Inside sources are saying that the rumor which started out yesterday as a sort of pipe dream is true. Myspace is said to be purchasing photo-sharing website Photobucket for a cool $250 million. According to an overzealous Photobucket employee, who remains unnamed, the photo site called for an all-hands staff meeting at 10 am yesterday morning to announce the news ...
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Call Mommy for free on Mother’s Day with Skype, even if she is only a room away
What’s the point of calling your Mommy if you live in the same house? There are two reasons, actually. Laziness It’s free and it’s Skype On May 13th, which is Mother’s Day if you don’t remember (you ungrateful prick), Skype is offering free phone calls to Moms around the globe. Will yours be one of them? — Andrew Dobrow Link
Read More »NBA takes on Second Life
Do you got game? Do you at least have Second Life? Great. Good news for you. The NBA has officially opened shop on the popular social virtual world. The NBA launched its presence in the virtual world of Second Life this morning, following an in-world press conference yesterday that featured NBA commissioner David Stern making the announcement. Built out by ...
Read More »Design your own watch in your own abode
121TIME is an online store that lets you design your own watch to your own specs, without having to leave your desk. They offer the best of customized and personalized Swiss watches, which your wrist will thank you for. Watchmakers are tapping into the internet to sell their custom products, with a order-to-ship time of only 10 days. While you ...
Read More »What will life look like in the future? A 6-minute video prediction
[ev type=”youtube” data=”HrzeiUvDZog”][/ev] The video above is what our lives might very well look like in the coming years. But than again, look how wrong we were in 1900. Though this does seem a little more likely then a weather changing machine. — Andrew Dobrow Link
Read More »Haha, owned: Study finds one in four corporate computers contain porn
Fraud and grand larceny aren’t the only shady events going down in the corporate world nowadays. A study conducted by PixAlert determined that one out of every four computers used by corporations contain pornographic material. Other than the 25% deemed pornographic, an astonishing 46.8% contain fully nude or sexual suggestive material, with 0.3% of that being deemed “illegal”. The study ...
Read More »Geek culture at its geekiest: A visual journey
Here’s a cool little image gallery we found showing a bunch of images which show geek culture at its, well, geekiest. There’s a ton more pics over at the site, but here are a few of our favorites. Some of the pictures have been seen before, but a lot of them are new to us. Check it out. You won’t ...
Read More »Fotowoosh makes any photo 3D
Here’s a really cool new start-up site from FreeWebs that’s still in its alpha stage. Fotowoosh is an online service which turns your images into 3D, zoomable and explorable images. As you can see from the animated pictures above, the service looks really impressive. The 3D image is constructed using VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language), which means that to use ...
Read More »Internet Safety Remote Control can save your child’s virgin eyes
It’s scary what the Internet can do to someone that isn’t prepared to handle its greatness. Children, for example, don’t have the capacity to know when they’ve just been on the damn thing too long. Their eyes could be bleeding and their finger could be blistered from typing, yet they would continue on to the Nickelodeon site, regardless. If you’re ...
Read More »Myspace to hold mock election, becomes even more like high school
Taking place January 1 and 2 of 2008, MySpace will open up their ballots and hold a mock presidential election, available to all users. If it was any other social site, we would possibly consider taking it a bit more seriously, but with the spybot addled, junior high filled, leftist mentality of MySpace, there is no doubt on how the ...
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