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The Web's Ghouls and Ghosts, Flash Mob Sensation Coming to TV!

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: When Twittering Gets in the Way of Real Life One evening this week, my husband and I had a discussion that mirrors others we've had over the past few years. "Sometimes, it's like you're here and you're not here," Joe said to me. "Your mind and soul are in cyberspace, ... Read more »

Switched Roundup: Gaga Drops by Google, AT&T Buys T-Mobile

Our top 10 most popular posts from this past week: Tech-Savvy Victim Tracks Laptop Thief, Has Lulz at His Expense 'Blinky' Offers Glimpse of Future Robot 'Helpers' Censorship Goes Both Ways: The Case for an Ex-Gay App AT&T Buys T-Mobile: What Does It Mean for Consumers? Haters Gonna Hate, But Rebecca Black Still Makes Stacks of Cash Prankster Duo Lovingly Retouches ... Read more »

Lightsaber Badminton, Ernest Hemingway Weighs in on Yelp

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: How did a British polytechnic graduate become the design genius behind £200billion Apple? Ive's lab is Apple's inner sanctum. Here, touch screens control the glass-sided machines in which new products take form. Desks are bare bar the aluminium sheets that ... Read more »

Facebook Is the Most Successful CIA Plan Ever, OS X Turns Ten

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: 5 1/2 Questions for Bnter's Lauren Leto Facebook is too stagnant to convey anyone's personality and as users start to realize how much richer their network is through sites which focus on genuine representation, they'll drift away. Satellite Art: One Woman Tries to ... Read more »

'Color' App Takes Your Photos Public, Shows Users in 150-Foot Radius

Lala founder Bill Nguyen's new 'Color' app is keeping the app hype machine rolling by raising $41 million... before launch. The Lala founder's app arrived today at Color.com (the domain having been purchased for a cool $350,000) with commentators claiming that it will "transform the way people communicate with each other." Nguyen has been given huge media exposure by everyone from the New York ... Read more »

Stephen Tillman's Dying Tube TVs, 'Guitar Hero' Infographic Traces Middle East Protests

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: A message to you, Larry Yes, it would be nice to share Google's view of itself as a selfless, righteous defender of the public's right to unbridled creativity, but the fact that the company just grabbed a frivolous patent on the use of logo doodles makes it clear that ... Read more »

xtranormal Costumes Spotted at SXSW, TEROOS Puts Telepresence on Your Shoulder

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: 4chan's Chaos Theory Through the sheer force of its numbers, 4chan has somehow managed to establish the Internet's top memes-some of which are as important to the American consciousness at this point as Hollywood movies, and they've done it over and over. The Wu ... Read more »

Twitter Turns Five, Kutiman Returns with 'My Favorite Color'

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: The Evolving Mission of Google Today's quiz: What company derives 96 percent of its revenue from advertising, has a video platform that is currently negotiating with the National Basketball Association, a movie studio and various celebrities, and is developing a ... Read more »

The Future of Larry Page at Google, First-Person 'Mario'

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: Goodbye, Foreign Bureau When crises like this are happening, its easier to turn off Twitter and look to media that demand less participation, like video streams. The NYT paywall arrives I, for one, prefer the experience of reading nytimes.com on the web on my iPad, ... Read more »

Behind Bill Gates's $350M Deal in 1986, Five Minutes of 'Fez'

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: The Way We Get Bailed Out of Jail Now at SxSW: Over Twitter It's Nick's meddling girlfriend again: Brian is in Austin jail, for real. Gave me his twitter password on his one phonecall. Go help him! SXSW 2011: The internet is over But you can develop a problematic ... Read more »

Super Mario Bros. 'Garden State' Edition, Discovery's Final Mission

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: Announcing the Permanent NYC Startup Bus Soon we'll roll out a train of warring investor buses. Like, Union Square Ventures will have this tricked-out John Madden-style bus with purple-tinted windows. The Betaworks bus will be called the RSS Real Time and will serve ... Read more »

Sci-Fi Movie Interfaces: Why Transparent Screens Are Miserable to Use

Yesterday, we sat in on the excellent 'Made it So (Interface Makers in Movies)' panel at SXSW with Chris Noessel, Mike Fink, Mark Coleran and David Lewandowski, some of the designers behind the on-screen interfaces in movies ranging from '80s classics 'Blade Runner' and 'WarGames' to modern day blockbusters 'Avatar' and 'Tron: Legacy.' The panel followed a simple question and answer format, ... Read more »

William Shatner Explains Microprocessors, Surf the Web in Anaglyph 3-D

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: Why We Don't Have Female Characters Well, it's hard to make female characters. First of all, in order to accommodate female characters in our pipeline, you'd basically need to re-code the entire engine from the ground up. Because the technology we have today just ... Read more »

Geeks Find Kinect Tesla Coil Hack Glory, Sidestep Secures Your Mac Over Wi-Fi

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: Cory Doctorow: How free translates to business survival I know that whenever I read on a multi-purposed networked screen like a laptop, there's this kind of nagging awareness in the back of my mind that one or two alt tabs would bring me to a man putting a lemon ... Read more »

Google Previews Updated Blogger Interface at SXSW

Tumblr and Twitter may be the hot sharing sites in 2011, but millions of bloggers got their start on Google's free Blogger, a site that hasn't had major visual refresh since 2004. Google previewed Blogger's redesign at SXSW, and it looks like the classic blues and oranges are out in favor of whiter and wider writing tools. No word on launch date, but Google says it's coming in 2011. ... Read more »
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On the plane to LA for my 13th E3. Will have to photoshop Jason on all my photos this week.

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Let's get to 1k followers. What do you like best? Ambiguous laments about my personal life, snide cultural commentary, or, you know, fashun?

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Manu Ginobli looks like Roberto Benigni.