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Social media blogger/designer who loves sharing ideas and making awesome stuff. I write for @SiteProNews @BlogHerald @Socialnomics. Health tweets: @foodierx For the as-yet unacquainted, Reddit is a social media site–of sorts. While not as widely used as Facebook or Twitter, the content sharing site boasts a huge pool of participants who post about and discuss…
To Russia’s largest social network, putting a price tag on a woman’s photo that was put up on a public group without her permission is “just a bad joke.” Rate the Heifer, a small online community on VKontakte, Russia’s version of Facebook, has spurred a battle between chauvinists and feminists by asking users to put a virtual price tag on…
Photo Barnes & Noble will now keep the Nook business. Credit Scott Olson/Getty Images Barnes & Noble said on Thursday that it would spin off its college bookstores business into a separate publicly traded company, changing up its breakup plans. Originally, the retailer had planned to part with the education division as part of a…
Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Way, the WIRED headline began. Sure, I’ll go with that. It continued, Can Skateboarding Legend Rodney Mullen Help It? And there it is: the idea that skate culture could energize a languid tech world. Is skateboarding the EpiPen the Valley needs? No. Please no. Not now. The last time skateboarding was a…
cache hit 1091:single/related:5f5a4fba033d6dae2cb3fb65e384b257 empty Verizon is just so mad at the Federal Communications Commission today that a normal press release wouldn’t do.After all, Verizon issues so many press releases denouncing the FCC for trying to regulate telecommunications that today’s vote on net neutrality required a special one to make sure it would be remembered. So Verizon wrote…
The gamer punches in play after endless play of the Atari classic Space Invaders. Though an interminable chain of failures, the gamer adapts the gameplay strategy to reach for the highest score. But this is no human with a joystick in a 1970s basement. Artificial intelligence is learning to play Atari games. The Atari addict…
It’s no secret that the media industry has been high on the list of businesses that have been disrupted by the Internet and is struggling to find a new footing. For a few years, things appeared to be settling down a bit, as the music, written word, and video businesses seemed to be on promising digital…
Coca-Cola’s Puerto Rican operation just launched a new ad campaign that involves some pretty awesome URLs. Coca Cola se apropia de la felicidad de los emojis en mobile. Creado por DDB, Puerto Rico. #Emoticoke pic.twitter.com/d5hgEkTkXz — RedactoresP (@RedactoresP) February 19, 2015 Admittedly, we couldn’t care less about #branding, Coca Cola, or its stubborn Sisyphean campaign to…
You’re in a rush. Weaving through the maze of slowpokes on the sidewalk, you’re bypassing everyone—sluggish seniors, torpid tourists, short-legged schoolchildren—launching over them like an Olympic hurdler. Today, there are no pedestrians. There are only obstacles to be overcome. And—look at you, Speedy Gonzalez—you arrive just in time. You’re no Urban Olympian, however. You were…
We all know that a secure password helps keep your personal information out of the hands of hackers and malicious software. And we all know how to create a powerful password–about 15 characters, with a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. But we aren’t following this advice. In January, the password…