YouTube’s Next ‘How-To Guru’ Contest is Giving Out $4,000 in Prizes
Hey you! Are you tired of being a dickhead? For those of you who indignantly answered, “Hey, I’m not a dickhead!” Good. You have self esteem, and you might be just who YouTube is looking for in their new contest. For those of you who answered “Yes” to that previous question, also good work. You’ve [...]
What Kim Kardashian & Other Top Yahoo Searches of 2012 Say About Us
Good news, people! It’s finally almost here! No, not Hanukkah, dumbass, it’s the annual releasing of the top search engine searches of the year! Yahoo was first out of the gate, displaying its tabulations on the top searches earlier this week. Now we’re waiting to see what Google, Dogpile, Lycos, Ask and (chuckle) Bing have [...]
YouTube Set For Scheduled Maintenance Tomorrow — Some Important Features Will Not Be Available
YouTube has a scheduled maintenance tomorrow today (Monday December 3, 2012) at 7 p.m. PST. During this time, certain features on YouTube will be going in read-only mode and will be unavailable or a few hours according to the YTCreators Twitter account. According to Google support, the features that will be unavailable during maintenance will be: [...]
Tumblr’s Top Ten Ranking is Bullshit — Here’s Why:
Tumblr, after just five years in the game, has announced their top ten ranking among U.S. websites. If accurate, that puts it ahead of the Huffington Post. “If accurate” is a pretty big conditional clause though.26-year-old CEO David Karp (and to think I used to get annoyed when playmates were younger than me) announced the [...]
LIVE NOW: Alicia Keys Debuts ‘Girl On Fire’ in Google+ Hangout
[UPDATE] Watch the event below! Waiting for Alicia Keys’ latest album to drop? If you’re free tonight, she will host a Google+ Hangout at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT where she will premiere “Girl On Fire” for the first time, a week before it hits stores November 27. If you want to ask Alicia a [...]
Google Now Lets You Keep Your YouTube Username — If You Link to Google+
By now, you’ve probably received a message on YouTube encouraging you to use your real name as your username by linking it to your Google+ profile. This is part of their broader efforts in combating trolls populating the video-sharing service and in boosting Google’s social media platform. Now, YouTube is making some minor changes to [...]
The Top 10 Viral Video Brands – Red Bull Ranks #1 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Goviral, a leading distributor in branding entertainment content, recently did a study ranking the top 100 brands dominating the viral video industry. Surprisingly, Red Bull came out on top followed by powerhouse corporations like Google and Disney. I reached out to my friend Brendan Gahan at Mekanism for some insight on why Red Bull has [...]
3 Reasons Why Groupon is Screwed
Shit just got straight up “Jack and the Beanstalk,” because a giant is about to die. I first noticed that Groupon was in trouble by looking at my inbox. There has been a serious decline in the flood of email deals that the online coupon company usually sends me. I rarely buy any of them anyway, [...]
Must-Watch Video: Google Leads The Charge On Gay Rights in Tech
Being a heterosexual middle class white male in the 21st century, it is sometimes easy to forget that others have challenges to overcome — my biggest issue in life is choosing which issue of “Swank” I should read on the toilet. That or grousing about how “my kind” no longer has it easy … I [...]
Happy Birthday, Google! Getting Dirty With the 14 Oddest Search Questions
It is hard to believe that 14 short years ago, my grandpa was like, “What’s a Google?” Now his most favorite pastime is to Google all the odd questions that people ask of the search engine giant. No, that isn’t actually true. My grandpa has been dead a hell of a lot longer than Google [...]
