“Sam Lesser isn’t old enough to go on Facebook without his parents’ help. But he may be the youngest victim yet of the social networking site’s turbulent IPO.
Lesser, an 11-year-old investor and business prodigy, tried to buy 300 shares of Facebook stock during the company’s initial public offering last week with more than $10,000 saved up from a small company he set up selling skateboards and bracelets.”
An Open Letter to Jay Leno About Stealing My Video and Then Getting It Removed From YouTube - Splitsider
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“I could write 1,000 words about Facebook IPO media coverage. Or I could post this photo.” - @brianstelter
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In a colorful memo to her parents, one little girl threatens to make mom and dad’s lives a little less than pleasant if they opt to use password protection on their home computer.
Reddit user surprisemailbox posted the photo to the website, explaining that a friend’s little sister had left the message next to her parents computer.
“I actually think the best journalism comes from people who are blogging part-time. They don’t have an agenda other than finding the truth.”
“…readers may click through your slideshow, but they’ll hate you a liiitttle bit more than they did when they got to the site. And I bet they’ll feel the same way about whatever advertiser was unlucky enough to get stuck on the page with some stupid thing that a reporter did with a little bit of hate in his heart and fingertips.”
Atlantic reporter Alexis Madrigal, in a story called “The Pernicious Myth That Slideshows Drive ‘Traffic’”
Happy Birthday: Perfect 10 Sues Tumblr
A week after its fifth birthday, Tumblr got hit with a grownup copyright infringement lawsuit—and a gnarly one at that. The plaintiff is porn company Perfect 10, and …
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“We think an iPhone 4 case with a built-in battery that can add up to 36-hours of life to your iPhone is a great idea. Apparently we aren’t the only ones.” - Mophie Juice Pack Air at werd.com
FBI: Disinfect Your Computer Or Risk Losing Internet Access Come July - Forbes
Artists bottle the smell of a brand new MacBook Pro
Considering that there are air fresheners which help you keep that “new car smell” lingering long after your ride is beaten and battered, we shouldn’t really be surprised that there’s now a similar product for that new Apple gadget smell.
As the folks at Macworld Australia point out, this strange item was created by an artistic collaborative group which set out to capture and replicate the “distinctive smell” which “can be observed when unwrapping a newly purchased Apple product from its packaging.”
Read more: Digital Life
1 in 5 Americans Are "Internet Innocents" - CIO
Who are these Internet holdouts? According to Pew, they’re senior citizens, Spanish speakers, adults with less than a high school education, and folks in households with annual incomes of less than $30,000.
Of the adults who don’t use the Internet, almost half of them said the Net is irrelevant to them, finds the survey, which is based on interviews with more than 2200 adults 18 years old and older.
Most non-users have never used the Net before and don’t have anybody in their household who uses it either, Pew’s researchers discovered.
About 20 percent of Internet innocents say they don’t know enough about technology to use the Net, surveyors find; and about one in ten non-users say they won’t be interested in using the Internet or e-mail in the future.
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