Tag: CHATROULETTE

Is it just us, or did 2010 seem like an abnormally long year? Of course, it was no longer than any other year in history. But, from a tech perspective, at least, this year saw more seismic changes and game-altering developments than any other in recent memory. From Android to Zuckerberg, 'FarmVille' to Foursquare, iPad to iPhone 4, 2010 certainly wasn't short on memorable moments. Here are 15 ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Maybe you heard about how Libya deleted that sexy URL shortening site Vb.ly? (It was like Bit.ly for porn links, but conservative Libya owns the .ly domain and wasn't into all the boobs -- or the pic of the site creator drinking a beer.) Well, ...

Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines.... According to a Financial Times report, Google has been in talks with major studios about a pay-per-view YouTube movie service. [From: Financial Times] Funny cat photo entrepreneur Ben Huh offered to purchase Reddit from Condé Nast following last week's Prop 19 ad brouhaha. [From: The Next Web] Foursquare just passed the 3 ...

Andrey Ternovskiy, creator of the infamous Chatroulette, has taken down his site. Perhaps due to the pervasive presence of penii on the cam-sharing network, Ternovskiy writes, "The experiment #1 is over for now. Thanks for participating – Redesigned and updated version of the website will be launched tomorrow." (With fewer phalli?) Shawn Fanning, creator of Napster and CR adviser, has also ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... As part of an ongoing (and often ridiculous) modernization movement, the British Monarchy has created an impressive Flickr account featuring both current and historic snapshots. [From: Reuters and Flickr] The Cellular Telephone Industries Association (CTIA) is attacking San Francisco's "overzealous" cell phone radiation labels ...

Artist-slash-entrepreneur-slash-maniac Josh Harris has always been somewhat obsessed with real-time webcam surveillance. But his latest project, 'Wired City,' might just take real-time video interaction to a whole new, zany level. As TechCrunch explains, "Wired City is like Chatroulette on steroids." The game starts when webcam-equipped users (or "ChatStars") go to video chat rooms, where they ...

Upon its unveiling, Wangroulette Chatroulette immediately elicited a dramatic response from both casual social networkers and tech pundits for its revolutionary, albeit randomly ridiculous, method of instant and arbitrary interaction. Just as quickly, though -- and perhaps even more swiftly -- skeezy pervs tainted the site's rapid-fire webcam conversations with an overwhelming glut of genitals. ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Just when we thought the ChatRoulette mashup well had gone dry, Paz Bernstein recorded himself painting ChatRoulette users and posted the result, 'ChatRoulette Speed ...

Last week, we told you about an 'anonymous' guy named 'Merton' who was serenading folks on Chatroulette with hilarious piano improvisation. Now, his true identity has been revealed. This video from Gizmodo shows piano man Ben Folds, a.k.a. Merton, using Chatroulette live onstage at a recent show in Charlotte, North Carolina. Don't worry, Folds (and his audience of about 2,000 people) didn't run ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. We promised ourselves we wouldn't mention Chatroulette today, but this dude improvising on the piano has got the Internet all hot and bothered. Our editors loved it, ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Oooh, pretty colors! Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg at the IBM Visual Communication Lab in Cambridge developed an algorithm that analyzed and plotted a ...

For the most part, as the news media has made you well aware, Chatroulette is the social network of creepers and crawlers. Porn freaks and perverts. Derelicts and... dance bands? According to Pitchfork.com (the Hammurabi's code of the hipster community), the Toronto disco-punks collectively known as Holy Fuck announced their new album via Chatroulette last Thursday. Due out May 11th, 'Latin' ...

Share One of Chatroulette's most enticing features is its anonymity. The user who would be otherwise reticent to appear on a webcam for a stranger -- in any stage of dress -- has been emboldened by the fact that he and his partner have no idea who the other is. This is also one of the main reasons that so many disembodied genitals tend to appear on any given Chatroulette session; with no ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. 8-bit NYC reimagines New York as an '80s videogame, capturing the Big Apple in pixelated squares straight out of the original 'Legend of Zelda' or 'Dragon Warrior.' ...

The 95-percent penis-laden fad known as Chatroulette finally received some 'Daily Show' treatment last night. After lambasting the news networks for their feigned surprise and outrage over the fact that tons of people like to get naked on webcams, host Jon Stewart said that Chatroulette is like Russian Roulette but with "five c*ck-filled chambers." Stewart then somehow managed to get Katie ...