In the slow news week between Christmas and New Year’s this year, the internet was captivated by the tale of the “rogue” PR agent that pissed off a customer, Penny Arcade, the internet at large- and became a meme, because […]
Although several parts of the world are already settled in to next year, with the turnover in each country rolling across time zones, many have yet to hit the milestone- and storm social networks, ringing in the new year. In […]
Over the past years we have had the MPAA shout to the moon, and anyone without a brain and would listen to them, that piracy is killing the movie business, the only problem was that every time they would trot […]
In this fallow week of scant tech news and even scanter regular news, the story of “rogue” PR agent Paul Christoforo and the Avenger gaming device has captivated the attention of the internet in a way only giant flameball trainwrecks […]
A lot of the news regarding media and employment prospects in 2011 has been bleak- layoffs, cutbacks, job-killing mergers- but one sector is doing pretty well. It seems a lot of the casualties of media downsizing struck out on their […]
While some pundits of old media often attack new media advocates for a lack of fact checking, aggregation of content and other non-traditional story gathering techniques they often ignore a culprit far more sinister, state run television. It’s within the […]
The New York Times had an embarrassing mishap earlier this week, when an email intended for a small pool of customers- about 300- was accidentally sent to 8 million email addresses. If you’ve sent any significant amount of email in […]
2011 was an amazing year for Spotify, they launched with major label support in various countries including the United States, they integrated with Facebook for social music sharing purposes and they surpassed 2.5 million paying subscribers. Now as a big […]
We all have a mental picture of what various geek type people look like when associated with certain tech brands. You know, the Apple artsy type, the Linux kid in the basement of his parent’s home, and the dorky looking […]
Does it seem to you like even three months later, those pesky occupiers are everywhere? Perhaps because sometimes, they are. And while the movement has scattered for the time being as frosty weather sets in to much of the northern […]
Last week, Reddit (with a little help from the rest of the internet, including the Cheezburger Network and a tiny site you might have visited once or twice, Wikipedia) helped encourage web users to transfer more than 70,000 domains away […]
Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) on Wednesday filed a copyright infringement against Yahoo! claiming that the company plagiarized the company’s various publications. SPH, owners of the Singapore Straits Times and various other publications filed their suit to fight a counterclaim filed […]
It used to be that you could incidentally be a dick to one insignificant customer and it was no big- your secret would remain safe and you could rest assured in the knowledge that one dude could take his business […]
So, do you know what Klout is, or what your Klout score is, or even how much that score is suppose to be worth? I’m betting that if you have been hanging around the whole social media world for any […]
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