The latest Google Doodle boldly goes where no Google Doodle has gone before — and of course we're talking about Star Trek. The new interactive Doodle lets you tag along with some members of Starfleet in a number of different situations, from going out on an away mission to just hanging out on...
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The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, has filed a lawsuit against Internet Brands (IB), the parent company of travel site Wikitravel, in an attempt to protect two of its volunteers. The suit follows legal action by Internet Brands...
The hackers behind "Operation Aurora" — a highly coordinated cyber attack against 34 companies, including Google, in 2009 — may be the same group that has recently been infiltrating organizations with a series of zero-day exploits. Wired reports that researchers for Symantec have identified the group by similarities in code and tactics utilized in the attacks, dubbing the group the...
Just over a month after the launch of the ambitious Twitter challenger App.net, the service seems to be struggling to generate engagement. According to a blog post by Diego Basch, who has compiled some statistics, App.net has so far enticed around 20,000 people into paying either $50 for a standard account or $100 for developer access — but half of the roughly 300,000 posts over the past month have been made by just 250 users. Many accounts, including our own, have yet to post at all.
In line with the service's focus on providing an open, accessible API, posts have been made by a large number of third-party clients — behind the web interface itself are the web-based quickApp and iOS's AppApp, which is currently in beta, as well as the automation tool IFTTT, used to cross-post messages from Twitter. As Basch points out, users seem...
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| Subject | Posted By | Latest Reply | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Fibre come to Canada please! 2 days ago | FrankyApple | FrankyApple | 10 |
| Who's on App.net? 6 days ago | Luke Chambers | limbic | 4 |
| Gottfrid Svartholm Warg Arrested in Cambodia 6 days ago | d0mth0ma5 | 0 | |
| New project: snippets.li - We make coding more fun! 7 days ago | joonaas | 0 | |
| eQuibbly: Would you use this? 9 days ago | Adrianne Jeffries | ensorj | 36 |
| Why App.net won't work, and why nobody will care 10 days ago | JRennert | MachOSX | 8 |
Twitter has been adding features like its new embeddable timeline widget to help expand its presence across the web, and as a result the social network has decided to close down its @Anywhere developer platform. @Anywhere is described as "an easy-to-deploy solution" for adding Twitter...
Twitter has made its presence known on the political scene this election cycle, and tonight was the highlight of its journey so far. On the night that President Barack Obama formally accepted the Democratic party's nomination for his reelection,...
While Tumblr has yet to release an iPad-specific app, it has just updated its iPhone and Android versions to build upon the significant improvements made earlier this year and reflect recent changes to their mobile browser design. Users can now sync the app with their contact...
