to make it easier to get URLs into messages and […]
So dear readers, after looking at the guide, how would YOU interpret your Facebook / Twitter portrait? (if you have one, of course!) [Via]
Ever wonder how a song gets from the guitar to an MP3, or video gets from the camera to your screen? Sure, everyone knows that an MP3 takes up less space than a WAV file because of “compression,” but do you know exactly what compression is? Xiph.org, which is responsible for all the Ogg media […]
If Hollywood can make an overly dramatic film about Facebook, maybe someone should try and make one about Twitter? Merci Carl!
Yes Folks, the Flintstones are celebrating their 50th anniversary today, and to mark the occasion, Google has changed the logo on their home page with a Flintstones doodle. Happy birthday Fred, Wilma, Pebbles, and Dino! The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966 on ABC. […]
Imagine a world without Pamela Anderson, yellow showers, or rusty trombones. Well, I’m afraid to tell you such a world exists: it’s the world of Google Instant Search. The website of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly (the number comes from a 2600 hertz tone that could be produced with a toy whistle to gain access to […]