Alan Adams: Creepy Android Surgery Ads, Colbert Takes on the Google/Bing Tussle

Monday, February 7, 2011

Creepy Android Surgery Ads, Colbert Takes on the Google/Bing Tussle

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.

Read:

In 2003, This American Life aired a story about one man's dream: to start a 24-hour cable channel devoted to puppy videos. How eccentric! Maybe, just maybe he might have something there. Within a few years, half of the greatest communication tool in human history had pretty much become The Puppy Channel.

The End of Blogging

To establish the very basics, the personal blog took the form of a passive Web site that offered a glimpse into one's inner life to anyone interested, whereas these networks broadcast these thoughts to friends, who would presumably be best suited to receive them, and who in turn used these networks over the others, without having to trudge through, say, Wordpress.

Watch:

Is sewing human thumbs onto Google's green Android mascot in a horrific industrial back room really the best way to sell the new PlayStation phone? [From: YouTube]
Stephen Colbert takes on the Bing/Google search results mud-slinging match. [From: All Things D]

Know:

It's a couple months (years?) later than we expected, but Google just launched an official Blogger app for Android, available now in the new Android Market. [From: Android Market, via: Blogger]

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