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Rookies Robert Griffin III, Trent Richardson, Coby Fleener and others join retired veterans Jevon Kearse, Ahman Green and Eddie George in supporting gay football players

I have a simple feature request for Hulu, Netflix, and all of the other online video services out there: let us cache programming for offline viewing.

By Wednesday, after just three days of trading, several lawsuits had been filed against Facebook complaining about the adequacy of its prospectus disclosure. However, at least so far, there is no indication that anything is wrong with that prospectus.

Randy Newman may proclaim, "I Love L.A.," but Los Angeles is deeper, richer, and more vibrant than that shouty stream of Chamber of Commerce clichés. For an Angeleno like me, "Under the Bridge" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers comes closer to capturing the city's true vibe.

ook at ‘em, sittin’ there. Too big to run fast. Too busy poppin’ bottles. Too busy scheming their next moves. They won’t even see it coming. Listen up y’all, I’m serious. Let’s just straight jack these fools…

Yesterday, I described how Morgan Stanley was holding firm-wide conference calls to explain the Facebook disclosure scandal to its angry financial advisors and clients...and how, on at least one of those calls, my name had come up repeatedly. The Facebook disclosure scandal, you will recall, is...

David Carr discusses why New Orleans and Michigan are on the leading edge of corporate experiments to end daily print newspaper publication in favor of Web-based news sites.

Silicon Valley isn’t only the most important technology centre in the world, but it’s also a hub of inspiration. Luckily, the Valley is great at distributing that wisdom, especially through Twitter. On a daily basis, we can enjoy inspiring Tweets that help us build better companies, make loads of...

A little more than half of the projects on Kickstarter fail, and when they do it can be hard to find them as was reported earlier this week. But understanding those failures can help others avoid the same fate and may indicate areas where the Kickstarter platform or the crowd sourced funding model...

In an attempt to recreate the Internet "blackout" that shut down SOPA and PIPA, a group of online activists have created the Internet Defense League, which promises to create a "Bat-Signal for the Internet" that will warn Web users against bad legislation.

'I'm glad that Lupe did it,' Questlove tells MTV News of Lupe Fiasco's 'T.R.O.Y' sample on his new single 'Around My Way.'

Siri's had a rough ride since its launch with the iPhone 4S in October. And now it looks like Apple employees may also be upset that Siri hasn't yet matured into the digital assistant of our dreams.

Embattled venture firm makes an offer.

Alec Baldwin has apologized to Harvey Weinstein for bad-mouthing the indie mogul at the Cannes Film Festival. Baldwin also opted not to appear onstage at Thursday night's amfAR gala in Cannes, out of concern that his public disagreement with Weinstein could be a distraction, individuals close...

Do you Facebook during happy hour? Retweet without doing your research? You could cause a huge PR mess. Young entrepreneurs share their best tips for promoting your company with care. The Young Entrepreneur Council asked 12 successful young entrepreneurs to note one way that their online activity...

According to Jason Del Rey of Ad Age, Yahoo! is closing up shop on its Android and iPad “Flipboard clone”, Livestand. The service was announced last February, showing that Yahoo! was doubling down on mobile. Livestand was a mobile newsreader for tablets, a space that had many players at the...

In the past month I’ve traveled to Berlin, Amsterdam, London and Hawaii and I keep hearing the same debate over and over again: ‘How can we become the next Silicon Valley?’ The answer is: You Can’t. Having observed the special sauce that makes up Silicon Valley, I’ve found it’s a delicate...

This is a guest post by Rachel Sklar Let?s discuss the recent Forbes.com article, "Sheryl Sandberg is the Valley's 'It' Girl - Just like Kim Polese once was," recently renamed ?Apology to Sheryl Sandberg and Kim Polese.? It?s been a very long time since an article made me this angry. The premise:...

Conan O’Brien has embraced TV’s new rules for the Web. So has his old employer. It used to take NBC a very long time to get clips from “Saturday Night Live” on the Internet, which is the whole reason that “Lazy Sunday” became a YouTube sensation.* Fast-forward to today, where NBC and its social...

Yesterday, Apple yanked Airfoil Speakers Touch for unspecified reasons. A little birdie told us it was because Airfoil Speakers Touch duplicated inherent functionality in iOS 6. It’s possible that that’s still true, but if it is, it’s not why Airfoil Speakers Touch was pulled, as Apple has now gone...

One fortunate ? or unfortunate ? byproduct of having a child in sports is that you end up interacting with the parents of your child?s teammates. At the start, at least, these other parents seem like nice enough people, but as time goes on and travel leagues get formed, the social dynamic can turn...

Unlike last year when three entries in the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival went on to grab Oscar nominations for Best Picture (and The Artist even won) this year it’s different, at least going into the final weekend.  Cannes doesn’t seem to have even one sure candidate for Oscar’s...

David Carr, media columnist and culture reporter for The New York Times, talked recently to TPM about the future of news, the “glorious” view of the Port Authority Bus Terminal from his desk and what would happen if Twitter went dark tomorrow.

ONE day late last month, a group of artists from the Society of Illustrators in New York assembled at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center here. Armed with pads, pencils and cameras, they had two hours to carry out their mission: making drawings of service members wounded in Iraq and...

Dear Media ReDEFined Fans, WARNING: What you are about to read qualifies as an "overshare". I want to apologize for not sending out the newsletter these past few days. Let me explain what happened. I woke up one morning in...

To celebrate Star Wars' 35th anniversary the Gadget Lab way, we decided to gather nine of our favorite pieces of tech from a galaxy far, far away and see what gadgets come closest to being the real-world equivalents.

Even as all sorts of questions swirl around last week’s initial public offering and this week’s release of a camera app that looks a lot like the camera app it paid $1 billion for last month, Facebook has taken its usual quiet stance, issuing as few public statements and offering as few public...

Facebook is still trading well below its IPO price, and suddenly it’s hip to dump on the company. Sure, that IPO was ugly, and its negative effects will continue to be felt for some time. But to everyone out there who think Facebook has already played all its revenue tricks and so isn’t worth all...

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg delivered a speech to the graduating class of Harvard Business School this week. As usual, it's a great speech. We have the full video here, as well as a transcript from HBS below. (HBS warned us that one of their people, not a professional transcriber, wrote up the...

Buzz enveloped Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram even before its big IPO. Now, part of Facebook’s plan for its recent acquisition is unfolding. Facebook released an Instagram-like camera app on Thursday. Photographers and musicians like me as well as plenty of other Facebook regulars...

Panel says industry's has to keep up with technology that gives consumers more...

Chances are, Product RED first came on your radar in 2006, when The Gap debuted its line of desi(RED), ado(RED) and inspi(RED) t-shirts. The t-shirts were the start of a viral movement, which today is recognizable in distinctive digital campaigns and partnerships with some of the world’s most...

From Matthew E. May: In the book The Virtual Executive, author Debra Benton tells a cautionary tale of videoconferencing: A bank executive joined in on a video call with his team, and forgot he was live on camera. He proceeded to pick up the newspaper and start reading while occasionally picking...

Chris LeBarton jumped at the chance to get in on Facebook’s initial public offering. The Potomac investor and a group of friends pooled $50,000 to purchase $35 pre-offering shares through a hedge fund connection. Read full article >>

The legendary Guns N’ Roses guitarist opens up about GNR’s future, why he left, his new solo album, and more.

You've heard guitarist James Burton even if you don't know it. Ever since he was 15, he's been recording behind a bewildering number of artists, from Ricky Nelson to Ray Charles. He also managed to put out some records on his own. Rock historian Ed Ward shares his story. » E-Mail This     » Add to...

The more you dig into Google's new copyright transparency reports the more eye-catching info you find. Julian Sanchez, for example, has noticed the rather interesting timing of massive explosions in Hollywood studios using Google's DMCA takedown system for search... in correlation with key...

On Monday, we posted the Artist Series, short profiles of various aesthetically-oriented creators by the late Hillman Curtis. Today, please enjoy what feels like the jewel in the Artist Series’ crown, despite not officially being part of it: Curtis’ promotional documentary on Brian Eno and David...

To any member of the tech media, Techmeme is the first site you visit in the morning, and the last site you check before bed. It’s a thermometer of today’s news, with more context per headline than any single news source can offer. This is the beauty of aggregation, which some more traditional...

Mobile gaming company PerBlue started with a late-night idea session, and was built -- for no pay -- in a 700 square foot apartment.

It's one of the oldest paradoxes at the heart of New Orleans culture. Even as the city enjoys an international reputation as one of the world's great music hubs, those responsible for making that music have struggled for decades. New Orleans musicians have to deal with the unpleasant truth that to...

Kaleidoscope is a street style fashion app that lets you browse looks a la Pinterest and Fancy, but with a hyper-curated, shopping-focused twist. Of course, this is a crowded scene, but the real secret sauce here is Kaleidoscope’s API, which finds products that match the clothing in each and every...

Oscar Corral thought someone was yanking his chain the day the phone rang at The Miami Herald newsroom and a soft-spoken voice with just a hint of southern drawl said: "Oscar Corral, this is Tom Wolfe."

Google has unveiled the first video taken with its sci-fi eyewear concept, Project Glass. The topic: jumping and flipping on a trampoline, doing a backflip while wearing Google glasses. Google launched its Project Glass goggles on Google+ in April, and the news sent the concept of Google’s...

For all the talk about 'monetization' -- the actual business of media often gets shorted on the industry conference circuit. So when the organizers at PaidContent decided to put an actual living, breathing content maker on the stage at this years PaidContent 2012, folks in the audience didn't...

A variety of websites with Facebook logins, as well as games, dominated our list of emerging Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps grew by between 100,000...

Groupon is testing out an offering of its own in the increasingly crowded payments space, according to an email I was forwarded by a business that was solicited for the service. (Disclosure: I have various puts against Groupon.) The pricing is extremely aggressive, with a 1.8% transaction fee and...

If you blinked you may have missed it, but President Obama held a small, impromptu Twitter town hall yesterday in Iowa to answer questions and help craft a to-do list for Congress. The event is part of an ongoing White House initiative headed up by its digital strategy team to connect with voters...

A profile of editor Alan Rusbridger and reporter Nick Davies, recognised for their revelations and coverage of the phone hacking story in the Guardian

Microsoft researchers have been developing a system called SoundWave that emits pulses in ultrasound ranges and detects Doppler-based changes to track human movements. Its creators hope their accidental discovery could improve gesture-based controls.

Microsoft's copyright headaches emerge in Google's new report on intellectual property abuses on the Internet.

Don't include choices in your story for the sake of choices. Design your stories in a way that engage your players and provide more depth (and content) to your game.

It's grievous what is happening to regional newspapers, especially. But the whole industry will continue to collapse until everyone swallows hard and goes behind a paywall. The New York Times has shown us the end of the beginning; they've embraced the paywall and they are seeing significant...

Entertainer is launching her own social network this summer; it's invite-only for now.

This week's visualization comes from The New York Times, which tries to shed a little light on Facebook's initial public offering by showing how it compares to the 2,400 technology IPOs that have occurred since 1980. The visualization begins with a timeline of tech IPOs that runs up until last...

That headline may not make much sense, but that’s how Forrester’s James McQuivey explains his idea for a new Apple TV set that could be different enough to be disruptive. While he calls it “Apple’s coming plan to take over the TV business,” like all reports on Apple TV these days, it’s pure...

Here's a terrible idea to start turning around 's considerable financial troubles: start interrupting its games with ads. A user at the NeoGAF forums spotted this patent filed in July 2011 to do exactly that. The patent is very broad and covers many different systems, but the basic notion is that...

Britney Spears found herself in the middle of some silly drama almost as soon as she debuted as an "X Factor" judge. Related Articles:  Britney Spears and Demi Lovato Named as 'X Factor' Judges An 'X Factor,' 'Idol' and...

With Michael Colombo as a very recent ITP graduate and me starting my second year there, we’ve been posting our fair share of ITP projects to Makezine lately. A lot of what we do at ITP aligns well with the maker community, but understandably, not everybody is in the position to go to a two year...

This is a guest post from regular Evolver.fm contributor James Martin of midemblog. This morning, Kylie Minogue‘s new video was unlocked by her fans, who had been asked to generate 25,000 #KylieTimeBomb tweets in order to access her new song, “Timebomb.” They did so in less than an hour. At the...

Spring has sprung and like Persephone loosed from Hades’ bonds, our iPad app is now available to all and sundry. This app is literally years in the making and we have been back and forth and up and down regarding functionality, design, and look and feel for most of this month. I’m pleased to...

Director Wes Anderson talks to Jacob Weisberg as his latest film, Moonrise Kingdom, comes to theaters

For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site. Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse and take down the Web.

iPad use in schools more likely when administrators like and use mobile tech With its e-textbook initiative, iTunes U, and a range of educational resources, Apple is pitching the iPad as critical element in 21st century schools. Many schools have already begun iPad tests or full-scale deployments....

Social media insight grows in importance as brands seek to get inside the heads of their Twitter followers If Twitter is as much about followers as tweeters, then the other key part of the phenomenon is monitoring what happens when those 140 fateful characters are posted to a permanently wired...

The world-class domain name sleuthers over at Fusible have uncovered that Facebook (almost certainly) privately registered a number of domains with ‘studio edge’ in them, including the .com, .net and .org versions. Coincidentally, the domain names were secured on the same day the social network...

Goal-line technology might be coming to football a lot sooner than you think, as FIFA announces that the friendly matches between England and Belgium, and Denmark and Australia, on 2 June will be used to trial the two systems under consideration. For years the international governing body for...

Facebook is different from Apple or Google or Amazon or Microsoft, says Mark Zuckerberg, because it doesn't build products. It seeks to improve the products built by everyone else. "If Apple or Google want to build a product, they typically go build it," the Facebook CEO told Charlie...

If you build your business around being the lowest-cost provider, that's all you've got. Everything you do has to be a race in that direction, because if you veer toward anything else (service, workforce, impact, design, etc.) then a competitor with a more single-minded focus will sell your...

If Woody Guthrie were protesting now, he wouldn't be singing songs he'd be making video games. For almost as long as they've been around, games have been co-opted as a vehicle for protest. Balance of Power from 1985, for example, was about the dangers posed by the geopolitics of the...

I have seen aggressive drivers in many cities around the world. Often, if two cars arrive at an intersection, one driver will honk his horn and try to engage the intersection before the other. From an evolutionary perspective, honking is a selfish act: it benefits the individual who performs it and...

San Jose school suspends three girls for cyberbullying

Publishers fully support expanding access to publicly funded research but only as part of a model that is financially viable Much has been written about journal publishers over the past few months but unfortunately this has focused almost exclusively on one side of the debate: the desire for...

Paramount decided to delay "G.I. Joe" to convert it to 3-D, said a person close to the studio, but that explanation is running into some skepticism.

Former Mozilla CEO John Lilly watched Jerry Yang blow his top when presented with a browser that put a Yahoo competitor front and center. Seven years later, Yahoo finally got around to launching a browser of its own. Last night, Yahoo unveiled Axis, its first foray into the browser wars. The...

The ?blackout? of Web sites to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in January was an unprecedented show of Internet solidarity against bad legislation. But with new net-threatening bills like ACTA and CISPA popping out of Congress on a practically monthly basis, one online entrepreneur and a...

FB-NASDAQ_051812001.jpg Wide For over a week now, Facebook’s messy IPO has dominated the business page headlines. A question that rarely gets asked in all this kerfuffle: what impact will this IPO have on musicians? As key...

by??Margie Warrell As social media reshapes how we connect, we have to rethink what we need to feel fulfilled in our relationships, and realize that no amount of tweets, texts or status updates can provide it. ??While social networking is a great tool, there's a profound difference between an...

You may have noticed there’s a growing amount of alternative, tech-focused, ways to get around San Francisco these days. Car sharing groups Zipcar and City CarShare have big communities here, there’s the new car sharing 2.0 groups like RelayRides and Getaround, and the next-gen taxi services of...

Cha-ching. Looks like the price of movie tickets is once again moving higher. BTIG Research analyst Richard Greenfield notes in a blog post today that Regal Cinemas is raising ticket prices effective Friday for both 2D and 3D films in its theaters in New York and Los Angeles. Exact pricing varies...

Ranked by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) as a domestic electrical power hog on gluttonous par with the refrigerator, the HD DVR is about to be put to sleep. Don’t worry. It’ll wake up in time to record Jersey Shore. But the question is, how deep a sleep will your DVR go into and how...

Steve Jobs' successor is making his mark and trying to keep the Apple magic going.

DVRs started rolling out in 1999 from TIVO, ReplayTV and DISH, with the rest of the multichannel video industry following suit over the next few years.  Today, more than half of all US TV households have at least one DVR, with the vast majority of DVRs leased to consumers by their MVPD. While many...