Feeling Nostalgic? Shoebox Lets You Scan Old Photos With Your Phone, Update Your Ancestry.com Family Tree + MORE

Popular Chinese-made mobile browser UCWeb has beefed up its offerings for developers, launching an open platform which is now publicly available after having been in a testing stage for almost two months.
Developers have already been building for the UC WebApp Center, which has been available since September 2011…

What’s your first memory of social media?
Twitter, perhaps? Or maybe Facebook?
If you’re of a certain age, you’ll likely remember when MySpace was very much numero uno amongst all social platforms. Roll the years back a little further, and you could have been one of the (relatively) few who were amongst the pioneers of modern social networking on Friendster…

We’ll leave the question of which summer movies are best to others, but Expion‘s deep dive into which summer movie Facebook posts performed best caught our attention. Which celebs’ faces got the most likes? Do Star Trek fans speak Klingon? Dive in and see for yourself.

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Shoebox, the mobile photo archiving app Ancestry.com acquired from San Francisco-based 1000memories last fall, has now gone live at its new home. The updated version of the app, Shoebox 3.0, still allows users to scan in their old non-digital prints – you know, those things the old folks still refer to as “photographs” – while also cropping and auto-flattening the images for the correct perspective…

During yesterday’s 4th of July celebration, NYC’s Empire State Building had another chance to show off its new lighting system.
The LED lights, first showcased in November 2012, were created by Philips Color Kinetics. The system can display 16 million colors, and is capable of showing effects such as ripples, cross-fades, sparkles, chasers, sweeps, strobes and bursts…

Is your WordPress blog safe from malicious people? Would you like to make your WordPress blog more secure? Most often, people don’t think about security measures until it’s too late. But there are some simple steps you can take to keep your blog safe. Why Secure Your WordPress Blog? A blog that has been hacked […

Talk about punching above your weight.
Reddit, the self-styled “front page of the internet” that has can send floods of traffic to unsuspecting sites and has luminaries like President Obama visiting to answer questions directly from the great unwashed, is only visited by six percent of online American adults, according to the Pew Research Center…