Best Streaming Radio: Bestmodo Showdown

Turning an online music service into a powerful automated DJ isn’t easy. You can give an algorithm millions of songs and millions of data points, but it’s still not going to have any style. So of all your options — including Google’s new All Access — which streaming radio service is most worth your time? We found out.


What Do You Want From Lyrics Sites?

Seriously, what is the deal with all those janky lyrics sites? You google the lyrics for Random Access Memories and you’re suddenly transported to the early 2000s. It’s sort of surreal. I’m not the first person to mention this by far, and yet the lyrics world just seems to stagnate.


Warning: Don’t Drink And Internet

You don’t drink and drive. That’s a stupid, terrible thing to do, with a simple, understood cause and effect. So why do we keep waking up, wondering how on earth that drunken Facebook message seemed like a good idea, and oh my god, I ordered WHAT over the internet? We’ve outgrown the drunk dial or drunk text. And oh, the chaos we’ve drunkenly stumbled into now.



Did Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki Invent Bitcoin?

It’s hard not to be curious about the true identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, since he or she basically just stuck around on the internet long enough to introduce Bitcoin/get everyone all riled up and then disappeared. But Ted Nelson, the sociologist who invented the term “hypertext,” thinks he knows who Nakamoto really is, and in this video below he calls out Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki.


It’s (Mostly) Official: Yahoo Buying Tumblr Youth Serum For $1.1B

Cash! The WSJ says “the Yahoo board has approved a deal” to make this happen, and it’s hard to imagine Tumblr turning this down. One of the most unpopular companies in the world will soon own one of the most popular in history, and we’ll all find out if you really can buy cool.


YouTube Turns Eight Today

The youtube.com domain name was activated on February 14, 2005, and the first public preview of the site went live eight years ago (May 19th US time). So…birthday!


Google Hangouts Has A Fun New Easter Egg

So, Google’s new Hangouts app keeps all of your chats in sync across all of your devices. Cool, right? But what if you’re in a video call on your phone, and then open the same video call on your computer. Boop! Suddenly there’s two of you, as I just discovered when chatting with my friend Bay.


If Vine Tried To Make A Commercial About Vine Using Vine

Because Twitter wants to force lightning twice with self-imposed limitations on communication, Vine has been awkwardly limited to 6 seconds of video. But what does that 6 seconds mean? Could Vine promote Vine in 6 seconds? Could you explain what Vine is in 6 seconds? Is 6 seconds longer or shorter than you think?


Is Yahoo Buying Tumblr For A Billion?

Yahoo has a problem: it has no idea what it’s doing, or how it’s going to do it (outside of teenage dream hires). Some people who claim intimate knowledge say the company is going to do it by throwing a serious Hail Mary: buying Tumblr for $US1,000,000,000. That’s one billion.


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