4SquareAnd7YearsAgo, that emailed you your Foursquare checkins from exactly a year ago, has branched out beyond Foursquare. Now the service, newly re-monikered Timehop, includes your Facebook status updates, photos you updated, photos you were tagged in, as well as Twitter and Instagram posts from 365 days past. The tech industry is starting to see...
After years in the making, the One Laptop Per Child program’s XO-3 tablet will be shown in more or less final form next week at CES, according to the project’s founder, Nicholas Negroponte. The latest image of the tablet is shown here, though it is from some time back and may no longer be...
It’s hard to tell whether it’s a case of correlation or causation, but according to a new study published this week, employees who are super active on social networking sites have a very different idea of what is appropriate workplace behavior than other workers. For starters, active social networkers — defined in the 2011...
In case you don’t hawk over Android’s official site like some of us do, there’s a neat little easter egg at the bottom of the page. Scroll all the way down, click on the green guy and prepare to toss snowballs at the snowman on the right hand side of the screen. The challenge?...
Comedian Louis C.K. recently self-released a video of his stand-up special, “Live at the Beacon Theater,” for $5 online. He personally paid for the production costs up front in an experiment to see if this was a cheaper, more efficient, and less restrictive method of getting his content to his fans. In doing so,...
Warner Bros. is doubling the amount of time that it asks DVD rental firms to wait between the day that DVD and Blu-Ray discs go on sale to the general public. Now those companies, which include Netflix, Redbox and Blockbuster are faced with a choice: They can wait eight weeks and purchase discs at...
![Interesting fact: more Tweets posted are 28 characters than any other length [Updated]](/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/8ac07_Aig565bCAAAYgkB-520x362.png)
If you’ve ever wondered how long the average Tweet is, then this graph should answer some questions for you. Created by Twitter employee Isaac Hepworth, it is a sampling of 1 million Tweets published on the network, excluding retweets. The graph is plotted out by number of characters and allows for a couple of...
![Interesting fact: most Tweets posted are approximately 30 characters long [Updated]](/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/e05f8_Aig565bCAAAYgkB-520x362.png)
If you’ve ever wondered how long the average Tweet is, then this graph should answer some questions for you. Created by Twitter employee Isaac Hepworth, it is a sampling of 1 million Tweets published on the network, excluding retweets. The graph is plotted out by number of characters and allows for a couple of...
If you’ve ever wondered how long the average Tweet is, then this graph should answer some questions for you. Created by Twitter employee Isaac Hepworth, it is a sampling of 1 million Tweets published on the network, excluding retweets. The graph is plotted out by number of characters and allows for a couple of...
Short version: A powerful little device, significantly brighter than others of its size, with decent battery life and a good picture. Too bad it’s so damn loud, and not the most user-friendly thing of all time either. Features: 80 lumens, 2000:1 contrast ratio 854×480 native resolution, 1280×768 max resolution 5 2GB onboard storage, microSD...