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Google Zeitgeist 2010: Lady Gaga Was More Important Than the Oil Spill
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 10) -- Search no further. The Google Zeitgeist, an annual aggregation of search queries, was released this week, charting the many terms and topics that Web users explored during the past year, from "swine flu" to "Chatroulette." The report also offers a time-lapse map measuring searches for terms related to major world events such as "Olympics" and "ash cloud." Google explains the Zeitgeist: "Zeitgeist" means "the spirit of the times," and Google reveals this spirit through the aggregation of millions of search queries we receive every day. We have several tools that give insight ...
Brandon Spikes Loses Reebok Deal Over Chatroulette Sex Tape
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 2) -- College is a time for intellectual stimulation, personal development and actions that you might later regret. Unfortunately for New England Patriots second-round draft pick Brandon Spikes, one of those regrettable acts involved Chatroulette and a scantily clad woman, and may now cost him upwards of $60,000. Spikes recently entered the gossip columns when an alleged sex tape of the former Florida Gators football standout surfaced on WorldStarHipHop via a recording on the random web-cam-based chat service Chatroulette. It just goes to show, you never know who you will come across ...
Brandon Spikes Video From Chatroulette Leads to NFL Investigation
By Tom Herrera - AOL NewsAnd now for something completely different. The NFL is investigating the explicit video of Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes that was leaked onto the Internet, apparently to determine whether Spikes violated the league's personal conduct policy. "We are looking into it," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told the Boston Herald. At first we were left with questions whether it was actually Spikes engaging in sexual acts with a woman in the video, but Spikes' agent, Terry Watson, has since come forward to apologize on his client's behalf and called it an "embarrassing situation." "It was something ...
Chatroulette 2: The Death of Chatroulette?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Aug. 30) -- Chatroulette is back, and still raunchy. The random webcam-based video chat service operated and designed by Russian teenager Andrey Ternovskiy shut down for maintenance last week, promising to return with a second edition within a few hours. While many users and tech critics hoped that the Chatroulette operating hiatus -- which lasted approximately a week -- would rid the site of its proliferation of male genitalia and other explicit sexual and NSFW content, the initial reactions are not exactly jovial. What's new over at Chatroulette? The current user interface is even more ...
Chatroulette Will Be Retooled, Relaunched, but Probably Still Creepy
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Aug. 23) -- Today could mark the end of risque behavior on Chatroulette -- but probably not. Designed and operated by Russian teenager Andrey Ternovskiy, the bare-bones, freewheeling website that allows Webcam-enabled users to video-chat with random strangers from around the world is now closed down. But it will be launching an updated version within hours, according to a cryptic message posted on the Chatroulette home page. The unembellished text reads, "The experiment #1 is over now. Thanks for participating. Renewed and updated version of the website will be launched today." The move is ...
Grindr iPhone App: GPS for the Sex Superhighway
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyRemember online dating? Gosh, that seems so last century. An iPhone application which allows cruising gay men to locate one another instantly using Global Positioning System technology is now spreading to the heterosexual market. This latest rage in online romance is called Grindr. Grindr is a free, downloadable iPhone app that lets you find "gay, bi, curious guys near you." It's sort of a sexual version of toptable -- an iPhone app that allows you to search for all the restaurants offering a certain cuisine in your immediate vicinity. Similarly, Grindr provides a grid of who else in your ...
With iPhone 4's FaceTime Demo Apple Creates Buzz
By David Knowles - Politics DailySoon after Steve Jobs concluded his unveiling of the new iPhone 4 at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 on Monday, people around the world started talking about one of the phone's new features. Called FaceTime, the built-in advancement lets users of the company's latest iPhone conduct a mobile one-on-one video conversations with one another in real time. With placement of a new camera on the face of the phone, as well as one on the back, the application for FaceTime was immediately clear, even if the feature will only work if you and the person you're talking to both own the new ...
Chatroulette Piano Improv Guy: 'I'm Not Ben Folds!'
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(March 23) -- Internet users and media types have recently become obsessed with "Chatroulette," a Web site launched last year that randomly pairs strangers from around the world in face-to-face video chat sessions. But only in the past nine days has Chatroulette seen the rise of its very own homegrown star -- a hooded, piano-playing improvisational comedian known solely by the names "Merton" and "Chatroulette Piano Improv Guy." Merton's M.O. is deceptively simple: He logs onto Chatroulette and serenades the people he encounters by playing spontaneous, humorous, topical songs on piano about ...
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