Well, 2008 is over and The Beatles catalog of music still isn’t legally available on the internet. However, a free and legal download of every tune is now available from a very unexpected source. Norwegian broadcasting company NRK is releasing …
Twitter, after suffering from a weekend phishing attack that stole the usernames and passwords of site users, has been hacked, with prominent Twitter accounts affected. Fox News’ account declared for about an hour that “Bill O’Reilly is gay” while Barack …
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, the world’s largest free online encyclopedia, announced that it has passed its fundraising goal of $6 million for 2008. As of today, $6.2 million has been raised from over 125,000 donors.
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Time Warner Cable and Viacom’s drawn-out feud over rights fees could result in 13 million Time Warner and Bright House customers losing 19 popular channels, including Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon, on January 1. That’s right, you could be saying …
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Unsubstantiated rumors are swirling that Microsoft is planning layoffs next year (something we’ve heard too from a good source). One blog, Fudzilla, claims to hear that the company is preparing to lay off as many as 15,000 of its …
Professional video site Hulu saw its traffic plummet after Election Day — a drop as high as 10.8 percent, according to earlier comScore reports. Even though statistics classes emphasize that correlation doesn’t equal causation, it seemed that viewers, who flocked …
Gawker Media, the publisher of popular blogs such as Gawker and Jezebel, has sold its Consumerist blog to Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports.
Consumerist snarkily brings readers product deals and discounts as well as critiques and tips for dealing …
Brightkite, the social network that broadcasts user locations, has announced that it’s now officially integrated with Facebook Connect. Once authorized, the Brightkite application automatically updates your Facebook status and/or news feed with your location, photos, notes and anything else posted …
Hulu will be streaming live coverage of the New Year’s Eve festivities in New York City’s Times Square on Wednesday night starting at 10 p.m. ET. This means you can theoretically watch the famous ball drop from the cozy confines …
Last Saturday, the group Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene! got over 11,000 people to participate in an online protest of Facebook’s decision to remove user-uploaded breastfeeding photos. Dubbed the first ever Mothers International Lactation Campaign (M.I.L.C., get it?), protesters …
Unhappy with the gift cards you got this year? Fret no more, the Internet is here to save you. Sites like Plastic Jungle, Swapagift and Cardavenue let users to buy, trade and sell gift cards.
You can buy gift cards, …
The season two premiere of HBO oddball comedy series Flight of the Conchords has gotten over 250,000 views in the past two weeks on humor web site Funny or Die.
A partnership between HBO and the Funny or Die comedy …
The best viral videos of 2008 weren’t necessarily the ones that got the most page views, in my humble opinion. Or the list below would feature Fred — whose helium and sugar-fueled antics often make me want to chuck my …
Björk, the Icelandic singer known for her quirky tunes and eccentric couture, now has a venture capital fund named after her. That’s right, the woman who dressed up like a swan at the Oscars in 2001 (parodied on Saturday Night …
Mogreet, a company that allows mobile phone users to send video messages just like texts, has sealed a deal with Fox Mobile Entertainment to use short video clips drawn from Fox Searchlight films like Juno and Napoleon Dynamite.
A “mogreet” …
Google Image Search, which already makes it possible to search images by different visual styles, just added clip art and line drawings today, according to the company’s blog.
The site also recently introduced the ability to limit image results to …
YouTube is introducing an expanded high definition video section today. It’s an obvious move, improving the viewing experience and the ability to target advertising; until now HD content was mixed in with videos encoded at YouTube’s regular resolution.
YouTube has …
Flight of the Conchords, a series featuring a quirky musical duo from New Zealand, has just debuted on online video site FunnyorDie.com — a month before its season premiere airs on HBO.
Networks have been giving sneak peeks and releasing …
When anyone says “holiday specials,” I think of of Charlie Brown, Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Hulu’s Holiday offering, however, is a bit more educational — the site is adding three new documentaries to its rapidly-growing roster …
Foodzie, an online marketplace for specialty-food producers and growers, has just raised $1 million in seed funding. The company is part of this year’s group of startups incubated by TechStars.
Foodzie launches with 25 small food artisans and growers on …
