Networking

The folks behind Pioneer One have been busy since the show’s pilot release back in June, and it seems as though their hard work is beginning to pay off. The pilot was a campy success, having won Best Drama Pilot at the New York Television Festival — but it won instant pseudo-historical status as well. [...]

It’s May 31st, which makes it not only Memorial Day here in the States, but also the first officially unofficial Quit Facebook Day. You may have noticed that Facebook has been getting a lot of attention from us recently, and it’s really no surprise given the amount of public sentiment toward the social-networking site. About [...]

It’s sure taken long enough, but it seems like computer-assisted ordering of food is FINALLY upon us! Not only can you order take-out food with your iPhone, but one restaurant chain is looking to fire its waitresses and replace them with an iPad on the dinner table. The NY Times story details the quick rise [...]

YouTube announced today that it’s teaming up with the Guggenheim Museum and HP to put on the first “Biennial of Creative Video” — and they’re calling it YouTube Play. The project’s goal is to gather the very best videos on YouTube and display the 20 best nominees in Guggenheim museums around the globe. What constitutes [...]

If you’ve ever copied text from a website only to see an annoying “read more” message attached when you paste it, you’ve probably run across Tynt. Sites like The New Yorker, The San Francisco Chronicle and even TechCrunch use Tynt to add analytics links to your clipboard when you copy text, so they can tell [...]

Starting this week, Irish ISP Eircom will begin the three-month pilot-phase of a new program in which they’ll enact a “three strikes” rule against subscribers found to be file-sharing. In the program, any subscribers who use up their three warnings will have their broadband connections severed for one year. The move makes Ireland the first [...]

At the All Things Digital D8 conference last night, Steve Jobs did something odd: he took part in an event that he had no control over. Rather than being the charismatic cornerstone of a pulpit-delivered keynote, he played the role of a heckled, candid interviewee. And he… rocked! He talked a lot, and on a [...]

The Appleseed Project’s been going through a bit of a resurgence lately, and along with a redone source page and a growing amount of mentions in the media, the project is now getting serious about funding. Project-founder Michael Chisari has set the goal he’s looking to meet at $10,000 — and you can donate at [...]

Last month, we had some fun with Google’s explanation of their recent redesign of search results, but it looks like Google isn’t quite done yet with not copying Bing. In their quest to make their search engine sexier and more appealing to the fickle masses, Google’s now begun to let users add a background image [...]

By now, all but the most geriatric Web users know about phishing. Usually it takes the form of a seemingly-official email from a bank or other money-related Web service. Most of the time these attacks are painfully obvious — but what if you removed the email attack vector? What if you removed those daft give-away [...]