Author: Jason Chen

Google just released a list of the top 1000 websites in the world, something they’re uniquely suited to rank, since most traffic funnels through them first. Google left themselves off (they’d be #1), so Facebook and Yahoo are close together at 1 and 2. To save you time, we’re at 540, edging out Pandora, Intel, that site you use to do currency conversion and the California government. Suck on that Costco and the web standards website. [Top1000 via Erin’s Twitter] More »










Google – Yahoo – Searching – Search Engines – Facebook

An “irate” AT&T customer went into an AT&T store and shot one of the employees. The employee is in surgery now, but the suspect was shot by an off duty police officer that was already at the scene. More »










Police – United States – Law – Law Enforcement – Business

Oh man, oh man, oh man! You can download Fring for Android right now and make two-way video calls—ones demonstrated in all the promises of the future— RIGHT NOW. For Android. More »










Android – Handhelds – Video – Business – Google

Artist Neil Richards has created a set of 10 posters, one for each Dharma station on and off (and really off) the Island. They’re an awkward dimension for your desktop, but work GREAT as a smartphone wallpaper. [Flickr via Bestbookmarks] More »










Lost – Wallpaper – Desktop Customization – Arts – Holidays

Alan Wake (fantastically entertaining game) is one of the more conspicuous about in-game advertising. Hell, they even work products into the gameplay itself. Penny Arcade’s take on this is only slightly exaggerated, if you can believe it. More »










Game – Arcade game – Video game – Coin-Op – Alan Wake

Shanghaiist got ahold of this memo being sent out to Foxconn employees, trying to help them deal with whatever working conditions is leading toward this recent string of suicides. It starts off good, then, well, gets not so good. More »










Foxconn – Suicide – Apple – Death – China

The keyboard accessory we were looking forward to in Rock Band 3 is supposedly actually a KEYTAR. Good, I suppose, for mobility and rockitude, but not for learning how to actually play the keybo…oh god I’ve become an old man. [Ars Technica] More »










Music – Arts and Entertainment – Rock Band 3 – Bands and Artists – Canada

Lifehacker’s got a quick Q&A with one of Chrome OS‘s UI designers. It’s quite interesting if you want to get into their mindset about how they make a browser into an entire OS. Plus, they’re thinking about touch! [Lifehacker] More »










Google – Google Chrome – Lifehacker – Clients – WWW

Shanghaiist discovered that a sneaky hacker (or maybe a Foxconn employee) snuck in this page onto the Foxconn servers. There’s no way this is official. More »










Suicide – Death – Foxconn – Apple – China

According to Heat Vision Blog, the Mass Effect movie (we reviewed Mass Effect 2 here) is in talks to get a writer. This is probably the number one game-to-movie translation we want to see right now. More »

Google is launching something called Google TV. It brings regular TV and web video to your TV. Plus, Android apps. Apps! Live Updating More »

And to illustrate this point, below is a side-by-side of the same game on the same device, with the one running 2.2 running quite a lot faster than the one with 2.1. Live Updating More »

And of course, they have the highest usage rate, according to Admob, and are the number two overall selling smartphone right now. More »

“If we did not act, we faced a draconian future. Where one man, one company, one carrier was the future.” — Google More »

There’s a reason why more people haven’t seen the next iPhones before Steve Jobs makes an announcement: They’re in disguise. More »

The Adam Carolla Podcast is my favorite podcast. So for them to ask me to call in to the show to talk about the iPhone? That was freaking incredible. More »

We took apart the next iPhone. More »

The new 17 and 15-inch MacBook Pros with Core i5/i7 processors are fast. Fast. Overall I’d say they’re about 50% faster than the last gen Core 2 Duos, which is about the same bump the iMacs got with Core i7. More »