Digg founder Kevin Rose issued an apology this morning for statements he made on the latest edition of his video podcast Diggnation. Just after the 4 minute mark in the show Rose and co-host Alex Albrecht were making jokes about men getting into physical fights with women and Rose made a statement that a particular act of violence was appropriate as an act of retribution in some circumstances.
An excerpted transcript and the text of Rose's apology sent to us by email when we inquired this morning are below.
One year ago, I discovered that I had contracted Type 1 Diabetes. I was 36 at that point and it's relatively rare for someone of my age to suddenly get Type 1 Diabetes - indeed they used to call this form of diabetes "juvenile diabetes", because it mostly occurs in children. So it was quite a shock to discover that I had it! Immediately I looked to the Web to find out all I could about this condition. I discovered a thriving community of 'health 2.0' apps and social networks, which I then wrote about in this blog.
As it's now a year later, I thought it'd be good to review health 2.0 - as I did with Semantic Apps last week. What has changed in web-based health services over the past year? And indeed what web tools do I use to help me manage diabetes?
Even though there are already a myriad of tools that try to make collaborative editing easier, few of them are as elegant and easy to use as TextFlow, which just launched its public beta this morning. TextFlow is an Adobe AIR application that allows a master editor to merge documents from up to seven other editors. Unlike Etherpad, which we reviewed last week, TextFlow is not a real-time collaboration platform, but works with a more traditional editing model.
Did you know that the way you surf the internet may be influenced by your culture? In the U.S. and Europe, web surfers are leaning forward, one hand on the mouse and the other on the keyboard, typing and mousing equally. In China, however, the process is much different. Web surfers there tend to lean back from the monitor while keeping one hand on the mouse, the other hand dangling. The keyboard is used much less frequently as much of the navigation is done with clicks instead.
Over the weekend, an interesting app made its way into the iPhone app store: Wallpaper Universe, a naughty little number that let you decorate your homescreen with pictures of women in various states of undress. On Friday, we saw FunMobility's appear in the app store but by Saturday, the app had been removed. This begs the question: what exactly is going on with Apple's app approval process?
Amazon is turning to the public for help, asking for public data sets in an attempt to create a cloud data service that provides what they describe as a "convenient way to share, access, and use public data."
Called AWS Hosted Public Data Sets, the service will enable you to use public data within your Amazon EC2 environment. Select public data sets will be hosted on AWS for free as an Amazon EBS snapshot.
Part of the appeal of Facebook to the media, no doubt, comes from the fact that much of its use remains shrouded in secrets. It is difficult to get a good grasp on what's really happening within the walls of the popular social network. There are data points on its current valuation, the number of applications on the platform, and the number of users. But there's rarely a clear indication of what's happening at the user level - beyond the now platitudinous "throwing sheep" assessment.
That's what makes something like Project Palantir so interesting. Because we get a brief glimpse into how Facebook is really being used.
With the current economic conditions, finding funding can be a challenge for many young companies - or even established ones. Sometimes it helps to get creative.
For Yieldex - a company that predicts available online advertising inventory to help optimize campaigns - that creative funding angle came in the form of participating in the Amazon Web Service Start-Up Challenge. And it paid off, twofold. Not only did they end the week with an extra $100,000 by winning the second annual Amazon AWS Start-Up Challenge, they also - as we reported in Jobwire - managed to woo a former AOL exec to join the team.
A vulnerability in Gmail that lets the bad guys access and manipulate filters in your Gmail account has once again reared its ugly head according to a recent post on GeekCondition.
The exploit, similar to the one David Airey was a victim of in December 2007 when his site was hijacked, caught our attention thanks to Philipp Lenssen's post this morning over on Blogoscoped. While the general consensus is that Google had fixed the vulnerability, turns out it's still there.
Don't know what to get the kids in your life for Christmas this year? Well it turns out that little people get the biggest thrill out of getting geeky gifts - particularly gifts you do stuff with. So, if you're stuck on what to get your niece, nephew, friend, or even your own little person, take a look at our gift suggestions below.
We have organized them from the least to the most expensive, and give you 17 gift ideas for tweens and teens.
