December 2009
Meet the New OpenID Foundation Board Members →
OpenID, the open standard for federated user identity across multiple websites, is led by the OpenID Foundation. That organization announced the election of its newest Board members today. These…
How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any... →
Let’s say you’re a butcher, a baker or a candlestick maker. You want to get up to speed on the social media activity in your market, as fast as you can. Or perhaps you want to sell things to…
Gigantic Lego Star Wars Rebel Frigate Is 4 Feet 6... →
I remember spending countless hours playing Lucasarts’ X-Wing in college, painfully defending these Rebel frigates against TIE Fighters. Then I got TIE Fighter, and enjoyed destroying them. I…
The True Odds of Airborne Terror Chart [Terror] →
After the crotchbomb there has been a lot of noise about airplane security again—you can see how stupid the leaked new flight rules are here. But what’s the actual risk of an airplane…
Ex-Employee Says Seagate Stole Quiet Hard Drive... →
An ex-Seagate employee turned whistle-blower claims that Seagate not only stole hard drive-silencing technology from the MIT researchers who developed it and they company they formed,…
The Rise and Fall of Raj Rajaratnam, the "King of... →
The WSJ just published this excellent and colorful profile of Raj Rajaratnam, hedge fund manager being investigated for insider trading. They interviewed over 75 sources and looked over his…
The Perils of 3rd Party APIs →
In 2006, Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake coined the term “BizDev 2.0” when looking at the phenomenon of supplying commercial API keys to startup partners. Said Fake, traditional business…
Wolfram|Alpha: The Use Cases →
Earlier this year at the SemTech conference in San Jose, I sat down with Wolfram|Alpha’s Russell Foltz-Smith. Wolfram|Alpha bills itself as a “computational knowledge engine,” a nerdy and…
Unwatchable Avatar : Hollywood Greed Could Kill... →
Like millions of others, I saw Avatar last weekend. I loved it—despite the 3D, not because of it. Admittedly, my seat was shitty and I wear eyeglasses, but if the experience isn’t guaranteed, 3D…
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Microsoft patched 190 exploits in 2009 →
Microsoft posted a total of 74 bulletins in 2009 which patched 190 exploits in their operating systems and software. June was the biggest patch month, offering a total of 10 bulletins and 31 exploits…
This is a $2.1 Million Robot Hummingbird and It... →
This tiny, flying robot flaps its wings 30 times per second—just like a real hummingbird—and will one day save lives by searching for survivors in wreckage and spots not easily accessible by…
First Look at Blio, Ray Kurzweil's Tablet-Friendly... →
Blio, officially debuting next week at CES, lets you read your ebooks as they’re intended to look on paper. Clearly, Kurzweil is signaling his choice of tablets over e-ink, and his first shots…
President Obama, It's Time To Fire the TSA [Tsa] →
Today, DHS’s Napolitano’s response to the crotchbomber: “We’re looking to make sure that this sort of incident cannot recur.” But the TSA’s response to Abdulmutalib’s attempt makes one…
The Algorithm Protecting GSM Calls Has Been... →
The A5/1 privacy algorithm, a code which is used to protect the privacy of about 80 percent of all mobile calls worldwide, has been deciphered and made public. It remains to be seen whether it’s…
Jeff Bezos on the Inevitable Obsolescence of Books... →
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tells Dan Lyons, aka FSJ, just how deep his “missionary zeal” for spreading the gospel of the Kindle runs: One day, it’s going to kill books entirely. The full quote:
'I'm a Mac' Ads Go Honest [Comics] →
It’s so true. Someone with a whole lot of money should hire John Hodgman to play the Mac guy just once for some underground Christmas card or something. [DorkTower via GeekDad]
The Making of Avatar , The Bootleg [Parodies] →
“For me, the real impetus for this project was the movie Avatar.” Two minutes of glorious mockumentary follow this line, though I’m not sure it’s possible to top Cameron’s own rhetoric….
OCGM: A New Windows User Experience →
For those of you who aren’t familiar, Ron George is one of the UX talents on the Windows 8 planning team within Microsoft. That, in and of itself, is reason enough for this blog to keep up with…
Fed Up With Facebook Privacy Issues? Here's How To... →
There isn’t a mass exodus from Facebook over the privacy settings, but it is responding with messages like this sent to users to assuage their fears: “Worried about search engines? Your…
Chrome OS Netbook Specs Leaked: Multi-touch, SSD,... →
Google’s Chrome OS netbook’s rumored specs are out, and they’re looking pretttty, pretttty, prettttty good. According to IBTimes, the Google netbook will house an Nvidia Tegra platform with…
Gravity Wells →
Leaked: Homeland Security's Post Underwear Bomb... →
You saw our unofficial advice guide to flying after the crotchbomb. Here’s are the TSA’s official security rules, as of Christmas. Read on, because I’ve bolded all the hairy details. U.S….
Panasonic's Largest Plasma Plant Complete: More... →
Panasonic’s largest and third plasma plant, in Amagasaki, was just completed. The factory will be capable of churning out more of those 150-inch sets (like Dorothy), or nine 50-inchers out of…
This New Years Eve Brings the Rarest Blue Moon of... →
Magical things happen once upon a blue Moon. And this Thursday we get a chance to find out just what those magical things as we watch the rare lunar event coincide with all the beautiful…
Leaked: Homeland Security's Post-Underwear Bomb... →
You saw our unofficial advice guide to flying after the crotchbomb. Here’s are the TSA’s official security rules, as of Christmas. Read on, because it has all the hairy details: U.S….
SMS on Wheels: CarPong Is Vehicle-to-Vehicle... →
Did you just get cut off? Is a professional driver behaving badly? Was your car towed? Or better, did you see a cute driver (or a really cool car) in the next lane? CarPong is a fun an…
Paper Airplane World Record Flight Attempt Foiled... →
What is it with planes lately? First a prolonged airplane lavatory stay caused a national scare—again—and now another plane is responsible for ruining a world record attempt for, well,…
Behind the Secret Service [Secret Service] →
LIFE Magazine, as it is wont to do, assembled yet another of its utterly interesting photo essays. The topic this time? The Secret Service. A few of the more interesting photos showcase the…
This Is Not the Baby Jesus You Were Looking For... →
Much better than Lucas’* prequel explanation. [Flickr] * See, Lucas in Spanish means Luke. Get it? GET IT? Oh, TFSU.
This Camera Sees Color as Well As You Can... →
Japan’s PaPaLaB made the first practical camera capable of seeing color as well as the human eye by attaching a special filter to a recalibrated $140k industrial camera. Uses: Archives of fine…
Brodmann Blades Ping Pong Paddle Puts the Game In... →
Can you believe it? Ping Pong paddle gloves! The game, it has changed! Now, granted, I haven’t actually slipped my hand into one of these potentially revolutionary paddles, but the design…
Is Your Kindle Spying On You? (Yes.) [Ebooks] →
If you don’t want other people to know what you read, you probably shouldn’t own an ereader. And you really shouldn’t get a constantly connected Kindle or Nook, at least according to the…
Comic for December 27, 2009 →
Free Web Form Elements in PSD Format →
A webform on a web page allows a user to enter data that is sent to a server for processing. Webforms usually include checkboxes, radio buttons, or text fields. Designing webforms can be tedious…
Privacy Win: Cellphone Search Without Warrant... →
Score for privacy rights: In a 4-to-3 vote, the Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that police has no right to search your phone without a search warrant, overruling previous lower court…
Kindle Milestone: Amazon Sold More Kindle Books... →
Amazon’s Kindle hit an important and startling milestone yesterday: On Christmas, the company sold more Kindle books than physical books. Yes, this is obviously the result of everyone who got a…
Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data →
This week ReadWriteWeb will run a series of posts detailing what we think are the five biggest, most cutting-edge Web trends to come out of 2009. We’ll be posting one trend analysis per day. Then…
Free Web Form Elements in PSD Format →
A webform on a web page allows a user to enter data that is sent to a server for processing. Webforms usually include checkboxes, radio buttons, or text fields. Designing webforms can be tedious…
Designer creates Lamborghini Cachazo concept as... →
The Lamborghini Cachazo concept from designer Marouane Bembli is what the designer thinks could be a suitable replacement for the Lamborghini Gallardo. The concept car has been created with…
Comcast's Net Neutrality Case Settlement a Win For... →
Comcast, the largest ISP in the US, settled their $16m data discrimination lawsuit Wednesday. They didn’t admit wrongdoing and customers are only eligible for a $16 award. But, importantly, they…
Katana Earbuds Show the World How I Feel When I... →
For those moments when sane earphones just don’t cut it, consider these Crazy Earphones from Solid Alliance. Especially if that 243rd playing of Feliz Navidad makes you want to put a sword…
Where's my Jet Pack? Apple Tablet and Future... →
Ever since Jeff Han demoed his Multi-Touch Workstation at the 2006 TED Conference, the world has been waiting for a high resolution sensory work experience. As a generation of hunched night…
Using Flash 10.1 beta? You may want to turn off... →
The How-To Geek tipped me off to some odd behavior he noticed while taking Flash 10.1 beta for a spin. Every time he viewed Flash content in his browser, the disk would start thrashing…
I’ve seen the future of UIs, and it’s stereoscopic... →
By now, I hope most of you have seen James Cameron’s Avatar movie. And if you’ve seen it in 3D – the way it has to be seen – then you might have a pretty good idea of what a stereoscopic…
Ukraine Begins Employing Giant Combat Robots for... →
“TIS is proud to inform that we are the first in our Kominternovsky region to employ Giant Humanlike Combat Robots within the Security Department. Model TIS-1CB.” That’s the caption for this…
Underground Five-Star Hotel Fit For a Mole King... →
This proposed subterranean London hotel is going to put all 200 guest rooms beneath the surface of a former golf course. Sorry, CHUDs: it’s time to gentrify the soil. The hotel, designed by…
How To: Build Your Own Full-Scale Eiffel Tower... →
So you’ve got your 7,000 metric tons of puddling iron, your unruly 19th-century French construction crew, your Michelin starred chef and a Rosetta Stone French DVD. Today, finally, you…
The Essential Problem with Snuggies [Humor] →
We all know the whole Snuggie thing is idiotic. But this comic really boils the idiocy down to its pure essence. Magnifique. [Chainsaw Suit via The Daily What]
5 Sites to Help You Set Up Your New Gadgets →
It’s been almost a year since I last worked with DIY repair site FixYa but I still remember the traffic spike we’d see every Christmas. While families would be thrilled to unwrap smart…