Amazon's IMDb.com to Allow Free Film, TV Viewing

A very smart, and very timely, business move for Amazon and the Internet Movie Database. No word yet on when this will take effect."Amazon.com said on Monday that its subsidiary, Internet Movie Database, would...

Sarah Silverman Wins Emmy For 'Matt Damon' Clip

Sarah Silverman's infamous "I'm F---- Matt Damon" music video, a hilarious and raunchy dedication to her ex-boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel, has not only been viewed almost 4.5 million times on YouTube, it has also racked...

Japan Leads in Attack Traffic; U.S. Web Penetration Stinks: Report

If the US is going to be competitive in the world, it's going to have to invest in connecting the People to broadband. One of the drawbacks with the kind of corporate socialism/quasi free market system we have in the US is that gains made from public goods are privatized and...

Google, HSBC Offer Cheap Internet

3 billion people are getting broadband from Spain to South Africa, thanks to Google and HSBC. What ever other wrongs have been committed by these companies, this would seem to be a good thing. "LONDON - Google...

The Browser Wars continue - Google Announces New Browser "Chrome"

It looks like Google is starting from scratch with it's own browser. Yes, It's official. The announcement is out. Google goes Chrome. Not a hoax, as people first thought, by it's "accidental" early release of...

Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.

The nature of the internet as a network is that it has no central point of control. "The era of the American Internet is ending. “Suppose the Internet was entirely confined to the U.S., which it once was? That wasn’t helpful,” said Vint Cerf of Google. ...

Dabbawallahs Use Web and Text to Make Lunch on Time

In London, UK, a concept born in India - the lunchtime delivery service of Dabbawallahs - has  become a highly successful Indian food business. Tiffinbites (www.tiffinbites.com), started by Jamal Hirani,...

"The Resistance" Lonelygirl15 Evolved

It was bound to happen... a spinoff project based on the ubiquitous Lonelygirl15. (If you haven't seen this yet, just search for it on Youtube; the first "episode" appears to the left)Unlike its vlogadelic...

Digg Crowdsources Convention Interviews

Citizen engagement with political processes has never been as diffuse and 'technified' as it is today. Although crowdsourcing interview questions for politicians isn't a particularly radical or new concept of...

Web audience for Olympics hits record high

Not surprisingly, the Beijing Games had the biggest online presence of any Olympics. Yahoo's Olympic site, for example, tripled its traffic compared with Turin in 2006.As this New York Times piece discusses, NBC...

The History of I Can Has Cheezburger

Leave it to Gnomedex to serve up a fascinating look at the most popular internet meme ever created: the ubiquitous and gut-busting LOLCat world of I Can Has Cheezburger. "How does one build an empire on...

'Hustle & Flow' Director Creates New Web Series

Craig Brewer, the director of Hustle & Flow, is set to take on the internet with a new pseudo-doc, web-only music series that will focus on the lives of "real-life local musicians" in Memphis, Tennessee. $5...

How to bypass Internet filtering seen at the Georgia, Russia conflict ?

Can I get the Information I want to read bypassing a Filter ? Believe the conspiracy theories: Out of sight and without your knowledge, governments truly are filtering what you see on the Internet"Filtering isn't...

Calculating survival in the hospital

HospitalCompare has been around since 2006, allowing patients to compare hospital death rates with the ease of a comparison shopper site. You can compare up to three hospitals in a given area (city, zip code etc.)...

All of Us, the Arbiters of News

Arbiter: 1.    a person empowered to decide matters at issue; judge; umpire.2.    a person who has the sole or absolute power of judging or determining.This is an article about how human nature and the Network Age are forcing the corporate media to bend to our will, and...

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