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Music Festival Gamifies Concert Tickets to Fight Poverty

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Music Festival Gamifies Concert Tickets to Fight Poverty
3:32:04 AM
Eradicating the world of extreme poverty isn't a quick fix, but joining the fight for awareness only takes one click. When Hugh Evans, CEO of the Global Poverty Project, brainstormed an altruistic music festival, he didn't want it to be a typical...



Developer Tips for the New iOS 6 App Store
2:58:25 AM
Apple's iOS 6 means big changes for iTunes, and developers have to adapt. There are optimizations for the iPhone 5 and iOS 6 that users will expect. But there are changes in the new App Store that developers need to be aware of as well. Some of...



Wikipedia Founder: Online Connections Foster Real Change
2:30:15 AM
Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia.org, spoke about digital campaigning for global health at the 2012 Social Good Summit on Monday. Gabriel Jaramillo, general manager of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and...



5 Apps For Perching and Bird Watching
2:01:07 AM
If your only definition of a tweet comes from Twitter, you need to get out more. With Fall in full swing, it's a great time for apple picking, hiking and checking out the birds. These bird watching apps can encourage exploration in children and...



Microsoft Windows Update Hoax Steals Your Passwords
1:31:35 AM
Beware: The next time you get an email from privacy@microsoft.com in your inbox, click delete. That's because you're likely the target of a phishing scam designed to steal Gmail, Yahoo, Windows Live and AOL passwords, according to Naked Security,...



Barnes & Noble Enters Big Tablet Market with Nook HD+ [HANDS ON]
1:01:08 AM
Barnes & Noble has seen Amazon's plethora of Kindle Fire HD tablets and, potentially, raised the ante with a pair of new high-resolution, lightweight and affordably priced tablets: the Nook HD 7-inch and the Nook HD+ 9-inch. That's right, Barnes...



How Social Good Summit Sparked the Largest Conversation on Earth
12:28:43 AM
A suicide bombing exploded outside of one of the only Internet cafes in Somalia's capital last Thursday. Three days later, the cafe's owner spoke on one of the Social Good Summit Mogadishu's Global Conversation panels. When the event's organizer...



Register to Vote for Internet Freedom
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 11:43 PM
Would the fight for Internet freedom get you to vote? That's the hope of a new voter registration drive labeled "Internet Votes." Launched today, the initiative has been organized by the Center For Rights and Fight For The Future. The two...



Social Media's Biggest Screw-Ups [INFOGRAPHIC]
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:55 PM
The list of celebrities and major brands burned by social media blunders is long and ever-growing. Who could forget former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, whose tweeted crotch-shot set a new standard for political pratfalls in the social...



Sounds of Alien Birds in Space Recorded by NASA Spacecraft
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:29 PM
A NASA spacecraft has made the clearest record yet of choruses of noise in the Earth's magnetosphere. The chirps and whoops were captured by one of NASA's two recently launched Radiation Belt Storm Probes spacecraft, whose mission is to...



Register to Vote With Google
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:58 PM
Election Day is only 41 days away. There's been some confusion this time around about voter registration -- mainly, a result of new voter ID laws recently issued in several states. Back in August, Google launched a partnership with TurboVote as...



Mini Man's Super Slam Dunks Will Boggle Your Mind [VIDEO]
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:24 PM
Let's cut to the chase here: Standing just five feet five inches, Porter Mayberry is closer in height to Peter Dinklage than to the average NBA star. But that doesn't stop the 22-year-old from throwing down some pro-quality slam dunks....



Sony Drops Price of AAA Titles Downloaded Day of Launch
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:51 PM
Gamers who download some big October titles from Sony's PlayStation Network will get a price discount off the game's regular MSRP in retail stores, Sony announced in a blog post Tuesday afternoon. The program is called PSN Day 1 Digital, and it...



What Is 'Native Advertising'? Depends Who You Ask
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:23 PM
Like Gangnam Style, the term "native advertising" was fairly obscure until mid-August and then all of the sudden it was everywhere. Well, not everywhere, but it seemed to be in advertising circles and blogs where various experts got to tee off on...



Memes Tackle NFL Over Fumbled Interception Call
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:52 PM
In the wake of the Green Bay Packers's controversial loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Monday night, resentment about the NFL referee lockout has become a fiery inferno of anger burning its way through the Internet. Football fans are unhappy, to...



 
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