Yahoo teamed up with Reveille for this Toyota-sponsored series that offers an assortment of facts on the prior day’s most popular news story. Each video is created in a single day, but still features sharp animation and strong production values. Read More »
Archive for May 2010
John Lilly will step down as CEO of Mozilla Corporation after just two years on the job, the company confirmed today after a report by BoomTown. Mozilla is carefully calling the move as a “planned leadership transition,” saying Lilly had always wanted to be a VC. Read More »
A comic from The Oatmeal cuts at the core of the social web: entrepreneurs in love with their unoriginal ideas. Titled “8 Websites You Need to Stop Building,” it skewers the likes of, for example, “Websites that let me know what my friends are up to.” Read More »
A123 Systems, the Watertown, Mass.-based battery maker that jump-started a slew of greentech IPO filings with its $371 million public offering last fall, has entered the thick of the long slog to transform an innovative, government-backed startup into a sustainable business that can compete with… Read More »
Betty White’s hosting of Saturday Night Live last Saturday performed great for Hulu — despite only being online for 24 hours of the week. Five videos from last Saturday’s show were among the Top 20 videos watched, and the full episode was the most-watched show. Read More »
I’m gradually transitioning to the the ultra-speedy Chrome as my browser of choice. Although Chrome can’t yet match Firefox’s huge extension ecosystem, many of my favorite “must-have” Firefox add-ons are are now available for Chrome, or at least have Chrome equivalents. Read More »
A Florida congressman has introduced a bill aimed to preventing the FCC from reclassifying broadband and imposing net neutrality unless it can find examples of systemic market failure. The bill, called the Internet Protection, Investment, and Innovation Act, reads like an ISP lobbyist wrote it. Read More »
FiOS TV users won’t get their Epix and HBO Go content from a third-party CDN, but from Verizon’s own servers. This could save cable networks money, and help Verizon to manage its network. Read More »
Are you running your Mac as a media center? Do you have an iPhone or iPod touch? If you answered yes to both of these questions, then there are a few apps you absolutely need to have to get set up in comfort and style. Read More »
As a practitioner of the black art known as mind mapping, I was excited to discover an app for that on the iPad. Tablets are perfect for mind mapping, and I can say that iThoughts is a solid tool for doing this work on the iPad. Read More »
Whether reading the latest news on an iPad, tweeting on an HTC Incredible or watching video clips on YouTube, our collective need for bandwidth is seemingly insatiable. The biggest impact can be found in the equipment market, where demand for 40G and 100G gear is rising. Read More »
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