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PIPA and SOPA Co-Sponsors Abandon BillsThe widespread Internet blackout Wednesday, in which sites such as Wikipedia and Reddit went dark to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), seems to have influenced members of the U.S. Congress. PIPA co-sponsor Florida Sen. Marco Rubio pulled his n... Summer Coding: U.S. CTO Wants You to Get Tech Skills This YearMissed out on that New Year’s resolution to learn a programming language — the goal that 300,000 people signed up for, including New York Mayor Bloomberg? Too busy with school to make it happen? You’ll get another, even easier shot at that goal this summer. Codecademy, the bran... 9 Awesomely Beautiful Apple Store DesignsPudong (Shanghai) Apple made its Lourve-like design famous in New York, but Shanghai’s stunning cylindrical glass entrance is a sight to see. A glass spiral staircase leads shoppers to the store below. Click here to view this gallery. Steve Jobs was a fanatic ... Reddit Fights SOPA With Blackout and Call to Action [VIDEO]You’ve likely noticed the effects or heard of today’s Internet blackout in protest of the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA). One of those sites participating in the protest, Reddit, has pledged to go dark for 12 hours, and it’s taken the opportunity to ditch the debates an... Curated Commerce: How Retail Brands Can Cash in on the Latest CrazeJohn Doyle is VP of digital strategy for Cramer-Krasselt / Chicago. Keep up with him at johndoyle.posterous.com. As we kick off 2012, one of the most prominent online trends is an increasingly diverse array of content curation platforms. While sites like Digg and reddit have been around for years... Is Your Child Ready to Design Google’s Next Doodle?Your little sister, brother, favorite kid in the neighborhood or child could be the next Google star – that is, if he or she is a K-12 student living in the United States who has doodling skills that are beyond belief or are good enough to beat out the expected 100,000-plus entries from aro... Live Tweeting From the NYC SOPA and PIPA ProtestThe SOPA protest is moving from the Internet to the streets. The NY Tech Meetup community, an organization of more than 20,000 “geeks, investors, entrepreneurs, hackers, etc.,” sent out an unprecedented emergency email last week, in which they lit the proverbial geek batsignal: ̶... Women’s Wear Daily Launches on iPadWomen’s Wear Daily, the fashion, retail and beauty trade newspaper, has launched a comprehensive app for the iPad. This is the third iPad app the publication has launched. However, it’s the first that will let existing subscribers — more than a fifth of whom own Apple’s ta... Professional Development: How to Stay on Top of the Latest Marketing TrendsShara Darden is the founder of Firefly Marketing & PR, Inc., a Baltimore- and D.C.-based agency providing cost-effective, strategic marketing and public relations solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. Continuing education is a huge part of most professions. Teachers, real estate pr... SOPA Will Take Us Back to the Dark AgesI had an epiphany today. The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, was not written by people who fundamentally misunderstand how the web works. They understand all too well, and want to change it forever. Behind the almost unreadable (yet truly scary) text of SOPA (and its Senate doppelganger, PIPA, ... |