The weather is just the weather, right? There aren’t many ways to make a weather report more interesting, or so we thought. Weather Zombie is an app that puts a rather entertaining spin on pretty ho-hum data from AccuWeather. I don’t know which is funnier, the site itself, or the thought of someone sitting...
Everything created on a computer has this innate tendency to feel slick — and sometimes, even artificial. Picture a blank, white screen. There’s no variation. No flaws. What you see is duplicable, perfected. Now, stare at a sheet of paper. If you look hard enough, you’ll notice the material, the imperfections and even the presence...
Image: Laughing Squid via flickr See Also: The End Of The Euro And The End Of The Investor CHART OF THE DAY: The Worst Performing Big Bank Of The Year Here Are The 2 Pieces Of New Information In The Wall Street Journal’s Latest On Facebook’s IPO The year is ending with yet another...
This is the last roundup for the year, but it’s not our first of the week. No, sir. If you want to dig your hands into not just what Microsoft did this week, but all darn year, check out our ‘year in review‘ piece. It’s lovely, we promise. I want to say it: Thus...
While 2011 was a very busy year for the technology industry, the constant rate of innovation and activity in the market shows that things probably won’t slow down in 2012. Below, we’ve rounded up some of GigaOM’s biggest stories of the year — roughly in the order that they occurred — with a bit...
That didn’t take long. A day after Verizon confirmed it was going to charge $2 for single credit and debit card payments online and over the phone, it backed down following a chorus of complaints online. This Internet thing works, apparently. Verizon originally framed the convenience fee as a way to cover costs for single...
As the year is quickly coming to an end, it’s interesting to look back on the things you’ve shared on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more. Like we said when the Facebook Timeline launched, it can sometimes be a little worrying to realise just how much you’re sharing on these social networks, but it also...
What would New Year’s be without the traditional Times Square party? People in New York City have been watching the ball drop at midnight for more than a hundred years, and millions from all over the U.S. have been glued to their TV screens for decades to catch a glimpse of the action. This...
From Demand Media to LinkedIn to Pandora to Groupon, and then Zynga and Jive, 2011 was the year private companies finally started breaking into the public markets. It’s all set up for next year when Facebook finally IPOs. That should be one of the biggest, most interesting events of the year. But before we...
Tech incubator Adverplex has a new identity — Cogo Labs — and is starting to talk it up. The 30-person shop, based in VC-friendly Kendall Square in Cambridge, Mass., has backed such plays as CourseAdvisor, Autotegrity and AdHarmonics – all of which focus on web-based analytics. The Washington Post bought CourseAdvisor, which uses analytics to help colleges...