Get ready for a million more fake vintage pics of shoes, pets and sodas in your Facebook feed, people. Popular lomography-style iPhone image app Instagram is coming to Android. The app has, up until now, been exclusive to the iPhone […]
It seems that after a blogosphere storm of publicity (all negative) and mass reader outcry, the Regretsy Secret Santa debacle starring PayPal has reached a conclusion that is satisfactory for all parties involved- and cost the payment processing service about […]
Long Island-centric newspaper and website Newsday– which became one of the first sites of its type to instate a paywall back in 2010- may actually be reaping benefits from its paying customers only web strategy after all. When the site […]
One of the basic known ‘things’ about PayPal is that once they’ve frozen your cash, it’s kind of under a tundra of suck where you won’t see it for at least six months, if at all. Which is why everyone […]
If you follow the @majornelson Twitter account and are an XBox Live user, you probably know an update to the service was scheduled today. You also probably have had at least some issues if you’ve tried to access it. Users […]
Think Alec Baldwin couldn’t get any hotter? I thought so too, until it was revealed that the man who plays Jack Donaghy on NBC’s 30 Rock also takes his Words With Friends games very, very seriously. Today, his silver foxiness was […]
Oh, Reddit, you incorrigible band of do-gooders with an insatiable urge to better society through the power of upgoats. Although you may have noticed a spate of false charity in r/atheism yesterday, the ability of Reddit to act as a force of […]
Before we get into it, what you need to know is that this exchange is part of the brewing controversy surrounding Regretsy’s aborted initiative to purchase toys for needy kids. “You can use the donate button to raise money for […]
Facebook has checked in at Foursquare competitor Gowalla, consuming the location based app and rolling the Gowalla team into its own, both Facebook and Gowalla have confirmed. Although it sported a more complex and visually engaging user interface than Foursquare, […]
If you avidly use Groupon, there are probably some deals you’ve avoided because they just look way too good to be true. 82% off something not clearly defined. $25 for $50 worth of food at a restaurant notorious for add-ons. […]
This year, AOL has seen a lot of big expenditures- like in the hyperlocal market with their Patch product- seemingly without revenues to balance out the spending. CEO Tim Armstrong said back in September that profitability is a huge concern […]
As far as internet services go, Amazon Prime is up there when it comes to reasonably priced conveniences. Even when I was a struggling marketing assistant and single mom, I ponied up the $80 yearly fee to keep the Santa […]
Or so says Gawker. Actually, the New York Times itself posted yesterday about the new commenting system on its site, and Gawker posted about that, adding that the staid paper is a total copycat. The Times says: The first thing you’ll probably […]
Napster first hit the scene in 1999, almost immediately setting off a firestorm of controversy and pitting- for the first time on a large scale- intellectual property owners against every day web users in a battle over what cannot and […]
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