Humble Indie Bundle 4- the latest installment in the DRM-bucking, multi-platform (PC, Linux and Mac) pay-what-you-want game bundle series- is officially live, running at an average of $5.30 per purchase. (PC users are coming in at about $4.83, while Mac […]
Alec Baldwin’s Words With Friends-based drama last week on an American Airlines flight served not only to cast the actor in a slightly negative public light, but has also apparently caused some outrage among flight attendants. Baldwin’s popular NBC sitcom […]
A lot of sites have struggled with paid content and the implementation of paywalls as customers switch largely to digital, and transitions to a web and app-based audience have not always been easy. The New York Times profiled one success story, […]
If you look at the past year in world events, one common theme seems to stretch across many of the common stories: revolution. And the spate of demonstrations across the world- in the Middle East, the US and Europe, among […]
YouTube has a wealth of content that is of interest to and useful for schoolkids, with enhanced tutorials, detailed explanations of math concepts, and visual information on about every single concept you can imagine under the sun. It also has […]
It’s only Monday, but web-favorite comedian Louis CK is owning the social web this week. First, the popular entertainer set tech sites buzzing with news that he was releasing his newest special, “Louis CK: Live at Beacon Theater,” exclusively via the […]
It’s often said that one should never exchange naked pictures with anyone lest the relationship turn sour and a jilted ex use them vengefully to cause their former lover shame and public embarrassment. However, until recently, this proved somewhat of […]
Aw, don’t you just love an inky ending? Last week, Reddit was back in the news for its habit of doing nice things for people in need. The site that hosts a subreddit promoting “random acts of pizza” occasionally embarks […]
Local entertainment site Metromix has converted seven major markets to “Express” versions of the Metromix brand after the concept failed to be profitable for the cities. Atlanta, Cleveland, Denver, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Tampa and Washington DC will be downgraded to […]
Bill Maher, whose Real Time With Bill Maher on HBO has been doing well for nearly a decade with politically-based content and humor, is going to be heralding the launch of a new comedy channel on Yahoo with a February […]
Suddenly, your local paper’s $10 a month access fee doesn’t look all that unreasonable, does it? If you’re a fashion student or style maven, the idea of viewing content from every single issue of Vogue dating back to 1892 sounds pretty […]
Facebook is clearly the dominating force in social media to connect with everyone who you know or knew at some point in your life, and it works exceedingly well at what it does to allow people to interface with lots […]
As the paywall experiment at the New York Times continues, another major regional newspaper has adopted the selfsame model used by the Gray Lady and a growing number of area news outlets to allow limited free access before charging for content. […]
I think it’s not entirely alarmist to say “everybody panic” right about now. If you write for blogs, and have done for any reasonable amount of time, you’ve probably been sneered at with the oft-misspelled comment “what do you think […]
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