Advertising regulators in the United Kingdom have suggested that marketers could develop a specific hashtag to indicate that a tweet is a paid promotion. It came after a complaint that two English soccer players had linked to Nike in promotional tweets as part of their sponsorship deal, but the commercial element wasn’t made clear. The [...]
A seemingly innocent picture up-loader is confronted about her double life. [nicepieceproductions]
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The people running this Australian-based online store are my new heros. If a visitor purchases a product on the site while using IE 7, he gets charged an additional 6.8% tax on top of his order. And while being on the subject of Internet Explorer, there is still 1% of our visitors that use IE [...]
Amazon and Google are battling over you. Safeway and Walmart are in virtual conflict. And apps are better than sex or shopping. Those are just some of the lessons we’ve learned with the publication of the applications for new top level domains. As we covered earlier this week, there have been just short of 2,000 [...]
A dot-com speculator looks set to battle Google for the rights to operate an unusual website address domain: .lol Frank Schilling of Uniregistry and Google have both confirmed they’ve applied for the top level domain as part of a process that will eventually mean virtually infinite domains rather than the current system of country codes [...]
This guy is really, really good. I just love the look of pure joy he has on his face during the whole video! An awesome tribute to the original Trololo guy, Eduard Khil, who passed away last week at the age of 77. [331Erock]
Yep, that’s certainly how I feel when trying to reset my passwords. [Via Buzzfeed]
Dark Matter Fanzine is a wonderful independent fanzine coming out from Melbourne, Australia to which I have a personal connection, and it is a publication that I adore. Last year I put on a play in the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2011 called A Stitch in Time. True to the geek form, the play personified a [...]
Password security is at the height of importance for individuals, but even MORE important for the people who you have those passwords with. So you can understand why it’s a a bit scary that the social networking site for business connections, LinkedIn, was hacked and just this side of 6,458,020 passwords were accessed. An unnamed [...]
Remember the Internet? No? Well allow us to remind you. Sit back and enjoy this musical journey through cyberspace. So geeks, the big question: Emperor Palpatine VS. Gandalf – Who would win in a fight? [MondoMedia]
Back in March, my pal Michael Tapp (Who shot some pretty awesome pictures for us at New York Comic Con) went to SXSW 2012. To go there, he hoped on board a StartupBus alongside a bunch of entrepreneurs, who all worked together during the 72-hour trip to build an app before they arrived at the [...]