1. LINK Not With A Pop, But With A Whimper businessinsider.com The tech bubble, to the extent that we’re in one, is doing something interesting: as it contracts, the companies taking the biggest hit are also its most vilified. Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/not-with-a-pop-but-with-a-whimper
View this image › A Delaware-based company that didn’t exist 20 years ago has quietly become one of the major players in surveillance infrastructure — but they’ve been so under the radar that leading online privacy and security expert Chris Soghoian, a fellow at the Open Society Foundations, calls them the “Keyzer Söze of surveillance.”…
View this image › Photo by Dustin Diaz. Flickr: polvero / Via uptownalmanac.com SAN FRANCISCO — Walk around the city these days, and it’s not hard to pick out the tech crowd: they seem to take special pride branding themselves in company t-shirts, tote bags, backpacks, jackets, hats, whatever can fit a logo. But one…
View this image › Like millions of other American online daters and every third Brooklynite, I use OkCupid as my primary means of receiving “hey gurl, ur sexy” notes from potential paramours and reminders that my father was probably right when he said that the key to a happy love life is learning how to…
1. This is the landing page you’re taken to when you log in. View this image › 2. It features a horizontal “stream” that acts as the main newsfeed. View this image › 3. Similarly to Twitter, you can connect to users and users can choose to connect with you back. View this image ›…
View this image › Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, Ev Williams and Jason Goldman accept the award for “Best Blog” on behalf of Twitter at SXSW 2007. Photo by Scott Beale. Via Flickr: laughingsquid This past January, two of Twitter’s founders appeared on Charlie Rose. After stepping back from the microblogging service — it’s now valued…
View this image › It’s all about mind-altering substances today at the video store. And who doesn’t like to have their mind altered every now and again? View this image › If you’re in the mood for more Edward Norton than one movie should be able to handle: “Leaves of Grass” (2010, Tim Blake Nelson)…
1. Juicehead Aubrey Plaza View this image › dr-robert420.deviantart.com 2. Kiera Knightley holding some heavy barbells View this image › dr-robert420.deviantart.com 3. JWOWW and Snooki turn the Jersey Shore to muscle beach View this image › dr-robert420.deviantart.com 4. Buff Rihanna View this image › dr-robert420.deviantart.com 5. Swole Emma Watson View this image › dr-robert420.deviantart.com 6.…
View this image › google.com Lulu, an app exclusively for girls that allows users to search a database of guys and view what other girls have said about him (or add reviews of their own), launched yesterday in the U.S. A new Lulu user logs in through Facebook, which is used to “ensure” that users…
If you don’t know, Bang With Friends is an app that hooks you up with your friends who are also down to bang. It advertises as being somewhat anonymous to people who aren’t signed up for the app. View this image › thedrum.com Well, that’s not exactly true, here’s how to do it: Lane Becker…
View this image › People attend the PlayStation 4 launch event in New York, February 20, 2013. Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters Here are some words and phrases that were not spoken last night during Sony’s press conference, which may be still going on, announcing the PlayStation 4: Multimedia, Television Show, Movie, Win the Living Room,…
View this image › Emily Maynard, left, and Jef Holm on “The Bachelorette: After the Final Rose.” Spoilers revealed the winner weeks before finale but ratings were still highest ABC has seen in years. Rick Rowell / AP If you’ve spent any time online in the past week or so, you’ve been inundated by spoilers.…
It’s very, very easy to accidentally spread misinformation on social media, especially when it comes to natural disasters — as shown by this oft-blogged image from a Brunei storm. Here are some pictures to watch out for in Sandy coverage. 1. View this image › disasterandemergencysurvival.com This is often credited as Hurricane Isabel, but Snopes…
1. LINK Watch Mark Zuckerberg Explain Facebook As If It Came Out Yesterday facebook.retailroadshow.com This video may be aimed at investors, but it’s still dazzling to watch Zuckerberg, who as of today is worth $18.7 billion dollars, basically sell the service that nearly a billion people already use. If you ran into him in the…
View this image › A few years ago my dad discovered a Nepali/Tibetan restaurant in St. Paul that served yak. Not being a terribly adventurous eater, yak seemed pretty damn exotic. But the first time he tried yak, he loved it. He started comparing yak to other new things he tried. “That pasta was good,…
View this image › http://vimeo.com/54658957Video available at: http://vimeo.com/54658957. Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/an-entire-afternoon-of-airport-landings-in-just-26
View this image › A new dating app called App Night Stand is, in the words of one of its creators, Siarhei Samuseu, “an alarm clock, but with a twist.” The twist is this: It’s an alarm clock that wakes you up at an agreed-upon time along with a Facebook friend (or a “single in…
1. Mobile phones are pretty great. Bars are great, too. But this is a problem: View this image › Via blog.sndimg.com 2. So Brazilian art director, Mauricio Perussi, came up with a crafty solution. It’s called The Offline Glass. View this image › Via cargocollective.com 3. This is how it works: View this image ›…
View this image › Ford / Via blog.hemmings.com In retrospect, it’s impossible to take the “atomic car” seriously. Ford’s 1958 Nucleon concept lives today only as an emblem of a particular thread of American culture — one in which you could say optimism, founded and unfounded, was the overriding theme and animating force. There were…
View this image › Via gramfeed.com This is Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. It’s the most photographed location on Instagram, two slots above Disneyland, three above Times Square, and seven above the Eiffel Tower. The second most Instagrammed location is a mall in Bangkok, and the rest are American sports stadiums. Since just before the…