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Jennifer Latkiewicz / August 31, 2010 4:27 pm
Between e-mails from friends, colleagues, publicists and automated mailing lists, my Gmail inbox is never empty. Sifting through the hundreds of product pitches, updates from friends and sale reminders that flood my inbox on a daily basis can be overwhelming. [...]
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Jennifer Latkiewicz / August 31, 2010 12:43 pm
You can “check in” to coffee houses, restaurants and bars, but what about STD testing clinics? Letting friends and strangers know that you’ve just “checked in” at a health clinic for an STD test may seem embarrassing, but MTV and [...]
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Jennifer Latkiewicz / August 30, 2010 3:30 pm
Take a thoroughly modern trip down memory lane with Arcade Fire’s “The Wilderness Downtown,” an unbelievable new interactive video created in conjunction with Google. Set to the band’s single “We Used to Wait,” this Chrome “experiment” uses Google Maps and HTML5 [...]
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Jennifer Latkiewicz / August 30, 2010 12:55 pm
Location-based social network Foursquare saw its three millionth member signup over the weekend, less than two months after surpassing the two million mark in July, TechCrunch reports. Despite predictions that it would be destroyed by Facebook’s newly launched location sharing [...]
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Jennifer Latkiewicz / August 30, 2010 6:20 am
Beauty secrets, “Sex and the City” and the appeal of Del Taco weren’t the only topics of conversation during dinner Saturday night with GLOSS’ Lolita Carrico and chicGLOSS editor Aly Walansky. Lolita, the very plugged-in Founder and CEO, also tipped us off to [...]
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Jennifer Latkiewicz / August 29, 2010 2:22 am
Like emotional acceptance speeches, red carpet fashion, and the obligatory celebrity fawning, Twitter will also be playing an integral role in tonight’s live Emmy Awards broadcast. Emmys host Jimmy Fallon is enlisting the help of Twitter users to write introductions [...]
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Jennifer Latkiewicz / August 26, 2010 9:25 am
Last year, Ben Alexander, a 19-year old college student obsessed with the online multiplayer game World of Warcraft, made headlines as the first client to check into reSTART, the country’s first Internet rehab, a residential treatment center for individuals trying to [...]
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Jennifer Latkiewicz / August 26, 2010 4:48 am
Video games as college course required “reading”? In addition to Aristotle’s “Politics,” Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” and the “Tao Te Ching,” freshman attending Wabash College will also be required to play “Portal” a first-person game where players solve a series of puzzles [...]
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