I have a confession to make: despite having reviewed a few e-readers, and having written dozens of articles about them, I’ve never really used one. I mean, I’ve used them enough to know a good one from a bad one, to understand the features, and to do a proper evaluation — but I’ve never...
You can set up your Twitter account to automatically post status updates to Facebook. It’s a nice time-saving trick that can help you own your social media situation. lt;object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ id=”ooyalaPlayer_52xco_gzlutkuu” width=”618″ height=”348″ codebase=”http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab”gt;lt;param name=”movie” value=”http://player.ooyala.com/player.swf?embedCode=VkbjFxMzpbKquCoUAUSdN5DQACG0DhwBamp;version=2″ /gt;lt;param name=”bgcolor” value=”#000000″ /gt;lt;param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always” /gt;lt;param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” /gt;lt;param name=”flashvars” value=”embedType=noscriptObjectTagamp;embedCode=VkbjFxMzpbKquCoUAUSdN5DQACG0DhwBamp;videoPcode=BhdmY6l9g002rBhQ6aEBZiheacDu” /gt;lt;embed src=”http://player.ooyala.com/player.swf?embedCode=VkbjFxMzpbKquCoUAUSdN5DQACG0DhwBamp;version=2″ bgcolor=”#000000″ width=”618″ height=”348″...
While for an ordinary civilian the automatic geotagging of your photos or check-ins might be convenient, in the military it can be a lethal mistake. In 2007, geotagged photos of a new fleet of helicopters allowed enemy forces to mortar the base and destroy several of them; it could just as easily have been...
Earlier this afternoon StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp sat down at SXSW with All Things Digital’s Liz Gannes to talk about a social media company that drives a huge amount of traffic on the social Web. Fun fact: It delivers more than 1 billion personalized recommendations per month. Unified and @visualhero where there to capture...
Are you a Beastie Boys fan? If so, you will understand very quickly what the new Chilean platform Hadza does. The link between the two is an innovative concert video the band did in 2006. Called ‘
Ok, so it’s raining, freezing and thundering in Austin Texas, but get over it people. We’re at one of the tech industry’s biggest get-togethers: SXSW 2012. And tonight we are bringing you our ‘Best Parties’ show live from the TechStars and StartupWeekend parties. Some of the startups we are interviewing tonight include Vipin Goyal of Sidetour.com, Yoav...
Tech toys used to be fancy gadgets like those my colleague Kevin Tofel reviews, but in the phrase now describes actual toys. At South by Southwest here in Austin I stumbled (quite literally) across Sphero, a ball that contains a gyroscope, accelerometer, Bluetooth and an array of lights. The ball is controlled by an IOS...
There was a time when Empire Avenue seemed like a great idea to a lot of people. A ‘social stock market‘ game, your engagement levels and popularity on social media services affected your virtual share price, and you could invest in people you thought would perform well, potentially earning real-world rewards. The novelty appears to have...
Marc Andreessen named Foursquare, Fab, and Pinterest as the next three big breakthrough companies in his firm’s portfolio. Speaking on Bloomberg Television this afternoon, Andreessen started off by saying that he has high hopes for many companies in the portfolio. Then he went on to give high praise to check-in service Foursquare. “Foursquare is...
Travel search giant Kayak just posted new revenue numbers for the fourth quarter and full year 2011 in a new S-1 filing with the SEC. As we heard last September, Kayak put its IPO plans on hold until market conditions improve. Now that the markets are more stabilized, it should be interesting to see...