by Thomas Houston on March 28, 2011 at 06:40 PM

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
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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, ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 26, 2011 at 06:00 PM

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 ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 25, 2011 at 07:30 PM

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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 ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 24, 2011 at 07:00 PM

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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 ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 24, 2011 at 01:00 PM

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 ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 23, 2011 at 07:00 PM

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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 ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 22, 2011 at 07:15 PM

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
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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 ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 21, 2011 at 07:40 PM

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
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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 ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 18, 2011 at 07:00 PM

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
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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, ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 17, 2011 at 06:50 PM

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
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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 ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 16, 2011 at 07:30 PM

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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 ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 16, 2011 at 03:15 PM

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, ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 15, 2011 at 07:32 PM

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
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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 ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 14, 2011 at 06:40 PM

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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 ...
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by Thomas Houston on March 14, 2011 at 12:47 PM

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. ...
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