As a kid growing up in California, much of my young life was spent walking and playing on beaches. For almost as long as I can remember, my dad took me beachcombing, which is basically walking along the beach looking for interesting things to collect and take home. For a while it was colored...
SoundCloud may have been knocked offline by a DDoS Attack last night, but today it’s back and fully integrated into content curation platform, Storify. Storify launched its public beta version in April of this year, and quickly became a popular platform for online content curation. Storify allows users to pull information from social media...
There is the public cloud and the private cloud, and it isn’t clear to lawmakers where the differences lie. The fear among members of Congress yesterday (when an election year draws near, fear becomes as valuable a resource as coffee) is that public cloud connectivity could enable unauthorized public access to a wealth of...
One of iOS’s native apps is the Calculator, and it works very well. Apple also sells its own ‘Numbers’ app which works well and is gorgeous in that Apple way. Sergey Mikhanov has decided to take those Apps to a new level, and actually does so with his new offering Scalar. The app is...
Continuing with the regular release of new features on Google+ week after week is the ability to now select who is allowed to notify you on the young social platform from who is not. In a Google+ post by Kathleen Ko, Software Engineer at Google, she reveals that the “Who can notify you” feature is...
Television shows that are widely discussed on social networks like Facebook and Twitter also have a tendency to have higher ratings than other shows, new data from Nielsen reveals. The fact that people tweet about TV shows and chat about them on Facebook and Google Plus is hardly breaking news, but this is among...
German science, technology and medical publisher Springer Science+Business Media, will digitize its entire catalog of books back to 1840 by the end of the coming year, including works by Einstein, Niels Bohr and Sir John Eccles and Rudolf Diesel. (Yes, that Rudolf Diesel.) The books, 70% of which are in English and nearly 30%...
Well you know it had to happen at some point and it looks like it will be sooner rather than later now. Sony Pictures is in the process of making a ‘hefty’ deal for the feature rights to the upcoming biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, reports Mike Fleming of Deadline. The reports...
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Facebook is taking yet another step toward becoming more Twitter-like by allowing Facebook profile owners to tag non-friends in the comment threads of their public posts. This update brings Facebook profile users one step closer to becoming their own idealized, public brands, and arrives upon the heels of the Facebook Subscribe button, which allows...