Foursquare, Hot New Phone App, Is Dodgeball on Steroids
"If you're have a slamming Saturday night, there's no reason why it shouldn't feel like a game of Legend of Zelda," said
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Google’s Back Pages: Search Engine Opens Virtual Newsstand [Update]
Lifehacker's Gina Trapani brings word that Google has given magazine nerds an early Christmas present in the form of searchable magazine archives. (The announcement originally appeared on Google's official blog.)
What can you find? At the moment, it only includes New York, Popular Science, and Ebony, but it's still got Read More
Malcolm Gladwell Calls Google ‘The Answer to The Problem We Didn’t Have’
Remember when Nicholas Carr asked in The Atlantic, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (Sure you don't: That was way back in July/August and we've all been using Google too much.)
If the planet-devouring search engine is bringing about the dumbening of mankind, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell might just be the last intelligent Read More
Only Connect: Silicon Alley Insider Honors Silicon Alley 100
Tim Armstrong, Google's president of sales and crusader for their possible search ad deal with Yahoo, was having a cocktail at the W Hotel at Lexington and 50th Street last night for the Silicon Alley 100. But he wasn't exactly sure why he was there.
A couple hundred of the city's tech stars, Read More
2008: The Year Convention Blogging Broke
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal's Amy Schatz reported that Google would be setting up a "two-story, 8,000 square-foot headquarters for hundreds of bloggers descending on the Democratic convention in Denver next week, and it will offer similar services at the Republican convention in September, as new media gain influence in politics."
According to Ms. Read More
Everything New is Old Again
This month's Atlantic cover story by Nicholas Carr which asks the pressing question "Is Google Making Us Stoopid?"
After examining several ways in which our brains have been rewired by our dependence on the web, Mr. Carr notes:
When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is re-created in the Net’s image. It injects the Read MoreFormer Wired Editor: We Could’ve Been Google
As part of its 15th anniversary celebration, Wired has posted a few videos and articles in which its founders look back at what they got right and wrong in the early days of the magazine.
One of the videos features the magazine's former executive editor, Kevin Kelly, whom The New York Times Read More
Gawk, Huff, Google: We’re New Mediapolis
Google Offers Soapbox for Authors
Attenion C-SPAN's BookTV addicts, (we know you're out there)! Brooklyn lit blogger Maud Newton alerts us to Authors@Google. Well-known writers and novelists speak at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. and their talks are posted on YouTube and Google Video. Michael Bloomberg appeared on it in June.
Google Gobbles More Space In West Chelsea
Is Google about to create a city-based campus in Chelsea, much like the one it created in Mountain View, Calif.? According to real estate executives and brokers, it could be close to happening.
The California-based Internet giant has expanded its city headquarters at 76 Ninth Avenue by 49,000 square feet, increasing its total presence Read More
Meet Stacy Savides Sullivan! An Annotated Q & A
Elinor Mills of CNet conducted a Q and A session with Stacy Savides Sullivan, the Chief Culture Officer at Google.
Why?
"There's no question that Google is a trendsetter," Ms. Mills writes by way of introduction. Also there's: "With its lava lamps, simple doodle design, pampered employees and millionaires in its rank and file..."
Lava lamps, Read More
Another Legal Hurdle for Eugene?
Mathieu Eugene's opponents have come up with a new legal argument to try to prevent him from running again for that City Council seat in Brooklyn's 40th District that he won, but then was unable to occupy because of his inability to prove that he was a resident. Heartbeat News, a Brooklyn-based paper, quotes Read More
Liz Benjamin!
The peerless Liz Benjamin is coming to New York City to join the Daily News. For those of you who don't know her -- but really, who doesn't? -- Liz is an authoritative and fantastically prolific blogger and reporter. She also has the distinction of having performed two of the toughest roles in the Read More
Koppell: Okay with NYPD Protest Surveillance
Former state Attorney General and current City Councilman Oliver Koppell, for one, doesn't think there was anything wrong with the widespread police surveillance conducted in the run-up to the Republican National Convention. The police surveillance reports, news of which has provoked a strong reaction on liberal blogs, included the names of three people Read More
Another Non-Resident Runs in 40th, Hynes Backs Eugene
As if the City Council race in Brooklyn wasn't interesting enough. As a reader points out to me, there's a newcomer to the race for the City Council seat in Brooklyn's 40th District, which remains vacant after an initial special election because the winner, Mathieu Eugene, was unable to prove that he met residency Read More
