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Is That Google Earth, Or The New Sim City?

Google unveiled a graphically intense vision for Google Earth, including footage that shows comprehensively-rendered city skylines complete with buildings and foliage.

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5 Reasons Why Cincinnati is THE Place for Startup Ventures

As an ambitious entrepreneur interested in heading a startup venture, it is important to select the right city to foster your success. Sean Grace shares five reasons why Cincinnati, Ohio is a contender.

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Twitter’s First Bird Logo Cost $15. For the Latest, It Poached a Designer From Google

Twitter’s first iconic bird logo came cheap. For the latest, the company spared no monetary or metaphorical expense.

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Editorial: Hey, Paul Graham, It’s Not About Facebook

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham tells portfolio companies to prepare for some lean times. Facebook did not need to be his whipping boy.

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Gossip Permeates 15 Percent of All Work Emails, Study Finds

A recent study conducted by Georgia Tech has found that nearly 15 percent of the average 112 emails sent by workers daily can be classified as gossip, but finds it may not be such a bad thing.

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Here’s How To Check Whether Your LinkedIn Password Has Been Released

Developers have thrown up a site that checks whether your password was among those released, more quickly than LinkedIn did.

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Swap-O-Matic: The Bartering Vending Machine

If you see something you want behind the Swap-O-Matic’s glass display, cash or cards aren’t even an option. Instead, you’ll need to pick something you don’t need anymore, and offer it up for trade (the device relies on the honor system).

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Adventures in Airtime: What Seven Strangers Think of the Service

Napster co-founders Sean Parker and Sean Fanning are working together again to push the boundaries of video on the Internet. We called up seven strangers on Airtime to see what they thought of the new service.

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Meebo Slow Cooked To $100 Million Sale

Online chat client Meebo grew organically, relying on word of mouth and a deliberately-paced test phase to maintain a stable trajectory, according to co-founder Seth Sternberg. That strategy paid off this week, when Google acquired the service for a reported $100 million.

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Sony Introduces Augmented Reality Platform Wonderbook

Sony stuck to big game announcements at this year’s E3 press conference, most notably introducing a unique augmented reality reading platform called Wonderbook.

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