Teenagers are a good measure of what’s “cool.” Observing which apps they use and how they interact with technology can help the rest of us spot budding trends. And lately it seems teens have grown tired of Facebook. Adam Ludwin recently launched a social photo album app called Albumatic. Before its launch, he showed...
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The ‘Harlam Shake’ meme, which involves one lone person dancing to an electronic music song by Baauer, before a group of people begin dancing when the song “drops,” began in Australia earlier this year, but soon spread around the world. Now even Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the controversial Islamist group that is tied to Egyptian...
In the world of technology, it is possible to have centers of innovation outside of Silicon Valley. Shocking, right? We’re not talking about just Boulder, Austin, Los Angeles, or even New York City. Think more globally like Tel Aviv, London, Berlin, Toronto, and Sao Paulo. Another country that is emerging on the world stage...
News Corporation is selling its 44 percent share in the Sky TV network in New Zealand in a move that will see it exit the business that it established in the country in 1987, according to a brief announcement made today. News Limited — the subsidiary through which News Corporation operates in Australia and New...
Coming good on its promise to focus on Israel, Asian telecom giant SingTel has opened its first base in the country aimed at supporting the local startup community and gaining closer access to developing technologies — particularly those in the wireless optimization and voice/facial recognition spaces. SingTel has history in Israel, it bought mobile...
It’s been a big week for big data and for GigaOM. We hosted our first internet of things meetup in San Francisco on Tuesday, with a packed house of 250 listening to our 5 speakers. Our next IoT meet up is slated for Boulder on March 13; register here to join us. We also...
CloudFlare’s web security service went down for about an hour starting at 2:47 PDT Sunday morning, taking its customers down with it. The service was back up at 3:49 PDT, according to a post-mortem. CloudFlare attributed the outage to a system-wide failure of its Juniper edge routers that started after the company tried to prevent...
While the trial of Bradley Manning has sparked some interest in certain circles, many people probably think the former U.S. Army private’s case will have little impact on either them or American society as a whole. Harvard law professor Yochai Benkler, however, argues that they are wrong — and that if Manning is found...
With competitors such as Ex.fm and Whyd, it may not be the most original idea, but newly-launched Songdrop — which is perhaps best described as a ‘Delicious for music’ — is a fun and well designed take on solving the music discovery and sharing problem, at least for music fans that live outside of...