Age old questions answered: Star Wars beats Star Trek, engineers like beer
… at least according to 4,800 PHP developers participating in Zend’s annual Developer Pulse survey. Read more »
… at least according to 4,800 PHP developers participating in Zend’s annual Developer Pulse survey. Read more »

Struggling to stay on top, or think you have it all figured out? Either way, Yammer founder David Sacks thinks you should fundraise as much as you possibly can, since you never know what you can use the money for. And it doesn’t hurt for staying ahead. Read more »
Disney is acquiring George Lucas’s Lucasfilm, including the “Star Wars” franchise and associated technology, for $4.05 billion. “Star Wars Episode 7″ is slated to be released in 2015, with more films to follow every two to three years afterwards. Read more at paidContent »
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Casey Pugh made history this summer when Star Wars Uncut the first independent website to win an Emmy award. Today, he talks about how the importance of scale and mobile platforms, as well as whether or not Star Wars Uncut could be financially viable. Read more »
Last year, former Vimeo developer Casey Pugh invited the Internet to help him remake Star Wars, one 15-second clip at a time. One Emmy nomination and 904 videos later, it’s now possible to see a whole new A New Hope, created entirely by fans. Read more »
Director Mike Rotman celebrated Star Wars Day this year by uploading his documentary feature Star Wait as a series. Filmed in 2002, the show consists mostly of interviews filmed with Star Wars enthusiasts waiting in line to see Episode II. Read more »
Ever wished you could have helped make Star Wars IV: A New Hope? Well, that was the dream Casey Pugh, an early employee of Vimeo who now works for Boxee, made come alive for indie filmmakers in the online video world. Using the Vimeo API, Pugh’s […] Read more »
Star Wars: Trench Run is finally here and this thing is utterly beautiful, packed with authentic audio and video from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and boasting impressive gameplay visuals. Trench Run is based around the Rebel assault on the Death Star at the […] Read more »
Brightcove Manages News Corp.’s Latin America Hulu-like Site; company oversees 800+ hours of premium Spanish and Portuguese content for Mundo Fox online (why didn’t Fox have Hulu do it?). (Contentinople) Elsewhere in the world of white-label video, Delve Networks Released its Self-Service Platform; companies can now […] Read more »
Like most fans of online video, I’m a sucker for a good Star Wars reference, and so Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager has long been on my radar. Produced originally as a Channel 101 series by Matt Sloan and Aaron Yonda, Chad was an early success […] Read more »
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Online Video Viewing Up 35.4 Percent Year-on-Year: Of 26,000 adults polled by Mediamark Research & Intelligence, 23.3 percent had watched online video in the past 30 days (which is actually a pretty low number as compared to data from comScore and others). In the same group, […] Read more »
LIN TV Stations Disappear from Time Warner Cable; retransmission contract expires as two sides fail to reach a new deal, 15 stations affected. (Multichannel News) New Web Series; TheWB.com to launch High Drama: Against All Oz and Rich Girl, Poor Girl this month; Boondocks writer signs […] Read more »
Debates about the effectiveness of viral marketing have been waging for years, but a German-accented Darth Vader has never had a chance to weigh in on the subject — until, of course, this Star Wars redub. Admiral Motti questions whether or not viral ads are really […] Read more »
Despite cries from its online fan base, CBS has canceled the vampire drama Moonlight. And though Internet fans are protesting, the network isn’t budging, especially after it got burned by all those Jericho fans who demanded their show stay on the air — but couldn’t rally […] Read more »
So I was at SXSW this week, where I saw first hand the hilarious debacle of an interview that the lovely (but maybe over-hyped) Business Week reporter, Sarah Lacy, did with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Read here for a short brief on the disaster, in which […] Read more »
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