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Where to Get Your Five-Ringed Fix Online

Will McCahill — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:15:00 CST

With watching the Olympics on actual TV being so, like, 2008, TechCrunch presents the best places to keep tabs online: NBC Olympics : Lots of scores and news—and if you’re a premium cable customer, 400 hours of live events. Vancouver 2010 : The host committee’s site has the usual stuff, plus...

How to Manage Your Passwords From the Grave

Jane Yager — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:43:00 CST

These days grieving relatives have a new problem to contend with: managing the Facebook, Flickr, and eBay accounts of the dead. As people trust ever more of their lives to the Internet, from email and online banking to identities on Second Life, very few have considered what exactly will happen...

Bing, Yahoo Bar Web Porn in India

Rob Quinn — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:35:49 CST

Indian computer users enter "sex" into search engines more than users in any other country, but Internet firms have moved to deliver only sanitized results to the nation. Yahoo's search engine and the Flickr photo-sharing site have switched the entire country's setting to "safe search" only, as has Microsoft's Bing,...

Sasha in Oval Office Evokes John-John

Matt Cantor — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:38:45 CDT

A new photo released by the White House shows Sasha Obama sneaking up on her dad from behind an Oval Office couch—recalling an iconic image of John Kennedy Jr. hiding under his dad’s desk in 1963. That picture became part of the Kennedy family’s "‘Camelot’ image," writes Eliot Sefton...

The Best of the Web 2009

Matt Cantor — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:47:01 CDT

Overwhelmed by the stream of new, powerful sites constantly emerging to suit every taste? Time picks 50 you should explore, if you haven’t already: Etsy: “The long-haired, Birkenstocked love child of Amazon and eBay,” and the place to go online for handmade crafts, from housewares to clothing. Hulu: The television...

Flickr Cowardly for Taking Down Obama Joker

Kevin Spak — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:50:01 CDT

Flickr is catching fire for its decision to take down the now-infamous image of Barack Obama photoshopped to look like the joker. Flickr says it received a takedown notice under the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act for the Time cover mockup, but that excuse doesn’t fly for Michael Arrington of...

Flickr Lost 3K of My Photos: Angry Blogger

Matt Cantor — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:51:12 CDT

Flickr has earned a blogger’s harsh rebuke for losing 3,000 of his photos, Gawker reports. A hacker was able to permanently delete the photos by attaching a Hotmail account to Morgan Tepsic’s Flickr account, and Tepsic is livid that Flickr didn’t better protect work he says cost him thousands...

For Latest on Iran Unrest, Check Online First

Harry Kimball — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:31:49 CDT

Traditional media are having a tough time covering the Iranian election fallout, but fear not: Web 2.0 is up to the task. The Washington Post runs down the best destinations for those hoping to stay on top of the situation: PicFog.com: Current, unedited photos containing "a level of...

China Blocks Twitter Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary

Matt Cantor — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:29:00 CDT

As Thursday's 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre approaches, China has blocked access to Twitter, Flickr, and Hotmail, among other sites, TechCrunch reports. “The lead-up to any date like this is usually a time when the Firewall is tightened,” notes Mike Butcher, who was told by a contact in...