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.
Probably the funniest bit of commercial ingenuity I’ve seen these past few months is the growth of corpse-spam in World of Warcraft.
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.
Yet another News Corporation executive is talking about Google, and yet again, I feel like they have no concept about how Google interacts with their web pages.
Where’s my pancakes, read Rodney Bradford’s Facebook page, in a message typed on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 11:49 a.m., from a computer in his father’s apartment in Harlem.
In 1993, a tech consultant named Peter de Jager wrote an article for Computerworld with the headline “Doomsday 2000.”
Painting the Golden Gate Bridge yellow might cause less fuss than trying to install a wind farm off Cape Cod’s historic coast.
Cisco and HP have been duking it over their visions for the next generation data center architecture and the battle is just getting interesting.
In case you missed it, Google acquired mobile ad network AdMob for $750 million in stock.
In 1990, Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr was brutally murdered.
Robert Pedraza is a 24-year-old self-taught programmer with a thin frame, spiky dark hair, gleaming braces, and squinty eyes.
Players who were caught modifying their consoles to play pirated games have been booted from the popular service, InformationWeek says.
In the bright and shiny future, we all live in green, gleaming communities, monorailed shuttles at the ready, climate-controlled at all times–a sort of Logan’s Run, but without the forced euthanasia. It almost happened in, of all places, an old mill town in northern Vermont.
As the velocity of communication approaches realtime, language compresses.
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