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Gawker 0.8.2 (Mac)

Gawker allows you to create time-lapse movies using your iSight/DV camera. Some of its features are: Record a time-lapse movie using your iSight/DV camera. Share your camera over the internet, broadcasting images at a specified interval (i.e. every 30 seconds). Publish your camera and browse others nearby using Bonjour....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Movie, Camera, Phil Piwonka, Gawker

Software downloads 2009-07-12

Palin conducted state business from Yahoo email

Open government? Call it Yahoo government. The hacking of Sarah Palin's Yahoo email has raised serious questions about whether she was trying to hide official government business from the public. The prospect is especially worrying given the Bush Administration's use of Yahoo accounts at the RNC and the subsequent...

Tags: E-mail, E-mail Address, Gawker, Government, Hacking, Online Communications, Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2008-09-18

166 Frames of Fame

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,� Andy Warhol famously said in 1968. Turns out, four decades into the future, the tomato can and Marilyn Monroe pop artist was an optimist. Now, anyone and everyone who wants...

Tags: Blog, Post, Gawker, Warhol, Blogging, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Top blogs by total visits: DrudgeReport, Fark, FreeRepublic, Gawker, Slashdot

When ComScore Networks looked at the blog traffic, counting total visits, not unique audience, DrudgeReport left the competitors in the dust with 44.28 mln visits in Q1 2005. Fark, FreeRepublic, Gawker, Slashdot and Fleshbot all had more than 3 mln visits in Q1 2005.

Tags: DrudgeReport, Gawker, Freerepublic, Fark

Blog posts 2005-08-09

Top bogs by unique audience: FreeRepublic, DrudgeReport, FleshBot, Gawker, Fark

ComScore Networks published a list of top blogs in Q1 2005 by unique audience. FreeRepublic, DrudgeReport, FleshBot, Gawker and Fark all got more than 1 mln unique visitors in Q1 2005.

Tags: DrudgeReport, Fark, Fleshbot, Freerepublic

Blog posts 2005-08-09

Additional Resources

News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Gawker Media tricked into featuring malicious Suzuki ads

A group of cybercriminals have successfully managed to trick Gawker's ad sales team into featuring malicious ads serving Adobe exploits (CVE-2008-2992; CVE-2009-0927) and scareware, by impersonating a legitimate ad agency inquiring about an upcoming Suzuki ad campaign. According to Gawker Media, the malware distributors were one of...

Tags: Advertisement, Gawker Media, Suzuki, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Times exec hints at Apple tablet

Gawker reports that Bill Keller, executive editor at the New York Times, may have outed the mythical Apple tablet. At a supposedly off-the-record meeting which someone graciously preserved on Vimeo with the entirety of Times' Web staff Keller gave us this tantalizing nugget: I'm hoping we can get the...

Tags: Apple Inc., Bill Keller, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much ado about nothing?

There's quite a ruckus brewing after Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, said that an Apple slate---read iTablet---was "impending." Gawker, Engadget and others have made hay over the following line, which comes at 8:30 in the video below: "I'm hoping we can get...

Tags: Apple Inc., Corporate Communications, WAP, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Marketing, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Apple removed blood stains from Snow Leopard package

I love a conspiracy and this one was just too juicy to resist. Apparently Apple attempted to clean up the image of the snow leopard that's prominently featured on the Mac OS 10.6 product packaging and Web site so that it's a little more PG-rated according to...

Tags: Goat, Cat, Apple Inc., Picture, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Will advances in the Mac OS tip the scales for BYOPC?

Yes indeedy... It's a good time to know how to support Macs.It's not too late guys... If you like your IT careers, it's a good time to pick up a Mac and start tinkering / learning... You UNIX guys should take to it like a fish to water (considering 10.5...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, operating system, Apple Inc., rev, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers

Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...

Tags: Defamation, First Amendment, Cahill, Courts, D.C. Case, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Microsoft to change default browser setting option in IE 8

Microsoft to change default browser setting option in IE 8I hope FireFox follows suitAfter installing FireFox 3.5, not only did it hijack the default browser setting - but even after setting it back, it's STILL the browser being selected when clicking on a link in Trillian.The ONLY reason I have...

Tags: Web browsers, Government, Microsoft Internet Explorer, default browser setting, university education, IE8, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

Apple should acquire...

Yesterday's rumor from Gawker that Apple is in negotiations to acquire Twitter for $700 million made me smile. Not because I think that it would be a great acquisition (I don't) but because it's just one of the many companies that Cupertino has been rumored to...

Tags: Apple Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Free Trade, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Oracle-Sun: IBM surprised, Ballmer speechless

Oracle-Sun: IBM surprised, Ballmer speechlessI am sure everyone was surpriseddoes not mean that the impact will be significant, just that people where surprised, nothing more.next clip: Ballmer wetting his pants!Sources told me that after Ballmer got out of shock and his pee drenched pants, he rushed to call Billy Gate$,...

Tags: Storage, Databases, IBM Corp., Steve Ballmer, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Facebook Fallout: Is it time for Zuckerberg to go?

For the record, I've never officially met Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook. But I've met guys who are probably like him. Young. Smart. Rich. Full of great ideas. And, yeah, probably a little bit full of himself, too. There's a lot of speculation about what's...

Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Blogger Nicholas Carlson, Blogging, Public Relations, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-02

News to know: Salesforce.com; Office; SOA; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Salesforce announces Twitter app; further validates power of cloud Ed Bott: Next Office version to ship in 32-bit and 64-bit versions ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Browsers, Digital Music, Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Personal Technology, Management

Blog posts 2009-03-23

News to know: Amazon; Windows 7 beta; Ozzie; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Five things every Windows beta tester should know Zack Whittaker: Students and the Windows 7 release candidate Larry Dignan: Kindlenomics: Keep...

Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows 7, TomTom, Online Photo, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Beta, Brittany, Linux, Ultrawideband (UWB), Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Cockroach media will survive this recession

The problems that print, TV, and other media companies are having in their transition to an online business is that the revenues from the new world don't match those from the old. And that means cuts. Here is an extract from a staff memo by Robert Thomson,...

Tags: Revenue, Journalist, Recession, Media, Paul, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-02-07

Welcome to 2009: Google's Marissa Mayer to call it quits?

Marissa Mayer, one of Google's oldest employees (that is, in years of service), may be considering a departure to what Gawker thinks is a more suiting position at Stanford. Currently, she works at Google as Vice President of Search Product and User Experience -- meaning she's pretty much in...

Tags: Google Inc., Marissa Mayer, SearchWiki, Professional Development, Search, Career, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-12-31