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Qrank set to launch movie and sports channels, currently serving 200K users
Rodney Gibbs, CEO of Austin-based developer Ricochet Labs, today made some impressive revelations about the company’s highly addictive Qrank iPhone app. The biggest news of Gibbs’ brief presentation, made at the InnoTech Austin conference, is that Qrank is set to launch partnerships with several sports and movie channels. Gibbs mentioned ESPN Sports as an example…
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Five-year old boy sells drawings on Etsy to help pay for Leukemia treatment
Aidan’s Monsters is a storefront on the popular arts and crafts website Etsy. Aidan is selling drawings of monsters, clowns, and other drawings to help offset the costs of his medical treatment. Hello! Thanks for visiting Aidan’s Monsters! Aidan is a 5 year old boy who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. He loves to draw…
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Easy HTML coding and blogging with Markdown
I’ve been experimenting with Markdown for a couple weeks. Markdown is a programming language for web writers that essentially allows you to write web copy while inserting html commands without cluttering your copy with XHTML/HTML markup. I’ve been using Markdown on my iPad, where it’s extremely tedious to write copy and HTML/xhtml code together within…
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Russia’s failed space program in pictures
Wired Science has a fascinating gallery of the Soviet Union’s failed moon program. Wonder what this stuff would look like on the moon had the program been successful.
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McDonald’s Happy Meal won’t decompose even after six months
Sally Davies has been monitoring the same Happy Meal for six months, closely monitoring it for signs of decay and composition.
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Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly
Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty McFly for Back to the Future, and actually filmed five weeks worth of material before director Robert Zemeckis canned him and hired Michael J. Fox. Check out the bizarro-world outtake video of Stoltz as McFly.
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Posterous gets a full feature iPhone app
Posterous, the service that lets you blog from your email client and syndicate your stuff to services like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, just released a pretty sweet iPhone app. Sure, Posterous has had its photo app in the iTunes Store for some time, but I found it a bit clunky. The new Posterous app lets…
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Facebook now lets you download all your stuff, adds groups
All of your Facebook data and uploads are now portable, and can be downloaded in a single .zip file that contains your updates, photos, messages, etc. The service is rolling out over the next several days. Look for social networks and services that offer the ability to import this .zip file and create a new…
Michael Castellon 