The biggest innovation in alarm clocks since their invention has to be the slowly-increasing volume option on my phone. Seriously, try going back to your old full-blast alarm and you'll wake up screaming. But all that says it that alarm clocks haven'…
Backed by "Pure Net," a Salafist Muslim grassroots organization, conservative Egyptian public-prosecutor Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud has decided it's time to finally "enforce":http://transitions.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/11/12/egypts_ominous_attack_on_po…
Right now, at 11:19 a.m. EST, artist Jonas Lund does not appear to be at his computer. Perhaps he's gone to the bathroom or to get a snack or maybe he's still asleep. Open in his browser is just one page, a pile of code at Github. You can look for yo…
Email is arguably the most important bit of tech you've got, but email's still the same as it's always been: You get a stack of letters every day in your inbox to deal with, and eventually those messages get bumped off by new ones. Because of the pro…
It's hard to walk into a shop or restaurant these days without getting hit in the face by a "Like Us on Facebook" or "Follow Us on Twitter" sign. Sometimes, they even like to put them out on the sidewalk so that the chalkboard reads something along t…
As if you didn't know it already, there's now yet another psych study detailing the addictive qualities of Facebook. Researchers from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business recently enlisted 205 Germans and monitored them for an entire we…
Oh my, have you seen MySpace's fresh promo video? I think the veteran social network is finally sick of 187th place on the Internet. Now, the site is offering something I don't think many other networks have planned or thought of. Myspace is placing
NYPD police commissioner Ray Kelly issued a five-page memo last week, giving officers permission to created fake Facebook profiles to assist with electronic probes. Officers will be able to register their alias with the department and obtain a laptop…
A few months ago, I was using that sleazy Badoo site, trying my damnedest to find a girl that I might meet in real life. If you recall the feature, I was unsuccessful. After the site spammed my mom -- asking her for her birthdate -- I ended up talkin…
in case you haven't heard, social media is kinda popular, and landlines and phone booths are kinda not. Meanwhile, as anyone who's lived in a population-dense area (and more of us are every day) knows, cell networks can get overloaded whenever a big
In the beginning, Google was not going to be evil, Mark Zuckerberg said he cared about your privacy, and Twitter still dared to change the world, that curious abbreviated messaging platform that became “the SMS of the Internet.” The only rule - the p…
Break out a fresh bottle of schadenfreude, because the once untouchable and invaluable Facebook stock is on a fast slide towards a rocky bottom. The trouble started last Thursday — well, some would argue that it really started the day of Facebook's o…
We all knew this was coming. In the five years that it's been around Twitter has been a uniquely free and open platform, a friend to entrepreneurial developers and generally a pretty cool little company. But now that it's a big boy company, the micro…
As you and your friends are busy tweeting and reading your feed, it's easy to forget that somewhere, perhaps in Washington, there's a government agency hungry for the details about who's saying what. On Monday, Twitter released its first ever transpa…
Yesterday, popular demonstrations racked Shifang, a city in the Sichuan province, leading to bloody clashes with police decked out in riot gear and some bricks hurled at local government offices. The maelstrom succeeded in halting the construction of…
In this shift from web-publishing Web 2.0 era to the personalization key of Web 3.0, the ever present task to make the web more about helping people shop better, and to see a reflection of oneself in an eye-sizzling retina display has kept developers…
Ok, I've been messing around with Klout, the site that tries to tell me how much I matter and how much of a shit people could give about what I say on social networks. After posting a Klout-generated tweet, I quickly deleted it, realizing the implici…
I love Samuel L. Jackson. I mean, I’d automatically have to support anyone who’s been in both Jurassic Park and Pulp Fiction, but Samuel L. takes it to another level. (Let’s all just acknowledge that this search exists.) But, with more than a hundred…
Apparently LinkedIn was hacked, with current estimates pegging the number of stolen passwords at around 6.5 million. That’s a whole lot of passwords! I wonder if they’re sitting in a spreadsheet somewhere. Why? Well, it’s LinkedIn, the supposed so…
In America, we tend to refer to Sina Weibo as China’s “Twitter-like microblog," but that doesn't quite do it justice. It has 300 million users, more than twice the amount of Twitter itself, and because it's in Chinese, each nugget of 140 characters c…
When Charlie Rose explained "the":http://gothamist.com/2008/03/18/charlie_rose_re.php future of technology, and how to think about social networking stocks.h5. By "Andrew Filippone Jr.":http://www.steveisnothappy.com
_In early September 2004, Northwestern University student Ryan Bradley drove to Palo Alto to hang out with Zuckerberg and co. at their brogrammer bungalow to write a profile about them for_ "The Passenger":http://thepassenger.org/, _a magazine his fr…
Apparently, Facebook is opening stock options to the public this Friday. I know about a lot of things, but the stock market is not one of them. However, I have seen the '80s guy episode of _Futurama_, where Fry and his Wall Street pal take control of…
