One Year Later: How a Tennis Match Became the Biggest Event in Web History

American John Isner and Frenchman Nicolas Mahut are set to play in the first round of Wimbledon on Tuesday. It’s a rematch of the silliest, longest, most record-breaking tennis games of all time.

Last year, Isner and Mahut played each other in the first round of Wimbledon. That match lasted 11 hours [...]

One Year Later: How a Tennis Match Became the Biggest Event in Web History

American John Isner and Frenchman Nicolas Mahut are set to play in the first round of Wimbledon on Tuesday. It’s a rematch of the silliest, longest, most record-breaking tennis games of all time.

Last year, Isner and Mahut played each other in the first round of Wimbledon. That match lasted 11 hours [...]

New York State Senator Asks Twitter & Facebook Followers How To Vote on Gay Marriage Bill

As New York sits on the precipice of becoming the sixth state to pass gay marriage legislation, one lawmaker has taken to Twitter and Facebook to ask his constituents what to do.

Greg Ball, a Republican state senator (pictured), turned to his 2,500-plus Twitter followers and 3,400 Facebook friends this weekend to ask: “Opening [...]

Foursquare Surpasses 10 Million Users [INFOGRAPHIC]

Foursquare hit a big milestone over the weekend: It surpassed the 10 million user mark, becoming the first location-based social network to do so.

The startup, which launched in March 2009, posted the following infographic on its blog to celebrate the announcement Monday:

The infographic highlights, among other things:

Accelerated growth over [...]

BeautifulPeople Repels Invasion of 30,000 “Shreks” After Alleged Virus Attack

More than 30,000 users were indiscriminately admitted to the highly selective dating website BeautifulPeople.com last month, after the site was supposedly attacked by what it calls the Shrek virus. Now, those folks are being systematically weeded out of a site that is hard-nosed about its members’ looks.

An announcement from the 700,000-member site says [...]

Flip UltraLive: The Story of the Wi-Fi Video Camera That Might Have Been

Scott Peterson is a digital image market analyst for Gap Intelligence, a San Diego-based independent technology research firm with emphasis in helping product manufacturers and retailers understand current retail market trends in order to respond to customer demands as they occur. He can be reached at speterson@gapintelligence.com.

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Wimbledon 2011: Where to Follow the Action Online

As Wimbledon 2011 prepares for an active couple of weeks, we’re serving up the best places to watch and follow the tournament online.

Plug into live video and radio streaming, access matches via iPad, iPhone and Android apps and follow play-by-play feeds of the tournament on Twitter and Facebook from now until the finals on [...]

Amy Winehouse Meltdown Caught on YouTube [VIDEO]

Troubled musician Amy Winehouse is blowing up on YouTube — but for all the wrong reasons.

On Saturday, the singer — who has long-struggled with drug and alcohol abuse — attempted to perform at a festival in Belgrade, Serbia. The 27-year old, best known for her 2006 album, Back to Black, struggled to keep [...]

Flip UltraLive: The Story of the Wi-Fi Video Camera That Might Have Been

Scott Peterson is a digital image market analyst for Gap Intelligence, a San Diego-based independent technology research firm with emphasis in helping product manufacturers and retailers understand current retail market trends in order to respond to customer demands as they occur. He can be reached at speterson@gapintelligence.com.

I’m staring down at the [...]