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New $Num,ber.ss Language Coming Soon

Tony Johnston — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:29:23 -0500

Attention CEOs & Business Owners: the language you are using in your financial statements to ‘talk money numbers’ is about to change – so start saying goodbye to GAAP!

Google Finally Taps Real-Time Search, Via YouTube--Why?

Kit Eaton — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:11:15 -0400

We know Google's desperate to get its paws on real-time social networking data, but it's apparently just pulled off a surprising move in exactly that direction: It's enabled real-time comment searching in YouTube. Now if their comments weren't so inane ...

Infographic of the Day: Visualizing Digg.com's Commenters

Cliff Kuang — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:26:27 -0400

The comments that attend stories on the social news site Digg.com are a zoo--but an interesting zoo nonetheless. That is, if you've got the patience to wade through all the junk that you don't want to read.

Is BD-Live On Dark Knight REALLY The Future?

Kevin Ohannessian — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:34:02 -0500

Tonight's Dark Knight Blu-ray event was the first ever BD-Live experience in America. But the live text commentary featuring the film's director, Chris Nolan, left much to be desired. The questions that were texted in resembled the same hit or miss quality as online chats -- and only rarely related to what was actually happening during the live viewing of the film. As for the questions that were interesting, even those garnered little attention because most of Christopher Nolan's typed responses were short.

It's All-Feeling All the Time at Masters of Design Gala 2008

Erika Schneider — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:42:52 -0400