Why Wait For The Opportunity? Create Your Own!
As many people who work in a creative field like design and development may already know, sometimes our clients just do not understand what it is that we are trying to achieve. The boundaries that we are seeking to push are not ones they approve of for their project, so our creative ideas get backburnered until we can find an appropriate project as well as an agreeable client where you can fle
Thunderbolt: Everything You Need To Know
It might not have seemed like we needed another way to connect computer components, but when you take a look at Thunderbolt, which made its debut on MacBook Pros today, you’ll see it’s going to be a welcome addition.Formerly called Light Peak, this new way of connecting displays and peripherals is so much faster than its predecessors, it will probably take over as the preferred way to hook up d
New Photo App Explores the World’s Disappearing Cultures
Volumes of professional photography have long been reserved for the coffee table, but Fotopedia, the maker of an online collaborative photo encyclopedia, is bringing this type of content to the iPad and iPhone. The company’s third photo app launches Tuesday and contains 1,300 photos of 40 unique cultures by professional photographer Jaime Ocampo-Rangel.The app is one part of Ocampo-Rangel’s 12-
How Social Media Helped Toy Story 3 Win at the Box Office
The Behind the Social Media Campaign Series is supported by Oneupweb, an award-winning agency specializing in search marketing, social media and design for mid-to-enterprise level brands. Download Oneupweb’s free whitepaper, “The Bloody Truth about Social Media.”Toy Story 3 was one of the biggest films of 2010. As Pixar’s 11th full-length film, the third and final chapter in the world of Buzz L
Redbox Cooking Up a Netflix Streaming Clone
Not content to be left out of the booming streaming movie game, kiosk king Redbox is heading online, the LA Times reports. An upcoming service will offer monthly discs plus streaming. So, pretty much like Netflix. [Slashgear via LA Times] More »
Redbox is planning a Netflix-like subscription streaming movie service, could partner with Amazon or Walmart
According to Company Town, Redbox prez Mitch Lowe informed analysts yesterday that its upcoming online movie service would be subscription-based like Netflix and Hulu Plus instead of charging per-movie like iTunes, Zune or Amazon VOD (we can guess why.) Users would pay the monthly fee to stream to various devices (perhaps to the new iPhone and Android apps) and access discs at the kiosks. Lowe me
Levchin and Gurley Say That Next Big Company Will Capture The Interest Graph
Yesterday, at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, Googler and PayPal founder Max Levchin and Benchmark GP Bill Gurley discussed “game-changing technology” and the future of the Web. Emblematic of today’s mindset, they attacked this rather large topic by comparing the strengths and objectives of Google and Facebook, using the latter’s jaw-dropping stats (500+ mill
Justin Bieber, MTV & Facebook Take On Cyberbullying
video Justin Bieber has teamed up with MTV and Facebook to take a stand against cyberbullying.The teen star called for young people to post an action to MTV’s Draw Your Line, a virtual map and support forum that tracks efforts to stop digital abuse. To spur participation, Bieber is offering a chance to win one of 14 prizes just by posting an action. The contest lasts until March 31.Draw Your Line is
Angry Birds Windows Phone and 3D Versions Coming
Angry Birds for Windows Phone 7 and a 3D version of the popular game appear to be on the way.A report from Pocket-lint‘s cites an interview with Peter Vesterbacka, the self-styled “Mighty Eagle” at Angy Birds creator Rovio. In the interview, Vesterbacka confirms that the company is working on a Windows Phone 7 version of the game, but that Microsoft has been holding up the release. “Let’s just
You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This Book Is About You
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned” - William Congreve “And although there’s pain in my chest / I still wish you the best with a / Fuck you” – Cee-Lo Green Yesterday afternoon, I received a copy of ‘Inside WikiLeaks’ – Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s tell-all book about his time working with Julian Assange. It’s not hard to understand why Domscheit-Berg’s publisher thought I might appreciate i
A Behind the Scenes Look of Pixar
The NY Times got a rare glimpse at Pixar's animation process and even better, a tour of Pixar's offices. It's filled with delicious nuggets from the most consistent (and probably best) movie studio of our time. Did you know Steve Jobs designed a building there? Or that they have a secret speakeasy room? Or enough milk and cereal for the apocalyps
True Ventures Funds Orabrush, the Justin Bieber of Mouth Care
Now here’s a funding deal you don’t get to write about everyday. True Ventures has invested $2.5 million in a tongue scraper. That’s not high-tech jargon for, say, a scummy site that steals private data off of your social networks and sells it to marketers. True Ventures newest portfolio company is a small consumer package good company out of Provo, Utah that sold a million tongue brushes last yea
Vega Strategies: Loan Request To Ben Shalom Bernanke: Divide One Upcoming Day's Worth of Asset Purchases Between Wall Street and American Entrepreneurs
From Vega StrategiesLoan Request to Ben Shalom Bernanke! Divide One Upcoming Day's Worth of Asset Purchases Between Wall Street and American Entrepreneurs! (pdf) (scribd)Humble Loan RequestBen Shalom Bernanke, we the entrepreneurs of the United States of America request that you divide one upcoming day's worth of asset purchases between Wall Street and us, to wit, may the tiny sum of $3 billion, m
A Sideways View of the World
I am back from Europe. VALUEx was a terrific event, 50 or so value investors from around the world got together and shared ideas in a TED/Wikipedia-like environment. I had a chance to see some old friends, made some new ones, and learned a lot. Here are pictures from the event (I am still learning how to use my new P7000 Nikon, so the pictures are so-so). My brother Alex and I travelled from
2 Guys, 1 Passion Project & a Gold Mine of Movie Data
This post is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark as a new part of the Spark of Genius series that focuses on a new and innovative startup each day. Every Thursday, the program focuses on startups within the BizSpark program and what they’re doing to grow.This isn’t your average startup story, nor are Nathan Chase and Jeremy Thompson your average founders. No, this is the story of movie ranking
Top 10 Funny YouTube Videos About Twitter
video Twitter is a great source of comedy. Whether it’s poking fun at the platform’s self-promotion potential, giggling at celebs’ bizarre tweets, or marveling at the everyday minutia, Twitter is built for fun, and to be made fun of.We’ve scoured YouTube to bring you 10 amusing videos all about the micro-blogging service that range from parody to satire, all the way through to just downright silly.The n
HP Unveils the Palm Pre 3, TouchPad Tablet and More
HP is about to launch a wave of new webOS devices, including the Palm Pre 3 and its answer to the Apple iPad.We’re here live at HP’s webOS event in San Francisco, where the company is expected to unveil a series of new phones and a tablet called the TouchPad. HP has decked out the Herbst Pavilion in San Francisco for the main event, and the room is filled with journalists, analysts, partners,
How the Social Media World Reacted to Super Bowl Ads
video It was a good year for Super Bowl commercials all around, according to data released the day after the big game.Online discussion about Super Bowl commercials increased 9% in the 12-hour period following the game’s start, compared to last year, according to marketing agency Zeta Interactive. Most discussion focused on the game itself, followed by ads, Christina Aguilera’s rendition of the natio
AOL Buys HuffPo for $315 Million
The Huffington Post, Ariana Huffington’s news and political focused website, has been acquired by AOL for $315 million — $300 million cash, the rest in stock. Huff Po began in 2005 with a $1 million investment; it has since grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country. The NYT called the deal “an unlikely pairing of two online media giants.” It is the company’s largest
Facebook Turns Seven: From Colleges To Cairo, You’ve Come A Long Way Baby
From founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room at Harvard to movie theaters across the US to the cover of TIME magazine to the fingertips of protestors in Cairo, Facebook has probably had more influence over our day to day lives than any other startup this decade. To celebrate its seven years of incredible growth, the company has put up a custom candle graphic up on its Facebook wall, with the message,
GetGlue Now Seeing 12 Million Checkins and Ratings Per Month
Entertainment checkin service GetGlue is releasing its latest batch of numbers Thursday, shedding insight into how the AdaptiveBlue product is performing on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web.Most notable, perhaps, is that GetGlue closed 11 new partnerships, including its first major video game partnership with Xbox. In total, the startup now has partnerships with 30 networks and eight movie stu
First Impressions Using Android Honeycomb, Google’s iPad Rival
This morning Google held an event to showcase Android Honeycomb, the new version of the mobile OS that is focused on tablets. There wasn’t much news around the OS — we’ve seen it previewed in a few demos — but the team did show off some of Honeycomb’s slickest features, like widgets and an improved 3D rendering engine. But what about actually using the tablet OS? For all the whiz-bang previews we
Rumor: Amazon could launch unlimited movie streaming in February, no major studios on board yet
Just a few days after we got an early peek at Amazon's unlimited movie streaming setup, the LA Times reports "people familiar with the matter" say we could see an official launch by the end of this month. Amazon apparently pushed back its original date for technical reasons and while it tries to acquire more content to take on Netflix. Amazon reportedly has yet to lock up content from any of the s
Does the Daily Change Everything?
There really isn’t a person who comes out of print–or television news, for that mattter–who doesn’t want to see Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily do everything the press baron talked about in his press conference introduction today. Murdoch hopes his new venture will unlock the hidden space where print will thrive again. Love or hate News Corp’s content, we all long for the days when print created a mil
Another Clue Suggests Amazon Prime's Movie-Streaming Service Is On Its Way
After talk of a movie-streaming service from Amazon has been going on for years, the Financial Times has today reported that yes, they are about to launch a Netflix-defying service. Supposedly Amazon Prime members will be able to access it (just another brilliant reason to sign up to Prime membership, in my opinion), though it's not known if there'll be any fees associated with stre
Want To Edit Out All the Ads in Times Square?
Online creation tools company Aviary has teamed up with digital marketing and creative agency The Barbarian Group and journalist Morgan Spurlock to create “No Ad: New York,” an online editor that lets users remove all ads from a virtual representation of Times Square.If you’re a New York resident, you most likely avoid Times Square like the over-lit, tourist-sodden place that it is. Enter, “No
The Flim-Flam Men - With Artwork by Banzai7 Labs
The Flim-Flam MenByCognitive Dissonance Artwork by WilliamBanzai7 I suspect if average Joe or Jane were asked to identify modern examples of ‘Flim-Flam Men’ most would point to Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford. Or even to a long list of Too Big To Fail bank CEO’s past and present plus various corporate, government and Fed officials who have graced our lives over the last ten or more years. And yo