 [DANNY WOOL, SV411]
It wasn’t that long ago that the internet served two main functions: email and porn. The times they are a’changing, however, and web surfers today tend to spend more time on Facebook and game sites than email (porn was not included in the survey results, probably because no one will answer honestly).
Of course, email is still a key component of the internet, and one of the three major activities for which it is used. It is in decline though. If at one time it accounted for 28 percent of the time people spent online, this has now dropped
Continue reading The Changing Face of the Internet
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Tesla Motors founder and CEO Elon Musk isn’t a man that backs down when facing the press. When the New York Times wrote an error-filled article, Musk lashed out at the author, saying “What is he doing picking on an electric car company? Why would he pick on the little guy who is trying to do good when you’ve got egregious waste of money in the tens of billions occurring in Detroit?” He added “He’s a huge douchebag…and an idiot.”
And that was just when a journalist was poking at Tesla. Get into Musk’s personal life and he’ll take off the
Continue reading Elon Musk: Why Owen Thomas is ‘Silicon Valley’s Jayson Blair’
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The poster for Facebook film “The Social Network” neatly illustrates how Hollywood will try and turn an awkward young computer nerd into an exciting character worthy of a big-budget Hollywood drama: light him like a serial killer.
Of course, with star writer Aaron Sorkin and his all-star team involved, there’s not much point in painting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as he was: a pasty, reclusive fellow coding PHP all day, first in his Harvard dorm room, then out in a rented home in Silicon Valley. Better to make him out as
Continue reading Facebook’s Terrifying Nerd
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Remember Chatroulette? The crazy random videochat thing? Its founder wants to turn it into a more legitimate business, which means cutting down on the number of disgusting things one witnesses there. Can he do it? (Probably not.)
TechCrunch says that the rawness that drew millions to Chatroulette in the early days is beginning to scare them and—more importantly—investors away. Seems that Chatroulette is the one place on the Internet people aren’t looking for naked pictures.
So, Chatroulette’s founder, 17 year-old Russian Andrey Ternovskiy, has been trying to cut down on the number of penises. According to TechCrunch:
Look for feature changes soon that
Continue reading Chatroulette’s War On Penises
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A guy walks into a bar … It could be the beginning of a joke, or it could be the beginning of the latest scandal to beset Apple. Gray Powell, an Apple engineer walked into a bar the other day after work, but probably got a little too happy at the Gourmet Haus Staudt Happy Hour, and left his iPhone
Continue reading A Guy Walks into a Bar and Looses an iPhone…
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What happens when Google swallows your life? A new hire at the internet company is blogging the experience, from waking in his Google apartment to taking a Google car to Google dinner and then Googling home via Google.
A Sun veteran, software developer Tim Bray was no stranger to big-company life. But he knew Google enveloped employees on a whole other level, so after his recent hiring he vowed to blog his Google experience “while my eyes remain fresh.” Bray’s writeup was friendly enough, but commenters couldn’t resist comparing the Googleplex to the totalitarian systems depicted in the movie THX 1138,
Continue reading Life Inside the Googleplex
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Facebook, the social network that conned users out of their privacy in its last redesign, nearly topped itself last night, misdirecting hundreds of private messages. Including sending an “explicit chat” to a newspaper reporter. Even by Facebook standards, that’s bad.
WSJ.com editor Zach Seward ended up with misdirected messages from about 100 people, according to a post on the Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog, including “one couple’s entire explicit chat session. —Ryan Tate
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