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SoMe is a film about the rise (and fall?) of social media. Produced by web rabble-rouser and satirist, Loren Feldman , the film will feature Feldman’s signature puppet act (it will be cool, I promise) and interviews with and segments about web luminaries like: Julia Allison, Michael Arrington, Steve Ballmer, Henry Blodget, Chris Brogan, Robert Bruce, Paul Carr, Pete Cashmore, Brian Clark, Ron Conway, Henry Copland, Jay Cuthrell, Mike Daisey, Barry Diller, Jack Dorsey, Dan Farber, Steve Gillmor, Paul Graham, MC Hammer, Shel Israel, Andrew Jecklin, Steve Jobs, Kim Kardashian, Ashton Kutcher, Loic LeMeur, Jakob Lodwick
There were plenty of other Pictionary-like games in the iTunes app store before OMGPOP’s Draw Something. But the secret ingredient behind Draw Something’s runaway success was its very social, asynchronous gameplay. Most independent game designers don’t necessarily have the extra manpower to build an engine that supports this. That’s where an Israeli startup called Nextpeer comes in. It’s kind of like the next generation of OpenFeint, a mobile-social gaming network that was acquired by Japanese gaming giant GREE for $104 million last year. Game designers can integrate Nextpeer’s SDK to let their players compete against each other.
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Behold! Our favorite eleven images from February 2012 (extra day, extra image). He went to Steak n Shake with his wife every year for valentine’s day since before he was married. This is his first year without a valentine.
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Two hippos touch snouts William Warby actually prefers photographing animals to humans because “animals don’t get impatient while you’re adjusting camera settings.” In this Picture of the Day, however, it was Warby’s patience that was running out. On a trip to the ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in Dunstable , England, Warby could not believe his luck when he chanced upon a pair of hippos that appeared to be playing with each other. The hippos have been at Whipsnade for as long as Warby can remember, but it was the first time in his experience that they were in a suitable part of the enclosure to get a great photo. Being at a zoo, Warby had to contend with cages, glass and walls in order to position himself in a vantage point that would give him an unobstructed view of the playful pair.
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When University of Alberta-Augustana Psychology Professor Paula Marentette thought about Wikipedia, it was in the context of reminding her students not to cite it in a paper. But then she read Association for Psychological Science President Mahzarin Banaji’s call for psychology professionals to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles on their discipline. The arguments compelled Dr. Marentette to assign her students to edit Wikipedia as part of their coursework, and this term she joined the Wikipedia Education Program in Canada with her Language Acquisition class . The upper-level seminar class had seven students, and Dr.
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Sorry, we don't mean this kind of bacon. Bacn. If you have an account on any of the most popular websites on the Internet, you’ve probably seen it – it’s the Internet jargon for those periodic emails you receive whenever your activity on a website wanes, reminding you to come back and see what you’ve missed.
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The Tulip Folly, Jean-Léon Gérôme, from the Walters Museum collection The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, has donated more than 19,000 freely-licensed images of artworks to Wikimedia Commons . The Walters’ collection includes ancient art, medieval art and manuscripts, decorative objects, Asian art and Old Master and 19th-century paintings. The images and their associated information will join our collection of more than 12 million freely usable media files, which serves as the repository for the 285 language editions of Wikipedia. 
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Wikimedia sites will gradually be upgraded to version 1.20 of MediaWiki in April 2012. Wikimedia engineers have finished up the latest version of MediaWiki , the software that powers Wikipedia and its sister sites. We have begun deploying this version, labeled “1.20wmf1,” to all Wikimedia sites in stages. We started on April 10th and will continue until April 25th. Yes, we only deployed MediaWiki 1.19 a few weeks ago.9to5 Toys
TigerDirect offers the Belkin Swivel Charger for iPhone / iPod , model no. F8Z414ttP, for $9.99 plus $2.29 for shipping. That’s the lowest total price we could find by $2.December 6, 2011 at 11:14 am One of our favorite iDevice accessory brands, Power Support , has introduced several new high quality collections of iPhone 4 cases. You are probably familiar with Power Support because they are the screen protector of choice carried on Apple.com and in Apple retail stores but they also make several other noteworthy iDevice accessories.
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May 4, 2012 at 5:36 pm This 2011 Macworld Best of Show winner was designed to be used not just at your desk or on a table, but also on your lap while kicking back on the sofa or laying in bed, the iRest lets you view your iPad’s screen in comfort with EXCELLENT stability. Right out of the box, you’ll notice that the iRest looks and feels like a product made by Apple itself. It has an ELEGANT aluminum finish and simple, yet solid build. FREE shipping in the continental United States..this offer won’t last forever so make sure to get it now! Daily Steals via Ebay Daily Deal has the Netgear WGR614 54 Mbps 4-Port Ethernet 10/100 802.11g Wireless Router (refurb) for $9.99 with free shipping.
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April 11, 2012 at 9:08 pm ContactMonkey is a new service that intuitively allows users to create an online version of their contact and social media information. The purpose of the website is to replace the traditional paper card with a URL you can hand out to people. For example, if someone wants my contact information, I can give them my www.contactmonkey.com/username instead.May 8, 2012 at 10:02 pm Two pretty great apps on the iOS and Mac App Store have been given a bit of a price reduction today. First off, the Mac photo editing software Snaphealhas been marked down to $11.99 — from its previous $18.99. Snapheal is a pretty easy to use photo editor that you might want to check out.