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Flickr looks a lot different today than how it used to. Yahoo! (which owns Flickr) has given Flickr a makeover that includes a brand new design. What once showed you small thumbnails of photos, with a lot of white, empty, space surrounding them, now features the photos much more prominently. To me, it seems like Flickr's new look resembles that
Promoted Tweets are Twitter's way of raising revenue. I cannot really fault them for creating a way to make money on a service that everyone can use for free. However, it seems like I'm getting more Promoted Tweets that do not match my interests than ones that do. One very clear example of Promoted Tweets gone wrong involves a religious
Nintendo has started doing something that is not making gamers very happy. The company has started taking the ad revenue from videos that players post on YouTube of themselves playing one of Nintendo's games. These are referred to as “Let's Play” videos, and people make them about all kinds of different video games (not just the ones from Nintendo). Have
Twitch has announced that they have a brand new app that can be used on your Xbox 360. As you may have guessed, it is called the Twitch App for Xbox 360. It will allow you to watch (at least some) of the content from Twitch on your big screen TV. This may appeal to Xbox 360 users who would
Trion Worlds has announced that RIFT is going free-to-play as of June 12, 2013. This means that everyone who wants to play RIFT can download it, log in, and play all of the entire game without having to spend any money to do it. The free-to-play day coincides with the arrival of Update 2.3: Empyreal Assault. Brand new players will
The Oppikoppi Festival has been taking place in South Africa every year since 1995. It is a big music festival. For this year, the 19th year of the festival, they are going to be trying something new to help distribute beer to the people who attend. According to HypeBot the festival will make use of small drones that will deliver
If you are like me, then you probably do whatever you can to avoid having to watch commercials. Once in a while, though, it is worth taking a few minutes to check out an exceptionally well done ad. Such is the case with Audi's new commercial, which features Mr. Spock vs. Mr. Spock... sort of. Most people would recognize that