When President Obama showed the power and potential of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in 2008, every politician and their chief of staff's mother jumped on the social media bandwagon. Yesterday Obama joined Instagram. Here are several other networks he--and his rivals--should be on.READ»
At 17, the former Moscow student had his pick of million-dollar offers for his video-chatting service. He passed on them all. Six months later, Ternovskiy steps outside the one-bedroom apartment he shares with two engineers to talk to Fast Company about missed opportunities, short-term profits, and long-term hopes.READ»
Sean Parker is already famous in today's Web-connected tech world, mythical perhaps. But he's about to get even more famous thanks to a Vanity Fair profile and a movie that's indirectly about his life. READ»
ChatRoulette's parade of strangers, jokes, and horrifying male nudity made it the talk of the Internet for a good few weeks. Version 2.0 is coming soon, but do we care?READ»
As Chatroulette becomes a destination for pervs, vChatter has built a family-friendly alternative that's popular among Asian families and migrant laborers.READ»
While American soccer fans toast their 1-1 win over England on Saturday night, innovation didn't really care, because it was inventing a new ballgame to be played in a new ballpark. With four-legged hairdroids.1. In advance of his ...READ»
Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business represent the best and the brightest in innovation and creation, but the companies they rep aren't all powerhouses--yet. Here are 10 of the most creative small business drawn ...READ»
Say what you want about ChatRoulette -- and its attendant scary, hairy parts -- it is popular (in that can't-help-but-stare-at-an-accident kind of way). So it was only a matter of time before someone spawned a squeaky clean version ...READ»
Spin-offs from ChatRoulette have been many, varied and, to the most part, a bunch of bollocks. ReelRoulette, however, is not. It's a very clever Web site that lets motion-video designers share their showreels with potential clients ...READ»
If you're a gambling man, I would put a fiver on a lot of Web-based April Fool jokes tomorrow being ChatRoulette-related. Andrey Ternovskiy's idea has, over the past three months, made a lot of pervs very happy indeed--not to mention ...READ»
Canadian instrumental indie rockers Holy F**k (their music is better than their name, I promise you) have decided to take an odd route when debuting their new album, "Latin": they're streaming it on the noted perversion-delivery service.READ»
On Friday, the NYT had a revealing Q&A with the founder of ChatRoulette , Andrey Ternovskiy. The 17-year-old was over in the U.S. to talk to developers and potential investors about how to evolve his site, which he developed over ...READ»
It only took a couple of months, but it seems the first spin-off of ChatRoulette is here. ChatRoulette Map does exactly what it sounds like, using Google Maps to plot the IP addresses of all the voyeurs and weirdies who are online ...READ»
Andrey Ternovskiy, the 17-year-old creator of Chat Roulette, is now embroiled in a bidding war that pits the U.S. and Russia against each other over where the company will end up. Could it blow up like Facebook? Or fizzle like MySpace?READ»
Last week, our very own Dan Macsai was speculating about how to monetize the slightly-scary, balls-out phenomenon that is ChatRoulette (yes, a week before Jon Stewart even discovered the site) and now it seems someone is already ...READ»
Jon Stewart's great, really he is, but this is awfully disappointing. ChatRoulette? What is this, January 27th?
That being said, the clip is really more about the ridiculous news coverage of ChatRoulette than the site itself, and ...READ»
