We all know Facebook is the most widely used social network, but sites like Pinterest and Google+ are catching up fast. In fact, Facebook’s own Instagram service is now the fastest-growing social network after increasing its active users by 23% over the last six months. Reddit saw the second-largest growth spurt at 13%, followed by… Continue reading REPORT: Mobile Rules, Instagram Is Fastest Growing Social Network by Far
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Yahoo Announces New Smart TV, Advertising, News Digest & First Acquisition of 2014
Are you ready for what Yahoo has to bring in 2014? After making big changes in 2013, like acquiring popular blogging site Tumblr and overhauling Flickr, Yahoo has announced at CES a slew of new, enhanced products along with its first acquisition of 2014 that will impact the way people interact with their phone screens,… Continue reading Yahoo Announces New Smart TV, Advertising, News Digest & First Acquisition of 2014
Comical Tech Resolutions for 2014
Are you ready to usher in 2014? That’s right, it’s time to get those New Year’s resolutions drafted – and that goes for tech’s biggest players too. Mark Zuckerberg, for one, has vowed to make teens snap out of their love for other sites and come back to Facebook before the whole thing disappears. And… Continue reading Comical Tech Resolutions for 2014
Quirky Hand Drawn Animations That Will Take You for a Spin
The first live-action animation was created back in 1915 by Mark Fleischer who filmed traces frame by frame then with a hand drawn reel. The technique known as rotoscoping actually lives on today and is being payed homage to through the art of designers like Matthias Brown. The effect is oddly fresh and vintage-like at… Continue reading Quirky Hand Drawn Animations That Will Take You for a Spin
Prepare for Your World to Start Spinning in a ‘RRRRRRROLL’
The RRRRRRROLL project looks to take ordinary photos and give them a slight twist of animation with spinning objects or people. The artists are able to isolate only a portion of the image to set in motion, which creates bizarre yet intriguing scenes. The effort is made up of at least three photographers, a digital… Continue reading Prepare for Your World to Start Spinning in a ‘RRRRRRROLL’
14 Classic Renaissance Paintings Turned into Ridiculous GIFs
Citizens of the interwebs: what if you took classic paintings of the Renaissance and turned them into the ridiculous GIFs of the modern era that we know and love today? We present you the artwork of Scorpion Dagger, a Montreal-based blogger who posts one insane GIF per day, often portraying older paintings with a decidedly… Continue reading 14 Classic Renaissance Paintings Turned into Ridiculous GIFs
Yahoo Topples Google to Become Number One in Web Traffic, First Time Since 2011
Yahoo surprisingly moved past Google as the top Web property during July according to comScore. This is the first time Yahoo has outpaced Google since May 2011. The sites contributing most to Yahoo’s high number of unique visitors include Flickr, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, and Yahoo Sports, though it’s hard to tell which property in… Continue reading Yahoo Topples Google to Become Number One in Web Traffic, First Time Since 2011
Watch the Internet Happen, One Second at a Time
You’ve probably heard this before, but it doesn’t cease to amaze: 3 billion Google searches are performed each day and 204 million emails are sent per minute. Each day, 2.7 billion likes are sent on Facebook and 174 million messages are tweeted. Two new users join LinkedIn every second, 72 hours of video are uploaded… Continue reading Watch the Internet Happen, One Second at a Time
