To launch three new flavours of its popular soft-drink, Mountain Dew decided it would build the world’s first pinball skatepark in Henderson, New Zealand, outfitting the park with flashing lights, rails, tunnels, graphics, sound effects and a live scoreboard. Riders entering the arena will be propelled around the 600 square metre area, tackling obstacles,...
Daily Archives: June 3, 2011
Condé Nast Buys Reddit Domain Names: 285!
Condé Nast just bought a smattering of domain names related to its biggest online property: 285 to be exact. Yowza. Why? The obvious answer is to prevent squatters and other people from infringing on Reddit’s name. If so, why did it wait so long to do so? Maybe it’s planning to introduce new services...
Still Think The Mouse Isn’t Dead?
We’ve been over this. But many of you felt the need to argue — passionately — about the fate of an input device we all use today: the mouse. I say it’s dead. Well not dead, dead — yet. But the wheels are clearly in motion. Many disagree. And I thought it was worth...
SV Angel: “We Won’t Pass On Old Entrepreneurs”
There has been a lot of discussion recently about the “peak age” of entrepreneurs. “Old Guys Rule,” said Vivek Wadwa in 1999, citing data that showed that men over 40 who were married and with children have the highest chance of success (no data was shared on female entrepreneurs). But more recently there’s been...
Australian government announces cybersecurity whitepaper project
The government today announced that it would begin developing a whitepaper on cybersecurity to inform policy and Australian citizens. Work on the paper will take at least a year and it will be available in early 2012. Taking the government’s CyberSecurity Safety Strategy of 2009 as a foundation, the paper will deal with crime,...