05/15/08
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By Nick Denton

Comment by Nice Beaver: The picture was snapped just early enough to suck. It's just like when that girl's spandex shirt got pulled up... 1 Responses | Other threads

  • geeks will not be silenced

    Breaking: Digg Riot in Full Effect Over Pulled HD-DVD Key Story

    The power of Web 2.0 is in full effect over at Digg, where users are revolting over Digg's decision to pull a story (that netted over 15,000 diggs) and reportedly boot a user for posting the HD-DVD AACS Processing Key number, which would allow someone to crack the copy protection on an HD-DVD. The front page (along with two and three) of Digg consists entirely of stories flaunting the number or criticizing Digg for its actions. Update: Fresh screencap, gallery of first four pages and thoughts after the jump. [Gizmodo]
    05/02/07
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    By Matt Buchanan

    Comment by mrhacker: hey every1 i don know about you but this site should have song downloads today which is why people are... more » | Other threads

  • cellphones

    iPhone Ringtone Sounds Like Holy Angels Tinkling: Download it Here

    One might remember that Steve Jobs took a call on the iPhone during the Keynote. Well there was a unique ringtone there. A ringtone of heavenly qualities in tone, rhythm, and key that Steve Jobs likely had composed by the eternally restless soul of Beethoven which he summoned with the ritual sacrifice of a Macbook (Beet is a Mac User, even as the Undead). We have it here for you. [Gizmodo]
    01/18/07
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    By Brian Lam

    Comment by sllear: My boyfriend bought the Iphone days ago and since I first heard the factory ringtone I've been saying "Where is... more » | Other threads

  • jerks

    'Wife Swap' Star Apologizes for Having Worst Husband in World

    San Francisco residents Stephen Fowler, a venture capitalist, and Renee Stephens, a weight-loss therapist, disastrously appeared on ABC's Wife Swap, confirming every stereotype one might have about the city's precious, spoiled environmentalists. Boy, they're sorry! More »
    02/07/09
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by sunnyciegos: Doesn't it confirm a stereotype about a certain British class rather than "precious, spoiled environmentalists"? 15 Responses | Other threads

  • rumor

    Steve Jobs' Health Declining Rapidly, Reason for Macworld Cancellation

    According to a previously reliable source, Apple misrepresented the reasons behind Macworld and Jobs' keynote cancellation. Allegedly, the real cause is his rapidly declining health. In fact, it may be even worse than we imagined: [Gizmodo]
    12/30/08
    262,085
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    By Jesus Diaz

    Comment by Substance_D: ...who's the guy with the apple? 36 Responses | Other threads

  • your privacy is an illusion

    Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan private pics exposed by Yahoo hack

    Want to see Paris Hilton's MySpace profile? How about Lindsay Lohan's? Don't worry about those pesky privacy settings. Thanks to "data portability," a faddish technology movement that the Valley has been buzzing about for months, you can see any profile you want on MySpace. Byron Ng, a Canadian computer technician with a knack for finding Web security holes, has discovered that Yahoo's integration with MySpace makes it easy to view photos for any profile. These images, which Ng obtained from Hilton's and Lohan's profiles, speak to the danger Yahoo and MySpace's lax data-sharing habits pose: More »
    06/03/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by raincoaster: 184,000. more » | Other threads

  • 10 worst jobs

    Tech's 10 worst entry-level jobs

    Soon America's most bright-eyed graduates will enter the workforce and make their workaday homes in cubes at Google, MySpace, or Amazon.com. And they will suffer not just the indignity of having to work for a living, but also the dispiriting realization that a job at a cool company isn't always that hot. These employers, and the others hiring for tech's 10 worst entry-level jobs, listed below, will look spiffy on a resume someday, but for now the only good these jobs promise the world is the pleasant feeling you and I can share knowing we're not the ones stuck in them. More »
    Feature Feature
    05/20/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson
  • scoop

    Facebook employees know what profiles you look at

    "My friend got a call from her friend at Facebook, asking why she kept looking at his profile," says a privacy-conscious source at a major tech company. Turns out Facebook employees can (and do) check out anyone's profile. Not only that, but they also see which profiles a user has viewed — a major privacy violation. If you've been obsessed with a workmate or classmate, Facebook employees know. If Barack Obama's intern has been using the campaign account to troll for hotties, Facebook employees know. Within the company, it's considered a job perk, and employees check this data for fun. More »
    Feature Feature
    10/27/07
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    By Nick Douglas
  • street view

    Google Maps Loves Guns, Hates Bambi

    What scrapes will those goofy Street View cars get into next? Google's roving panopticons ran over a baby deer and captured a guy toting a gun on the street. America, you are Google Maps! More »
    01/30/09
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by xhack: pwned: [maps.google.com] 4 Responses | Other threads

  • cubicle culture

    Tech's top 10 workspaces

    What makes for an appealing workspace? The envelopes they leave in your mailbox every two weeks. But after that, it comes down to design and amenities. Also, we like windows and brick. Lots and lots of brick. After spending some time on Office Snapshots, we present the ten best-looking offices in tech, below. More »
    Feature Feature
    05/06/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson
  • online video

    Ashley Dupre's "Girls Gone Wild" video hits the Web, ruins everything

    It was once such a heartwarming story. New Jersey local girl Ashley Alexandra Dupré goes to the big city, meets a few friends, records a hit song, and makes good. Now, posting the above video to the Web, an alleged rapist will profit off all her hard work, one $29.95 subscription at a time. Must the Internet turn everything tawdry?
    03/19/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson

    Comment by WagTehValley: I'd hit it. With a whiffle ball bat. more » | Other threads

  • facebook

    Even Facebook Employees Hate the Redesign

    The feedback on Facebook's new look, which emphasizes a stream of Twitter-like status updates, is almost universally, howlingly negative. Why isn't CEO Mark Zuckerberg listening to users? Because he doesn't have to, he's told employees. More »
    03/20/09
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by Botswana Meat Commission FC: Can someone explain what exactly is the problem with the redesign? (other than perhaps not enabling users to revert) To me... 18 Responses | Other threads

  • cubicle culture

    The 10 worst workspaces in tech

    We've toured the top 10 workspaces in tech. Now, we've gone back to Office Snapshots to find the 10 worst. What makes them so bad? Some offend with exposed fluorescent lights, gray cubicles and a dystopian corporate sheen. But others, with their pseudo-hip graffiti, kindergarten toys and plastic decorations — all in a desperate attempt to seem "Internet-y" — come off even worse. We'll start with Yahoo's New York digs. More »
    05/08/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson

    Comment by iamdmann: i'm not sure it counts as "tech" although it is a website, costar's corporate hq offices in bethesda are pretty... more » | Other threads

  • videuhoh

    Watch a Google Street View Car Hit a Bridge

    Apparently Google's drivers sometimes forget they're driving around with pole-mounted cameras on their car roofs. More »
    04/10/09
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by XavierBabakin: Or perhaps the camera mast simply folds down when going under low bridges but keeps taking pictures. 1 Responses | Other threads

  • google maps

    A Drug Deal Caught From Every Angle

    For the "streetview" feature of Google Maps, the search engine's agents tour around city neighborhoods in a discreet van. Sometimes they catch more than just identifiable landmarks. Here, on a notorious drug trafficking corner on the South Side of Chicago, Google shows what looks very much like a transaction between a black man in long shorts and a baseball cap, and a sedan, numberplate clearly visible. And, because the map-makers take panoramic photographs as they drive around, one can see the exchange from at least half a dozen angles, as the van approaches, and then looks back. Amazing. This scene has been floating around the web the last few days, but we've pulled together nine shots from different angles, or close-ups, from Google's map site. Enlarged versions are after the jump. (Incidentally, movie-makers have developed thrillers around clues buried in soundtracks (Blow Out) or videotape (Black Rain, for example). I'm waiting for the first mystery in which the clues are sprinkled across Google Maps, Flickr and all the other web sites on which we inadvertently appear.) More »
    03/24/08
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    By Nick Denton

    Comment by BritSwedeGuy: It's just like watching The Wire. more » | Other threads

  • breaking

    Microsoft announcement tomorrow: No more Seinfeld ads!

    Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, now you can forget them. Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to spin them about "phase two" of the ad campaign — a phase, due to be announced tomorrow, which will drop the aging comic altogether. Microsoft's version of the story: Redmond had always planned to drop Seinfeld. The awkward reality: The ads only reminded us how out of touch with consumers Microsoft is — and that Bill Gates's company has millions of dollars to waste on hiring a has-been funnyman to keep him company. Update: In a phone call, Waggener Edstrom flack Frank Shaw confirms that Microsoft is not going on with Seinfeld, and echoes his underlings' spin that the move was planned. There is the "potential to do other things" with Seinfeld, which Shaw says is still "possible." He adds: "People would have been happier if everyone loved the ads, but this was not unexpected." Update: CPB confirms that Seinfeld spots already in the can will not be aired.
    09/17/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by unclevanya: RIP Jerry Seinfeld's career, 1976-2008 5 Responses | Other threads

  • bill gates

    Bill Gates Explains the Difference Between Microsoft and Apple

    [Gizmodo]
    Feature
    01/07/08
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    By Wilson Rothman
  • 4chan

    Uh oh, the b-tards got their hands on Google's Chrome comic

    The seditious perverts on bizzaro community board 4chan got their grubby hands on Google's Chrome comic and now they're doing to it what they already did to cute cat pictures when they came up with LOLcats. We'd link to 4chan but their links don't stay static and a commenter tells us the images originated from Yayhooray anyway. Sure, more topical and certainly more earnest parodies of Google's Chrome Comic are already out there, but for my money they can't beat the sociologically-revealing collection of awkward non sequiturs we've gathered below. More »
    09/03/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson

    Comment by sample032: But props for actually using comic sans correctly. 1 Responses | Other threads

  • google

    "I'm feeling lucky" button costs Google $110 million per year

    Google cofounder Sergey Brin told public radio's Marketplace that around one percent of all Google searches go through the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. Because the button takes users directly to the top search result, Google doesn't get to show search ads on one percent of all its searches. That costs the company around $110 million in annual revenue, according to Rapt's Tom Chavez. So why does Google keep such a costly button around? More »
    11/20/07
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    By Nicholas Carlson

    Comment by cv: Oddly, there's no "I'm feeling horny" button at Booble.com. 1 Responses | Other threads

  • media

    The Ashley Dupre photos you couldn't find online

    Score another one for Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which nabbed exclusive photos of outgoing Governor Spitzer's $4,300 date. (Click the thumbnail for a bigger, better look.) It's hip to hate on the Post, as Gawker's Alex Pareene does here. But admit it: If the same pics had turned up first on Digg, you'd all be tripping over yourselves to declare it a victory for social something-or-other 2.0. Me, I wanna know if the Post is hiring.
    03/15/08
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    By Paul Boutin

    Comment by Paul Boutin: Actually, it was jtth who boosted this page's Google traffic a lot by adding the word "naked" to it. ... more » | Other threads

  • scientology vs. the internet

    Why Kids On The Internet Are Scientology's Most Powerful Enemy

    Tom Cruise has personally, PERSONALLY, been pwned. This weekend, an anonymous Internet group (named Anonymous — these are not masters of subtlety) started a war with the Church of Scientology by hammering the group's web site; Scientology.org is down after a brief traffic spike. This isn't the only group of Internet users unafraid of the intimidating cult; a whole range of sites has turned the Church into a mockery by doing what mainstream celebrity-coverage outlets wouldn't dare. Here's a guide to the war (and a creepy manifesto made by The Internet!). More »
    01/21/08
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    By Nick Douglas

    Comment by zicon: They started it when they tried to f*** with the internet. Anonymous owns the internet. Anonymous has the ability to... more » | Other threads

  • online video

    South Park kills 10 YouTube memes for good

    Viacom continues to pursue a $1 billion lawsuit against Google's YouTube for allowing video piracy. On Viacom's Comedy Central, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone aren't helping their corporate parent's legal case. In last night's episode, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny asked themselves "How Do We Make Money on the Internet?" and predictably, they find it difficult — just like YouTube. This leads to a South Park scene straight out of Viacom CEO Philippe Daumann's dreams as, one by one, the viral-video sensations that made YouTube so big are destroyed. Here's the scene in two clips, and all the popular videos it refers to: More »
    04/03/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson

    Comment by jmaynard: Matthew: No, not usually. more » | Other threads

  • work and play

    Work and Play: A Peek Inside the Lives of Gaming's Greatest

    [Kotaku]
    Feature
    01/11/08
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    By Brian Crecente
  • exits

    Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo

    Stewart Butterfield, the cantankerous cofounder of Flickr, has, as we've noted, tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake. The two recently celebrated, along with Flickr's other original employees, a "Vestfest" for their take from the $35 million sale of Flickr to Yahoo three years ago; we'd heard as long ago as October that Butterfield was ready to leave. But we couldn't have anticipated the manner of Butterfield's exit. In a long, rambling email to Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse, under whose aegis Flickr fell, Butterfield described the company as a tin-smithing concern, but found that there was no place for him as the company left its metallurgical roots. Better this entertaining nonsense than some tired cliche of "bleeding purple," I suppose. I'm also told that this email is classic Butterfield, and that his employees at Flickr would stage dramatic readings of some of his better missives at Flickr's San Francisco headquarters, which will now be run officially by Kakul Srivastava, Flickr's longtime de facto chief. Butterfield's full resignation letter: More »
    06/17/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by NevadaLean: Wow, that was weird. Hate to say it, but that sounds like something my dad might write... more » | Other threads

  • porn

    WhoreLore, The World-of-Warcraft-based Porn Series, Finally Gets The Respect It Deserves

    What, you hadn't heard of the series formerly known as Whorecraft? This has seriously been over every porn site I know for months. The fantasy-porn series WhoreLore is based on the online fantasy game World of Warcraft. WhoreLore is so bizarrely interesting (it plays like an unrated version of Xena) that the Village Voice interviewed the director and asked more than "hur hur, those nerds sure love their elf women, eh?" (Although it did say that sort of thing too.) Below, the technically safe-for-work trailer for WhoreLore, and one of the episodes ("Rogues Do It From Behind") with all the porn bits taken out. More »
    03/03/08
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    By Nick Douglas

    Comment by Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: Dear Nick,A. They save all their money living in their mommie's basement.B. All the payback they need is a spooge... more » | Other threads

  • cellphones

    iPhone Ringtone Sheetmusic: Let Angelic Tinkling Remixes Begin

    As the world embraces the iPhone ringer sound, we continue to dissect it here at the Giz, and now NYC musician Andy Neesley helps us out by transcribing the ringtone for us. And hey, this is actually correct. Now those who are musically literate can play it on the piano, get together string quartets to play it, or even work up a rousing rendition with a kazoo choir. [Gizmodo]
    01/19/07
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    By Charlie White

    Comment by ShobhnaKaplow: Cool more » | Other threads

  • videogames

    The Console Wars, animated

    Game reviewer Yahtzee Croshaw covers the videogame console wars. More »
    08/31/07
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    By Nick Douglas

    Comment by Sotanaht: Wow, just... wow. I have never in my life appreciated so much something that completely and utterly bashed something... more » | Other threads

  • breakdowns

    A drunk employee kills all of the websites you care about

    365 Main, a datacenter on the edge of San Francisco's Financial District, is popular with Soma startups for its proximity and its state-of-the-art facilities. Or it used to be, anyway, until a power outage took down sites including Craigslist, Six Apart's TypePad and LiveJournal blogging sites, local listings site Yelp, and blog search engine Technorati. The cause? You won't believe it. More »
    07/24/07
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by LotsOfLulz: A bigger bunch of fuckin' pussy ass, no life, living only for the Lulz hater, drama creating zeros I never... more » | Other threads

  • social news

    Half of the 50 hottest girls on Digg are fake — but the site works anyway

    Conventional wisdom has it that males on the Internet gravitate toward pictures of pretty women like hungry honeybees to a sugary tulip, and click, click, click. It's why Tila Tequila has 3,345,634 MySpace friends and Tania Derveaux has 108,907 YouTube subscribers. It's why, on social news site Digg, so many spammers pretend to be attractive women — to attract votes for their stories from Digg users incapable of holding onto their mouse finger when faced with a picture of a pretty woman. But does this method work? We decided to find out. More »
    Feature Feature
    07/21/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson
  • apple

    6 Ways To Cancel Any Cellphone So You Can Get An iPhone

    If you want to get an iPhone but you're stuck in a contract, here's six ways to escape your service plan without paying a $175 early termination fee: [Consumerist]
    06/26/07
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    By Ben Popken

    Comment by giantsnation: I had Sprint(nextel) and had roughly 18months left on my contract when I filed a complaint (unhappy with phone service... more » | Other threads

  • iphone 3g

    Apple and AT&T Stores Having Difficulty Activating iPhones (UPDATE: It's the iPocalypse)

    We've heard four many accounts now from varying Apple store and AT&T locations that employees are having problems while trying to activate phones through iTunes. From Atlanta, one camper reports: [Gizmodo]
    07/11/08
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    By Mark Wilson

    Comment by dwei: So fully knowing I had to work today and would probably not be able to hunt for an iPhone until... more » | Other threads

  • clips

    Weezer understands how to work YouTube: allude to these 24 viral videos

    Weezer has been geek rock since before I was logging onto the Internet using Prodigy in fifth grade. And who among us never wondered: what's with these homies, dissing my girl? Point is: the band gets the geeks. So it's no surprise that they understand one of the easiest way to go viral on YouTube and across the Web is to make multiple references to videos gone viral before. Check out the band's latest video above, "Pork and Beans," and then below, embeds of all of the viral videos referenced.
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    05/23/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson

    Comment by CA5El3EER: I believe I have assembled the full list of included videos. there are two that I did not know... more » | Other threads

  • pic of the day

    Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

    Spotted on Google Maps: a kid pointing a gun at a younger kid. (Okay, it's probably a toy gun.) What is it about Chicago? We've already seen a drug deal on the South Side and a girl flashing the camera in Homewood. More »
    05/20/08
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    By Nick Douglas

    Comment by MajellaCh00x: It*s the ***ole probably a fake gun trick*** there are NO fake guns in Chicago. Chicago exceeded 500 murders... more » | Other threads