David Canton points us to the news that lawyers for the Quebec Winter Carnival are threatening to sue the magazine Maclean’s for illustrating a story about Quebec corruption with the carnival’s mascot carrying a suitcase full of cash. The mascot is kn… Continue reading →

We hear it all the time when it comes to various social media offerings. Blogs were dismissed early on by all important people who said they “don’t care about what people wearing pajamas sitting in their basement have to say about their cats.” Twitte… Continue reading →

For a while now, people have been submitting versions of this video made by a guy from Zen Magnets, in which he both reveals a voicemail he received from Jake Bronstein, the owner of competing firm Buckyballs, and then proceeds to compare the two produ… Continue reading →

Beta testers are closer to getting major new Chrome features, and dev-channel users get them now: WebGL’s 3D graphics, Google Instant search, and some hardware acceleration. Originally posted at Deep Tech

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While there had been plans to move forward with a markup on the COICA censorship bill this week, it appears that those plans have been delayed, effectively shelving the bill for the time being. This should keep it off the agenda at least until after t… Continue reading →

We’ve been hearing a lot about politicians trying to restrict access rather than actually dealing with the root causes of problems a lot lately. From the horrible COICA censorship bill, to various state attorneys general pressuring websites to block f… Continue reading →

Universal bookmark sync service Xmarks said it’s closing up shop early next year, but there may be hope in the form of a paid service. Originally posted at Web Crawler

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You know what we haven’t seen much lately? Patent lawsuits that are hot — to use Paris Hilton’s favorite phrase. Well, Hilton, herself, may end up getting involved in this lawsuit pointed out by Eriq Gardner over at THREsq. Apparently a company cal… Continue reading →

Google Toolbar users had been able to shorten long Web links with goo.gl, but now anyone can access the service through a new Web site. Originally posted at Relevant Results

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Five months after the acquisition of photo start-up, Divvyshot, major upgrades come to the social network’s photo-sharing feature, which processes 100 million new photos per day. Originally posted at The Social

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