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Confirmed: Myspace buying Photobucket for $250 Million

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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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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