99designs, “the #1 marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design” has recently announced they will be giving away Apple iPads to three lucky people who have installed their folio widget, and have published it to a website. If you are a graphic designer eager for an iPad, you may want to hurry over to 99designs.com for your [...]
Tuesday, Google launched their latest web service, Google Buzz. Google Buzz is Google’s approach to the social media stream. Google played it smart by simply implementing Google Buzz into Gmail–instead of building up a new product completely from scratch.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google plans to challenge social networks such as Facebook and Twitter as soon as this week. Apparently, Gmail’s coming update will feature a social stream on its home page, displaying friends’ media and status updates. “The stream will also eventually include content that a user’s connections share through YouTube [...]
Search Engine Land claims to have received a tip from a New York retailer called Oh Nuts, saying that Google visited their store and took several photos for a new Google Maps product called “Google Store Views.” Apparently, Google took photos of the store every 6 feet, in all directions. They also took pictures of [...]
Its been rumored since the beginning of the year, and now its official. WordPress has just launched the first version of its Android app. WordPress for Android is capable of managing both WordPress.com blogs and self-hosted WordPress.org blogs. With the new app, you can add or edit posts, comments, and even pages on multiple WordPress [...]
You know those Facebook invitations you receive several times a day that you’ve pledged never to accept? You know, Mafia Wars, Cafe World, YoVille, FishVille, ThisVille, ThatVille, and of course, everyone’s favorite, FarmVille. Gamers – that pledge of yours may have to be rewritten just a few months from now. According to Variety, Sid Meier’s [...]
Just in time for Super Bowl XLIV, Hulu launches the NFL Network, featuring 8 different shows from the Fox/ABC/NBC NFL channel. The NFL Network features highlights from past seasons of every NFL team. All eight shows that are now on Hulu are shown below. America’s Game tells the stories behind the story of all Super [...]
Google’s widely-used application for managing syndication feeds, Reader just received a great update that is sure to be a great help to bloggers who spend their free time going through long lists of interesting RSS feeds (like me.) Have you ever had one of those moments when you’re on one of your favorite blogs, frantically [...]
Cade Metz, from The Register writes: “Some date the dawn of the net to September 12, 1969, when a team of engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) connected the first two machines on the first node of ARPAnet, the US Department of Defense-funded network that eventually morphed into the modern interwebs. But [...]
It looks like being the leading search engine just isn’t enough for Google, watching them jump into the music industry. Users who enter music-related queries — not only song names but partial song lyrics — will be presented with a list of relevant songs from Google partners MySpace and LaLa. Clicking on a song in [...]
Feel like spending an unproductive day on 87 addictingly awesome things on your computer? You’re in luck! We stumbled upon this presentation created by Google that features, as they say, “stuff we like, stuff that’s probably worth knowing about, and stuff we made.” I like a lot of the stuff here as well, and much [...]
Barnes & Noble has just teamed up with AT&T to providew free wi-fi at all 777 of its stores throughout the US. Free wi-fi will give customers an easier and more convenient way to buy and download eBooks. “[A bookstore is] a gathering place and Wi-Fi access is increasingly becoming something that customers expect in [...]
Google is expected to announce on Wednesday that it is developing a personal computer operating system based on its Chrome browser, The New York Times reported early Wednesday.
It’s been two months since Hulu began partnership with ABC. Finally, today, Hulu posted 5 episodes from Season 5 of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy.
It seems like in the past year, micro-blogging service Twitter has invaded everything — apparently, even the world of new game announcements.
