Former UK PM Joins Web ...
Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, ousted in this year’s election, is forming the Gordon and Sarah Brown Foundation, and has accepted three pro-bono appointments all with some connection to the Web. He’s joining Queen Rania of Jordan’s Global Campaign for Education....
Android’s Mobile Web ...
Media measurement and Web analytics company Quantcast has some interesting numbers on mobile browsing in the United States, and it’s preparing to release some of those statistics, across vendors. Earlier today, the company put up a teaser blog post , showing two graphs, one of them...
This Spam Infographic A...
Buzzfeed , the Huffington Post of Internet Memes, today wins the more meta than thou award of the decade for making “An Infographic Backlash Infographic” an infographic inspired by the tragic tale of a guy whose job it was to game Digg back when Digg had enough traffic to...
Email Overload Means We...
A new study by email software purveyor Xobni confirms what we bloggers know to be true, there’s actually no such thing as a day off in the Internet age (Want more visceral proof than an email study? Check out the timestamp of this post). Information anxiety has pretty much put the...
PogoPlugs Print! Also, ...
PogoPlug keeps getting better and better. Today they’re announcing that wireless printing, first mentioned earlier this summer, is now available. Users can print from iPads, iPhones, Androids and pretty much any other Internet-connected device. While you’re vacationing in...
DST Tightens Its Grip O...
Internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies (DST) today formally announced the acquisition of Russian social network Odnoklassniki.ru , which we reported on last week. DST has bought out out the minority shareholders in Forticom Group Limited – which it now fully owns...
Contribute To Charities...
Endorse for a Cause is launching today to allow you to raise money for your favorite charities while making purchases online. Some online retailers allow you to do this through their own sites, but Endorse For A Cause is hoping to allow consumers to give back at any online retailer. Once...
As E-Book Wars Heat Up,...
As competition in the e-books device market heats up, Borders is cutting the prices of its leading eReading devices, the Kobo and Aluratek to $129 and $99.99 respectively. The Kobo was previously priced at $149.99 and the Aluratek was priced at $119.99. Borders is also announcing that...
Chartbeat Raises $3 Mil...
In a short amount of time since its launch in April, 2009 and its redesign a year later, realtime analytics startup Chartbeat has gained an impressive following of more than 2,500 paying corporate customers. All of this was done so far with 5 employees, led by general manager Tony Haile....