Category: Websites
Reddit donates a massive wodge of cash to fighters for digital rights
Reddit, the popular aggregation website which is the source of most of the internets viral videos and incorrect terrorist identifications has done something nice with the profits it made in 2014 - donating 10% of them to ten worthy charities. Pic from here. Each of the charities will be getting $82,765.95…
WATCH: Interview with Slava Rubin, CEO of Indiegogo
Holly over at ShinyShiny has been speaking to Slava Rubin, CEO of crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. You can watch the full interview below: And do head over to ShinyShiny for her other great interviews from the MWC show floor.
“Gramography Cinegrams” will turn your Instagram photos into fridge magnets
Weird stuff retailer Firebox has just launched a new product that will turn your Instagram photos into lenticular fridge magnets - so that the image displayed will change depending on the image you look at it. The new service starts at £7.99 and all you have to is upload your snaps, and they will be…
Cat purring flagged by YouTube as copyright infringement
First they came for the cats, and I did not speak out, because I was not a cat. Fresh questions are being raised about YouTube's content ID system for identifying copyrighted material after the website reportedly flagged an hour long loop of a cat purring as belonging to EMI. According to Torrent Freak that cat,…
BT testing new microwave broadband technology
BT is testing a new microwave technology to help deliver high speed broadband to remote villages. According to ISP Review, the village of Westow in North Yorkshire is getting the trial technology, which rather than have BT dig up the road to lay a fibre-optic cable instead uses a wireless microwave link - with two…
Tweets to start appearing in Google search results again
Google and Twitter have inked a deal to enable real time tweet results to appear in searches on Google, apparently. According to Bloomberg, the deal gives Google direct access to Twitter's "firehose" stream, meaning we could soon see real time tweet results - which will be great for anyone searching for details on breaking news…
Twitter is launching “instant timeline” for new users
Can't decide who to follow? Then don't worry, Twitter is planning to figure it out for you. One of the biggest challenges for Twitter as a company is the "on boarding" process - in other words, how you get people to not only sign up to have their own account, but then make them want…
BT planning to launch 1000Mbps broadband in 2016 or 2017
BT has announced plans to roll out its "G.Fast" broadband technology, which could see speeds rocket up to 1000Mbps - up from a maximum of about 80Mbps now. According to ISP Review, the new service will be faster as it will replace the current "Fibre to the cabinet" technology - in that your connection is…
Definitive proof that The Simpsons is getting worse
It's almost a law of the internet that any discussion about The Simpsons will inevitably turn into a discussion of when The Simpsons stopped being good. For the first decade, it was some of the finest television ever made - and yet now, 25 years on each new episode feels more and more like they're…
Pinterest is now for MANLY MEN WHO LIKE MAN THINGS
Good news for any MEN who like to BOOKMARK ITEMS OF INTEREST. Is Pinterest too girly for you? Then don't worry, the company has today announced that it will be providing more arbitrary gendering of products in its search results. This means that if your profile has you listed as male you'll start seeing less…