Monthly Archives: March 2010
Tumblr Now Selling Premium Themes
Tumblr is attempting to make money through two methods. The first method is by charging $9 fee to have your blog featured in a directory. The newest way is by selling premium themes. The themes are made by 7 different designers and the price ranges from $9-$49. Tumblr has about 4 million users now. Below are some screenshots of the premium themes. [TechCrunch]
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Stop Using Facebook, You Might Get Syphilis
Professor Peter Kelly, a director of public health said that there is a link between social networking and the rise of cases of syphilis within the Britain town of Teesside — especially amongst young women. “I don’t get the names of people affected, just figures, and I saw that several of the people had met sexual partners through these sites,” stated Kelly. “Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex.” I have a study that I have going in my head too: People in Teesside are having more unprotected sex than before. [Telegraph UK]
Categories Facebook, Professor Peter Kelly
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GoDaddy.com Ceases Registering Websites In China
GoDaddy.com Inc. plans to announce today that they will no longer allow domain names to be registered in China in response to new government rules that require applications to provide an extensive amount of personal data including photographs. GoDaddy believes that this requirement for domain name registration could put individuals at risk. GoDaddy.com is the second major company to cease doing online business in China this week, Google being the first.
“GoDaddy is the first company to publicly follow Google’s example in responding to the Chinese government’s censorship of the Internet by partially retreating from the Chinese market,” stated Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.). “Google fired a shot heard ’round the world, and now a second American company has answered the call to defend the rights of the Chinese people.” GoDaddy launched in 2000 and runs about 40 million registered domain names. [Washington Post]
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Google Exec Pages Appearing In Chinese Was A Bug, Not A Hack
The executive pages of Google.com appeared to be in Chinese this morning. Some journalists jumped the gun and assumed that it was a hack by the Chinese government, but it turns out that it was simply a bug from Google’s end. Google and the Chinese government are not on good terms right now because the search engine company decided to forward Google.cn to Google.hk and essentially pull operations out of the Asian country [More details]. “This is not a hack but rather a bug affecting the language displayed to some users, and we are working to fix it soon,” stated a Google spokesperson in an interview with The Guardian. [Guardian]
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Report: Toshiba Working With Bill Gates On Advanced Nuclear Reactor
Toshiba Corporation shares climbed over the last day after a report that the company could be teaming up with Bill Gates to develop advanced nuclear reactors. The source that tipped off the Nikkei business daily in Japan about the deal was unnamed. The Traveling Wave Reactor would have the ability to operate for about 100 years without having to refuel.
Toshiba would work with TerraPower, a company that was funded by Gates. Toshiba spokesman Keisuke Ohmori said that the Toshiba and TerraPower talks were currently in early-stage. [MarketWatch]
Categories Bill Gates, Keisuke Ohmori, Toshiba
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Mashable Launches iPhone App With Push Notifications
Pete Cashmore, founder of social media blog Mashable.com has announced that they have exceeded 70,000 downloads of the Mashable iPhone app that was released a month ago. Now there is a new version of the application [iTunes link], version 1.2. The new app includes Push Notifications, horizontal tilt, more Twitter clients for sharing articles, and international improvements. You can filter Mashable stories by authors, tags, and categories. The Mashable app was developed by Nclud. The app is available for free. [Mashable]
Categories Apple App Store, Mashable, Pete Cashmore
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John Chapple Stepping Down From Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is losing a board member. John Chapple, the former CEO of Nextel is standing for re-election to the Yahoo! Board of Directors. Chapple was appointed to the board as per the request by Carl Icahn during the proxy war against Yahoo! Icahn is no longer trying to negotiate an acquisition deal with Microsoft, but the search engine company did make a deal with Bing.com. It is likely that Chapple will focus more on his private equity firm Hawkeye Investments. [BusinessInsider]
Categories Hawkeye Investments, John Chapple, Yahoo!
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Zach Braff Announces On Facebook “‘Scrubs without JD’ is no more”
Zach Braff has announced on his Facebook Page that Scrubs appears to be canceling. Below is the exact statement sent from Braff’s Facebook Page:
Many of you have asked, so here it is: it appears that “New Scrubs”, “Scrubs 2.0″, “Scrubs with new kids”, “Scrubbier”, “Scrubs without JD” is no more. It was worth a try, but alas… it didn’t work. zb
The Twitter account ScrubsWriters is expected to shut down until there is any news about the show’s continuation as well. Known as the character Turk on Scrubs, Donald Faison stars in a new pilot called The Odds, as a Las Vegas homicide cop. Braff himself left Scrubs in order to pursue other careers, but made several cameos in the newest season. [E Online]
Categories Donald Faison, Facebook, Zach Braff
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Schmuck.com Sells For $66,000
Schmuck.com has been sold for about 49,000 EUR ($66,000 U.S.) on Sedo. Schmuck appears to be a German brand name that has something to do with jewelry. Whoever bought this website may be a complete genius or a complete schmuck. [Domain Name Wire]
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Yahoo! Releases Sketch-A-Search iPhone App
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has released two iPhone applications recently. One of them is a native search application and the other is called Sketch-A-Search [iTunes link]. The Sketch-A-Search app shows you a map of the area near you. When you click the sketch button, you can draw out a line of the area that you want to search local results within. The application currently supports local restaurants in the U.S. Other types of businesses and regions will be added sometime in the future. [VentureBeat]
Categories Apple App Store, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Sketch-A-Search
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