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Nerdy America, are you starved for Olympics coverage? We’ve got your back: Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on how you can watch the Olympics online from the U.S. for free or for cheap, zero technical skills required.
It’s easier than you’d …
Wildfire, the social media startup that’s making huge strides in online marketing — Facebook marketing in particular — has just been snapped up by Google for an undisclosed price.
(Web rumors peg the deal at $250 million; however, a Google …
Yahoo has just launched the newest version of IntoNow, its TV companion app, and it’s bringing a boatload of new features to tablet and smartphone devices.
IntoNow is the media-centric company’s television sidekick “experience.” It brings avid TV fans a …
As most onlookers expected, former Yahoo interim CEO Ross Levinsohn has left the company following the onboarding of new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. It was a somewhat forced resignation; Levinsohn is leaving only because Yahoo passed him up for the …
Codecademy has announced a new lineup of courses to its learn-to-code-online curriculum. This time, the site is letting learners dive into Python — a feat that took a ground-up rebuild of Codecademy’s tech on the server side.
Python has been …
Facebook is preparing to change its photo layout once again, and the new experience is as slick as thumbing through a glossy print magazine, one where you yourself in control of the layout.
In that sense, it’s a perfect fit …
Last.fm has just rolled out the work of a few months: upgrades to some of the site’s most important pages, including the individual pages for artists, albums, and tracks.
The UI changes should make the service easier to use and …
Here’s an amazing eight-minute-long short film we came across. Created by art school grads Daniel Lazo and Eran May-raz as a final school project, the short shows a not-too-unrealistic future wherein we all walk around with contact lens-like devices that …
Let’s face it: We’re all a bunch of lusers without our trusty sysadmins.
Today is the 13th annual Sysadmin Day. The holiday was created by system administrator Ted Kekatos and was first celebrated on July 28, 2000. Basically, it’s the …
“For the first time in history, the Summer Games will be live-streamed in HD through YouTube.” And the crowd went wild!
On the YouTube company blog today, we read that the summer games in London are going to be more …
They’re calling this year’s Olympic games the first to be significantly merged with social media, so it makes sense that Twitter is promoting a new page full of tweets and pictures about and from the London 2012 Olympics.
The company …
PBS has been kicking butt lately with its viral video series (for reference, see this Mr. Rogers clip or the Bob Ross Remix). In a new YouTube vid, PBS gets super meta and tackles the whole concept of memetics and …
Adding video chat features to mobile apps just got a little bit easier with a new release from startup TokBox.
Here’s the deal: Developers can now use TokBox’s open chat tools to add FaceTime-like capabilities to iOS apps using web …
Editor's Pick A short video recap of the week's highlights in tech business: Facebook earnings, Twitter outages, Mountain Lion, and more.
In a $30 million deal, online video publishing company Brightcove has acquired Zencoder, a startup specializing in video encoding.
Like the union between Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, we universally acknowledge the correctness of the match and wonder what took …
Can’t code? Want to learn? Fortunately for you, you’ve got a few online options.
The latest product on the “Get Skillz Fast!” market is Bloc, a startup that promises to turn you from zero to 01001000010001010101001001001111 (that’s “hero” in binary) …
Facebook has been steadily marching toward the one-billion-user mark. Today the company announced that it is very nearly there, with 955 million active monthly users.
Today’s figure represents a 55 million-user increase since April, when the social network had just …
On the heels of Digg’s demise, Facebook is rolling out its Digg-killer feature: a recommendation bar that shows you articles from around the web based on what your friends are reading.
“As a person reads an article, a small pop-up …
If there are two things the Internet loves, and neither of those two things are allowed to be cats, they’re Bob Ross and autotuned remix vids. And PBS just served up the goods on both counts.
Bob Ross, longtime PBS …
Bump‘s apps are great for tapping two phones together to share contact info and photos. Now, the Bump team is unveiling Flock, a new app for sharing group photos easily and quickly with everyone in said group.
Flock identifies the …
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