March 2010
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Everything's Lame... Except Texting →
Current: Hooking Up on Spacebook. →
Current: Obama's Awkward Peace Prize Ceremony →
Tap you skin, launch an app, browse your... →
Last week I highlighted a story about Augmented Reality, and being able to identify strangers on the street via API data calls to social networks via your iphone camera. This article talks…
Sunlight + Water = Fuel, How 1 bottle of water... →
Pretty damn cool. Do you ever wish you had more time in the day to do awesome shit like this? I do…
And I quote the video: “Young people can choose lots of different paths. I’m just asking them…
Current: The Obama's On Another Date Night. →
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Popular Science partners with Google to offer... →
I remember reading popular science as a kid, and always wishing I had enough money to buy the hovercraft kit at the back of the Magazine…awesome memories brought back to life.
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Cory Booker whoops up on NASA, Virgina State... →
Cory Booker took it home last week as the Shorty Award winner in the Government category with his 1 Million plus followers on Twitter and his unique approach to online advocacy and branding…
Interesting Article about the idea of... →
by Sara Jerome from the national journal
Thirteen years in the House and a stint as majority leader have furnished Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., with useful GOP and K Street support for his…
Top 25 Facebook Games For February, 2010 →
Inside Social Games:
The Christmas traffic decline has melted away, and a number of games saw significant growth in February — more so than January, anyway. However, for each…
Game Developers Conference San Francisco 2010 →
Bummed to miss this. Maybe next year. Always been a personal dream of mine to be involved in game making. Growing up with Warcraft, Startcraft, Ultima Online, you name it. I was that guy….
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Current: It's The Return of the GOP! →
YouTube Makes Captioning Available to All →
PC Magazine reports that Google’s YouTube announced last Thursday that it has moved its automatic speech-recognition and closed-captioning technology out of beta and have now made it…
R.I.P. IE6 - (8/27/01 - 3/01/10): Pictures and... →
SeattlePI:
Internet Explorer 6 died on March 1, 2010, in Mountain View, Calif., after a family rival removed it from life support. The simultaneously beloved and detested Web browser was nearly…
Nano Air Vehicles and Robotic Hummingbirds →
Biomimicry isn’t new, nor are robotic hummingbirds, but the latest ‘bot to come out of Chiba University in Japan makes even the DARPA-inspired Nano Air Vehicle — which is…
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Green River Ordinance (@GRO) To Play at The... →
On Saturday I received confirmation from the lead singer of Green River Ordinance that they’re going to user part of their vacation time to come play at Piryxtopia 2010 SXSW Charity Bash!…
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PiryxTopia
During SXSW this year, Piryx will partner with Seattle-based non-profit Startup Weekend and Microsoft BizSpark to host the 2nd annual Piryxtopia Charity Bash! This event is focused on raising money for the charity We Hear Your Voice, which was started after the tragic earthquake that left Haiti in shambles. We Hear Your Voice began as a mission to unite a mother with her 3 Haitian children, but...
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PiryxTopia
During SXSW this year, Piryx will partner with Seattle-based non-profit Startup Weekend and Microsoft BizSpark to host the 2nd annual Piryxtopia Charity Bash! This event is focused on raising money for the charity We Hear Your Voice, which was started after the tragic earthquake that left Haiti in shambles. We Hear Your Voice began as a mission to unite a mother with her 3 Haitian children, but...
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Business Competition to Help Haiti
During SXSW this year, Piryx will partner with Seattle-based non-profit Startup Weekend and Microsoft BizSpark to host the 2nd annual Piryxtopia Charity Bash! This event is focused on raising money for the charity We Hear Your Voice, which was started after the tragic earthquake that left Haiti in shambles. We Hear Your Voice began as a mission to unite a mother with her 3 Haitian children, but...
From Back Home: Rice University Shows How Facebook... →
Facebook Pages actually can boost sales, a recent study Rice University in Houston, Texas, recently concluded. Fans of these Pages are, overall, more loyal to a business, spend more and…
Virtual Goods: Meez Launches Red Cross Promotion,... →
Tuesday the teen-oriented virtual world Meez announced that it would be promoting the Red Crossthrough the month of March with a virtual blood bank area in its teen-oriented virtual…
Creators of Farmville and Mafia Wars Acknowledge... →
This is absolutely disgusting. Seriously, hyping up fundraising inside their game. People donate, and then find out it only 50% of their donation actually went to Haiti Relief. So of $2.4 Million…
Second Life Sued: Intellectual Property and... →
In September 2009, Second Life was sued for allowing individuals to sell fake virtual goods. The case has recently moved forward with the filing of a case management statement. While this…
Current: Barack Obama Says F*ck It. →
Chilean Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day →
By Alex Morales
March 1 (Bloomberg) — The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space…
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Piryxtopia SXSW 2010 Charity Bash: Invite Codes... →
Hey Folks,
Lots great things happening as we gear up for our 2nd Annual Piryxtopia Charity Bash! We are officially streaming in the We Hear Your Voice Aid workers directly into the party to say…
Windows Phone 7 Series FAQ
We realize it’s still early in the year, but we don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that Windows Phone 7 Series is one of biggest mobile tech stories to come out of 2010. Finally, Microsoft delivered a mobile operating system that not only looks completely new and compelling, but also functional and competitive. However, there are still a number of unanswered questions...
NASA's Project M Puts Scientists' Avatars On the... →
NASA can put humanoids on the Moon in just 1000 days. These humanoids would be controlled by scientists on Earth using motion capture suits, giving them the feeling of being on the lunar surface.
I recently caught up with one of Virgin Galactics’ Space Agents, who’s sole job is to act as a travel agent for folks wanting a ride on Virgin Galactic. There’s only 200 in the world...
The First Sushi In Space, Caught on Video →
Just Plain Clever: Google Asks US For WTO Block On... →
Boy, I REALLY wish I was on this Google legal team. This is going to be such an awesome case to watch. While “Yes”, internet censorship can be viewed as “1st Amendment” issues and rights in…
No Lie! Your Facebook Profile Is the Real You →
Interesting Wired Article:
“On the Internet,” one dog tells another in a classic New Yorker cartoon, “nobody knows you’re a dog.”
The internet is notorious for its digital dens of…
Current: Your Dad Asks iPhone Questions... →
Just Brilliantly Awesome: Augmented Identity App... →
Absolutely Brilliant. What an amazing use of Augmented Reality. I can honestly say this app has a tremendous amount of potential. Now, if they could just build it into a pair of…
Quick Stat: Playfish Sells 60M Pet Society Virtual... →
Today Electronic Arts Vice President of Business Developments and Strategic Partnerships Sebastien de Halleux revealed that users of the Playfish social game Pet Society purchased…
Aquanotes: For those of us who can't wait 10 min... →
AquaNotes® are completely waterproof notepads that allows you to write your great ideas while in the shower, rain, or anywhere wet. Water simply beads up and rolls off this weatherproof…
Slashdot, The Future is here: Quake 3 For Android →
An anonymous reader writes “Over the last two months I ported Quake 3 to Android as a hobby project. It only took a few days to get the game working. More time was spent on tweaking the game…
Facebook App Notifications Going Away, Invites... →
A vast majority of their notifications will be moving to email…Generally speaking email still maintains the highest donor conversion rate at Piryx, even with all these “other awesome marketing…