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A strange lit­tle piece of crowd­sor­cery called "A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals" pro­vides a sharp il­lus­tra­tion of the mag­ni­fi­ca­tion of tran­scrip­tion er­rors and the way that ex­treme mu­ta­tion can pro­ceed from small changes. A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals is an on­line draw­ing tool that lets users do just one thing - trace a line. Each new user on­ly sees the lat­est line drawn, and can there­fore on­ly trace this lat­est (...)

Two years after its de­but, Sony’s Home on­line vir­tu­al world for PlayStation gamers has hit 17 mil­lion users world­wide. The vir­tu­al com­mu­ni­ty has now grown in­to a gath­er­ing place where gamers can play hun­dreds of games, at­tend droves of events, and buy lots of vir­tu­al goods. The mul­ti-year ef­fort is be­com­ing Sony’s big play in the dig­i­tal on­line mar­ket­place for video game fans. Along with user growth, Home’s rev­enues have al­so be­gun to take off, said Jack Buser (pic­tured be­low), di­rec­tor of (...)

The slaugh­ter of some 3 tril­lion pigs is the kind of thing that's usu­al­ly met with outrage. But Angry Birds, the ex­treme­ly pop­u­lar smart phone app, is a pop cul­ture sen­sa­tion, ad­dict­ing mo­bile users at a rate near­ly as im­pres­sive as the body count that its an­i­mat­ed sling­shot birds are rack­ing up again­st their swine en­e­my. Some 12 mil­lion copies of the 99-cent ver­sion of Angry Birds have been down­load­ed, with an­oth­er 30 mil­lion down­loads of its free app, which makes money through (...)

Prosecuting the crim­i­nals that steal con­tent is one way of fight­ing pira­cy. Over at Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), they’re adopt­ing a more op­por­tunis­tic at­ti­tude, close­ly track­ing pi­rates in hopes of con­vert­ing them in­to con­sumers. On Wednesday at the Content Protection Summit in Los Angeles, Ben Karakunnel, di­rec­tor of busi­ness in­tel­li­gence at WB’s an­ti-pira­cy unit, of­fered a rare glimpse at the data they’ve assem­bled over the past 18 months in an ef­fort to quan­ti­fy il­le­gal con­sump­tion on­line (...)

I can be quick on the draw when it comes to pulling out my smart­phone to snap a few pho­tographs. Like a lot of peo­ple, I’ll let those pic­tures lay idle on my hand­set for months. [ See post to watch video ] A lot of my re­luc­tance has to with the has­sle of trans­fer­ring the pic­tures to my PC be­fore upload­ing them to a pho­to-shar­ing web­site or Facebook. Sure, I can use my phone to di­rect­ly post them on­line, but I like to use pho­to-edit­ing soft­ware on my com­put­er to touch up the im­ages. As a (...)

Posted by Petter El Fakiri This post was orig­i­nal­ly in YOUmoz, and was pro­mot­ed to the main blog be­cause it pro­vides great val­ue and in­ter­est to our com­mu­ni­ty. The au­thor's views are en­tire­ly his or her own and may not re­flect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Around one year ago Google an­nounced that sitelinks could be added to Google AdWords ads. What's the ef­fect of this fea­ture on users' click pat­terns? A com­pa­ny I have been work­ing with ac­ti­vat­ed sitelinks in their AdWords ads on search for (...)

The hol­i­days are fast ap­proach­ing and with them the short win­dow of vast op­por­tu­ni­ty for many on­line re­tail­ers. As an SEO we get in­un­dat­ed with pan­icked re­quests for rank­ings be­fore the hol­i­days. Of course that's not go­ing to hap­pen at this point (at least – I wouldn't start or­gan­ic SEO cam­paigns now for the hol­i­day sea­son) so what can you do to make the most of what you've got this hol­i­day sea­son? Improve your con­ver­sions. There are of course ways you can in­crease your traf­fic (...)

One of the most en­gag­ing fea­tures of the blog­ging plat­form is the com­ment­ing sys­tem. Many blog­gers be­lieve there is as much or even more val­ue in the dis­cus­sion than the posts they write them­selves. Comments are a clas­sic form of so­cial proof for blogs, and blogs that at­tract lots of com­ments ap­pear more au­thor­i­ta­tive. Because of all this, com­ments can be­come ad­dic­tive, and many blog­gers want to know how to get more of them. While there is a lot of great anec­do­tal ad­vice out there from (...)

Ever feel like text mes­sag­ing is tak­ing over teens’ lives or may­be your own life to­day? Well ac­cord­ing to a re­cent study by Nielsen, so­ci­ety, espe­cial­ly teens, have be­come mad with text mes­sag­ing.  The study dis­cov­ered the av­er­age teenager sends more than 3,000 text mes­sages per mon­th, which works out to more than six texts per wak­ing hour! Teens aren’t the on­ly ones un­der this craze how­ev­er, the study al­so points out that the num­ber of texts sent has in­creased in ev­ery age brack­et since last (...)

Have you ev­er been to a con­cert where the open­ing act was just aw­ful? Maybe their mu­sic was okay, but there was some­thing about the per­for­mance that un­der­mined your abil­i­ty to en­joy it. The group just lacked that spe­cial some­thing that would make them stand out, that would draw you in. That qual­i­ty they’re lack­ing is called show­man­ship — and it’s not just for mu­si­cians. You can spot a blog­ger who lacks show­man­ship a mile away. Even after they’ve built a small and loy­al fol­low­ing of (...)

Meritline.com dis­counts a se­lec­tion of elec­tron­ics and ac­ces­sories dur­ing its Black Friday Warm Up Sale. Plus, most items qual­i­fy for free ship­ping. Prices start 39 cents, but as far as sales go, it'...

This morn­ing, as I skimmed through my news­feeds and email mes­sages, I found three posts that had to do with find­ing a way to ex­cel on Twitter. Since the bird seems to be in the col­lec­tive con­scious­ness to­day, I thought I’d take a mo­ment to add my two cents to the com­mu­nal pot. Let’s start with Business News Daily. For some strange rea­son, they have two, very sim­i­lar ar­ti­cles run­ning to­day that deal with Twitter suc­cess. First, there’s 9 Steps to a Successful Twitter Strategy. The ti­tle (...)

By John Murrell Intel, which al­ready de­liv­ers its share­hold­ers the largest div­i­dends among ma­jor tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies, is boost­ing its pay­out again, sig­nal­ing con­fi­dence in its per­for­mance and cash flow. The board to­day ap­proved a 14 per­cent in­crease in the quar­ter­ly div­i­dend, rais­ing it by 2.25 cents to 18 cents a share. The com­pa­ny, with a cash stock­pile near $15 bil­lion, has paid out $2.6 bil­lion in div­i­dends through the first three quar­ters of the (...)

Good old David Pogue, adding his 2 cents to the Galaxy Tab con­fu­sion. Sounds like David could use a neti pot.

Filed un­der: Security, Windows Mobile, Microsoft, Mobile It has just been dis­cov­ered that it's pos­si­ble to down­load any Windows Phone 7 XAP full ap­pli­ca­tion pack­age di­rect­ly from Microsoft's Marketplace server -- no need to use a Windows Phone 7 de­vice or the Zune ap­pli­ca­tion. This is pos­si­ble be­cause the Zune ap­pli­ca­tion us­es Atom XML feeds to get the ap­pli­ca­tions' in­for­ma­tion, so it's fair­ly easy to grab a di­rect link to the full app pack­age just by look­ing at the XML. Once you have the (...)

<img align='left' src="http://pho­tos.mac­nn.com/news/1011/ama­zon_1cent_gallery.jpg" bor­der='0' width='176' height='120' /Amazon has dis­count­ed the upfront cost of the HTC Surround and the LG Quantum to $0.01 un­til Monday November 15 on a two-year con­tract with AT&T. The nor­mal upfront price is $500 for ei­ther hand­set, mak­ing this one of the bet­ter ways to in­ves­ti­gate Windows Phone 7 (...)

AmazonWireless an­nounced Thursday that all AT&T phones on its web­site are now on sale. The pop­u­lar on­line re­tail­er is of­fer­ing smart­phones and fea­ture phones from AT&T for as lit­tle as 1¢. The sale even in­cludes just-re­leased Windows Phone 7-pow­ered smart­phones from AT&T, like the HTC Surround. Here are some high­lights: •Black­Ber­ry Torch: 1¢ •HTC Surround: 1¢ •LG Quantum: 1¢ •Mo­toro­la BACKFLIP: 1¢ •Mo­toro­la BRAVO: 1¢ •Mo­toro­la CHARM: 1¢ •Mo­toro­la FLIPOUT: 1¢ •Mo­toro­la FLIPSIDE: 1¢ (...)

Hey, lazy: want a Black Belt watch but don’t have a black belt? Well put down that Chicago-style hot dog and lis­ten up. The same com­pa­ny that brought you the $3,000 watch for black belts on­ly (you had to sub­mit an ap­pli­ca­tion) is of­fer­ing the Black Belt Spirit for those who want “A choice of life at your wrist.” See? The watch­mak­ers know you’re such a slob that you won’t even care if their mot­to is gram­mat­i­cal­ly cor­rect and/or to­tal­ly non­sen­si­cal! This watch is about $500 and has a piece of (...)

School’s back in ses­sion and the kids are now back at their desks, fill­ing their inkwells and read­ing their Steele’s Sythetic Speller and Monroe’s Reader. But what about those with con­sump­tion or the drop­sy who aren’t able to at­tend and in­stead are home­schooled by a bach­e­lor col­lege grad­u­ate from Connecticut who made his home on the prairie for a bit of ad­ven­ture and for to find a hearty, ap­ple-cheeked Ohio wife? How will that wee one recre­ate the thrill of draw­ing on his slate? With Bord (...)

Today on­ly, Kmart dis­counts pre­orders of Call of Duty: Black Ops games as list­ed be­low. With 99 cents for ship­ping, the­se are the low­est to­tal prices we've seen for the­se pre­orders by at least $6....