By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

At the Academy Awards, Ben Stiller came dressed as a native from Avatar and made the whole room crack up. The highest-grossing flick of all time only received 3 Oscars for visual effects, cinematography, and art direction.

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

That’s right. She picked it up over the weekend from QVC!

Vizio got a soft launch of their new WiFi Internet App TV’s out the door and with QVC. Of all the retailers that I would have expected them to court, it…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Ewa Wojkowska wants to make an Amazon-like online store for technologies for the developing world. After 10 years of working for the UN, Wojkowska was frustrated by the disconnect between the people who invent technologies and getting it to people who…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

VC money may be going down the toilet in other areas, but clean tech seems to be doing well. But even clean tech took a hit last year— dropping by 45% from the third to fourth quarter. Now all VC eyes…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Over the last year, small coffee shops had slowly crept into New York. The timing couldn’t have been better. After all, the unemployeed, freelancers, and small business owners, need a comfy place to call their “office.”

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

From a random tweet came the best link of the day and maybe this lifetime.

Yesterday, someone that I follow had a link to “the greatest video ever about Liberia.” How could I not click it?

The best part is that they…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

When I logged into my reader this morning there was one meme that was loud and clear – Android.

With Mobile World Congress going on right now in Barcelona the…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Who are they?

They are the ones that are lurking, listening in that don’t have a vested interest in being a publisher. They have no concern over writing the missives that get re-tweeted and linked to.

The most important Twitter users are…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Startup Bubble Motion announced a new product called Bubbly for those that want to create tweets with their voice and have them sent back to them as SMS and audio.

The product is aimed at those…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Over at WebUrbanist they have a great post up this morning that focuses on wild shoes designs. Wild as in crazy, not what the Yettis wear.

After getting half of the way through the piece and realizing that all of these…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

If the iPad is going to cause any sort of revolution in computing it is going to be the massive choices that people will have to buy non-Apple slates.

The number of announced slates for Android, MS and Linux is gaining everyday.…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

When it comes to surface computing there hasn’t been anything that has gotten much attention since Microsoft ventured in with their ill-fated industry event show pony.

You could, um, put you hands on it and move pre-chosen images or get real…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

For the last two weeks Diesel has been running banners all over the internet with the tagline “BE STUPID”.

I’m not sure they could have chosen a worse way to represent their brand. Even offline this is a…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Let’s be honest here. We should all be honest. Google shapes our world view.

They are the information hub for most of us. What we search for and what they then return to us is chosen by computer…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Now, more than ever, social media experts are on notice. The days of free flowing indiscreet self-inflating webernet titles has come to an end.

And it is about time.

The Problem

These clods found their way to expert level by signing up…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Will I take a swipe at it? You bet.

Google should have paid whatever Twitter was asking to be bought out.

Buzz is a great product and something Google can hang its hat and near future success for competing with…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Eric Schmidt might have said in a tweet that “Hell has indeed frozen over.” That in response to their Super Bowl ad.

It might have had to freeze over for them to run an ad like this but they…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

If you really want to know what made the iPhone such a game changing device you need look no further than the fact that it challenged every concept of what a mobile phone was.

By challenging concepts and executing ideas…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

A couple of months ago I dropped Google as my default browser search and switched over to Bing.

Yesterday, I gave up on Bing and moved on to Duck Duck Go.

I’ve had…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Anyone who put their doppelgänger up just showed their Facebook friends how narcissistic they really are. Unlike real-life habits, you can’t see how other people spend their time online.

Some people innocently lurk and passively read people’s status updates. It’s…