We've discovered an earlier version of the redesigned Gawker's promotional video narrated by "infotainer" and business-card guru Joel Bauer. Gawker: it doesn't fit in a Rolodex.
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A beating of wings
Flying towards the future, eyes fixed on the past.
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The story is, it's not about the stories.
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A new network protocol offers a surprising way to make messages travel more efficiently.
Read More »To Facebook you are simple, seamless, and informal
Talking about the new Facebook mail system at today�s live event, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook director of engineering Andrew �Boz� Bosworth keep using words like �simple, seamless, and informal.� But does the new system promote a dumbed-down version of sociability?
Read More »Zadie Smith, Facebook, and social coding
Zadie Smith's dissection of The Social Network is smart and illuminating. But when she turns to the broader question of the cultural and human dimensions of social networking, things get complicated.
Read More »Morning groove: James Blake, “Limit to Your Love”
Electronic musician James Blake covers the Feist song "Limit to Your Love"�I've been haunted by this track for a couple of days, and I've finally figured out why.
Read More »Woman Kills Her Baby for Interrupting Farmville Session
If you shake your baby to death for ANY reason, you have more problems to worry about than Farmville addiction, but this is a case of Zynga devotion taken to a whole new level. 22 year-old Jacksonsville, Florida resident Alexandra V. Tobias shook her baby to death after the three-month old Dylan Lee Edmondson had been crying during a rousing ...
Read More »MySpace Unveils New Design
We knew that MySpace had a new redesign in the works, and their redesigned logo ruffled a few feathers, but their newly revealed redesign has garnered some positive reviews from the web community. MySpace appears to be aiming at distinguishing themselves as the music/video/media sharing answer to Facebook’s TMI status-sharing privacy-crushing wall-updating ways. Topic pages will provide stylized aggregations of ...
Read More »Let’s Spend Mark Zuckerberg’s Money
A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? 6.9 billion dollars. That’s cool. And that’s how much Mark Zuckerberg is worth if you listen to financial projections. If you had Zuck’s mad FaceMash cash, what would you spend? This helpful little infographic makes some suggestions to Zuckerberg on how he should spend his money. Let’s put it this way. ...
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