Groundbreaking, mind boggling and even catastrophic things happen every week (or day!) in the tech world, but there were a few standout stories that rose above the usual crash and burn this year. Here are the most shocking tech headlines of 2008, from a bankruptcy, a prematurely printed obit, and some extremely sad tech-related deaths. Start Slideshow...
Just two days after the internet treated us to this video of a dog running out into a highway to rescue another dog, here comes another suspiciously adorable story involving a three-year-old boy who got lost in the woods but survived thanks to two puppies that snuggled up against the kid and kept him from freezing: A toddler lost in the Virginia woods was back home safe Sunday thanks to two puppies who kept him warm through a harrowing night of freezing temperatures Officials said the lost little boy and the two family puppies wandered up to a mile in...
I read the headlines too, and yawned just like you did. But I took it one step further…I clicked. High Def Tubes Dude, it looks good! It really does. Not sure if you can see it here - but this looks good, at regular scale and also at Full Screen. Yes - it looks good when you click the window in the window. This was all spurred when I read blogmaverick’s post called “Youtube’s Desperation” Where does that leave Youtube ? Actually in a far better place. Two websites. One of which becomes a video search engine , with out...
Techmeme is adding a human touch to its news aggregator, by appointing Megan McCarthy as editor. She’ll rearrange and moderate the news on Techmeme, to keep them more up to date and avoid old and outdated one. She’ll also handle all the pissed off journos who thinks they are bypassed, something that might be a daily issue for her if you read between the lines in the VentureBeat post. I don’t know about that, but it’s not the most grateful position to have, when some cranky tech blogger feel passed over for the 20th time… So what will change? This:...
Techmeme is moving more to blended curation via algorithm and human input. Its an interesting area, one thats been much on our minds since looking at how Video Aggregation would be done, and also since listening to the BBC talk on Social Media Moderation at Amplified 08, and also looking at my how we blend Algorithms and Human input: The exact impacts Techmeme predicts are: Humans have always edited Techmeme of course, just implicitly. For instance, when a blogger links to a story, the headline might move higher on Techmeme. What's different now is that an additional human editor will...
The algorithmically generated tech news aggregator Techmeme now has a human editor, Techmeme founder and developer Gave Rivera revealed in a blog post today. The new overload to the Techmeme robots: Megan McCarthy, formerly of Valleywag and Wired.com. Megan McCarthy, when she worked for Valleywag(Credit: (c) Brian Solis, used with permission) I talked with McCarthy about her new role. She describes her job as, "really, just to see all the things coming in, to make sure everything is current and relevant." The site posts about 140 to 150 items a day, she said. Her role is to make sure...
This morning I spoke to a very nice reporter from a Brazilian magazine called Veja - which I am told is their equivalent to Time Magazine. The angle for her forthcoming article was that you can do trend spotting by reading blogs. I half agreed with her saying that. Scanning blogs can be a great start but there’s a lot more to trends analysis than that. For PSFK consultancy clients we mix secondary deep scanning (from an international team of scouts) with primary research on the street and with an extensive network of informed opinion makers who we have...
Making some headlines at gizmodo today is an article today about a tipster who learned the hard way that traveling overseas with the G1 isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. The underlying issue revolves around the fact that no matter how hard you try, no matter what you do or how hard you try, the G1 always accesses a data network. Apparently the aptly titled, “data roaming features” off feature isn’t really supposed to work like its understood it would. Not to mention, turning off the 3G and data sync. So said user ended up with $102.85 in overages and...
Have you noticed we’ve got a new advertiser recently on Mobile Industry Review? Wapple. Smart chaps. Thank you for your support, Wapple — you’re helping us keep the lights on here at MIR. If you haven’t taken a look at Wapple recently, please do. Here are their headlines (from the landing page of the ad): - Mobile websites that take millions of hits daily - Sites that look and work perfectly on every mobile device - The easiest way to get your content on mobile - Mobile campaigns that respond uniquely to every visit - The fastest way to...
Google’s plans for global empire, by way of digitizing a bunch of dusty old newspapers, received a strong boost today, now that Mountain View has secured the archives of paperofrecord.com. Paper of Record has been digitizing entire newspaper archives, including the Toronto Star as well as other international newspapers, for some time now. With those archives now under its control, there’s nothing to stop Google from marching on Capital City, Earth. That, or merely being a convenient place to search old headlines. “Gee, I wonder how the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported the moon landing?” There you go....
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