I sometimes struggle with staying focused on the most important tasks, and this is particularly important during the stressful holiday times. My love of fun side projects is a big part of the...

A guest post by Dennis Yu, CEO of BlitzLocal, a local lead generation company. “It’s Mommy’s dirty little secret… She plays 2.5 hours a day, every day.” Hugh de Loayza, Zynga 50% of US women...

The original post with more background information is here. From: Simon Edhouse Date: Monday 16 November 2009 2.19pm To: David Thorne Subject: Logo Design Hello David, I would like to catch...

Yesterday, Wolfram Research shut down the iPhone-optimized version of Wolfram Alpha, the company's "computational knowledge engine." Many pundits speculated that Wolfram decided to shutter the...

Hackers and spammers have been using relatively similar tactics over the past few months to compromise Facebook user accounts. The most recent scam spreading on Facebook involves the use of...

Washington D.C. has been abuzz about the couple who crashed a Presidential party and proceeded to post photos of themselves on Facebook. Yesterday the secret service confirmed that they had used...

Consumer watchdog group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has initiated a lawsuit against multiple U.S. government agencies for failure to disclose their policies regarding the use of social...

If you’re a music fan, here’s a site that you could lose yourself in for hours. With sampling (using clips of other people’s songs as part of a new song) commonplace in modern music, WhoSampled...

Zoosk, which boasts the world’s largest social dating community, said today it has raised $30 million in a fourth round of funding. The round was led by new Bessemer Venture Partners. Existing...

A Guest Post by Kelly Diels. Image by Cayusa Part 1. Blogging, Before I Got the Bright Idea to Relaunch and Rebrand: What I Did Right. Maybe. Here’s my curse: I’m lucky. Things always seem to...

On December 9 an orchestra of iPhones will play to the world. As part of a course called “Building a Mobile Phone Ensemble”, students at the University of Michigan will demonstrate the music...

According to the recent predictions from analyst firm IDC, mobile web usage is set to explode over the course of next year due to market forces like the tripling of iPhone applications, the...

YouTube is notorious for choking slower or underpowered computers (like netbooks), and all that video requires a lot of bandwidth. YouTube Feather is an opt-in beta that strips YouTube to the bare essentials for your underpowered PC or slow internet connection. Feather seriously strips out the unnecessary elements from YouTube, leaving you with little beyond the video. (We'd read reports that it also meant you didn't have the option to view videos in high quality, but we've seen plenty of HQ videos in our Feather tests.) It loads fast so all your computer has to worry about is the video.

While Facebook already provides Facebook Page administrators with tools to upload their media content, there are still limitations on how fans can interact with that content. Diditz, a D.C. area...

2009 has seen a lot of Semantic Web and structured data activity. Much of it has been driven by Linked Data, a W3C project which gained momentum this year. According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the...

They wanted to compare how the views of men who regularly watched porn compared to those who had never seen it. But researchers from the University of Montréal hit a snag… they were unable to find a single man who had never watched porn. Prof Simon Louis Lajeunesse had recruited and interviewed 20 men about their use of pornography and wanted examine how this had impacted their sexuality. So he set off trying to find man who had never watched porn - but despite several searches was unable to find any.

Over the last 11 days I’ve been on a massive learning curve. This post is a number of the scattered lessons I’ve been learning – mainly from the launch of my Portraits E-book over at Digital...

Clearly Lily Allen’s embarrassing slip up in her campaign against illegal downloading has had rather severe personal consequences. The British singer songwriter, launched a public campaign again...

Well, you have gained liked 5 pounds over the weekend and now that you are sitting at your desk the only thing you want to do is go on-line and see what Cyber Monday 2009 Deals you can find. If you go to Amazon.com you will find Cyber Monday Deals such as a LiveSpeakr Ultra Portable Speaker System for the iPhone and iPod Touch for $39.99,a Samsung 37-inch LCD HDTV for $699, a Garmin nüvi 785/785T 4.3-inch Portable GPS Navigator for $249.99, 60 percent off select outerwear, and CDs starting at $5.

Yesterday Google released their annual Zeitgeist, a measure of the fastest growing search terms on the web for the year. Once again, Facebook was one of the fastest growing search terms for the...