clickz Jeans brand creates a nine-city geo-social program with Alamo Drafthouse.
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Levi’s Targets Film Buffs With Gowalla, Watch Parties
Google Earth is one of the great “wow” applications in Google’s stable, especially on touch devices like Android smartphones or the iPad, whether it’s showing undersea formations or cities in 3D . It’s also surprisingly useful, and Google’s always adding elements to it to give it more utility and/or fun. The newest is the clouds layer, which now shows rain and snow in real-time weather patterns, across the globe
Streaming video is Netflix ’s future–it’s no secret, not to their customers, not to the press, and not to their peers. But the company’s difficulties in securing top-quality movies and TV shows from the studios to stream is well-documented
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How Netflix Scores Top Movies and TV for Streaming
Remember yesterday, when I said that you can all stop freaking out about those 100 million “hacked” Facebook profiles? Well, I wasn’t wrong, but the number of major corporations who have been shown to have downloaded that data is big and scary enough to be slightly worrisome. The data collected was public, of course–all of these corporations could have just found this data on Google.
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Major Companies Are Downloading the Data From Those 100 Million Public Facebook Profiles
After the long, storied mess that is Google vs. China , with its accusations of government-sponsored hacking, flimsy workarounds , and censorship debates, Google ’s legal status and availability in China ended up varying day to day. So the company set up a site that monitors the availability of lots of Google’s services, like Search, Images, YouTube, News, Gmail, Blogger, and Picasa, updated daily
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Google Says Its Services Are Now Blocked in China, Chinese Residents Say Otherwise
Whether you’re an industry novice or an old pro, it’s never a bad idea to gauge how your skills measure up to the job-seeking competition. Here are some tips on what employers are looking for.
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7 job seeking secrets from the hiring pros
After a dismal year in 2009, online advertising is bouncing back.
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10 online advertising trends to track
The idea of former Reuters Innovation boss Azeem Azhar, PeerIndex is a Twitter-centric tool that measures your social network standing and influence on the Web. It launched in beta yesterday, and is the kind of thing that will, first of all, redirect 20 minutes of your time as you go through all the names of your colleagues and friends. This, friends, is the 140-character version of the Google vanity search
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PeerIndex, Social Influence Tool, the Google Vanity Search For Tweeters
Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos is many things: Successful, certainly, and enigmatic for sure. He’s also responsible for some fabulous sound-bite-like quotes. (And he’s not the only one on Amazon’s executive team who can be a little over-enthusiastic: Amazon’s Steve Kassel has been telling the media that by next year, “we will sell more Kindle books than paperback books.”) Do you know Bezos well enough to work out which of these quotes are his and which are from another CEO?
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Who Spewed It: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Edition
We’ve called out the e-reader ” race to the bottom ” in terms of pricing before, noting that it may be a feature of the short lifespan these single-purpose gadgets may have on the average electric store’s shelves. Now Amazon’s dropping the Kindle price even more. The new Wi-fi-only Kindle costs a mere $140, $40 less than the Kindle 2’s most recent price, and it’s definitely a “breakthrough” price for the world’s most famous e-reader, which puts it right at the top end of many folks impulse-buy bracket, particularly if you’re talking about gifts, or the back-to-school purchasing period.
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E-Reader "Race to the Bottom" Given Extra Boost by Amazon, Copia?