Streaming video is all the rage these days (and Netflix fans felt rage about a price hike related to streaming a few weeks ago).
So the folks over at Nielsen polled 12,000 people to find out just what they’re watching on services including Netflix and Hulu — as well as the devices they’re…
BeautifulPeople.com, a website where members vote one another in based on their attractiveness, had to remove 30,000 users after being hit by a virus that allowed anyone to join the site and circumvent the approval process.The company issued a press release in…
Google+ drew its first 10 million users in just 16 days. Twitter and Facebook took more than two years to reach that milestone.
Before we get carried away, we should take a deep breath and remember that Twitter has 200 million users, 10 times what Google+ has. For that matter, Facebook has 750 million users. It would take years for Google+ to grow that large.
But this is how disruption happens. Things start out small, sometimes as almost a joke. But they keep getting better, and more people start using them, and pretty soon they’ve conquered the world.
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July 22 - Rat Catcher’s Day
Our colleagues at the National Archives at Atlanta discovered today is Rat Catcher’s Day (or July 26 — sources vary). Be sure to check out their gallery for more rat-prevention tips.
Images in our photoset include:
“Build Out Rats”, 1941 - 1945; Records of the Office of Government Reports
“Don’t Feed Rats.”, 1941 - 1945; Records of the Office of Government Reports
(Source: cbsfilms)
