| Top Trends of 2010: The Rise of Tumblr, Posterous & Light Blogging One of the big themes of 2010 has been the increased simplicity of posting content to the Web. Whether it's Facebooking with your family, tweeting with your online buddies, or sharing a favorite video, photo or quote on Tumblr. All of these activities have given millions of people an opportunity to add their voice to the Web. Tumblr and similar... Continue Reading »    MIT Media Lab Hacks the Kinect for Browser Navigation With Gestures (Video) Hackers at the famous MIT Media Lab have built an open source Chrome browser extension that uses the Microsoft gesture-based controller Kinect to navigate around tabs and web pages. The group says the end result is like the movie Minority Report and that seems like a fair comparison. Called DepthJS, the software is on GitHub and open for... Continue Reading » Maria Thomas (NPR/Etsy) to Judge Knight News Challenge Maria Thomas, former head of digital media at NPR and CEO of craft marketplace Etsy, has joined this year's Knight News Challenge and will participate in judging hundreds of funding proposals to create the future of news media, the organization announced today. The Knight Foundation began 70 years ago next month to support innovative news... Continue Reading » IT Poll: Are You Changing Your Anti-Malware Strategy? The number of web sites infected with malware has doubled, according to Dasient's Q3 Malware Update. Planting malware on legitimate sites, through malvertising or other methods, is now the preferred method of criminals distributing malicious software. McAfee, in its own third quarter report, claims that daily malware infections are increasing at... Continue Reading » Your Income, Home Ownership & Parenthood Status Now Available as an API Personal information aggregation service Rapleaf announced to its developers today that it now offers "lifestyle" information like home ownership status, occupation and income corresponding with any email or postal address in its database. The news is sure to drive critics of the company nuts, but Rapleaf's new Personalization API could prove... Continue Reading » Android Apps to Get Content Ratings The Android Market can be a frustrating place to find applications. And according to a blog post today, Google says that giving users more information about apps as they browse the Market has been "a top request" from Android users. So in the spirit of giving good information (and not at all to combat ideas that Android is full of porn, I'm... Continue Reading » Pew Study Examines Wealth and Internet Usage Wealthier households are more likely to use the Internet on any given day than those in lower income brackets, according to the latest research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Ninety five percent of households earning over $75,000 a year use the Internet at least occasionally, compared with 70% of those living in households below... Continue Reading » Google Wave May Live On as an Apache Project To paraphrase Mark Twain, it appears that rumors of Google Wave's death may be greatly exaggerated. Google announced that it was ending development on the project back in August. But some of Google Wave's developers have submitted the code for what's now known as Wave in a Box (WIAB) to the Apache Software Foundation. The project will now be a... Continue Reading » Looks Like There Really Are 100 Uses for RFID When ThingMagic, a company that builds embedded RFID readers and other products, launched 100 Uses of RFID, back in July, we were not completely sanguine. "Can they keep this up 95 more times?" Apparently, yes. They could. Nearing the home stretch, the company has listed a use nearly every day for a total so far of 91 uses. In the next two... Continue Reading » BlackBerry's UberTwitter Arrives on the iPhone I have three Twitter apps on my iPhone that I use for different things: TweetDeck for its continuously awesome list support, Twitter for its push notifications, and Echofon for its ability to search through my friends and followers. None, however, are all that great for viewing links and that's where the latest addition - UberTwitter - attempts to... Continue Reading » Rumor: iOS 4.3 Will Bring In-App Subscriptions Just days after Apple released iOS 4.2, the rumors about the next incarnation of Apple's mobile operating system have begun. According to Mac-centric blog Mac Stories, iOS 4.3 is barely a month away and this time the OS will come with the standard set of bug fixes and a feature that pulls Apple closer to Google-rival Rupert Murdoch. The big news,... Continue Reading » How to Jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch On Monday, Apple shipped its long-awaited iOS 4.2.1 update for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, which was the first major upgrade for the iPad since its launch earlier this year. Finally, iPad users have access to features like multitasking, app folders, threaded messaging and a Unified Inbox, thanks to this update. It also delivered new features... Continue Reading » | 
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