The official figure for the proportion of US homes without broadband access has dropped by more than a third in the space of a year. But the Federal Communications Commission notes the apparent drop may be partly due to improved data collection. The official figure for the number of Americans without adequate access is 19 […]
I don’t actually know how long this goes on for (it just keeps going and I didn’t have the patience to wait longer than 5 minutes), but it’s a pretty awesome use of Flash, combining art and technology in a really beautiful way. While I am a fan and appreciate the work that has clearly […]
I didn’t know they even had spells on eBay. I don’t actually use eBay that much anyway, but this was still a bit of revelation. So apparently it’s been a thing to buy things such as magic spells, curses, hexes – even prayers and blessings! eBay has now declared such a thing stupid and is banning […]
It seems Facebook has finally said they’ll be deleting photos within a “reasonable period of time”. If you didn’t realise, Facebook’s systems were keeping some photos on their content delivery networks (CDN) for as long as three years after you deleted them. So even though you ‘deleted’ those late-night not-so-sober photos from Facebook, they could […]
Don’t believe me? Go into street view for the address “343 Hull Road, York, England, YO10 3, United Kingdom” and you will see that beautiful blue box. Edit: Map embedded below. There’s even a Cyberman and two Daleks a little to the right. View Larger Map Google sees all, even you Doctor.
I haven’t actually checked it out yet, but any of our readers care to weigh in on the extensive list of WTFs found at BuzzFeed?
Fistful of Rupees is a really inventive mash up of The Legend of Zelda in Western style. The three part series was created by The Game Station and I must express my thanks for quite an entertaining half hour of my life. Part 1 “The Wisdom”: Part 2 “The Power”: Part 3 “The Courage”: [Via Geek.com]
So in usual Oatmeal fashion, Matthew Inman had a poke at Google+ about their lack of engagement. He also had a bit of a giggle on Google+ itself about the lack of the ability to customise URLs – joking that he has to direct people to http://plus.google.com/blergasdf1234thimbleturdorgasm99meatpoopypoopxv9donkeypie in order to get to the Oatmeal’s page. How does […]
An attempt to create a social network funded by user subscription fees rather than advertising has reached its first goal: $500,000 in funding towards set-up fees. App.net set up its own crowdsourcing project along the lines of Kickstarter, with a goal of raising half a million dollars. At the time of writing it had picked […]
The term Viral Video has come to be known as many things, but the general term seems to suggest that the content became very popular very quickly. Here’s a short documentary from PBS explaining what the organization thinks is a viral video. My pet peeve has always been when marketing campaigns label their videos as […]