Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Nibiru and Doomsday 2012: Questions and Answers
Stories about the fictional planet Nibiru and predictions of doomsday in December 2012 have blossomed on the Internet.
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Into the Heart of Darkness–Shopping the Beijing iPhone Black Market
The black/grey markets in Beijing will blow your mind! On Saturday and Sunday (November 14/15) I had a chance to do a bit of undercover work.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Oxford’s Word of the Year? “Unfriend.”
Perhaps in a sign of how the plague of social media has numbed us all to the value of legitimate human connections, the New Oxford American Dictionary has picked the verb “unfriend,” or “to remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook,” as its 2009 Word of the Year.
The War for the Web
On Friday, my latest tweet was automatically posted to my Facebook news feed, as always.
AT&T’s Verizon Ad Battle: Who’s Being Hurt Worse?
First, let’s set the scene: In one corner, you have Verizon.
How Rapleaf Is Data-Mining Your Friend Lists to Predict Your Credit Risk
They say you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. Joel Jewitt is inclined to agree.
The Intel-AMD Settlement: A Play-by-Play
It took a mediator–and a trip to Maui–to break the biggest logjam in landmark settlement talks between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Would Google Be Liable Under The Pirate Bay Ruling?
Michael Carrier, a law professor specializing in intellectual property law, was kind enough to let us know about a paper he recently wrote analyzing the Swedish court’s ruling in The Pirate Bay Case, and seeing how the reasoning set forth might apply to two other services: Grokster and Google.
Apple Wouldn’t Risk Its Cool Over a Gimmick, Would It?
“SOME of the best-loved technology on the planet” is how Apple describes its products when recruiting new employees.
Dr. Horrible Fan Prequel Offers One Take on Dr. Horrible’s Origins
When web video juggernaut Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog debuted last year, it inspired fan-made contributions to the world of the series almost immediately–something the Whedon family encouraged by soliciting supervillain applications to be included on the official DVD.
The Growing Value of URLs You Can Easily Spell Out in Dead Bodies
Probably the funniest bit of commercial ingenuity I’ve seen these past few months is the growth of corpse-spam in World of Warcraft.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Almost Famous: Aviary’s Israel Derdik
A new feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about.
This week: A Skype visit with, some questions for and a few pertinent stats about Israel Derdik and his high-flying media suite, Aviary, a Web-based media-editing platform that enables users to alter, save and present their multimedia creations, all in the cloud.
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- Forget the Fangs. It’s Spam That Should Really Scare “Twilight” Fans.
- Music: Too Expensive to Be Free, Too Free to Be Expensive
- Into the Heart of Darkness–Shopping the Beijing iPhone Black Market
- The Intel-AMD Settlement: A Play-by-Play
- The Growing Value of URLs You Can Easily Spell Out in Dead Bodies
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