If you load up Google Maps, you may notice that they have removed the “Hybrid” button and replaced it with “Terrain”.
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The popular DVD ripper aXXo is a BitTorrent cult figure, despised by some, worshiped by others. An estimated one million people download aXXo
s rips every month and his name is among the most searched keywords on all BitTorrent sites. Not surprisingly, rumors start to spread when there is no official aXXo release for a while.
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Google has announced two new features for Google Maps that mimic features in Google Earth, begging the question: is Google Earth on borrowed time?
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I Can Has Cheezburger? is looking for an intern for their company and the job description includes the Chuck Norris awsumness scale along with bathing a happy cat.
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Developers can leverage the reusable JavaScript widgets to cut down on development time. It also has rich syndication API and built-in support for versioning and upgrading of applications.
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“Its true some of Diggs functionality appears broken at the moment. Fortunately, its not critical functionality, so we will survive. It is a pain however.”
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Imagine a trip to the airport without having to slip off your shoes. A scanner using T-rays, a harmless form of electromagnetic radiation, could make that possible.
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In a recent post here, we examined the reasons that people feel compelled to blog. From the post and the comments it received, it became clear that quite a few people are blogging to make money. The reality is that it is difficult to make money in the long tail. In this post we examine […]
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Programs like this seem to illustrate the way that a long-tail economy can take the form of countless points of distribution feeding into the same major players that already dominated the old economy. Monopoly is a net-negative in terms of social impact, something that any of countless Ticketmaster-haters can tell you.
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Google has announced the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, a new contest that aims to introduce secondary school and high school students to open source software development.
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"We started working on developing the site back in October 2004," Kevin Rose told ZDNet "We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of digg. The site launched to the world on December 5th 2004."
Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered. “Diggnation” would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcast.