By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Looking for a birthday present? Try MirthInABox.com. The founder of Mirthinabox.com Gay Gasser thinks of these wacky ideas every day.

Tonight she showed off her suitcase of gifts at Swagapalooza. Fake vomit, fart machines, stress wieners, and screaming monkeys were just…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

There’s no drug for this yet. Do you ever feel guilty that you should be working instead of just having fun? I do. I work too much. I keep telling myself this is a temporary thing. Time is the most valuable thing you…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

At the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, Bill Gates said that people with higher IQs need to think about how to innovate the modern toilet. The one we all sit on is not very efficient. Indeed, Gates has a very good point!…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The Awl posted a letter Nick Denton wrote to his staff. Here’s the beginning of the memo:

From: Nick Denton
Date: September 7, 2010
Subject: Gawker Media would be the second largest online newspaper

A quick note to start

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I’m excited about attending Swagapalooza. It’s calling itself an experiment in viral media.

According to the website:

On September 9th, the world’s most-followed bloggers, twitters, and digital influencers will gather in New York to judge five-minute auditions from the creators of the

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Sitting in the front row and listening to the sounds of a fairytale, I felt extremely fortunate tonight. Hurricane Earl made the wind in Manhattan particularly breezy, setting the mood for the outdoor presentation of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel at The Metropolitan…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I’m probably already late to the Pulse2.com party, but I found it. It has great technology news and reviews on the site.

The website has some useful tools for the tech minded individual:

• List of Over 100 Facebook tools

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Part 1 was informative. Now, here is part 2.

1. Barry Silbert, CEO, Secondmarket and World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer 2011

2, Trip Adler, CEO, and Jared Friedman, CTO, co-founders of Scribd and World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer 2011

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Foursquare will be joining other tech pioneers at the World Economic Forum. The other companies are:

Adimab, Aster Data, Atlassian, Digital Lumens, Ecovative Design, Ferrate Treatment Technologies, Flexoresearch Group, GetJar, Ion Torrent, Knewton, Layar, Medicine in Need, Molecular Partners, NetQin Mobile, Neuronetics,

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

This is what we’ve been reading today — so catch up:

• Market Watch: New York tech startups come of age
• Engadget: The new Apple TV for $99
• GigaOM: Why Ping Is the Future of Social Commerce
• CrunchGear: Apple Announces The New iPod

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

A I mentioned yesterday, Longshot magazine made use of social media and other digital tools to produce a magazine in 48 hours! Well, they aren’t the only ones tapping into that goodness.

This is perhaps one of the biggest human experiments…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Apple TV is expected to launch with Netflix, the movie streaming service. The company is adding movies to their traditional music entree.

Announcing the service of 99-cent for Fox and ABC rentals might increase the digital sales, but threatens to shake up the…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Magazines are so easy to start now. That’s the way Longshot magazine feels about it.

I was reading in The Atlantic about Longshot, a magazine that was made in 48 hours.

According to Longshot, this is how their magazine came into fruition:…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I just submitted my choices for The Battery Show Awards.The shortlist was an impressive bunch of companies, for sure.

It’s amazing how batteries have changed. With the introduction of more renewable energy and electric vehicles, the need to develop better batteries…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Do you ever feel like you are overloaded with information? When I wrote how social media is changing our brain, it was a hit on the Internet. I asked “Are Facebook and Twitter making our brains bigger?”

The truth is, we aren’t…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I remember talking to Jonathan Blank on the phone about starting a dating story telling show. I thought it was a brilliant idea, but at the same time, it seemed like it was something that would drift away and…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

There are two types of people in this world. Apple lovers and Apple haters.

I’ve slowly become an Apple customer, clearly fallen prey to their market techniques. But wait, they don’t really have one. Or does Apple have one so clever, people can’t…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Facebook is suing Teachbook.com because of the word “book” in its name, reports CNN. Wow, that’s rediculous. Cookbook, Blackbook, and eBook have “book” in the name took.

It is pretty amazing that Facebook is going after a two-person startup. Clearly since…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The Qualcomm incubator will launch ideas for the mobile market. Enter Qualcomm Services Lab, bringing you the next generation mobile service and apps supposedly.

“Powerful new mobile devices and high-speed networks today make it possible to introduce entirely new categories of…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

So are you one of the tech guys who wants a 212 area code? Join the club.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

“A 212 can also make it seem like you are an early adopter — like you had a cell before they

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