Steven Slater Hawks VoIP Service, Economist Coming to iPad and iPhone
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Meet the Man Who Paid a Record $335,000 For Virtual PropertyYan Panasjuk last week completed a transaction with Jon "Neverdie" Jacobs to buy a large portion of Jacobs' popular Entropia destination "Club Neverdie," including seven bio-domes, a stadium, club and mall. He paid the entire $335,000 out of his own pocket -- it "took a lot of effort to secure the needed funds," he says.Bill Nye of 'The Science Guy' fame collapses during speech at USC
Nobody went to his aid at the very beginning when he first collapsed -- that just perplexed me beyond reason," USC senior Alastair Fairbanks said. "Instead, I saw students texting and updating their Twitter statuses. It was just all a very bizarre evening."
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- Though we missed it a few days ago, we've got to share this must-watch video of a hacked Kinect being used as a 3-D video tool. Just imagine a ring of Kinects hooked together to provide a fully explorable 3-D video space. [From: Engadget]
- Ex-JetBlue hero Steven Slater has gone from leaping from airplanes to hawking VoIP apps in viral videos. [From: Urlesque]
Know:
- The Economist lands on iPad and iPhone tomorrow (free for paid subscribers), allowing you to fill up your iDevice with unread issues instead of just cluttering your coffee table. [From: Economist]
- The jury is still out on whether or not content farms are evil, but one woman has been able to turn 20 to 30 daily blog posts about Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift into $100,000 in a year. [From: AdAge, via: The Atlantic Wire]
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