The new Live Tile design for Microsoft’s search engine Bing has begun to roll out, according to WP Central. The new design hasn’t yet rolled out on a wide scale but some users are reporting that it is available to them. It appears Microsoft is remaining cautious of bugs during the rollout and thus...
Much of what we think about when it comes to social TV happens when a show hits the air and viewers start tweeting about it and sharing moments on Facebook. But to truly leverage social media to promote a TV series, networks need to think about how the campaign will fit in to the...
Mac OS X Lion arrived Wednesday morning, available through the Mac App Store as a downloadable upgrade for users of Snow Leopard. Lion is version 10.7 of Apple’s desktop operating system, and it brings some significant changes to Mac computing. But will users welcome those changes? This review is meant purely to convey what...
Los Angeles-based startup What’s Watched aggregates data from social media and mobile applications to provide media companies with a view into what shows are being watched and who’s watching them. That data can then be used to target specific demographics of users to increase ratings and grow their audiences. In addition to publicly available...
A new product from Micro Scooters UK has released a personal transportation device for businessmen who usually walk to work or fly often: the Micro Samsonite Scooter. It’s a hand luggage bag and scooter all in one. You can now ride your bag to work, or use your onboard luggage to get to the...
Zynga hit Brazilian gaming startup Vostu with a massive lawsuit last month, alleging that the company was copying Zynga’s games so closely that they even inadvertently included the bugs. Today, Vostu responded with a 368 paragraph document of their own (embedded below). It’s a longer version of Vostu’s press statement immediately after the lawsuit...
Breaking news out of Twitter this afternoon, four key product managers have just been let go, we’ve learned. The move was led by Jack Dorsey and will see key product guys Kevin Cheng, Josh Elman, and two others we’ve yet to confirm, leave the company. Twitter refuses to comment on any specific names and...
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Scott Hanselman’s follow-up to his JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web post from earlier this month has been circulating this week. Hanselman talks about both the minification and obfuscation of code, and the use of JavaScript as a target language for other languages to compile to. It’s more or less the same point...
Groupon’s IPO filing last month revealed just how quickly the market for daily deals has exploded in the United States. And since an appetite for bargains knows no borders, the Chicago-based company has expressed a keen interest in expanding abroad to fuel its future revenue growth. But Groupon is running into some increasingly stiff...