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Matt Lauer and Al Roker are taking the show on the road. They’ll broadcast live from Chicago on Monday, according to a press release from NBC O&O WMAQ-TV. On tap for the program is Lauer’s exclusive interview with Judge Joan Lefkow, whose husband and mother were murdered in 2005 by a man upset with Lefkow …
As a kid Tom Lawton wanted to see the wind. As a grown-up he wants to design cool stuff (like a 360° digital camera) These visions combine in his Firewinder Mini. It’s a 100% wind-powered outdoor light. Although it doesn’t generate practical task lighting it certainly seems to create an unusual atmospheric ambience. When wind …
According to The Wall Street Journal, Facebook is negotiating with Microsoft to sell a small stake in the social network at a valuation of around $15 billion.
Adding to Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2, the epic saga continues with Halo 3, the amazingly anticipated sequel to the highly successful and critically acclaimed Halo franchise. Halo (2001) and Halo 2 (2004) sold 14.5 million copies worldwide. In this third chapter of the Halo trilogy, Master Chief returns to finish the fight, bringing …
Are people around you spontaneously talking like pirates? Hold on to your eye patch! Today is "International Talk Like a Pirate Day"!
And you thought non-stick chewing gum was the heat. Turns out, Coca Cola may be plotting a new version of Sprite that actually chills itself upon opening. Apparently, the drink has to be kept at a specified temperature before being snapped up, and once the oh-so-thirsty consumer pops the top, “a mechanism inside creates ice …
A tearful Britney Spears fan named Chris Crocker posted a passionate video called Leave Britney Alone! on YouTube after the pop star’s disastrous MTV Awards performance. Crocker’s video has become an instant YouTube hit and has gotten about 4 million views. In it, Crocker defends Britney’s widely-criticized performance at the MTV Video Music Awards on …
MTV’s latest reality show – A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila – is built around the dishy, scantily clad singer/model who is reputed to have the most friends in the history of MySpace (2,009,335 at last count). Tila’s career began at the age of 18 when she was discovered at a shopping mall by …
News Corp. and NBC Universal have named their online video joint venture Hulu. The venture is designed to be the ad-supported home for Web videos from News Corp., NBC Universal and other content companies that want to participate. The venture has distribution deals with some of the biggest Web sites, including AOL, Comcast.net, MSN, MySpace …
The News Corp./NBC Universal video portal finally has a name and a URL. The venture’s new CEO Jason Kilar writes they picked the moniker Hulu because it is “short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce and it rhymes with itself.” (Hulu means “feather/plumage” or “choice and precious” in Hawaiian, so perhaps it’s also a sly …
UPDATE: YouTube has reworked their site in response to this article. If you get an error when trying to download a YouTube video, please try some of the plug-ins and scripts listed in step #3. YouTube.com is a great resource. Not many sites allows users to freely upload, view, and share video clips like YouTube …
Lose a game of chess to a computer, and you could bruise your ego. Lose an arm-wrestling match to a Japanese arcade machine, and you could break your arm. Distributor Atlus Co. said Tuesday it will remove all 150 “Arm Spirit” arm wrestling machines from Japanese arcades after three players broke their arms grappling with …
After checking our referral traffic today we noticed a boost in visitors coming from Davis Freeberg’s “Digital Connection” blog. Apparently Freeberg liked our article about Apple rejecting iPod engravings. Although Davis said MethodShop wasn’t a “useful site” but he at least he still thought we were “entertaining.” Thanks Davis, we’ll take that as a compliment. Special …
Bawdy teen comedy “Superbad” proved to be super good at North American movie box offices, holding onto the No. 1 slot for the second straight weekend, according to studio estimates on Sunday. “Superbad” grossed $18 million, pushing its 10-day total to $68.6 million and making it one of the top comedies of the summer. “The …
Diamonds are indeed forever, or at least nearly as old as the Earth, a new study shows. Scientists have unearthed diamonds more than 4 billion years old and trapped inside crystals of zircon in the Jack Hills region in Western Australia. Nearly as old as Earth itself and considered the oldest terrestrial diamonds ever discovered, …
YouTube did not claim to invent the video overlay ad concept. They obviously just liked it enough to steal it from VideoEgg. I guess Google's strategy is, if you can't out-innovate your competitors, then steal from them.
Online video-sharing sites continue to see growing usage, and YouTube is still way out in front of its competitors. Online video sites in general lured about 73 million unique visitors in July, according to Web audience measurement firm Nielsen//NetRatings. About 75 percent of that audience stopped at YouTube, which drew 55 million unique viewers in …
