Facebook will face a new legal challenge from Europe with the Telegraph reporting that a new law will prohibit the company from using users' information to produce bespoke advertising. The new directive from the European Commission would mean that Facebook would be unable to sell individuals' in... Read more...
Carrier IQ provides software for carriers to track issues on your phone to help make the service you pay for better. So why in the world are so many people spun up about the software? The major news of the week is obviously the Carrier IQ controversy (see ZDNet related links below for lots of cover... Read more...
Directed by Sean Anders. With Josh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, Clark Duke A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online. Director: Sean Anders Writers: Sean Anders (screenplay), John Morris(screenplay), Read more...
We’ve heard time and again how time-consuming Facebook can be. Nevertheless, I always find the statistics mind-blowing: Americans spent a total of 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook in May 2011, according to the latest data from Nielsen. How does this compare to other websites? Well, American... Read more...
S/O to Hulkshare btw... On August 18, popular D.C. rapper Wale dropped a brand new freestylejust one day after he released his latest mixtape, The Eleven One Eleven Theory. Spitting over the instrumental for AZ’s 1995 hit, “Sugar Hill,” Wale took a moment to name-drop thos... Read more...
While Dennis and Charlie track down an annoying Paddy's patron the old-fashioned way, Dee and Mac cyberstalk him. Frank is online as well, trying to boost business at the bar. Things go viral, and not in a good way for Frank. Episode 7 - "Chardee MacDennis: The Game of Games" below... (mo... Read more...
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends limited television for children - and discourages it altogether for children under age 2. A new study in the October, 2011, issue of the journal, Pediatrics, finds that some TV shows may be worse than others. The study, "The Immediate Impact of D... Read more...
4chan and Canv.as founder Christopher Poole thrashed Google and Facebook for their reliance on real-world identities on their social networks, saying that it "degrades humanity" at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today. "We're about to sacrifice something that's valuable and special, and the co... Read more...
YouPorn has been dethroned as the king of porn online. When we first looked at 008, YouPorn was emerging as a leader with very little competition, and it continued to reign through the following year. Now, at 25.7 million unique monthly visitors, PornHub is the new, unrivaled YouTube of porn. ... Read more...