Comparing User Activity Across Social Services [Infographic]

I think we have all seen the decline of interaction on Twitter, and how the service has become somewhat a little less, well I wouldn’t want to say interesting, but it surely has become less of what it was a couple years ago. Personally, I think Twitter lost out on a lot of users when they started messing around with the way that retweets work. The way that the direct messages are not working correctly is also a big culprit in the decline of the service, ...

How To: Woo A Blogger For Publicity

Bloggers are a marketer’s dream come true. If you can get on their good side, they will be one of your company’s biggest brand ambassadors. Their existing fan base already trusts their recommends. This means if they talk about you, your company will get in front of potential customers usually not within your reach. Part of the DNA of true bloggers is the fact that they cannot contain their excitement and passion when they love a product and feel it is their duty to tell the ...

Mickey Mouse Sugar Rush: Mickey Oreos, Cupcakes & Cake Pops

Have you ever been on the Internet reading something and then you see another interesting link somewhere on the page and you click on it? Everybody has done that, right? You read that page and then click on another link, and this goes on and on until you find yourself on a website and you have no idea how you really got there. It’s completely off the topic that you were originally reading about, but it’s interesting, so you read on. This is the story of ...

Understoodit Classroom App: Press Red Button If You’re Confused

It’s early in the morning, and you’re sitting in class. You pulled an all-nighter yesterday, and the evening before you may or may not have been out partying. You’re not at peak performance, to say the least. And then the prof enters the room, and it’s all over. Confusion time. While some university confusion could be eliminated through diligent study, fewer hangovers, and far fewer all night study sessions, some of it could also be reduced if the profs actually knew that their students were confused. ...

Create Your Own Han Solo Carbon Freezing Star Wars Moment

I spent many a day in my childhood as Han Solo. No, not the leather outfit, but pretending to be the space saving, evil empire fighting, girl getting (well trying anyway), hero of the Star Wars films. I am not sure if most of my friends enjoyed the game as much as me because they would always have to be R2-D2, C-3PO or Chewbacca. Any girl in the game was obviously Princess Leia, and it always depended on her whether Han Solo was saving the girl ...

Mario’s Graffiti World: Mario & Family Redesigned In Graffiti

A few months ago, I wrote about a graffiti artist named Tilt who designed a room he called the Panic Room for a hotel in France. It caught my attention because one half of the room (and everything in it) was completely white, and the other half was full of bright, loud, beautiful graffiti art. It had a whole left brain/right brain thing going on, and it was really inspiring. If you’d like to see the pictures, you can click over to Panic Room. That graffiti ...

How Images Affect The Success Of Your Blog [Infographic]

When you’ve been writing multiple articles every day, seven days a week, for three years straight, like Richard and I have for Bit Rebels, you learn a lot of things along the way through trial and error. Some things are a little tricky, like learning effective SEO, and other things are easy, like learning to keep titles relatively short so there is room for retweets on Twitter. If I were to make a list of all the things we’ve learned between the summer of 2009 and ...

Go Retro With The Game Boy Mini Watch

One of the coolest ways to accessorize is to wear a watch, or at least I think so. There are a lot of people out there who think that once you’ve gotten one watch, you don’t need another. My own humble opinion about it is that that statement is ultimately wrong. For example, having the ability to wear the right watch to match your blue, white or black shirt is one way to really switch it up a little. As a geek, you would do well ...

The Completely Transparent House With No Privacy

When I first saw the pictures of this transparent house in Tokyo, I thought no way would I be able to live there. I don’t have any curtains or blinds on the windows along the front of my house. I know that when people walk by on the sidewalk at night they can see inside if I have the lights on, but at least the entire interior of the house is not exposed. The more I look at this though; I might be able to do ...

Even Mark Zuckerberg’s Hoodie Has Influence

Mark Zuckerberg is facing some of the sternest criticism he has ever faced in the press at the moment. Is it still from the Winklevoss twins after a share of the Facebook pie? Is it the Facebook hoards tired of yet another change to the free social media service they use on a daily basis? Maybe it is from Google who is still trying desperately to chip away at the Facebook market share. Or could it be the IPO that could potentially break all kinds of ...

C-3PO Has A Huge Robo-Boner: A Real Star Wars Trading Card

I can’t believe there has been an ongoing urban legend about this for decades, and I’m just now finding out about it. In case you haven’t heard about it either, it’s such a funny story, and it could possibly be the world’s best Star Wars prank ever. Do you see that image of the C-3PO trading card – yeah, the one where C-3PO is sporting the huge boner? That was an official Star Wars card that was released in 1977. Throughout the years, many people thought ...

Behold The World’s Most Expensive Camera

I think anyone who has been around computers for a long time still marvels over the technological breakthroughs that we keep hearing about every day. I’m not just talking about the minification of processors and the increasing power they are able to push out, but also the tools that we use in our every day lives that before would take up entire rooms, but now fit in our pockets. The curious thing is that we keep seeing these things being introduced at ever lower prices. With ...