Tech At LeWeb yesterday, Microsoft demonstrated a pretty, new way to curate the web’s information: Montage.
Montage looks and feels a lot like a glossy magazine web or tablet app. It works by allowing the user to pick a keyword or two; the application then pulls data and content from a variety of media-rich and real-time sources, including YouTube (
), RSS feeds, Twitter () and Bing News. The content is then arranged on the page in a grid format — you get to choose the exact layout…
Montage looks and feels a lot like a glossy magazine web or tablet app. It works by allowing the user to pick a keyword or two; the application then pulls data and content from a variety of media-rich and real-time sources, including YouTube (
), RSS feeds, Twitter () and Bing News. The content is then arranged on the page in a grid format — you get to choose the exact layout…
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It was a bittersweet week in the Twitterverse. Some of us cheered for our entertainment and sports heroes while others lamented the loss of some notable public figures.
Soccer (football) took the top trend for yet another week thanks…
It was a bittersweet week in the Twitterverse. Some of us cheered for our entertainment and sports heroes while others lamented the loss of some notable public figures.
Soccer (football) took the top trend for yet another week thanks…
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Tech In a fascinating display of futuristic weaponry, the U.S. Navy broke world records today with a railgun, a device that sent projectiles hurtling around a range at speeds of up to Mach 7 and up to 33 megajoules of energy…
Tech Google this week unveiled its Chrome Web Store, which does for the web what Apple’s App Store did for mobile devices: It provides a place to explore and “install” web-based applications.
The launch was announced alongside a new netbook…
The launch was announced alongside a new netbook…
Dev & Design WordPress has just introduced Toolbox, a brand new theme that will let its users take advantage of some nifty HTML5 elements with the Custom CSS upgrade.
Toolbox is “a semantic, HTML5, canvas for CSS artists and an ultra-minimal set of…
Toolbox is “a semantic, HTML5, canvas for CSS artists and an ultra-minimal set of…
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Startups Instagram’s hit mobile photo-sharing app for iPhone has just been updated with some key enhancements. Most notably, the application now includes Posterous support, mentions and translated versions available in Japanese, German and Portuguese.
The language update means that users who…
The language update means that users who…
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Web Video It’s December, which can only mean one thing: It’s time to celebrate consumerism gone horrifically rampant! That’s why this week’s YouTube theme is appropriately regressive: Toys!
We asked The Fine Brothers — who create hilarious vids such as Kids React…
We asked The Fine Brothers — who create hilarious vids such as Kids React…
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The feed, which is part of the Sports Illustrated Everywhere strategy of extending content to various devices…
The feed, which is part of the Sports Illustrated Everywhere strategy of extending content to various devices…
Business Brightkite, the company that pioneered the place checkin, is checking out of the competition. The Limbo-owned company pivoted to group texting earlier this year and has just announced that it will drop its checkins, posts and stream features in all…
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Social Media Facebook seems to be a bit of an omnipresent entity these days. Once the domain of college kids, it now features users of all ages and has also turned into a promotional tool for artists, politicians and businesses.
Vincenzo Cosenza has…
Vincenzo Cosenza has…
Social Media Jenny An is a Chicago-based writer with a focus on popular culture, food and travel. Her work has appeared in Time Out Chicago and VenusZine.
Social media certainly has its benefits for those who love dining and drinking. From free…
Social media certainly has its benefits for those who love dining and drinking. From free…
Dev & Design Facebook is known for its hackathons — all-night coding sessions designed to help create new products or improve others. Now the company has announced its first Hacker Cup.
Facebook says it’s “bring[ing] engineers from around the world together to compete…
Facebook says it’s “bring[ing] engineers from around the world together to compete…
Business Consumer products manufacturer Procter & Gamble Co. is said to be ending its 77-year run as a prominent sponsor and producer of soap operas — a genre the company helped create — in favor of producing more campaigns using social…
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Entertainment Ask any social media maven if he’s into FarmVille and he’ll likely slap you in the Facebook at the mere mention of virtual agriculture. Yet Zynga, purveyors of such feed-clogging digital crack, just boasted of its more than 45 million…
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