More Top Stories GoDaddy’s SOPA Support Sparks Calls for Boycotts and Domain Transfers For many, the list of companies supporting SOPA wasn’t a huge surprise. However, the fact that GoDaddy was among them caused many on Reddit to threaten a transfer of their domains on December 29, or “Move Your Domain Away From GoDaddy...
What happened to startups in 2011? E-commerce and mobile payments continued to grow, and group buying startup Groupon went public. Facebook, the biggest social network around, expanded in a huge way, announcing Timeline, frictionless sharing and a settlement (finally) with the FTC. It also swallowed up many promising startups, including group messaging service Beluga,...
Where do you publish first if you have more Facebook subscribers than Twitter followers? That’s a question more and more journalists are going to be asking themselves. Just 3.5 months after the launch of Facebook’s late entry into asymmetrical following, many individual content producers including TechCrunch’s MG Siegler, The New York Times’ Nick Bilton, and myself have...
According to University Post, a scientist from the University of Copenhagen has spent over 80 hours of work and over $2,600 to build a model of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider out of 9,500 LEGO bricks. To give you some perspective, the model is at 1:50 scale. More from The University of Copenhagen: As we write, scientists are...
I know there are lots of people out there who have passionate feelings about Ron Paul. He’s a principled and independent fighter for old-time American values, or a conspiracy theorist loon, or someone who let idiotic racist stuff get published in his newsletters decades ago… or whatever else it is that you see about...
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Not to keep beating a dead horse (or elephant), but Go Daddy continues to screw up with its latest PR effort is to let you know that it was just kidding, and that it doesn’t really support SOPA. When the Internet decided to let the company know that they’d rather have their domain names...
Jux, one of the most beautiful blogging platforms yet, is now available on your iPhone. TNW has previously written about Jux and its iPad release, and today it’s available in your pocket. As TNW’s Features Editor, Courtney Boyd Myers explains, Jux is a “New York City new media startup that’s perched at the crux of...
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TorrentFreak has listed the top 10 most pirated movies of 2011, according to download data from BitTorrent. The site points out that the #1 pirated film of the year wasn’t as popular as last year’s #1, Avatar, which was downloaded over 16 million times. The numbers also show a downward trend over all of...