June 2012
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Myspace premieres "Take the Stage", an American...
Myspace with it’s intense focus on all things music discovery has launched a new talent competition that is akin to American Idol. The competition will feature nine contestents at a chance to win $20,000 and another effort for Myspace to draw attention and users to the flailing social network. Since being sold in June last year to Specific Media, Myspace has completely changed it’s...
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Twitter unveils it's new simplified bird logo
Twitter just announced that they are doing away with their old Twitter logo and are introducing a newer more simplified logo, which is pictured inset. The old logo was the a very similar looking Twitter bird logo but going horizontally, and now with the new bird it’s in “flight” at an angle. Additionally, some older logos had “Twitter” in it or simply a...
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Good or Bad: The Clambook
The Clambook is a beautifully thin and lightweight extension of your mobile device that gives you the usability of a laptop. Ideally, I would say users with smart phones are the perfect market here. If you have a small phone device, and possibly use it for email, documentation and videos/movies, this could be really something of value to you. The Clambook connects to your mobile device and...
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A total of 8 million passwords were hacked from...
Yesterday was not a good day for LinkedIn who confirmed that 6.5 million passwords were hacked and then leaked to the web. Although it’s uncertain exactly what accounts have been compromised, LinkedIn urged all of it’s users to change their passwords immediately. However, more bad news has arrised that eHarmony was hacked too, with 1.5 million passwords being hacked and leaked as well...
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Jump into the future of computer controls with...
The days of the computer mouse could be coming to a slow end. First the Kinect came out, which changed the thought process on how we can interact with devices, namely the Xbox. However, even newer technology developed by Leap Motion takes it ten steps forward. Leap Motion is a small device that connects to your computer via USB, and you will instantly be able to use hand gestures to control your...
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Easily set helpful reminders on your Android with...
Every once in a while there will be an app or technology that I see on the Android platform that makes me wish I had an Android instead of an iPhone, and on{x} appears to be one of them. Pronounced “on-ex”, it’s a new app from Microsoft developed specifically for Android that let’s users easily set reminders. The reminders once set, happen automatically without worry from...
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Flash Arrays are changing the IT game for...
Bourgeoning flash-array startup Pure Storage announced the launch of its latest all-flash array disk on May 16th. The flash array will include upgrades that will feature enhancements for high availability, as well as some encryption and FlashCare I/O management. This release is after the company sent out upwards of 100 units for beta testing, according to Pure Storage President Matt Kixmoeller....
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Welcome the world's newest superhero, Captain...
A new comic book series has been published in China, called Captain China. The comic is very real, and as you might guess it’s pro-China. Captain China dawns a superhero outfit of China’s national flag with a Chinese military hat to match, and has been brought back to life in modern day to show the growth of China’s economy and China’s world power. In Captain China Volume...
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Measuring the size of the Universe
Finding out the distance from the stars to Earth may seem like a huge task at hand. And don’t get me wrong, it is. However, in this video by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, they breakdown how scientists measure the Universe in very simple terms using somewhat simple math. H/t to Geeks are Sexy for the video. If you’re curious about the picture inset, it’s a timeline of the...
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Myspace is up 4 million users in 2 months
Well well well, look who is showing signs of improvement for the past two months in a row? Yeah, that’s right - Myspace. I like to keep tabs on my old friend Myspace. For the past year or so it’s been a steady decline into the abyss never to be found again. But wait, back in February Myspace announced that it had generated a million new users. Certainly something to be excited about,...
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Turn your Android phone into a kid-friendly phone
Anybody that has kids knows that in today’s mobile driven society that you probably have a mobile device that your child likes to play with. It’s only natural. They see mom and dad playing with it, and you may even download apps for them that are made specifically for children. But what happens when they accidentally delete your other apps or maybe purchases apps unknowingly? Or that...
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The relaunch of Green Lantern has him coming out...
Well I’m sure this will raise some eyebrows. DC Comics is relaunching the Green Lantern series, which has been a staple of comic book history for the past 70 years. Green Lantern is coming back, or shall I say coming out, and he is arriving with a twist. In an interview with the NY Post, the comic book writer James Robinson decided to bring back Green Lantern as a gay superhero, making it...
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Co-Founder of Google Sergey Brin live demos...
On The Gavin Newsom Show, Google co-founder Sergey Brin brought along with him the top secret Google Glass (not glasses since it’s one lens only). In the hour long interview, Brin let Gavin Newsom try on the glasses and test them out on live TV. So far the glasses have been pretty hush-hush with images only, and one recent video that was a short clip of someone on a trampoline. Well now, we...
May 2012
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The state of the Internet and Internet trends
At the annual D10 Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, tech and industry analyst Mary Meeker did her now famous slide show of Internet Trends. Last year in her slides at the Web 2.0 Summit she told us how the future is all about mobile. This year, she came up with some more interesting stats, but nothing too mind-numbing.
As I would say at this point, which many already realize,...
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How to turn a banana into a piano
If you think it would be impossible to turn a banana into a piano, you may want to think again. Or maybe try turning Play-doh into a game controller, and being able to actually play a game with it? The possibilities are endless with this new amazing and fun invention kit called Makey Makey. Makey Makey is a Kickstarter project that can turn any every day object into a touchpad. The invention kit...
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Skywiper, the ghost in the machine
I don’t claim to know a lot about malware, or spyware for that matter, other than I know it’s bad shit and if your computer gets infected it can really mess things up. It’s also a pain in the ass to try to remove a virus, which I have had to do on an occasion or two. Which is also why I run virus scans often and am very careful about my web browsing and the sites I visit. ...
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Facebook is a public company now, so please click...
A few days after the Facebook IPO, which made Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire, Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg gave a speech to the 2012 graduating class of Harvard Business School. Incidentally, Sandberg became a billionaire as well. During her speech, in a half-whimsical way she uttered these words: “Keep in touch via Facebook; this is critical to your future success. And since we’re...
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Have NASA scientists discovered the fountain of...
It’s called “Space Drink” or AS10, and it was created by NASA scientists to protect astronauts from the harmful radiation of the sun. According to NASA and new research from scientists at the University of Utah, drinking the Space Drink will provide noticeable reduction in facial wrinkles and signs of reduction in aging. The Week provided the Space Drink’s mixture of...
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Congrats to Tumblr who made it on ComScore’s Top...
comScore released their April 2012 Top 50 U.S. Web Properties and social blogging phenom Tumblr finally made it on the list! This is just another sign that Tumblr is growing exponentially. In the report, it shows that Tumblr is ranked number 47 with 23,507,000 million visitors for the month of April.
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How Facebook is able to take your Likes and turn...
Facebook is now up to 900 million users, which was uncovered in their recent Initial Public Offering. Having that many users, close to a billion, is astronomic for any one entity which then has to take that user data and turn it into something - that something being useful data which is forming the social web which many want to be a part of and which Facebook can benefit financially from. So, how...
