A sharp-eyed photographer snapped a photo that is now one of the most viewed images on Reddit.com and Mashable.
This week, Republicans made a free and open Internet part of their party's 2012 platform.
The economy has been front and center during this presidential race, followed by issues such as national security, abortion and taxes.
There's yet another way to post writing and photos and share them with other people online. Medium is a new blogging tool for people who feel constrained by Twitter and overwhelmed by Blogger or Tumblr.
New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently made a splash when she declared that all food in the company's cafeterias will be free for employees. That's just how it was at Google, Mayer's former employer.
Six weeks after Digg was acquired by incubator Betaworks, a revamped Digg website and iPhone app have been released, one day ahead of schedule.
Most of the time reading comments on the Internet is like attending a slightly dysfunctional family dinner, full of passionately argued, half-baked political theories and tasteless jokes.
This just in: Male Beliebers Exist.
This week I was sent on a three-day work trip to New York because, for some unfathomable reason, these people trust me outside the confines of my cube. Generally speaking, I don't mind being there. I like my cube. It has Tiki torches.
Can you imagine playing a single video game for 10 years?
Remember earlier this year when Wikipedia went black in protest of anti-piracy legislation moving through the U.S. Congress?
Maybe it seems like the fastest way for a gadget-and-technology blogger to commit career suicide, but Paul Miller gave up the Internet at midnight Tuesday.
Newsflash: '80s icon Molly Ringwald is still cool. Like, really cool.
Last week was a remarkable one for the Web: A week that proved George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" incredibly prescient yet woefully incorrect.
Some lawmakers are rethinking their support of controversial anti-piracy bills that led to some websites shutting down in protest.
A handful of large websites will go dark on Wednesday to protest an anti-piracy bill that critics say will wreck the Internet as we know it.
Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) will not support the Stop Online Piracy Act, according to a statement released by his office Monday.
Alexis Ohanian is a champion of the Internet as a catalyst that lets anyone become a publisher or a promoter of worthwhile causes.
The sad truth for ridiculous Web memes is that they have remarkably poor shelf lives. So, farewell planking.
Acquisitions were among the most popular topics of conversation on StockTwits Friday, with Petrohawk Energy and Clorox in the spotlight.
Arranging to have pizzas delivered to a stranger's door is a classic prank.
This was never supposed to happen.
Reddit, the community news sharing site, has now joined the billion-page-per-month club, having served up some 1,000,404,480 pages to almost 14 million unique visitors in January, as measured by Google Analytics.
In the spring of this year, the "Facebook alternative" Diaspora achieved extensive media coverage -- including an article in the New York Times -- and raised tens of thousands of dollars in funding from online donors.
Sometimes two viral ideas, or words, can be combined to make an even bigger impact in our culture.
A California student got a visit from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online.
Adam Goldstein was a whiz-kid MIT engineering student with an enviable network of tech contacts and a decade of industry experience. He also had a lofty dream: To reinvent Internet flight search.
Dissatisfied with what he sees as tepid effort on behalf of oil giant BP to stop the flow of petroleum from an exploded well in the Gulf of Mexico, a New York-based video producer named Adam Quirk has started raising money for a stunt designed to irritate its executives.
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Yahoo!'s new social-news site promises to prevent the obvious cheating that happens on sites like Digg and Reddit
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