PayPal is giving away $160,000 USD in prizes to the most innovative apps to use the
PayPal X Platform, judging based on app innovation and business potential, with additional awards honoring innovation in use of the eBay Developer API, integration with Yahoo and cross-border
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It has been a long time coming. Google’s Chrome web browser has been available on Windows for over a year, while Mac users have been left with three options — take their chances with a nightly build of the open-source fork of Chrome (dubbed Chromium), use […] Read more »
BP Drops Jatropha: BP has “given up on jatropha, the shrub once touted as the great hope for biofuels, and walked away from its jatropha joint venture for less than $1 million.” — WSJ’s Environmental Capital Palin Climate Smackdown, Round 2: After Sen. John Kerry lambasted […] Read more »
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Photos: Tesla Roadster Sport: If you want an electric sports car and the Tesla Roadster isn’t fast or expensive enough for you, here’s what an extra $20,000 can get you. — Jalopnik Palin on Obama Energy Plan: Soon-to-be-ex governor of Alaska Sarah Palin says in an […] Read more »
Sometimes doing things via web apps is great. Everything is in one place: your browser. Even so, sometimes having everything in one place isn’t ideal. A browser crash could kill all of your work, not just one component, and it can be harder to keep your […] Read more »
China Mulls Carbon Tax: Government researchers in China are expected to issue preliminary proposals for a carbon tax within a month. Yes, carbon tax. In china. — Reuters Gov. Palin Rejects Stimulus Bucks for Energy: — Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has rejected stimulus funds for the […] Read more »
Planet-Cooling Plants: New research suggests planting crops that reflect more sunlight could deliver summertime cooling of about 2 degrees Fahrenheit across central North America and a wide band of Europe and Asia. — New York Times Tesla Jacks Up Roadster Price: Tesla Motors has informed customers […] Read more »
As 2008 comes to a close, Liz Shannon Miller and Jill Weinberger look forward to improving themselves and the Internet in the New Year. Find out their New Year’s resolutions and their recommendations for others in online video in today’s Station Conversation! Liz: Happy New Year, […] Read more »
On the eve of election day, the debate on clean coal vs. no coal has reared its head again, injecting back into the campaign anxiety over what a cap-and-trade program will mean for America’s huge coal industry. Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, campaigning along the Ohio-West […] Read more »
Tomorrow’s Election Day, which means this is the last day of the campaign and a fine time for retrospection. You probably don’t have a lot of time, though, so let’s remember the 2008 Presidential Campaign in 1 minute, courtesy of comedy mavericks 23/6. Over the weekend, […] Read more »
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Tina Fey’s spot-on impersonation of V-P candidate Sarah Palin and near constant presence on “Saturday Night Live” over the past couple of months helped boost her show “30 Rock” to its highest ratings ever. Read more »
UPDATED: Politicians are lining up to appear alongside renewable energy projects these days — yesterday it was Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, and earlier this month it was California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. This morning it’s Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who plans to officially […] Read more »
Wearing her giant polar bear pin and touring a thin-film solar plant, Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin looked ready to embrace the cleantech world with a major policy speech on energy today. Alas, it was not to be. Instead, Palin delivered a speech on “energy independence” […] Read more »
Fey-lin has become a bona-fide franchise for SNL, boosting television ratings and becoming a guaranteed viral video hit machine racking up more than 56 million plays. Read more »
Forget November 4th, Sarah Palin’s appearance on Saturday Night Live was the most-anticipated moment of this election. Would she be funny? Would Tina Fey be there?(yes) Would it be worth all the hype? (Uhh, unless you’re not impressed with a certain Mr. Mark Wahlberg making a […] Read more »
In what could be the Large Hadron Collider of political viral video events, CNN is reporting that vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will appear on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Read more »
For all you a-ha fans, here’s a treat — the classic video for Take On Me, with lyrics updated to reflect… exactly what you see happening on the screen. Watch out for the pipes! And thanks to a certain candidate’s resemblance to a certain former head […] Read more »
Update: If you’re looking for more information on the Canadians who pranked Sarah Palin by pretending to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy, our post is here. NBC.com celebrated 25 million unique visits in September, serving almost 29 million short-form video streams. Among the biggest draws to […] Read more »
So neither of the vice presidential candidates hit a homerun nor failed miserably in the first and only vice presidential debate, but at one point the candidates plainly stated their positions on what they thought is the cause of climate change. Obama’s VP pick Joe Biden […] Read more »
There’s something about web content that (profitable!) CollegeHumor just seems to understand and anticipate better than anyone else. To see how the site’s original video team works its magic, check out this behind-the-scenes look. Read more »
Gov. Sarah Palin’s record and political positions have been under close examination over the past few weeks, and as a result, a startling number of inconsistencies have emerged. For example — did she enjoy her send-up at Tina Fey’s hands on last Saturday’s SNL? She definitely […] Read more »
Hulu Cares Deeply about Every Pixel; some good notes on the OMMA conference today with sessions such as a keynote by Hulu’s Jason Kilar. (paidContent, Online Video Watch — check back on those sites for more posts throughout the day) 10% of Bandwidth on Corporate Networks […] Read more »
The Google Blog is running an op-ed today by YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley, who dreams of a future where uploading an online video is as simple as making a phone call, and anyone can watch YouTube from any screen, from TVs in their living rooms to […] Read more »
With the return of Saturday Night Live, we’re bringing back this feature — because no other pop culture entity has been so good to viral video. Will It Spread? Palin/Clinton Open, SNL What’s It About: Saturday Night Live coaxes Tina Fey home for the cameo people […] Read more »
This week’s ABC interview with Sarah Palin has been big news, and of course, excitement is high over whether or not Tina Fey will return to SNL Saturday night to fulfill her destiny by sending up the candidate. The online video reaction to all of this […] Read more »
McCain has been lauded for being way ahead of the GOP when it comes to fighting climate change and proposing some of the first emissions reduction legislation. However, his newly minted running mate Sarah Palin has expressed skepticism at mankind’s roll in the warming of the […] Read more »
Segments of the first interview with Sarah Palin since she was picked to be McCain’s second in command were aired on ABC News this evening. In the interview reporter Charles Gibson grills the Alaskan Governor on her foreign policy experience, which leads to a discussion about […] Read more »
We don’t know how many views they’ve accumulated yet, but we do know the story of the afternoon is ABC News publishing two clips and a selected transcript of Charlie Gibson’s much-awaited interview with vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the first portion of which airs tonight. […] Read more »
Now that the conventions are over, you might think that the fun part of the 2008 election (“Who oh who will be on the ticket!?!”) is over. But just because the Democrats and Republicans have picked their candidates doesn’t mean that a third party isn’t an […] Read more »
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s speech accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination on Wednesday night conveyed her support for the type of energy policy you’d expect from someone who has expressed doubts over mankind’s role in climate change. During the speech she largely focused on increasing domestic […] Read more »
LisaNova has been around so long that it can be easy to take her for granted, but her ability to throw herself into a character should never be overlooked. John McCain may or may not be Sarah Palin’s Bitch — but the Alaskan governor is certainly […] Read more »
V-P nominations and the Democrat’s supposedly green convention clogged the airwaves this week, but what does it all mean for cleantech? Here’s our take on the running mates and the other headlines from the week. 10 Things to Know About Sarah Palin and Energy: Presumptive Republican […] Read more »
Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain has selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, bringing to the GOP ticket a full-throated call to drill, drill, drill. What we’d like to see is a little more action on developing Alaska’s “huge supplies of renewable energy” she […] Read more »
Structure 08 is over and folks are already asking us about Structure 09. I’m happy to report that our first official GigaOM conference not only sold out but got a big thumbs-up from attendees. I want to thank a lot of people for making this event […] Read more »
A few months ago, at the insistence of some of my team members, we switched from Zimbra to Google Apps for our own domain offering. The argument was that Google’s quality of service, thanks to its great infrastructure, would be great and that we could also […] Read more »
Disintermediation will be complete when Facebook becomes “a massive publisher.” That’s where CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggests his company is headed in an interview published in the Wall Street Journal today (see it here; official version here). Facebook’s newsfeed, a personalized account of recent activity across your […] Read more »
MagicJack, the USB-based VoIP service from telco vet Dan Borislow, intrigued us from the moment we first read about it in a column by Herb Greenberg. In search of more details, we were finally able to track down Borislow Monday for a brief demo and some […] Read more »
Do you long for the days when Andrew and Amanda dragged their soap-opera split through the blogosphere? Wait no more — looks like round two has just begun, with two posts on Andrew Baron’s blog today ripping into Amanda and her new show on ABC. For […] Read more »
Conventional wisdom would say that more bandwidth is actually a good thing for VoIP. But that is not the case when it comes to ADSL2+, according to this article in the CommsBusiness. The article explains that in classic ADSL scenario when a file is being transfered […] Read more »
So now we pretty much know why Microsoft is doggedly pushing ahead with plans to make a Halo movie, even after two studios balked at the budget, and the unlikelihood of such a movie making any money at the box office. It will almost certainly be […] Read more »
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