Do you “check in” to shows while you’re watching them? Does that make your TV watching experience social enough for ya? Well, sorry to disappoint, but that thing you’re doing whenever you watch TV and check in to a show is going to have to be called something else, because social TV is quickly evolving to a different type of activity altogether, more fitting of that name.
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UppSite: Turn your website into an app in minutes
As the Web turns increasingly mobile, Web publisher’s should be thinking about how to optimize his or her site for mobile users. Find out how UppSite is turning sites into apps in minutes.
Big Data in the visual age
As we all know, there’s a huge amount of data on the internet– the biggest challenge is sorting it all and finding what’s relevant for you. This is such a big challenge that there’s a whole branch of the tech industry, called Big Data, that is dedicated to finding, sorting, and doing something with all this information.
If you’re wondering how big “big data” is, Microsoft’s R&D center in Israel is focusing on finding new ways to use it.
OnSwipe: Make your site ‘swipeable’ on the iPad
Slate as it looks on the iPad thanks to OnSwipe. Free service lets you enter the new world of tablet publishing One of my favorite discoveries of the past few weeks has been OnSwipe, a service that enables you to optimize your website for the iPad — for free! If you go to most […]
Congress coming close to destroying the Internet
Big Pharma and the recording and movie industries are on the verge of passing a bill that could very well destroy the social web, including Daily Kos.
This is no hyperbole. Watch the video above. It is literally an existentialist threat for Daily Kos and any other site with user-generated content, from Facebook, to Reddit, to tumblr, Sound Cloud or YouTube.