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Yahoo Internet Life Magazine Is An Awesome Relic Of The Dot Com Era

Yahoo yesterday announced that it’s buying Tumblr for $US1.1 billion to communicate to millennials cool, hip, relevant, and that it understands what GIFs are. But back in the early ages of the dot com-era, the company was saying that through a monthly publication called Yahoo Internet Life Magazine.


South Korean Newspaper May Have Just Printed The Worst Photoshop Ever

President Obama met with South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye at the White House this past Tuesday, and as major world leaders are wont to do in each other’s presence, handshakes abounded. This three-handed, two-roomed, Photoshop monstrosity, however, was not one of them.


Marvel Is Giving Away 700 Free Comics To Everyone Again

Hey, look, free stuff! Marvel is taking another shot at giving away more than 700 #1 issues of its comics through its digital service. That’s thousands of dollars of comics, for free.


Why Do We Keep Making Ebooks Like Paper Books?

Comparing books to ebooks is like comparing mechanical watches to digital watches, or manual cars to automatic cars. No one doubts the convenience, reach and flexibility of the ebook format, but it will never convincingly replicate the experience of a paper book — nor does it need to. Ebooks are a fundamentally new medium, stuck in an awkward growing stage.


Flipboard Now Lets You Create Your Own Magazines

Flipboard takes the news you want to read and organises it into a wonderfully designed magazine format. Now, with an update to its iOS apps, it lets you create your own magazines for specific themes, topics, events and so on.


New York Times Gets A Glorious Online Design Overhaul

The New York Times is previewing a new cleaner website design that will roll out slowly in the coming months. The centrepiece of the redesign is the article view, which you can compare here.


What Would Happen If People In The SkyMall Catalog Came To Life

If you’ve ever been bored as hell on a plane, which is to say every single person who has ever flown ever, you’ve probably wondered who the heck the people in the SkyMall catalogue were. This is who they are.


The WSJ’s ‘iOS Optimised’ Mobile Site Is… Not Very Optimised

Last night, the Wall Street Journal took its new mobile site live, supposedly specially formatted to look good and work on iOS devices. Except, erm, check out what it looks like on an iPad Mini.


New York Times Finally Closes Gaping Hole In Its Paywall

As soon as the New York Times first hit us with its paywall back in 2011, industrious little news fiends all over the internet began looking for ways to get around it — and it didn’t take long. One of the simplest holes simply required you to delete a few characters at the end of the URL. Well, those glory days are over.


Apple’s iBookstore Now Highlights Self-Published Ebooks

Apple has added a new section of the iBookstore called “Breakout Books” that highlights up and coming self-published books from “emerging talents”.


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