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A small stretch of Canal Street is at war — and it’s pretty. Companies in buildings across the street from each other are filling their windows with Post-it notes in elaborate designs in what’s become something of a colorful battle of one-upsmanship, as first reported by New York 1. Marge & Maggie stopped by #postitwar #canalnotes pic.twitter.com/6ZFhCwLtHS…
This summer, Ghostbusters brings a whole new generation face-to-face with how cool it is to strap a proton pack to your back and take down the undead with style. But because we live in a world where men go into fits of hysteria over the gender of things like fictional busters of ghosts, we just…
It does not. But what if it did? Then, Civil War would probably look something like this. As pointed out by tipster Sang, Twitter user and artist Bin1 Production has been uploading images of characters from Namco Bandai’s The Idolmaster as if they were Marvel superheroes. You can follow Bin1 Production on Twitter here or…
Untold-stories.net (Courtesy of Ruben Pater) There’s an interesting trend in Web design these days: Making websites that look, well … bad. Look at Hacker News. Pinboard. The Drudge Report. Adult Swim. Bloomberg Businessweek features. All of these sites — some years old, some built recently — and hundreds more like them, eschew the templated, user-friendly…
Twitter: latest update shows the service is more than just words Posting a photo or URL, even when Twitter shortens the link, currently takes up 23 characters, meaning users only have 117 characters to play with. Combined with emoji or hashtags, this doesn’t leave much room for words. Observers say the tweak is a minor…
“It’s all anyone can talk about in the newsroom,” a person close to the situation says about New Yorker veteran’s sudden exit Acclaimed music and culture writer Sasha Frere-Jones has abruptly exited the L.A. Times after less than a year amid allegations of expense-account shenanigans involving a strip club and accepting expensive freebies from sources….
Uber faces other labor-related hurdles. Along with Lyft, a competing ride-hailing service, the company this week withdrew operations from Austin, Tex., after losing a battle with the City Council over the nature of its background checks for drivers. Under the terms of the deal in New York, which will be in effect for five years,…
In the fall of 2007, a new social network named Friendfeed launched in semi-private beta. Founded by four ex-Google employees—Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, and Sanjeev Singh—it had a simple mission: “to glue together the web,” as Buchheit put it. Using site-specific RSS feed scrapers, FriendFeed would pull data from other networks—there were 23…
Matt Adams is invested in the candidacy of Donald Trump, but not just because he wants to Make America Great Again. For Adams, Trumps’ ascendency to presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican party comes with a cash prize. Potentially, he hopes, a big one. Adams, a 46-year-old web developer and IT specialist in northern Maryland,…
Google aims to make HTML5 the primary experience in Chrome by the fourth quarter of this year, except for a white-list of 10 sites that will run Adobe’s Flash Player. Under the plan revealed by Google, called “HTML5 by Default,” the Chrome browser will continue to ship with Adobe’s Flash Player, but its presence will…