Laptop Steering Wheel Desk: A Three Wolf Moon That Can Kill You

Amazon.com is selling a laptop steering wheel desk. I'm not making this up: a laptop steering wheel desk. A desk. You mount. On your steering wheel. In your car. So you can do stuff other than driving while you...

Twitter Adds Geotagging: We Can See Where You're Wasting Time

Twitter has added a geotagging API, so you can tell people where you're tweeting from. This is currently available via your settings page in your Twitter account. Geolocation is opt-in, so don't worry: your boss...

Twilight Tweets: New Moon Social Media Deluge

As the whole (teen) world gets ready for the premiere of New Moon, social media trends have transformed, werewolf-like, into an out-of-control viral marketing monster. Just look at this graph, showing mentions of...

Microsoft Attempts Viral Video and Fails

So we're supposed to believe that someone just happened to walk into the Microsoft store in Mission Viejo, California, juuust as the staff happened to break into a choreographed dance routine? Sorry. We don't...

Youtube Direct: Get Other People To Do Your Video Work

Youtube is launching Youtube Direct, which is a contribution and curation tool for news organizations seeking public contributions for video footage. The upside is that you can shamelessly solicit the public for...

Is Sarah Palin a Total TWILF?

Is Sarah Palin a total TWILF? (TWILF, by the way, you pervs, stands for Tweep I'd Like to Follow). Personally, I don't think Sarah Palin is a TWILF. What's weird is that the term even exists: there's zero barrier...

Ken Ober Dead: Alas, It's True

Ken Ober might actually be dead. I don't know how these random celebrity death rumors start, but Ken Ober was both dead very much alive at the same time this morning, due to the magic of the web grapevine. However,...

President Obama China Town Hall Youth Future Leaders-watch live!

President Obama is providing a live stream of his town hall meeting in China with future leaders and youth of China. Many issues will be talked about I'm sure as China has over 300 million internet users that are very interested in the relationship between the United States...

Carrie Prejean Sextape Stream: Can You Watch Her 8 Sex Tapes?

The answer is maybe, you might be able to watch some of Carrie Prejan's sex tapes - the streams do apparently exist... just remember that as with all things sexual, play it safe and use protection - all these...

Wille Nelson: The Only "Straight O.G." to Outsmoke @snoopdogg

The D-O-double-gizzle himself, that is Snoop Dogg, Snoop Doggy Dogg, or @snoopdogg for all you tweet fiends, took to the Twitterverse to declare Willie Nelson a "straight O.G." a prodigious title indeed, especially...

Google Tests SPDY, Wants to Rule the Internet Even More

Google is quietly testing SPDY, an web protocol meant to replace HTTP. Basically, Google wants to control how web pages are written, indexed, found, and read. What could possibly go wrong? I mean, if one company...

Wolfgang Werle's Laywers Try to Censor Wikipedia

German lawyers are trying to get Wikipedia to censor one of its pages, which states that Wolfgang Werle murdered an actor named Walter Sedlmayr. I can hear netizens 'round the world all-caps'ing CENSORSHIP even as...

@Jordanknight Spammin' Tough on Twitter

"New Kids on the Block had a bunch a hits, Chinese food makes me sick [...]." Sorry about the LFO reference but it seems NKOTB frontman Jordan Knight didn't have enough hits to stop him, or at least his Twitter...

Joe Hewitt Quits Facebook iPhone App Project Over Apple Tyranny

Joe Hewitt, Facebook's iPhone app developer, is quitting the Facebook iPhone app project, citing Apple's tyrannical oversight policies. This is a pretty big deal, since Joe Hewitt was a one-man dev army who put...

#DontHackBritney: Twitter Users Rally for Britney Spears

Looks like Britney Spears got her Twitter account hacked again. This time, it's spewing out these weird pseudo-Illuminati messages. Well, Britney's fans are stamping their collective tiny foot, and starting a...

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