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Follow an email’s journey with Story of Send
googleblog.blogspot.com
If you’re anything like me, you send and receive a lot of emails every day. But have you ever wondered where your message goes after you hit “send?” How does an email travel from your computer to your friend’s smartphone across the country or around the world? We’re answering those...
Google traces the journey of an e-mail with the Story of Send (video)
venturebeat.com
If you’ve ever wanted to see how a single e-mail travels from your account to someone else’s, Google has you covered with its new “Story of Send” site. While the site appears to mostly be a push by Google to show off its green credentials, the site is still...
Hands on: Amazon Instant Video on iPad sorely lacks Airplay support
arstechnica.com
Watching a scene from the excellent fourth season episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer titled, "Hush," streaming from Amazon to my iPad. Chris Foresman Amazon launched an iPad client for its on-demand Amazon Instant Video service on Wednesday morning, offering further competition to similar services like Netflix and Hulu...
Mountain Lion causing crazy battery drain for some Mac owners
venturebeat.com
A number of Macbook Pro and Macbook Air owners are reporting that the Mountain Lion OS X upgrade is behaving like a (non-sparkling) vampire by sucking the life out of their machine’s battery. Users reporting the abnormally fast battery power drain started cropping up on Apple’s support forum soon...
Survey Says: Yes on iPad 3 (Not So Much on Final "Twilight")
allthingsd.com
It turns out that people responding to our poll about whether they were buying an iPad 3 — which Apple is unveiling this coming week — are overwhelming planning to fork over the dough for a new one. Almost 70 percent of those who answered said they would be...
vampire kitteh… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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In Case You Were Wondering How Amazon and Apple Felt About Each Other [Apple]
gizmodo.com
Amazon MP3 Store has a promotion called Daily Deal, where they prominently highlight an album that'll rake in sales for cheap—in exchange, labels have been giving them a one-day exclusive before the street date. Surprise, iTunes got pissed. For example, Amazon sold Mariah Carey's "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" for...
Is Google a vampire sucking the blood out of media and the web?
rossdawsonblog.com
Here is a nice video of the highly-respected Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand speaking at Web 2.0 Expo SF about how Google plays fair and less fair, giving a balanced view of the accusations of vampirism from media tycoons such as Mark Cuban and Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton. The...
How SyFy brought the young to Being Human with Twitter
gigaom.com
When it comes to social media, we’re in an interesting phase: Just sophisticated enough to have a sense of what works and what doesn’t, but still relatively open to experimentation — even amongst the major networks. Today’s case study is SyFy’s Being Human, adapted from the British series of the...
Inspired by Jennifer's post http://ff.im/hyfjn, I have a question for y'all. What is your favorite vampire (or vampiric) novel or short story or poem or whatever?
Amazon: You Need To Change Your Idiotic Customer Reviews Policy Right Now
techcrunch.com
It’s hard to feel sorry for a wildly successful author, but in the case of Michael Lewis I’ll make an exception. Just this once. Lewis’ latest book – The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine – was published less than a week ago and has already reached the number one...
Geek Kids : Lil' Vampire Pacifier
www.thinkgeek.com
"Vampire of Venice" Unmasked: Plague Victim & Witch?
news.nationalgeographic.com
Robert Pattinson in talks to play Kurt Cobain
www.inquisitr.com
Vampire heartthrob Robert Pattinson is reportedly Courtney Love’s first choice to play iconic Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in a “Nirvana biopic” tentatively titled All Apologies. Love, who has famously disagreed on many things with Cobain’s bandmates Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic in the years since Cobain’s death, is said...
I Demand Better Vampires [Rant]
io9.com
The newest trend among vampires seems to be removing any downside at all from actually being a vampire. More »...
Power line 1, tree branch 0
blog.makezine.com
Video courtesy YouTuber BozkurtTekinTahsin. In case you didn't believe Louie the Lightening Bug when he said "ya gotta stay away from power lines," consider the fate of this gentle tree branch, who apparently never got to watch Saturday morning PSAs, or at least wasn't paying attention if it did....
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