Posts Tagged with ‘Gizmodo’

No sooner does a social media app take off than new ways of using said app to recreate cliques follow. Whether it's blogs or Twitter or FriendFeed, it seems there has to be a group of cool kids, and one of the not-so-cool kids.
Going in reverse order, there is already a pruning being done of FriendFeed accounts. To me, it's understandable; all FriendFeed has really done is add one more social network for people to have to track. Rather than [...]

By now, I'm sure everyone has heard of Gizmodo's prank at CES, using a TV-B-Gone device to turn off displays at booths and during presentations. The actual offender has been banned from future CES attendance, with other ramifications possible.
The story has gotten considerable coverage, including the mainstream press, including the New York Times. Virtually every forum that the story has appeared in has seen people coming down on one side or the other, some thinking the prank was funny, while [...]