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[Video] 3 Great Tastes That Taste Great Together: Video Games + Football + Marching Band

It's beautiful and rare when the worlds of computer games, band geekdom and college football can all get along.

Reimagining Home Improvement: Houzz vs. BHG

We're running a series based on Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report mid-year, in which she listed 50+ industries that are being "reimagined" by social and mobile technologies. One of her slides was about the home improvement information industry, which up till recently revolved around broadcast media like magazines and TV. Meeker pointed to a…

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Why Pinterest Has NOT Reimagined Scrapbooking

There's been a lot of talk in the tech community that Pinterest has changed the popular art of scrapbooking. Internet analyst Mary Meeker even suggested that Pinterest had reimagined scrapbooking. But after looking at how two scrapbooking gurus are using Pinterest, our conclusion is that the lucrative scrapbook market is still ripe for…

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Reimagining Sports News: Bleacher Report

Sports news website Bleacher Report (B/R) was mentioned twice in Mary Meeker's 2012 Internet Trends report: as an example of re-imagination of both sports news and TV. Bleacher Report, founded in 2006 by four sports fans from Silicon Valley, has become so influential that Time Warner is rumored to be trying to acquire it. What makes B/R stand…

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Business

Tokyo Toilet Tour! A Photo Walk Through Toto's High-Tech Showroom

Twenty-six floors above Tokyo's Shinjuku district sits one of the city's coolest showcases of Japanese gadgetry: Toto's flagship showroom, where visitors can check out the latest in high-end toilet and bath technology. From automatic-everything "washlet" toilets to a $30,000 light-up bathtub, there's a lot to explore.

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No, Folks, File Sharing is Not a Religion

The U.S. Constitution, enacted in 1787, guarantees freedom of religion for its citizens. Sweden's Constitution Act, passed in 1974, grants the same freedom, but having been ratified in the electronic age, explicitly extends the right to express that freedom in "transmissions" and "recordings." Now a Swedish group is trying to take advantage of…

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Mobile Payments

The World is Not Quite Ready for Mobile Payments, According to MasterCard

Is the world ready for mobile payments? Not quite, according to a global survey released by MasterCard yesterday. There are a variety of factors that lead will lead to mobile payments adoption across the planet, from infrastructure deployment to consumer willingness to make payments with a mobile device. The mobile payments revolution hasn't…

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Read/Write Daily: Heavy Metal

Today's theme is heavy metal. There's not a geek on this earth who doesn't have a thing for extreme vehicles. Here's a Friday roundup of nice rides. If you're quick, you might even be able to buy one for yourself.

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Analysis

Dead? Social Media's Explosive Growth is Only Beginning

Social media, types of media where everyday people can publish and subscribe to what one another publishes, have changed the world. At least in the United States, though, their rapid expansion through acquisition of new users may be over. Facebook specialist Eric Eldon published a compilation of statistics from around the web this week on…

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Location

Trover Comes To Android

Trover, a free mobile app for exploring places through photos, has launched an Android version after a good start on iOS in July. The Seattle-based startup is focused on what it calls "spatial browsing." Trover is a photo-sharing app that arranges discoveries on a map, so that users can either explore sights right around them or browse places…

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[Video] 3 Great Tastes That Taste Great Together: Video Games + Football + Marching Band

Reimagining Home Improvement: Houzz vs. BHG

Why Pinterest Has NOT Reimagined Scrapbooking

Reimagining Sports News: Bleacher Report

Tokyo Toilet Tour! A Photo Walk Through Toto's High-Tech Showroom

No, Folks, File Sharing is Not a Religion

The World is Not Quite Ready for Mobile Payments, According to MasterCard

Read/Write Daily: Heavy Metal

Dead? Social Media's Explosive Growth is Only Beginning

Trover Comes To Android