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  1. How to make Chatroulette a useful video network

    Cnet News &bull 2 Hours Ago

    Chatroulette's 17-year-old founder told the New York Times that he got the idea for the name from the Russian roulette game in 'The Deer Hunter.' I might visit a channel dedicated to technology. It might be interesting to see what… Full Story »

  2. #OMGConan: The big Digg party Twitter hoax

    Cnet News &bull Today

    On Saturday night, Twitter rang out with news that Conan O'Brien was joining Internet TV network Revision3. The only problem? AUSTIN, Texas--Did you hear that Conan O'Brien, fresh off his ugly divorce with NBC, is joining Internet TV network Revision3, home to the mega-hit Diggnation? That was the hot word… Full Story »

  3. Spawn Labs lets you play your console games on the run (video)

    Venture Beat &bull Yesterday

    Call it Slingbox for games. Spawn Labs lets you take a console game and play it over the web on a laptop or a computer. As the Slingbox does with video, you can place shift your games and play them… Full Story »

  4. Apple loses key chip executive

    Cnet News &bull Yesterday

    Dan Dobberpuhl, the PA Semi founder and CEO who came to Apple with the acquisition of his company, has apparently jumped ship to work at a chip-related start-up. Apple acquired PA Semi in April of 2008 for $278 million. At the time, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the company… Full Story »

  5. Video: Texas Tribune's Evan Smith: 'I Was A Hater, Then I Became A Zealot'

    Paid Content Yahoo &bull Yesterday

    One of the side benefits of coming to Austin for South By Southwest Interactive: spending some time at the Texas Tribune, the non-profit news site launched last November to cover statewide politics, public policy and government. The enterprise started with… Full Story »

  6. Enemies of the Internet: KSA, Egypt, Iran, Syria

    The Next Web 2008 &bull Yesterday

    In Syria, over 16.5% of the population uses the Internet. Although conditions for access have been facilitated, the content that's actually accessible is a joke. Censorship is particularly targeting social networks and blog platforms in an effort to prevent dissidents… Full Story »

  7. Work hard, play hard at GDC (audio slideshow)

    Cnet News &bull Yesterday

    At the annual Las Vegas event, Microsoft plans to show its latest browser and give developers the tools they need to write software for the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 series devices. We might never know if a Twitter feed purporting… Full Story »

  8. Twitter "a force for good"? Politicians disagree.

    The Next Web &bull Yesterday

    In an interview with the BBC this week, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said "Our goal at Twitter is to be a force for good We have a fundamental belief, having worked on this type of thing for 10 years, that… Full Story »

  9. @ScrewYouSXSW vents at absent husband

    Cnet News &bull Yesterday

    AUSTIN, Texas--What's the phrase? Well, now there's a Twitter feed for finding out just what that woman's thinking. During the day Friday at the South by Southwest (SXSWi) festival here, the word started spreading across Twitter about @ScrewYouSXSW, a feed… Full Story »

  10. Hunch gets $10 million from Khosla Ventures, others

    Cnet News &bull Yesterday

    Hunch was co-founded by Caterina Fake, who founded Flickr and sold it to Yahoo in 2005, and Chris Dixon, who built SiteAdvisor and sold it to McAfee in 2006. Hunch is still a modest-sized site--its internal numbers put it at… Full Story »

  11. Twitter Takes Geo-Location Feature Live

    Internet News &bull Yesterday

    Now you can let the twitterverse know where you're tweeting from. But why? Full Story »


  12. VoxOx now translates as you type

    Cnet News &bull Yesterday

    Since it was introduced in late 2008, VoxOx has tried to cut a name for itself in the competitive multi-protocol chat client market by providing users with an aggressive feature set. These include VoIP, a "personal assistant" for managing incoming… Full Story »

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  13. 'Runaway' Prius: Questions raised about driver

    Cnet News &bull Yesterday

    Brooke Crothers has served as an editor at large at CNET News, an editor at Dow Jones' Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, and a senior editor at InfoWorld. His CNET blog covers chip technology and computer systems, and how they… Full Story »

  14. SXSWi: Emergency alarm evacuates convention center

    Cnet News &bull Mar 12, 2010

    It appears to have been a false alarm, as about ten minutes later people started filing back in and the official SXSW Twitter account confirmed that there was no emergency. Panels would continue and run late, the festival Twitter account… Full Story »

  15. South Asian Mobile Social Network Mig33 Sending Twice As Many Messages A Day As Twitter

    Avashya &bull Mar 12, 2010

    Mobile social networks have tremendous potential to flourish in developing countries where mobile phone usage trumps internet connectivity. SMS based social networks like SMSGupshup have gained considerable traction in Asia because of this. For example, in India, there is currently… Full Story »


  16. GDC: Sid Meier and his mind games

    Cnet News &bull Mar 12, 2010

    SAN FRANCISCO--Legendary game developer Sid Meier took to the stage at the Game Developers Conference with a simple message to those who want to create the next best-selling title. The secret of making a great game, Meier said, is to… Full Story »

  17. Twitter helps spread Formspring.me hoax

    Venture Beat &bull Mar 12, 2010

    Twitter is abuzz today with a story attributed to popular news wire service The Associated Press. The new trending topic spotlights Formspring.me, a social network that lets users create profiles to post and answer questions anonymously, and its CEO, who… Full Story »

  18. Facebook turns out to be a pretty good friend to Foursquare

    Venture Beat &bull Mar 12, 2010

    In fact, the world's largest social network drives the largest share of the location-based game's web traffic, accounting for 33 percent of all upstream visits last week, according to web research firm Hitwise. Google follows closely behind, with a 22… Full Story »


  19. Will Shatner Creates Sci-Fi Social Network Site MyOuterSpace

    Daily Tech Internet &bull Mar 12, 2010

    William Shatner has been a pitch man for a host of companies, including Priceline.com. However, he is best known, of course, for his contributions to the science fiction genre for his time spent playing Captain James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise on the originalStar Trek.… Full Story »

  20. 'Cloud' vs. 'source' in the battle of bland corporate names

    Cnet News &bull Mar 12, 2010

    Some of the industry's biggest brands are also the blandest. Intel? And so the open-source companies wore "source" proudly on their sleeves: XenSource, MuleSource, SpringSource, SpikeSource, SourceSense, Sourcefire, and more. Matt Asay is chief operating officer at Canonical, the company… Full Story »

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