CNN's Randi Kaye introduces us to 7 year old Kaylee West . She suffers from an autism-related eating disorder.
Perhaps the blog VentureBeat put it best: "Twitter appears to have a problem sharing friends."
They have money, youth, ample amounts of free time and now a bit of fame. So what's next for the much maligned people featured on the hit site Rich Kids of Instagram? Some are grounded from over-sharing on the Internet, others embarrassed by the attention and some might be heading for TV.
There's yet another way to post writing and photos and share them with other people online. Medium is a new blogging tool for people who feel constrained by Twitter and overwhelmed by Blogger or Tumblr.
Bobak Ferdowsi launched into Internet superstardom last week for helping guide the rover Curiosity in its journey to the surface of Mars.
NASA's Bobak Ferdowsi talks about the mohawk that rocketed him to internet fame on Curiosity's big night.
Microsoft's rebranding of the widely used but culturally fading Hotmail service is off to a big start.
Little boxes on the Internet, little boxes made out of ticky-tacky. Little boxes on the Internet, little boxes all the same.
Could the days of trying to cram all your professional accomplishments onto a single sheet of paper be a thing of the past?
CNNMoney's Laurie Segall and HLN contributor Mario Armstrong tell us how to keep your Facebook page employment-ready.
There are a ton of old sayings about music: that it's the food of love, that it soothes the savage beast, that it makes the people come together (yeah). And for good reason: Over the years, music has remained one of the few things, genres notwithstanding, that most people can agree to enjoy.
Napster founder Sean Parker explains how Spotify is accomplishing what Napster never could.
Manliness, metaphorically embodied these days by facial hair, grilling meat and building domestic "man caves," is now carving its own space online.
Mario Armstrong, HLN Digital Lifestyle Expert, explains how women and politicians share their interests online.
In a move sure to attract attention from the music industry, a small group of coders claiming to be part of Anonymous is putting together a social music platform. The rather ambitious goal: Create a service that seamlessly pulls up songs streaming from all around the internet.
If you go down to the "Woods" today, you're sure of a big surprise -- and if anyone tries to spoil it, my advice would be to shut them up quick.
Spotify is letting bloggers and website managers embed songs from its vast music library for free.
When Twitter buys a startup, it's often after the company's staff, not its product -- which makes Twitter's latest takeover one of its most intriguing. Twitter announced late Monday that it has acquired blogging platform Posterous.
Supremely obvious observation: We love the Web. We love scrolling through tweets and blog posts and constantly updated news sites like rats in Skinner boxes. We love accessing the cloud, floating up into that sweet mass of data like Icarus and his wings of wax and feather.
Pinterest is the breakout social network of 2012, but even technology addicts could be excused for missing its rise to success.
The online realm is replete with a vast cornucopia of information, just waiting to provide the hungry masses with nourishing nuggets of knowledge -- or (as in "The Hunger Games") scary-ass weapons of mass destruction.
Just as the politics of oil shaped the 20th century industrial economy, so the politics of data will shape the 21st century digital economy.
Recently, a reader dropped the following query into our inbox:
Most of us don't know much about Kim Jong Il, the reclusive North Korean leader who died Saturday.
A bill moving through Congress is intended, on its surface at least, to do something relatively simple: Crack down on the illegal pirating of movies, music and other copyrighted material.
Two weeks ago, Google published its much-anticipated Gmail app in the Apple app store.
With the help of a marching band, a hotel employee quits his job and becomes a YouTube sensation. Jeanne Moos reports.
Occupy Wall Street protesters might say they represent 99% of the nation, but there's a growing number of Americans who are making it clear they are not part of the dissident crowd.
It's showtime, and TechStars New York managing director David Tisch isn't wearing his normal uniform -- an oversized t-shirt bearing the name of one of the startups in his accelerator program.
The blogging platform Tumblr -- which sits somewhere between Twitter and WordPress on the social media spectrum -- has become one of the more interesting places to watch the debate about the Occupy Wall Street protests unfold.
Priscilla Grim, editor of the "We are the 99 Percent" Tumblr blog, on why the blog is resonating with protestors.
CNN's Alina Cho looks at the unique style of J. Crew boss Mickey Drexler, who has made the iconic brand hot once again.
We humans are curious monkeys, hungry for novel information as we go through our days.
If last week's volatile stock market was too much to bear, maybe it's time to start trading your friends, and strangers, based on their Facebook updates and how much they tweet.
This statement is going to infuriate the anti-nostalgic: I think I might be a '90s revivalist. Consider the past few weeks' activity.
Technology can make your life easier, but figuring out which tech tools to trust can be tiresome at the least and eye-poppingly stressful at worst.
At first, everyone thought it was Facebook.
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Searching through Tumblr -- the not-quite-micro blogging platform that's a cross between Twitter and WordPress -- has a tendency to leave newbies confused and wondering if they're missing Tumblr's most interesting blogs.
David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on how his service is broadening the limits of traditional blogging.
Marco Arment's salesmanship could use some work.
Facebook is already adept at handling public-relations blunders, but the company is beginning to focus on how it can help with real calamities.
Remember a year ago when Twitter's Fail Whale kept making a splash?
Sad but true: Much of what we do online, we do for vainglorious reasons.
In an old East Village music hall in downtown New York, more than 500 investors from around the country crowded into a dimly lit auditorium to hear 11 startups pitch.
Facebook is taking major steps to ensure that its News Feeds contain more actual news.
Blogging site Tumblr has experienced many of the problems that come with scaling up: downed servers, database bottlenecks and other glitches. When it crashes, users get cranky.
A few decades ago, there weren't many mechanisms for gathering updates on a person.
What is the internet for? Some think of it as the marketing opportunity of a lifetime. Others, a shining repository for boundless information. And some, like the folks at "Avenue Q," assert that it's for porn.
Over the New Year holiday, WordPress issued a challenge to its blogger-users: Write and publish one post a day (or a week) throughout 2011.
Sometimes the winner in a tech field isn't the company whose invention is the fastest or the sleekest -- or even the first. It's the company that hits the exact right point in the timing curve.
Remember how we were all freaking out on New Year's Eve, 1999, convinced that the world as we know it would end -- at the hands of machines, of course?
Tumblr has returned to the web after a full day's, err, vacation.
It bills itself as "the easiest way to blog." But the hip website Tumblr crashed on Sunday night and hasn't been online since.
The newest update to location-based networking service Gowalla adds a surprising feature: automatic check-ins on Foursquare, Gowalla's much-larger archrival.
Regretting that drunken tweet from Friday?
Earlier this week, one of Google's rock-star engineers left that mammoth company -- population: 23,000 -- for Facebook, which has about 2,000 employees.
Let's face it -- you never really leave high school.
So you're surfing along on your favorite website when you see something that gets your plasma boiling -- so much so that that pulsating vein above your eye is about to burst.
When Conan O'Brien randomly started following Sarah Killen's Twitter page (@LovelyButton) she got nearly 19,000 followers, a new iMac, a free wedding gown, gratis wedding rings, $2,600 in donations for her cancer walk, and the chance to meet Ludacris.
Have you ever wondered what happens when you save a photo to "the cloud" of the Internet? CNN.com explains how it all works.
One day, while uploading yet another text file to the Google Docs Web site, I started to wonder: When I save this file online, where does it actually go?
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