More Kinect Craziness: Mind-Blowing 3D Video Effect
The Kinect may be divisive as a gaming peripheral, but I think we can all agree that a $150 off-the-shelf depth-aware camera system is a good thing. And just in the week since the device launched, pe...
Did Tumblr Just Reverse Take Down 4Chan?
Today was supposed to be the day that 4Chan took down Tumblr. Instead, it looks like 4Chan itself is down. Could Tumblr be behind it? — As you can see, 4Chan is down for everyone, not just me. An...
AOL Just Announced Updates To AOL Mail
AOL just put out a press release announcing updates to AOL Mail. — Weird timing, since it's 12 pm eastern on a Sunday, which is not exactly the prime time for news. — Maybe it is just trying to ge...
Pulse, Popular App, Moves to Attract More Users
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Publishers' offices at print newspapers and magazines are tension-filled places these days, as executives watch readers and advertisers flock to the Web and cellphone screens. — ...
HP Slate 500 sees ‘extraordinary demand,’ experiences six-week shipping delay (update)
Yes, the HP Slate 500 is officially backordered, less than a month after its enterprising debut, and Hewlett-Packard claims it's because of “extraordinary demand,” a phrase that's presently not quanti...
Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar
The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here's how it works: — Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network. In other words, a WiFi network that do...
Self Expression Matters
Erick at Techcrunch sent me this chart yesterday and asked me why Tumblr was growing so fast. I guess it was related to this post he wrote about Tumblr yesterday. — I told him I had no idea but I c...
Irrationality, Welcome Back to Silicon Valley
Wow, finally people noticed. — All it took was Google to supposedly offer $3.5 million to an engineer to not go to Facebook. Now, that is what rational people would call cutting off the nose to spi...
Pope says internet users risk ‘solitude’
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday warned that the Internet does not make people more humane but instead risks increasing a “sense of solitude and disorientation” among “numbed” young people...
Google Maps Privacy: The Street View & Wifi Scorecard
It seems not a week goes by without news of a new investigation into Google's Street View service, or into Google's collection of personal data via unencrypted WiFi networks that occurred over three y...