by Erik Kain on February 24, 2012
The Onion has really grabbed the fake news bull by the horns over the past few years. In one short video, they manage to make fun of teenagers, Facebook, our obsession with phones, and get in a bit of a dig at the controversial euthanasia debate. You can watch more fake Onion news here. Follow [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 17, 2012
This is why I love the internet. Sure, the original sparked a lot of controversy and armchair parenting advice. But now we can forget all about that and pay attention to more important and hilarious things. This is the inevitable arms race that we get when we start shooting one another’s gadgets, I suppose. Violence [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 25, 2012
Via copyranter, who typically hates infographs but enjoys this spot: More numbers and a more extended graphical experience here. Definitely click the link if you want a peek at the future of the internet, the infograph, and a lot of interesting tidbits on online videos. Follow me on Twitter or Facebook. Read my Forbes blog here.
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by Erik Kain on November 4, 2011
Kevin Fox, a former Google employee who worked for several years on the Google Reader project before leaving the company, has offered to help Google fix its popular once-social RSS service. Google stripped the site of its sharing and following functionality and redesigned it to fall more in line with the new Google aesthetic – [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 2, 2011
So Google finally went and killed off the social features in Google Reader. They also gave it a face lift, apparently in an attempt to make it look more like the new Gmail and Google Plus. Aesthetic uniformity across products makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, the new Google Reader look is ugly. Really ugly. Too much [...]
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