The Facebook Advertising Problem

As Facebook fan pages become more saturated with fake likes - either from Facebook itself or from click farms - the only way to ensure that your real followers see a post is to promote that individual post. So, Facebook gets you coming and going. You pay to get more fans, which saturates your real fan base, lowering the chance that these real fans even see your content.

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Crazy! Ebay Auctions For iPhone’s With Flappy Bird On Them, Nearing $100,000 Each

We all know that Dong Nguyen was onto something with his hit game Flappy Bird. Many sites have estimated that the game is pulling in $50,000 a day in ad revenue. It's an addictive little game where the user tries to get the bird through as many pipes as possible without running into them. There [...]

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Amazon Says Happy Valentine’s Day With Discounts On The Entire Kindle Fire Line

For some people chocolates and flowers just won't do. Sometimes tech geeks just want tech stuff for the popular Hallmark holiday that falls at the end of this week. Amazon has answered the call for those techno loving people with tech loving Valentine's. Nothing says I love you like the new Kindle Fire HDX right? [...]

Gone! Dong Nguyen Removes Flappybird From The App Stores

On Saturday, we were one of the earliest sites to report that Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen was considering taking down the addicting and popular, Flappy Bird, out of the app stores. Nguyen seems to be one of those guys that's just not ok with fame. He fancies himself an indie game developer and never [...]

Software Tools To Minimize Headaches & Maximize Business Efficiency In 2014

Global executives are aware that effective administration is the key to long-term business success, yet they still find themselves caught in administrative tasks, leaving no time to concentrate on other business aspects. Luckily for businesses of today, software tools can handle most of the administrative and management processes including contract management, bookkeeping, payroll, customer relationships [...]

Minecraft Movie Kickstarter Cancelled, Failed To Get Developer’s Blessing

Their are Minecraft apps, 3D printing websites, tons of merchandise, and a revolution of sorts happening around the popular, retro 8 bit game. It seems that most of the Minecraft merchandise you can purchase has been officially licensed from Mojang, the developer of the game. However there seems to be a lot of piracy and [...]

MapStory: Visually Mapping the World Data Commons

To boil the essence of the software down, a MapStory is an open-source platform for creating mapped displays of data sets. Think of a MapStory as a sort of video, showing trends, movements, events, or locations (among many others) on a map, over time. The MapStory pictured to the left, for example, shows how the 1988 Yellowstone shifted and grew over the course of several months. MapStory has the potential to become a sort of Wikipedia for visual data.

Flappy Bird Shutting Down?

It's hard to believe that the phenomena known as Flappy Bird may be going away, as soon as later today. Business Insider reported earlier today that the game's developer, Dong Nguyen, tweeted that in 22 hours the game would go away. Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson says that Nguyen isn't one for the limelight. Nguyen considers [...]

Jumper Card: Backup Power in Your Wallet

The Jumper Card works primarily as a charger, and can pull power from any USB port. A major factor that separates the Jumper Card from similar devices, it includes the three most widely used connections: the Apple Lightning connection(iPhone 5 models), Apple 30-pin (Pre-iPhone 5 models), and the standard Micro-USB. That said, there is an on-board battery in the card that holds 480 milliamp hours, which can add about one hour of life to a phone.

Simple Yet Awesome, See Why People Are Backing G-Hold On Kickstarter

When Alison Grieve invented the SafeTray she was onto something amazing for servers. The SafetTray has a tiny loop on the bottom of a server tray that secures the tray in place so that servers can move about without the worry of spilling everything everywhere, making it safer for restaurant patrons and other servers. Now [...]