Tag: NYTIMES

So, the Winter Olympic games were just concluded a few days ago. Did you have enough? No? Well, now you can reflect back to past Olympics with the New York Times' Flash retrospective of all past torches. You can see both Winter and Summer Games torches from 1936 till the present. Did you know that up until 1992, Summer and Winter games were both held on the same year? It's also interesting ...

First of all, I've read the Times nearly my whole life. I grew up in a NY-suburban Times household. I have fond memories of my father spreading out the Sunday edition on the floor, sitting on the carpet in his pajamas. He read that paper every day until he died. (No evidence that the Times hastened his death.) But that's not reason enough to fork over $15 bucks a month for the latest digital ...

Mixx, a young social news site similar to Digg, just scored a button under "SHARE" next to the articles on the NY Times site. But this is hardly important news, so what's the big deal? The Digg-clone is only about half a year old, and as you can see in the picture on the right, only the the most established of social sites get a mention. Yet del.icio.us, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Fark, and other ...

Just like iTunes did for file sharing music, Warner Bros. is going to start selling movies and TV online. While this is clearly an effort to legitimize the whole download yer entertainment thing, what's interesting is the use of BitTorrent as the tech behind the downloads. I don't think it's unusual though, as BitTorrent's technological solution to moving packets around is quite clever. It's a ...