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Yesterday, we wrote about HBO GO, the next part of the premium cabler’s online content strategy. Today, HBO customers who use Verizon FiOS can start using the site. So what is HBO GO? Think of it as Hulu programmed entirely by HBO.

Another Link in the Broadband Video Chain

HBO has actually been in the [...]

After capturing the Olympic crowd in his athletic thrall, gold medal-winning snowboarder Shaun White has snagged the attention of Internet lurkers as well, as coverage of his award-winning run as well as signature epic trick has gone viral. After snagging the gold (and defending his 2006 title) in the Men’s Half Pipe competition [...]

Casual game-maker Popcap Games (famous for Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled) commissioned Information Services Group to perform a survey of people who play social games online. It found that the average social gamer is a 43-year-old woman, despite long-standing social stereotypes about people who play games.
Note that “social games” are web-based games like Mafia [...]

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Whether you’re an artist, designer, or photographer, your web portfolio is your calling card and your showroom. While the work should speak for [...]

For decades, educators have been scrambling to find better ways to prepare students for the real world. It began with the mildly apocalyptic government report, A Nation at Risk, which warned that an outdated school system was unwittingly sabotaging America’s economic superiority. Year after year, major educational organizations would echo the report’s call with threats [...]

Tim Trefren is one of the founders of Mixpanel, Inc. a real-time analytics service that helps companies understand how users behave with web applications.
When most people think of web analytics, they think about pageview tracking; basically, measuring which pages on a website are being viewed. Pageview tracking is a well-established technology, but it’s no longer [...]

Dag Kittlaus is the Co-Founder and CEO of Siri. He is a serial innovator and consumer wireless Internet veteran of 10 years in both Scandinavia and the US. Siri is Dag’s third consecutive mobile product.
In the near future, anyone who lives a connected lifestyle will be able to delegate their everyday tasks to intelligent [...]

Just when you think you’ve tried every Twitter app out there, a few more appear on the scene. For Mac users that might have either grown tired of, or are looking for alternatives to, Tweetie, Twitterrific, Kiwi or Socialite, never fear, there are indeed other native Mac OS X options out there!
While some of the [...]

From 2005 up through 2008, virtual worlds seemed like the hottest ticket in tech, but we’ve heard less about them in recent months. We imagined the people of Earth leading double lives in alternate realities. It was the stuff of science fiction, like flying cars and robot butlers, and unlike those things, it actually looked [...]