| LeBron Tackles Fan After Epic Half-Court Shot Worth $75K | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:28 PM | Anita Li |
| One Miami Heat fan had two strokes of luck Friday, when he sank a half-court shot for $75,000. But Michael Drysch's good fortune, which took place during a timeout at a home game against the Detroit Pistons, didn't stop there. After winning the prize with a one-handed hook shot, Heat forward and NBA champ LeBron James excitedly tackled Drysch to the ground.
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| Rise of Infographics: Marketing in the Social-Media Age | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 9:46 PM | Anita Li |
| Infographics break down data visually, helping viewers make sense of complex information. Their popularity has increased with the rise of social media, fuelling the need for instant results by providing content in bite-size, digestible chunks. So, what's the science behind an infographic's success? Allow an infographic to explain.
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| Dear Dog, Leave a Message at the Tree | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 8:59 PM | Amanda Wills |
| "Hi, this is Dog. I'm not home right now, but go ahead and take a pee, and I'll call you back as soon as possible."
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| Why Do Instagram and Facebook Want to See Your Photo ID? | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 7:54 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Over the last week, several Instagram users began reporting that the photo-sharing app was locking them out of their accounts, and asking them to confirm their identity by showing photo ID. These incidents, which CNET first covered Tuesday, were reportedly a result of Instagram's new terms of service, which came into effect on Jan. 19. At first, users were worried that their accounts were hacked.
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| Lance Armstrong 'Sings' Radiohead's 'Creep' | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 6:55 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| If you ever wondered how Radiohead's "Creep" would sound if Lance Armstrong sang it, you're in luck. After Armstrong's confession to Oprah that he did, indeed, use performance-enhancing drugs, videos making fun of the former cycling champion have begun surfacing on the Internet. In a parody made from snippets of the now-infamous Oprah interview, Armstrong "sings" Radiohead's classic song.
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| Warning: Graphic Porn Invades Vine | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 5:18 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| It didn't take long for Twitter's new mobile service Vine to get its first collection of porn uploads.
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| 7 Apps You Don't Want To Miss | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 4:20 PM | Emily Price |
| It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck — we take care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week Twitter released a new application for sharing video content on the web, and another company released one for sharing your opinion on literally everything in the world.
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| What's the Best Way to Issue a Correction Online? | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 4:06 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| You can put corrections in brackets and red italics, but they still won't stick in people's minds if they don't want to believe the truth. That's one of the conclusions of a new study about the effectiveness of corrections to information online.
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| Watch The Best Pep Talk Ever — Given by a Kid | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 3:20 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Forget about Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday, this might very well be the best inspirational pep talk ever. And the one who gives this speech is none other than a young, very classy, kid. SEE ALSO: Top 24 Most Inspiring Photos of 2012 We don't know his name — he goes by Kid President — and in this video he delivers a touching and inspirational speech that sometimes borders on the poetic.
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| Top 10 Tech This Week | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 2:42 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| It was another exciting week in tech, with a wide range of exciting news. There was really something for all tastes: 3D printing, futuristic planes, medical breakthroughs and a new social video app. The launch of Vine, a social video app developed by Twitter, took the social-media world by storm. Vine allows users to easily create six-seconds movie loops with a smartphone, and so far, it's been a hit.
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| 40 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 2:23 PM | Elisha Hartwig |
| Another busy week is wrapping up, and this weekend is the perfect time for catching up with all the news in social media and tech that you might have missed. With big announcements from Myspace and Facebook, and some unearthing of lies from Lance Armstrong and Manti Te'o we've got you covered from industry updates to entertainment news.
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| Pinterest Introduces 'News' Feature to Improve Content Discovery | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 1:49 PM | Stephanie Buck |
| In place of Pinterest's activity feed, the company has installed a new tool called "News." The feed displays boards where your recent pins have been repinned, creating a feed of potentially relevant content that users can peruse from their own profiles or those of others. According to a blog post introducing News, Pinterest explains the tool is meant to foster content discovery.
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| NASA's Beloved Curiosity Rover Hasn't Even Driven a Whole Mile Yet | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 1:26 PM | The Atlantic |
| NASA's Curiosity Rover arrived on Mars last August to much fanfare, but its trails on the planet so far are pretty meager — not even a mile. Extra-planetary rovers travel slowly. In fact, all of the man-made rovers combined, both Lunar and Martian, have only explored a grand total of 113 miles — less than what you would cover in two hours on a highway without traffic.
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| World's First Driving Dog Goes Viral | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 12:31 PM | Charlie White |
| We told you about the world's first driving dogs back in December when they were in training, and now a video of one of them driving around a track has reached viral status on YouTube. Teaching dogs to drive is a project of the Auckland, New Zealand SPCA, where the organization teamed up with carmaker Mini Cooper in a social media awareness campaign.
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| Vinepeek Opens a Window on the World, Six Seconds at a Time | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 12:07 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| A newly launched website gives you a chance to glimpse into what's going in the world, six seconds at a time. Vinepeek aggregates Vine videos in real time, showcasing an endless stream of six-second snippets of everyday lives. Vinepeek takes inspiration from This Is Now, a real-time aggregator of Instagram pictures, and does the same thing with videos created with Twitter's newly released social video app, Vine.
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| Vine Is Teaching Everyone This Terrible Habit | | Saturday, January 26, 2013 10:09 AM | Annie Colbert |
| "No more vertical videos." - Joan Crawford's message for the digital generation. Twitter's new snap-and-share video service, Vine, has forced users to break the first rule of iFilm making: never shoot vertical videos. SEE ALSO: Vine Mania! 10 Creative Vines on Twitter Of course, Vine's videos appear as a square, so you could argue it doesn't really matter.
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