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New iPad App Reinvents the Coloring Book — With ButtsIt might strike you as strange that Brian Snyder’s series of coloring books teach children how to draw cartoon characters by starting with a butt shape. But when you open the iPad app version, launching on Thursday, it becomes apparent that Snyder’s new approach to coloring books exte... Interstellar Material Reveals Details About Space Beyond Our Solar System [VIDEO]NASA‘s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has revealed some very alien material outside our solar system. “We’ve directly measured four separate types of atoms from interstellar space and the composition just doesn’t match up with what we see in the solar syst... Egyptians Spread News and Rumor About Soccer Riots on Social Media [VIDEO]At least 74 people were killed during brutal fighting Wednesday between fans of rival soccer clubs in Port Said, Egypt, according to state media. Video of the riot, seen above, was almost immediately posted to YouTube and spread around the country and the world. Simultaneously, news about the viole... Twitter Users Campaign for Britney Spears ‘Modern Family’ CameoIf we’ve learned anything from massive campaigning on the Internet recently, it’s that the Web has the power to get things done. The latest campaigning effort comes in support of Britney Spears, as many tweeted on Tuesday to let the pop superstar appear on popular TV show Modern Famil... Lexus Rolls Out App That Mimics Facebook TimelineApparently unable to wait until Facebook introduces Timeline for brands, Lexus has rolled out its own Timeline-like experience in an app. The Points of No Return app, which launched Thursday morning, looks much like a Timeline brand page would. The app/page includes features a chronological unro... How to Prepare Your Social Game for Massive GrowthJames Phillips is co-founder and senior vice president of products for Couchbase, a leading NoSQL database company. Online gaming has steadily grown over the past decade, now generating billions of dollars in annual revenue and representing one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy. In th... Will the IPO Change Facebook Forever?Journalists can find some pretty weird things interesting, but I never thought a 207-page government-mandated document would keep me turning the pages. That changed Wednesday, with Facebook’s mammoth S-1 filing. It wasn’t so much an SEC prospectus as it was a peek into the personali... Facebook IPO: No, It’s Not Groundhog Day for the BubbleFacebook’s $5 billion IPO is not the biggest of all time, but it’s up there, which means it’s faced with the same gimlet eye as every other big Internet public offering. The word “bubble” has been floated. That’s unfortunate since there is nothing bubble-like about Facebook. People, ... The Daily Hits 1st Birthday, Reaches 100,000 Paid Subscribers on iPad. What’s Next?The Daily, the News Corp publication that launched exclusively on the iPad one year ago Thursday, is setting its sites beyond tablets in 2012. The publication has amassed more than 100,000 paid subscribers on the iPad, making it the third top-grossing iPad app in the iTunes Store last year. Of th... Facebook IPO: The Social Web ReactsMark Zuckerberg Click here to view this gallery.It shouldn’t be hard to guess what the largest discussion in the social space was Wednesday — the Facebook IPO. While Facebook certainly wasn’t the first social network to hit the Internet, it̵... |