This is a shocker! VentureBeat notes and Alexa graphs confirm that Reddit is beating Digg in terms of Pageviews. In just a week since Digg’s redesign on August 25th, Digg’s pageviews dropped by 18.7% with bounce rate up by 20%. Those are big numbers and the traffic is moving to Reddit as it sees its Daily [...]

California legislature has passed BIll SB1411, that will make it illegal to impersonate someone else online if and when Governor Schwarzenegger’s signs the bill. The bill was introduced by State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) back in June and carries a maximum punishment of $1000 in fine and one year in Jail.
The last such law in [...]

Wired concludes the Web is Dead. The signs have been there for a while - XBOX with Netflix streaming, BluRay players with access to Hulu, friends showing off Apps instead of passing around links, companies (twitter) spending more time working on APIs than on the interface, Evernote collecting all my notes without making me realize [...]

TechCrunch’s log shows iPad owners love their site, relatively. According to M G Siegler, of all users visiting TechCrunch, 1.18% accessed the blog via iPad compared to 0.99% share of Android based devices (and this category includes EVERYTHING from Nexus One to Droid to G1). The numbers are really impressive for Apple with the percentage [...]

If you have not heard of GoW, following rave is not for you. If hated GoW, it is not for you. If you were not getting tingling sensation from GoW 2 previews, it is not for you. BUT if you would like to see your character crush a Locust’s head under his feet and would like the [...]

The economy is bad to say the least and consumer spending has been going down. For the month of October consumer spending dropped 0.3 percent the biggest setback since June 2004. Naturally the commodity sale volume has been going down as well including Cell Phones. But tough situations separate good from bad and the winner [...]

While reporting their 3Q earnings, GM made a desperate attempt to draw government attention by declaring they would run out of cash in 2009 if the economic slump continues and they do not receive government aid. The Big Three have been asking for government aid since the $700B bailout passed for financial sector and if [...]

Update - 3: McCain gives an emotional conceding speech in Phoenix and congratulates Obama as Obama crosses the 320 electoral votes mark
Update - 2: Florida goes to Obama. Landslide becomes closer to reality
McCain loses PA (now called by all major news organizations for Obama) and can’t hold OH either, sealing the deal for Obama. With [...]

My primary email is Yahoo! Mail and therefore I have been dying to see the integration of Notes, Contacts, Calendar and Mail get better (After all, it has been years since Google calendar came out with AJAX). Unfortunately, Yahoo Calendar’s new Beta, released October 8th, is not even catching up to its already far-ahead competitors.
Features
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This does not need much elaboration. George W. Bush ignored the painful reality of the war in Iraq for far too long and it did cost America dearly. In fact, one of the most definitive record of his management by denial is in the aptly named book State of Denial by Pulitzer Prize Investigative Journalist [...]

What if result of the Presidential Elections comes down to one vote - yours? And what if you have failed to vote by 4th of November? I am not talking about the movie Swing Vote (2008). I am talking about a new customizable hilarious video campaign from CNNBC videos.
CNNBC have created an interactive video that [...]

As historic as this election has been,  it is not November 5th yet. In fact, the race is just heating up and if previous Presidential  elections are any guide, the Republican Party is going to get as negative as humanly possible in the final 10 days. Just today, RNC sent out fliers that invoke 9/11 [...]

We’ve Sensed It. We’ve Seen The Signs. Now… It’s Happening. - The Happening (2008)
It was expected, that melting WallStreet will hurt everything in its vicinity and now it is happening in the valley. Wikia.com, a community based plateform for wikipages, has laid of 30 percent of its 43 person workforce on Monday, according to ValleyWag. [...]

Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is now available for download. The release is intended for testing the core functionality of many new features scheduled for Firefox 3.1 release.  New features in this release include usability improvements, Web standard improvements in Gecko layout engine, added support for CSS2.1 and CSS3 properties.
However, my experience with this version of [...]

After suffering from McCain’s attack for weeks, that Obama will “raise your taxes”, Barack Obama has decided to give voters a clear shot at comparing who is actually raising the taxes and who isn’t.
Barack Obama’s tax plan will produce a tax cut for 81.3 percent of all households and a cut for 95.5 percent of [...]

John McCain is late yet again! McCain’s campaign was supposed to reveal its new plan for the Economy but the speech has been put on hold. In the meantime, Barack Obama has unveiled his bold plan in Toledo, Ohio on Monday.
Full Text of Obama’s speech -
We meet at a moment of great uncertainty for [...]

If you need to understand the reason for recent tirade of attacks on Barack Obama’s character by John McCain, his running mate Sarah Palin and his surrogates and the reason why his supporters want to see Barack Obama dead, you need not look any further than what is there for Barack Obama in terms of [...]

“Country First” John McCain, who claimed he would not take part in the debate without seeing a Wall Street bailout bill in place, did take part in the debate. Note that we are being a bit petty here with McCain’s play on words but I think McCain deserves it for trying to make a real [...]