Daily Archives: March 4, 2013

Microsoft: No, We’re Not Abandoning Our Anti-Google Campaign

March 4, 2013
Microsoft: No, We’re Not Abandoning Our Anti-Google Campaign

Microsoft See Also ATT Made This T-Mobile Attack Ad 20 Quotes Show Us How Bill Gates Became The World’s Second Richest Man Digital Ad World Can’t Decide How It Feels About Native Advertising Microsoft has no intention of completely ending its Google-bashing ad campaign, “Scroogled,” the company told Business Insider. Reports flew...

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Until Recently, Twitter Actually Made It Difficult To Buy Ads

March 4, 2013
Until Recently, Twitter Actually Made It Difficult To Buy Ads

Iconfactory See Also Here’s The Hilarious Way New Zealand Recruits Bus Drivers There’s A Comic Book About Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Digital Ad World Can’t Decide How It Feels About Native Advertising When Twitter launched its new Ads API — an “application programming interface” that allows advertisers to more easily plug in...

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How To Make Your Tumblr Look Incredible

March 4, 2013

Tumblr, the popular microblogging site, allows users to customize nearly every aspect of their Tumblr blog theme from the background and architecture of their site. From the many, many free themes to expensive premium ones, there are an immense number of styles to choose from. And beyond theme selection, there are many ways to...

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The Pirate Bay may or may not have been invited to North Korea, but it’s not being hosted there

March 4, 2013
The Pirate Bay may or may not have been invited to North Korea, but it’s not being hosted there

After being unavailable earlier in the day, The Pirate Bay on Monday announced it has moved to a new provider for its immensely popular (and government-hated) website. The company didn’t name its provider, but it did imply that the site was now being hosted in North Korea. At first glance, this seems like a...

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Twitter kills TweetDeck for iPhone, Android and AIR, drops Facebook integration, Mac and PC versions live on

March 4, 2013

Twitter has just killed its versions of TweetDeck for iPhone, Android and its AIR app for desktops. TweetDeck is also losing its Facebook integration completely. The team blog post says that “to continue to offer a great product that addresses your unique needs, we’re going to focus our development efforts on our modern, web-based...

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Domain registrar and Web host Namecheap begins accepting payment via Bitcoin

March 4, 2013

Last week, virtual currency Bitcoin hit an all-time high after passing the $32 mark for its US dollar exchange rate, and now it has gained a significant new backer with domain host and registrar Namecheap now accepting it for payments. As we noted last week, the company had been preparing to accept the currency for some time,...

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Polaroid Socialmatic Camera: A Retro Instagram-Style Dream

March 4, 2013
Polaroid Socialmatic Camera: A Retro Instagram-Style Dream

If you’re still mourning the death of the Polaroid camera, cheer up – your favorite bit of retro technology is being reinvented for 2014. A company called Socialmatic just reached a deal to launch a line of Polaroid-branded instant digital cameras next year – and it’s playing up the natural intersection of Instagram and...

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Rumors Begin With A Video And An Eye Scroll

March 4, 2013
Samsung Galaxy S4 Rumors Begin With A Video And An Eye Scroll

For a smartphone with as much hype and anticipation as Samsung’s Galaxy S4, we know surprisingly little about it. We know that it is likely to launch on March 14th at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. We know that Samsung will have a huge marketing plan around it and worldwide distribution...

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Twitter Kills Off Tweetdeck – R.I.P. Third

March 4, 2013
Twitter Kills Off Tweetdeck – R.I.P. Third

The Twitter client end times are nigh. Well, to be fair, they’ve been nigh for a while now – so I guess now the end times are here. In a blog post today, Twitter announced that it would formally discontinue support for TweetDeck’s trio of non-web apps, TweetDeck for iPhone, Android and AIR. The clients will...

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Video: Why you shouldn’t care about securing the Internet of things just yet

March 4, 2013

Does thinking about privacy and security at the developing states of the internet of things hinder innovators’ ability to build an open system? That’s one of several questions that Usman Haque of Cosm asks in his presentation from the GigaOM internet of things meetup we did last week in San Francisco. In his presentation...

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