April 2010
Volkswagen rolls out foldable 'Bik.e' electric... →
Well, it looks like it’s the season for automakers to show off electric bicycle concepts, with Volkswagen now following Lexus’ lead with its own “Bik.e” concept. Unlike Lexus’ hybrid concept, this one is a full-fledged electric bicycle (sans pedals), and it boasts a few innovations of its own, not the least of which is that it’s able to fold up and fit...
Linking Customer Loyalty With Social Networking →
PEPSICO wants to sell its customers sodas whether they are near a grocery store, a restaurant or a gas station. With a new partnership that weaves its loyalty program into the location-based network Foursquare, PepsiCo gets a live notification when its customers are close to those sites, and can present offers that get them into the stores.
A Dream Come True: Play As Megaman/Link in Super... →
Geocities-izer - Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was... →
love it!
WePay - Collect Money, Group Payments, Collect... →
Helping groups collect and manage money.
Are Tea Partiers Racist? →
A new study shows that the movement’s supporters are more likely to be racially resentful.
After Success in Boulder, Open Angel Forum Marches... →
The talk of the venture capital and entrepreneurial towns these days is the Open Angel Forum which after its second event in Boulder, Colorado is now announcing two more events in New York and San Francisco. Brainchild of Jason Calacanis, the Open Angel Forum (OAF) is an opportunity for startups to get face-time with active big-time venture capitalists and angel investors - all for the low, low...
Punk Not Profit - music blog →
Great music blog with lots of rare stuff to download!
Optimize wireless reception from a distance →
Ever need to optimize the reception at a specific point on a wireless network?
Bringing Google, Facebook, Twitter Together: Third... →
This March has been a busy time for the leading architects of the social web. Twitter announced its @Anywhere at Chirp. Meanwhile, Facebook brought the Open Graph protocol to light the path of social sharing and separately announced support for OAuth 2.0 at F8.
How to Delete Facebook Applications (and Why You... →
At Facebook’s f8 conference, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company was removing restrictions on user data retention within Facebook applications. Previously, the company had a policy where developers couldn’t “store and cache any data for more than 24 hours,” Zuckerberg said while speaking to the audience of Facebook developers crowded into the San...
Final Design for Transbay Terminal Unveiled →
Meet the guy who supposedly lost 4G iPhone →
General public, meet Gray Powell. Gray Powell, meet the world. See, according to Gizmodo, Gray is the unfortunate Apple employee who lost a prototype next-gen iPhone in a San Francisco Bay Area bar. The supposed carelessness has sparked a flurry of cloak- and dagger-style discussion in the blogosphere, among tech pundits, and, of course, on Twitter.
I want one of these!! →
Gang Starr Rapper Guru Dead at 43 →
The groundbreaking rapper succumbed to cancer Monday night.
Google Chrome Ditches Http:// →
When you see some text prefixed by “http://” you automatically know that what follows is a web address, as defined by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The question is — since most web addresses are easily recognizable anyway — do you really need it?
This Is Apple's Next iPhone →
You are looking at Apple’s next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It’s the real thing, and here are all the details.
Can Yahoo nab Foursquare for $125 million? →
You have to give Yahoo an A for effort, if perhaps the ultimate grade in its ongoing quest to buy hot mobile start-up Foursquare is an F.
EXCLUSIVE: The Day Einstein Died (PICS) →
Albert Einstein, the genius physicist whose theories changed our ideas of how the universe works, died 55 years ago, on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and cremation were intensely private affairs, and only one photographer managed to capture the events of that extraordinary day: LIFE magazine’s Ralph Morse. Armed with his camera and a case of scotch — to...
Has Steve Jobs gone mad? →
The hottest topic in tech these days — and the lead item all weekend in Techmeme — is an obscure clause in Apple’s (AAPL) latest Developer Program License Agreement, the document programmers must conform to if they want to be part of the bonanza that is the iTunes App Store (185,000 apps and counting).
Approved! Opera Mini is in the Apple App Store. →
Opera just announced that their popular Mini mobile browser is now finally available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Cool Dentist Doesn't Give A Shit About Patients'... →
BERKELEY, CA—Cool Berkeley-area dentist Marvin Wilson, DDS, has grown in popularity lately due to his laid-back attitude toward regular brushing and flossing, which he “couldn’t give two shits about,” according to sources. “I asked him if I should be brushing differently, and he said people should just brush in whatever way makes them happy,” recalls longtime...
To Sit Or Not To Sit: Do Players Owe Fans... →
It’s that time of year again: The time when NBA teams, secure in their playoff destiny, start phoning in their remaining regular season games. But are these millionaires really just robbing you, John Q. Slob, of your hard-earned minimum wages?
Twitter Has a Plan to Make Money With Ads →
Twitter will unveil on Tuesday a much-anticipated plan for making money from advertising, finally answering the question of how the company expects to turn its exponential growth into revenue.
Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1... →
Many developers are up in arms about a new policy from Apple that mandates all iOS applications to be written in either a flavor of C or JavaScript. It’s original motivation is apparently to prevent Adobe’s imminent Flash-to-iOS compiler in CS5 from working, but the collateral damage is much greater than that.
Adobe: “Go Screw Yourself Apple” →
The claws are out. Adobe’s Platform Evangelist, Lee Brimelow retaliated today against Apple blocking Flash developers on the iPhone with a post on his Flash Blog.
Don Nelson Career Retrospective →
Enough With The 37Signals Babble: Venture... →
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of online project management tools company 37Signals, are famous for advocating the view that online businesses should focus on becoming profitable and never, ever take venture capital.
Embarcadero Zip Line Opens Today - Free to the... →
foursquarefox is giving some love to OVC →
Math Professor’s Video Projector Pranks →
Matthew Weathers, a Mathematics and Computer Science Professor at Biola University in Southern California, has a charming talent for surprising his students with clever video projector pranks.
Don Nelson leaves a legacy as one of NBA's true... →
Don Nelson danced, actually more like half-bounced, after being doused by water Sunday night, an almost embarrassing public show of joy for a man who’s tried not to make a big deal out of this. Nellie couldn’t help getting caught up in the moment.
Google Mail Envelopes by Rahul Mahtani & Yofred... →
Spacewoman power: 4 women in orbit at same time →
Space is about to have a female population explosion.
Russian Soyuz Rockets Heads Toward International... →
Along with NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, two Russian cosmonauts prepare to replace crew members of the ISS. The flight occurs just days before the space shuttle Discovery is scheduled for a 13-day mission to the ISS on April 5.
Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's... →
A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.
