Aug 04
Given that baseball is America’s pastime, it’s kind of frowned upon to even talk about the game’s . . . slower . . . moments. But they exist. On the flip side, baseball has great drama over contentious plays. And, as with football
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Jul 27
There’s no question that the most boring part of any football game is waiting for the referees to respond to a coach’s challenge. But the agony of the endless replay is going to ease up at least a little bit this season, with NBC’s Matrix-style 360-degree replays giving us plenty of space-aged eye candy to fill the time.
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May 17
Twitter partners with NBA to highlight in-game replays, Blake Griffin posterizations
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In all honesty, Blake Griffin himself could start a social network that served no purpose outside of featuring his dizzying (and disgusting, if you will) array of dunks, and it’d probably go over quite well. Instead, he — along with other superstars in the National Basketball Association — will soon see replays of in-game highlights making waves across Twitter in more official fashion. Hot on the heels of a deal between ESPN and Twitter comes this: a partnership between the NBA and the aforesaid social network that’ll get video highlights to the world while the game is still ongoing.
#NBARapidReplay will be the hashtag to watch for as the playoffs progress, and as you’d expect, short advertisements will appear alongside those clips. Twitter’s foray into the television universe is hardly a new one, but it’s becoming ever more obvious that the company is following the ad dollars into the homes of everyday viewers. Up next? A deal to tweet highlights from the 2014 Masters golf tournament… but only in extremely soft spoken, lowercase, predominantly pompous characters.
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Source: Bloomberg
Nov 01
What are some of the tools that you have used to ensure that your friends will know just where you are, and what you are doing or the restaurant that you just visited for some good food? A smartphone and a tablet would be the primary modes of updating one’s social networks while on-the-go, apart from using such apps when seated in front of your notebook or computer, of course. How about a pair of jeans? Wait a minute here, how can something you wear be used to update your social network status? Italian denim brand Replay has done so by introducing what they call the Social Denim, where this pair of jeans will boast of a vinyl pocket that comes integrated with a small Bluetooth device. This Bluetooth device will “talk” to your smartphone over a dedicated app, allowing you to share your updates with whatever social network(s) you are signed in to.
You can also report your “happiness level” that shows off eight different moods to choose from, which will of course, range from the positive to the negative. The Replay Social Denim jeans will be available in blue and black fabric, in regular-slim or skinny fit for men and skinny or baby boot cut for women. They won’t come that cheap though, hitting Replay stores and European retailers as well as the Replay online store sometime in December with prices starting from €150 to a high of €199. All they need now is a fart detector that tells the world you just let one rip…and where.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: These Jeans Are 20% Plastic Bottles and Food Trays, Rootsy – A Private Social Network To Create Family Trees,
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