Flickr has introduced a new feature that lets you create fullscreen slideshows that can be embedded and shared. Slideshows are available from just about every page where you see a group of photos on Flickr: photostream pages, sets, tag pages, group pools and search results. Just look for the slideshow icon, right. I’ve embedded an […]

Not twelve hours had passed after the end of the Democratic Party’s National Convention in Denver, before presumptive GOP Presidential nominee John McCain this morning named whom he’d chosen to be his Vice-President on the Republican ticket. Not three hours had passed after McCain’s nomination of first-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin before little known facts […]

Ashley Payne is a design student at College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. The Zune Bug is her design concept for a Zune-branded nightlight that reacts to your room’s ambient light level.  It’s also designed to be a wireless remote speaker for your Zune and responds to the frequency and volume of your music with variations […]

Yongfook has released Sweetcron, a web application that you can download and install on your Web site that automatically creates a lifestream site from the pages you bookmark and content you publish at Twitter, Flickr and other social networking sites. An example is available a Yongfook.com site.  Sweetcron joins an already crowded field of lifestreaming […]

Like to turn your experience with podcasting into a sweet new media job? Check out the experiences of podcaster and new media guy Dan Patterson. He’s translated his experience with producing the Creepy Sleepy podcast, along with work as a correspondent and social media evangelist for the Talk Radio News Service, into a new gig […]

Apple has unleashed a storm of criticism as a result of its decision to ban an ebook comic book, Murderdrome, from the iTunes store. Murderdrome may be stupid, it may be offensive and it is certainly gorey – but it’s no worse than a lot of comics that you can get at Barnes and Noble […]

Frommer’s has announced a collection of Travel Guides for iPhone and iPod Touch. The app features local travel tips, restaurant and hotel reviews, and bonus features such as location-based services, interactive maps, and web and phone links. A demo video is embedded above. Frommer’s New York City, San Francisco, London and Paris are available for […]

It looks like Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine may be another victim of the popularity of Apple’s iPhone. The publisher has announced that it’s published the final issue of the magazine, and is replacing it with one that focuses on he iPhone: After 11 years, we will be publishing a final 2008 issue of Smartphone […]

A lot of tech analysts, including TechCrunch and Citi analyst Mark Mahaney, have been talking up their estimates of Kindle sales, and positioning Amazon’s device as the iPod of ebooks. Unfortunately for Amazon, the numbers being thrown around by TechCrunch & Citi appear to be bogus. According to a report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Amazon […]

More and more companies are finding themselves dealing with user-generated criticism – on blogs, forums and on YouTube. This video is a great example of how to deal with this. As a response to a fan video for Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08 that points out an apparent glitch in the game, Tiger Woods and […]